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Ever feel like you’re dating five needy people at once… except they’re named Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Pinterest? Yeah. No wonder you’re exhausted.
In this episode, I share a surprisingly fun way to break your compulsive “open-close-open-close” scrolling habit called Social Media Speed Dating. It’s not about quitting everything cold turkey, it’s about finding the one social media app that’s actually worth your time, attention, and spiritual energy.
You’ll learn:
If you’ve ever wanted a lighter, saner relationship with your phone, this is your permission slip to stop playing the field and finally commit to something better.
Resources & Next Steps:
🔲 Get Brick: A Digital Wellness Device to Help You Overcome Digital Distraction. You just tap your iPhone to it, and it activates a custom focus mode you’ve already designed. Tempting apps? Blocked. Helpful ones? Still accessible. Want to learn more or try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
Want more tips on healthy tech habits?
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
Ever wish you could just raise your hand mid-podcast and ask, “Wait, but what about…?”
That’s exactly what we’re doing today.
For the first time on Overcome Digital Distraction, I’m answering listener questions, the ones you’ve been emailing, DMing, and quietly wondering about.
We’re getting real about:
1. Using social media without feeling drained or distracted
2. Why your mind feels constantly “on” — even during prayer or Bible reading
3. Breaking free from screen time guilt
This episode is part heart-to-heart, part practical strategy session, plus a little truth talk about grace vs. guilt that might just change the way you see your screen habits forever.
So grab your coffee (or your earbuds for a walk) and join me for this honest, encouraging conversation.
Resources & Next Steps:
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
🍽️ Table Talk: 50 Conversation Starters for Screen-Free Family Dinners 👉 Table Talk Guide
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
Ever sat down for dinner and realized… no one’s actually there? The forks are clinking, the plates are being passed but eyes are glued to screens, minds are miles away, and conversation is replaced with the dreaded “Fine.”
If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you. I’m sharing my simple Five-Step Dinner Table Reset, a framework to help you reclaim mealtimes as sacred space for connection, conversation, and even spiritual formation. We’ll cover why screens at dinner matter more than we think, how gratitude and intentional questions can transform conversation in minutes, and what to do when your family resists or rolls their eyes at “phone-free” time.
Because silence can feel awkward when you’re first trying screen-free meals, I’m giving you a tool to make it easy: Table Talk: 50 Conversation Starters for Screen-Free Family Dinners. This free printable guide is packed with thoughtful, funny, faith-filled, and memory-making prompts to keep conversation flowing. You’ll get:
Use them nightly or whenever your family needs a little help warming up. Keep them on the table, let the kids pick a question, and watch your table come alive again.
I think you're going to enjoy this one!
Resources & Next Steps:
🍽️ Table Talk: 50 Conversation Starters for Screen-Free Family Dinners 👉 Table Talk Guide
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
Want more tips on healthy tech habits?
🔲 Get Brick: A Digital Wellness Device to Help You Overcome Digital Distraction. You just tap your iPhone to it, and it activates a custom focus mode you’ve already designed. Tempting apps? Blocked. Helpful ones? Still accessible. Want to learn more or try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
How often do your phone notifications pull you away from what matters most?
You’re mid-conversation, mid-prayer, or finally making progress on a project—then ping. Just like that, your peace evaporates, your body tenses, and your brain shifts into reactive mode. It happens dozens of times a day.
In this episode, I’m sharing practical ways to turn off notifications that don’t deserve your attention, without missing the ones that do. We’ll talk about what digital distraction is doing to your nervous system, your brain, and your soul and how you can start healing your focus one small reset at a time.
You’ll walk away with a simple Notification Audit you can do in less than 10 minutes. Whether you're drowning in digital overload or just need a reset, these five steps will help you turn off notifications that interrupt your day and steal your focus.
This isn't about being unreachable—it's about being intentional. It's time to silence notifications that pull you out of the moment and into stress.
What You’ll Learn:
Resources & Next Steps:
🔲 Get Brick: A Digital Wellness Device to Help You Overcome Digital Distraction. You just tap your iPhone to it, and it activates a custom focus mode you’ve already designed. Tempting apps? Blocked. Helpful ones? Still accessible. Want to learn more or try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
Want more tips on healthy tech habits?
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
Hashtags: #ScreenFreeSaturday #DigitalWellness #TurnOffNotifications
Ever feel physically tired but mentally wired when your head hits the pillow?
You’re not crazy—and it’s not just stress.
It’s probably blue light.
