1KHO 556: I Gave Up My Smartphone and Found My Soul | Andrew Laubacher, Humanality

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this radically honest and thought-provoking episode, Andrew Laubacher (aka ALob) returns to share the life-altering decision that changed everything: stepping away from the platforms designed to keep us addicted and unhappy. From addiction and burnout to healing and purpose, Andrew opens up about the crushing weight of social comparison, the lies of digital liberation, the trappings of pornography, and how seven days without a mirror in the woods revealed more about his worth than seven years online ever could. Now the executive director of Humanality, Andrew is leading a global movement to restore our humanity. Humanality offers tools, courses, and community for those ready to live differently. Together with host Ginny Yurich, they unpack what it means to opt out. If you've ever felt your soul is slowly being scrolled away, this conversation is a wake-up call and a way forward. 👉 Learn more or start your own Humanality Village: https://www.humanality.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urid. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.
0:06.0	And we have an amazing guest back for the second time. Andrew Laubocker. Welcome.
0:11.3	Great to be back, Jenny.
0:13.0	Okay. So this is an interesting thing. This has never, ever, ever happened in the history of all the podcast episodes.
0:20.0	So in the last one, you were talking about, at that point, you were talking about dating and how hard it is to find, you know, it's like everyone's using the dating apps and you're, you've switched to a flip phone and you're trying to find someone.
0:32.6	Anyways, people reached out.
0:35.6	It's hilarious.
0:36.6	You're saying we're interested. So we have to set the stage from the very beginning. Anyways, people reached out. That's hilarious.
0:38.5	You're saying we're interested.
0:43.5	So we have to set the stage from the very beginning that currently you are spoken for.
0:45.2	Yes, yes.
0:47.0	And that's actually very recent. And it was wild because it was just a total kind of happenstance that I was kind of like excited about where like wasn't set up it wasn't
0:55.6	online it was literally just like met someone at a random event and it like has been great.
1:02.2	Oh.
1:02.7	Okay.
1:03.1	Well, you'll have to let us know if anything else changes.
1:05.3	That's right.
1:05.9	I'll keep you posted.
1:07.4	It's inquiring minds would like to know.
1:09.2	Okay.
1:09.4	So the story here is that you are traveling the world doing music, using your phone, just like how so many of us are completely addicted, distracted, and you make this big change in 2017?
1:21.4	Yes, 2018, I think.
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