In this episode, you'll hear from Jordan Maney, the Radical Joy Coach, about how tech has fundamentally changed our relationship to rest and joy. Jordan helps people recovering from burnout use rest as a space to experiment with joyful living while transitioning into something kinder. You'll explore how social media shifted from an event to a constant presence, why scrolling puts your nervous system into survival mode instead of flow state, and what it means to reclaim your energy, attention, and time from platforms designed to keep you hooked. Jordan shares practical tools like social media office hours, the "look up" method for breaking scroll cycles, and her powerful definition of rest as an act of reclamation. This conversation is a permission slip to stop being constantly on.

Topics Covered:

• How social media evolved from an event (something you logged into intentionally) to a constant, exhausting presence that has fundamentally changed our relationship to rest
• Why the fluctuation between cute dog videos and war footage on our feeds is traumatizing our nervous systems and keeping us in a perpetual state of survival mode
• The myth of multitasking and how scrolling while doing other things actually prevents us from achieving flow states and genuine rest
• Social media office hours: what they are, how they help manage capacity, and why setting external expectations protects your internal boundaries
• The "look up" method — a simple embodied practice to interrupt the scroll cycle by literally lifting your eyes, breathing, and asking yourself what you're actually getting from being online
• Why rest isn't boring or uncomfortable: Jordan's definition of rest as the energy, attention, and time you return to yourself, and how that reclamation can be joyful and generative
• The attention economy and how platforms are systematically designed to rob us of our attention, making it crucial to bring intentionality to every interaction with tech
• Why Germans disappear for the entire month of August and what we can learn from cultures that don't treat constant availability as a moral virtue
• The difference between using social media as an event (intentional, time-boxed) versus a default coping mechanism for boredom, mood shifts, or avoidance

Connect with Jordan Maney:

• RestLab Report on Substack
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• YouTube: @theJordanManey

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