Get De-Addicted is a digital wellness podcast focused on smartphone addiction, screen time reduction, and mindful technology use. Learn the science behind dopamine loops, infinite scrolling, notifications, and social media overuse. Each episode shares practical digital detox strategies to improve focus, productivity, mental clarity, and attention in an always-connected world. Designed for kids, teens, parents, and professionals who want healthier screen habits.
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Get De-Addicted is a digital wellness podcast focused on smartphone addiction, screen time reduction, and mindful technology use. Learn the science behind dopamine loops, infinite scrolling, notifications, and social media overuse. Each episode shares practical digital detox strategies to improve focus, productivity, mental clarity, and attention in an always-connected world. Designed for kids, teens, parents, and professionals who want healthier screen habits.
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Recent Episodes
June 24, 2026
The Attention Economy War: Why Willpower Alone Can't Beat Your Phone
<p>What if the reason you can't put your phone down isn't a personal failure — but the predictable outcome of a multi-billion-dollar war being waged for your attention? In this episode of the Phone Addiction podcast, we zoom out from individual habits to the systemic reality behind them: the attention economy. The biggest companies in human history have spent decades, billions of dollars, and the world's smartest engineers building tools designed to capture, hold, and monetize every minute of human focus. And then we wonder why we can't just "use less."</p><p>We unpack how tech platforms commodify human attention into the most valuable resource on earth — more valuable than oil — and why blaming yourself for losing the willpower battle is like blaming yourself for getting wet in a rainstorm. The system is engineered to win. But once you see it, you can step out of the fight on the platform's terms, and start reclaiming cognitive freedom on your own.</p><p>In this episode we cover:</p><ul><li>What the "attention economy" actually is — and how it became the dominant business model of our time</li><li>How human focus became the most monetized resource in history</li><li>Why infinite scroll, autoplay, notifications, and algorithmic feeds aren't accidents — they're design</li><li>The asymmetry between thousands of behavioral scientists vs. one tired human with willpower</li><li>Insights from Tristan Harris, Jaron Lanier, and the Center for Humane Technology</li><li>Why "just use it less" advice fails — and what actually works</li><li>The link between attention capture, mental health, democracy, and quality of life</li><li>Evidence-based strategies for reclaiming cognitive freedom: friction design, environment over willpower, attention rituals, and policy-level change</li></ul><p>This episode is a call to clarity, not panic. The first step in any war is knowing you're in one. Once you see the architecture of the attention economy, every choice you make about your phone becomes a conscious act of reclaiming your mind, your time, and your life.</p><p>Drawing on research and ideas from Tristan Harris, Jaron Lanier, Cal Newport, Johann Hari, and leading cognitive scientists, this is essential listening for parents, teens, professionals, policymakers, and anyone ready to take their attention back.</p><p>🎧 Part of our Phone Addiction series — subscribe for new episodes on screens, focus, cognitive freedom, and reclaiming attention in the digital age.</p>
June 23, 2026
Fear of Missing Out vs. Fear of Living: How FOMO Is Stealing Your Actual Life
<p>When did "fear of missing out" turn into a fear of actually living? In this episode of the Phone Addiction podcast, we trace one of the most quietly damaging psychological shifts of the smartphone era — the evolution of ordinary FOMO into something far more existential: a chronic inability to be present in your own life because some part of your attention is always monitoring everyone else's.</p><p>We unpack how social media transformed FOMO from an occasional pang into a constant, low-grade background hum. Every scroll delivers proof that someone, somewhere, is doing something more exciting, more attractive, more meaningful than you. Over time, this rewires the brain to treat the present moment as a place to escape from — rather than the only place real life actually happens. The result is a generation physically present everywhere and emotionally present almost nowhere.</p><p>In this episode we cover:</p><ul><li>The original psychology of FOMO — and how smartphones supercharged it</li><li>Why your brain is wired to scan for what others are doing, and why phones exploit that wiring</li><li>How chronic FOMO turns into "existential distraction" — a fear of fully inhabiting your own life</li><li>The link between FOMO, anxiety, depression, and dissatisfaction with otherwise good lives</li><li>Why presence is the rarest — and most life-changing — skill of the digital age</li><li>How the curated, highlight-reel nature of feeds makes ordinary moments feel inadequate</li><li>The role of FOMO in poor decision-making, overcommitment, and burnout</li><li>Evidence-based practices: presence anchors, comparison fasts, gratitude resets, and JOMO (the joy of missing out)</li></ul><p>Drawing on research from psychologists, mindfulness teachers, and digital well-being experts, this is essential listening for anyone who has ever scrolled past their own life looking for a better one.</p><p>🎧 Part of our Phone Addiction series — subscribe for new episodes on screens, mental health, presence, and reclaiming your life in the digital age.</p>
June 22, 2026
Kids Competing with Screens: How Distracted Parenting Is Shaping the Next Generation
<p>What happens to a child who has to compete with a phone for their parent's attention — and keeps losing? In this episode of the Phone Addiction podcast, we tackle one of the most quietly painful realities of modern family life: kids growing up in a world where the most important people in their lives are physically present but emotionally somewhere else. The cost isn't just hurt feelings. It's measurable changes in attachment, language, behavior, and lifelong emotional health.</p><p>We unpack the science of how children read their parents' faces from the moment they're born — searching for cues of warmth, safety, and presence. When that gaze is repeatedly redirected to a screen, infants and young children experience small but accumulating moments of disconnection. Over years, these moments shape attachment styles, language development, emotional regulation, and the deep, internal sense of "I matter" that every child needs to thrive.</p><p>In this episode we cover:</p><ul><li>Why every child is, in some way, competing with their parents' phone</li><li>The neuroscience of "serve and return" interactions and why they're foundational</li><li>How the still-face experiment reveals what kids feel when parents are screen-absent</li><li>The link between distracted parenting and insecure attachment styles</li><li>Why screen-distracted caregiving is associated with language delays and weaker vocabulary</li><li>How chronic micro-disconnects shape adult anxiety, people-pleasing, and self-worth</li><li>Why "quality time" requires presence — not just proximity</li><li>Evidence-based, low-shame strategies to rebuild connection: phone-free windows, eye-level engagement, and repair rituals</li></ul><p>This episode is offered with deep compassion. Today's parents are doing this without a roadmap, often without community, and under unprecedented pressure. The goal here isn't guilt — it's awareness, science, and the chance to give children what they need most: the experience of being seen.</p><p>Drawing on research from attachment theorists, developmental psychologists, and family therapists, this is essential listening for parents, grandparents, caregivers, educators, and anyone who loves a child growing up in the smartphone era.</p><p>🎧 Part of our Phone Addiction series — subscribe for new episodes on screens, attachment, parenting, and raising healthy kids in the digital age.</p>
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