March 1st-2nd sundown to sundown marks Global Day of Unplugging 2024. In their own words "here to answer the US Surgeon General's call to end loneliness and eager to help you up your game with your tech habits", GDU has been around for many years, supporting people all around the world to reflect on their tech use.

In this episode, co-founder and Director of Partnerships, Claudia Erickson shares insights into some of the work the Unplug Collaborative are doing, and how changed tech habits can improve our lives.

Make sure to sign up and do something cool, fun and unplugged!

https://www.globaldayofunplugging.org/

Philly Powell is doing amazing work in the wellbeing sector with her "Wellbeing Tick". In this episode I had the honour of being a guest on her Wellbeing Provocateur series. We discuss technology and life high and low as we circle around the need to raise our consciousness around how we use tech and consume information.  

Learn more about Philly and her inspiring work here

https://www.wellbeingtick.co.nz/

Taino chats with Nini Fritz about her journey, digital detoxing, happiness, human connection, and how we can create more meaningful connections both in the online and offline world. Oh, and pancakes!

Links to Nini's work:

https://www.the-work-happiness-project.com/

https://www.eyeconnectgame.com/

Listen in as I share some thoughts on my recent book release, and fall into a spontaneous rant on life, technology, happiness and more.

For more information about my work, visit:

www.tainobendz.com

In this episode, I have a chat with Clo, the founder of This Too Shall Grow. She is a certified digital wellness coach who helps people build better relationships with their devices.  She used to be a UX researcher and designer who shares an interesting perspective on how digital platforms' mechanisms can be detrimental to our mental health and how we can foster a more balanced digital life.

Read more about Clo and her work at www.thistooshallgrow.com

The Screentime Genie can be found at https://screentime.stanford.edu/ and is designed among others by Steven Crane. He is a research scholar and consultant based at Stanford University. Steven studies human behavior (especially screen time), biotechnological ethics, social connectedness, public health, and human flourishing. In this episode we talk about the Screentime Genie and Steven shares some of his insights into Tech-Life Balance. He also tells us about the app Sunny, a digital guide that suggests simple, science-based actions to help you build healthier real-world social connections.

For more information and to download Sunny

https://www.gosunny.org/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sunny-powering-human-kindness/id1619942879

Listen in on this great panel discussion leading up to Phone Free Day, October 6th. 

The conversation covered a range of topics with everything from road safety, to student wellbeing, to Covid-implications on digital wellbeing. 

You can take on a Phone Free challenge anytime at www.phonefreeday.org!

The LOG OFF Movement was started by Emma Lembke after she started experiencing negative effects on her mental health from social media. Together with her co-leaders and teenage leaders around the world, LOG OFF is working hard to help lowering social media's impact on mental health while teaching teenage users and their parents about how to navigate the vast inner -workings of life on social media. 

Listen in to hear Emma share her inspiring story about why she started LOG OFF, the impact that they are having, and get some advice for parents and teenagers. 

Fernanda Maio is a life and digital wellbeing coach working with employees in organizations, and individuals. She supports them in understanding and redefining their relationship with technology; creating more choices; make people think for themselves; and improving their motivation, focus, and wellbeing. 

In this episode, Fernanda shares stories from her work during the past years and some advice on how we can improve the balance of our technology use, and raises the important question: "Are you investing your time where you want to?"

#HalfTheStory began when founder, Larissa May, was juggling two lives as a student at Vanderbilt University and a fashion blogger/entrepreneur, covering NYFW for highly respected media outlets. Behind the perfectly curated instagram feed was 17 hour workdays, debilitating anxiety, and sleep deprivation. Through industry conversations and discussions with peers she quickly realized that she was living in a world where everyone was craving a platform to share , which led to the beginning of Half The Story.

In this episode, Larissa shares her unique perspective on social media, mental health, and how we can work towards increased Tech-Life Balance (and harmony!)