Yep. The invisible kind glowing from your phone, your TV, even your overhead lights is hijacking your brain’s ability to rest. It suppresses melatonin, confuses your circadian rhythm, and leaves you wide awake at midnight wondering what’s wrong with you.
In this episode I break down exactly how blue light affects your sleep and your spiritual clarity.
This one’s a blend of neuroscience and Scripture, because understanding how your brain works is powerful, but it’s even more powerful when paired with God’s design for rest. You were created for deep, healing, God-designed sleep.
Inside the episode, I share:
And if you’re up for it—I’ve got a 7-day Blue Light Sleep Challenge inside that’ll help you test this for yourself (and feel the difference fast).
Your well-rested, more focused, more peaceful future self will thank you.
Resources & Next Steps:
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
Want more tips on healthy tech habits?
🔲 Get Brick: A Digital Wellness Device to Help You Overcome Digital Distraction. You just tap your iPhone to it, and it activates a custom focus mode you’ve already designed. Tempting apps? Blocked. Helpful ones? Still accessible. Want to learn more or try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
Hashtags: #ScreenFreeSaturday #DigitalWellness #OvercomeDigitalDistraction
In this episode, we flip the script on boredom—and reveal why it might just be the secret weapon you’ve been missing when it comes to breaking bad digital habits.
Sounds too simple? Maybe. But that “I’m bored” feeling isn’t random —it’s a signal. A quiet nudge from your brain and your soul that you’re overdue for something deeper than distraction.
Most of us treat boredom like a problem to fix. We fill the gap with noise, scrolling, or multitasking. But what if that gap is actually the gateway to being fully present, more focused, more peaceful, and more spiritually grounded?
We're diving into:
If you’re tired of numbing out every free minute and ready for more clarity, calm, and connection —this one’s for you.
Resources & Next Steps:
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Want more tips on healthy tech habits?
🔲 Get Brick: A Digital Wellness Device to Help You Overcome Digital Distraction. You just tap your iPhone to it, and it activates a custom focus mode you’ve already designed. Tempting apps? Blocked. Helpful ones? Still accessible. Want to learn more or try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
Hashtags: #ScreenFreeSaturday #DigitalWellness #OvercomeDigitalDistraction
Summer’s here! BBQs, iced coffee, slower mornings...and maybe a few too many hours lost to screens. If you've caught yourself scrolling through dinner, binging Netflix instead of resting, or reaching for your phone before your Bible, you’re likely not the only one!
In this episode, I’m inviting you to pause and take a summer screen reset. Not a full detox. Not a five-step overhaul. Just one intentional shift to help you restore peace and presence this summer.
You’ll walk away with 3 powerful coaching questions to identify your most life-giving next step, simple habit reset ideas, and a dose of biblical encouragement to “choose life” in your digital habits.
Let’s make this the summer something shifts.
What you’ll learn:
Resources:
Episode 5: How Grayscale Transformed My Phone Habits 👉 Download your guide
Episode 4: The Power of Your First Hour: One Habit That Can Transform Your Morning 👉
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
Ever caught yourself opening your phone… closing it… and reopening it 10 seconds later?
Yup. Been there. Done that. Probably did it this morning. 🙋♀️
If you’ve been wondering how to stop checking your phone all day long without even realizing it, this episode is for you. We’re getting soul-level honest about that reflexive reach and what to do instead. Because the constant checking? It’s not a moral failure. It’s a habit loop. And the same brain that learned it… can unlearn it.
You’ll discover how to interrupt the pattern without guilt, get curious about what your heart’s really seeking, and retrain your brain with grace and truth. We’re talking dopamine, Jesus, and practical steps you can actually take in the middle of your day (without throwing your phone in a drawer).
This one is tender, practical, and might just be your new favourite. Let’s break the habit loop.
What you’ll learn:
Resources & Next Steps:
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
Want more tips on healthy tech habits?
🔲 Get Brick: A Digital Wellness Device to Help You Overcome Digital Distraction. You just tap your iPhone to it, and it activates a custom focus mode you’ve already designed. Tempting apps? Blocked. Helpful ones? Still accessible. Want to learn more or try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
Hashtags: #ScreenFreeSaturday #DigitalWellness #OvercomeDigitalDistraction
In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into the relational ripple effect of digital distraction and how our habits aren’t just personal… they’re contagious. Whether you’ve been called out for scrolling mid-convo or you’ve sat across from someone glued to their screen while you’re pouring your heart out, you know the tension I’m talking about.
The truth? Most of us are living by unspoken digital agreements that are quietly normalizing disconnection. And unless we talk about them, they’re not going anywhere.
But there’s hope. Research, Scripture, and a whole lot of real-life stories show us that healthier, more connected relationships are totally possible. You just need the right conversations and a few practical tools to get there.
What You’ll Learn:
If you've ever wished your home, marriage, or friendships felt more present, more joyful, more real and screen free, this episode is for you.
Resources & Next Steps:
Episode 2: The 8 Forms of Digital Denial 👉 How Distraction Steals Your Focus & Your First Step to Reduce Screen Time
🔲 Get Brick: A Digital Wellness Device to Help You Overcome Digital Distraction. You just tap your iPhone to it, and it activates a custom focus mode you’ve already designed. Tempting apps? Blocked. Helpful ones? Still accessible. Want to learn more or try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
Want more tips on healthy tech habits?
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
One Small Tap That Changes Everything: My Honest Review of the Brick Digital Wellness Device
What if one small tap could help you stop scrolling, protect your peace, and reclaim your focus all without deleting every app on your phone or going off the grid?
That’s exactly what I’ve been testing for the last 30 days.
In this episode, I’m sharing my honest review of a new physical tool called The Brick - a small but mighty digital wellness device that’s changing how I interact with my phone. It’s been one of the simplest and most effective ways I’ve found to create intentional, screen-free space in my day. It's definitely helping me overcome digital distraction.
This isn't just another gadget. The Brick interrupts compulsive phone habits in a way that’s gentle, smart, and shockingly effective (without subscriptions, batteries, or maintenance). It uses NFC technology *just like tap-to-pay* to help you pre-decide how you want your phone to work before the distractions even start.
You’ll hear how I’ve used it to change my morning routine, improve family time, and even set up screen limits that actually stick, for yourself and anyone else you’re trying to lead by example.
If you’ve ever overridden your own screen time limits without thinking, or wished for a tool that could help your whole family focus better, listen in. This one’s for you.
♦︎ What if your phone told you, “This is a distraction”?
Let’s talk about why physical boundaries beat willpower every time and how this might be the digital wellness device you’ve been waiting for.
What You’ll Learn:
Get The Brick:
🎁 Want to try Brick yourself? Get 10% off with my link here: https://julianneaugust.com/brick
Resources & Next Steps:
📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers
Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz
Want more tips on healthy tech habits?
Let’s Connect!
📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com
🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!
Hashtags: #ScreenFreeSaturday #DigitialWellnessDevice #OvercomeDigitalDistraction
From the publisher's feed
The Podcast Where Faith & Digital Wellness Meet
**Top 2.5% Globally Ranked Podcast on Listen Notes**
Is your phone controlling your life, pulling you in every direction, leaving you feeling disconnected and overwhelmed? Are screens stealing your time, diluting your faith, and distorting your focus?
Maybe you feel stuck in a habit loop, lost in doomscrolling, mindless distraction and information overload when you were made for so much more! Excessive screen time is among the most challenging habits people want to break, and for good reason. Too much time on screens doesn't just waste hours, it quietly steals your focus, drains your energy, hijacks your sleep, and crowds out the very things that matter most.
I know the frustration of wanting to change my screen habits but not knowing where to start, and I've helped many others through this exact struggle.
I'm Julianne August, a Christian life coach and digital wellness advocate. With 25 years of leadership experience and certifications in life coaching, habit change, and brain health, here's what I know: habit change is heart change, that's where real transformation happens. I’m passionate about equipping Christians who are positioned for influence and impact with the tools they need to overcome digital distraction and build healthy habits that actually stick.
On this podcast, I'll dive deep into practical strategies, rooted in biblical principles, to help you reduce screen time without guilt, frustration, or rigid rules. You'll discover the power of habits, learn simple habit stacking techniques, and learn how to rewire your brain for lasting change, one step at a time.
In our digital world, it's easy to feel half-hearted about your faith and values when you're constantly battling phone addiction. Whether you want to stop checking social media, limit screen time, or declutter your digital life, I'll help you set boundaries that protect your peace and create space to slow down, think deeply, and breathe again.
This isn't just about going unplugged with your cell phone, it's about breaking free from limiting beliefs and building healthy habits to reduce screen time and reclaim your focus. You weren't meant to live distracted.
It's time to Overcome Digital Distraction!
Next Steps:
👉Take my FREE Screen Time Personality Quiz! https://julianneaugust.com/screen-time-personality-quiz.
📲 Grab Your FREE Wallpapers
Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉https://julianneaugust.com/wallpaper
Let’s Connect!
🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com

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