Digital Detox - Experience Life in the Moment

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 145 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Forest says, “68% of us pretend to check stuff (on phones) in order to avoid talking to people. 20% reported checking their phone while having sex. I don't know how it's possible, but okay? That's just bonkers. Talk about a lack of meaningful connection and intimacy. I think something like 47% reported phone use in their relationship being one of the top two causes of fights.”

Today, we interview Forest Bronzan, Partner at Digital Detox. Digital Detox provides the skills to help you slowly bring your life and phone use back into balance—so technology can help you be a better parent and friend and partner and colleague.

As they say at Digital Detox, you deserve to feel better physically and mentally. To experience life in the moment. And to take back control of your time.

We discussed:

* What he’s grateful for
* An overview and origin of Digital Detox
* In memoriam: The story of Levi Felix, Founder of Digital Detox and Friend
* How Forest became involved with Digital Detox
* Stats and the emotional and physical impact that technology can have on our lives
* What you can do to bring balance into your life (and not let technology control your life)
* Why Digital Detox is not Anti-technology
* Tips that you can use in your daily life to minimize the impact of technology
* Parenting and technology
* The wildly popular Digital Detox Newsletter and what you can expect from it and more…

Join Ramon Vela and Forest Bronzan as we break down the inside story of Digital Detox on The Story of a Brand.

Learn about Digital Detox and sign up for the newsletter at https://www.digitaldetox.com/

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0:00.0	I would say more now than ever people are recognizing the impacts, just anecdotally and then
0:06.6	just with their own lives.
0:08.4	They feel the addiction.
0:09.4	They're recognizing the compulsion with rechecking posts with constantly scrolling.
0:15.0	And it impacts all ages.
0:17.2	We could get to unpack that in a bit.
0:19.0	But yes, but then there's some that either don't
0:22.4	care. I think that's fewer and far between now. And then some that maybe don't realize how much
0:27.4	it's impacting them until they have a little bit of a wake-up call. And well, snap, I actually did
0:32.3	spend nine hours a day on TikTok this last month. I've lost a lot of time.
0:52.7	This is the story of a brand, a podcast that helps people learn the story behind their favorite consumer products.
0:54.6	I'm Ramon Vela, and I believe that people want to know more about the brands and products they purchase.
1:00.3	So each week, I interview the founder of a consumer brand, unpack their story, their products, their mission,
1:06.1	so you can decide which products are worth buying and which brands are worth supporting.
1:23.6	Forrest says, 68% of us pretend to check stuff on our phones in order to avoid talking to people.
1:31.7	20% report checking their phone while having sex. Now, he goes on to say, I don't know how it's possible, but okay, but it's just bonkers. Talk about a lack of meaningful connection and intimacy.
1:40.1	Today, we interview Forrest Bronson, partner at Digital Detox.
1:45.6	Digital Detox provides the skills to help you slowly bring your life and phone use back into balance.
1:52.2	So technology can help you be a better parent, friend, partner, and colleague.
1:58.4	As they say at Digital Detox, you deserve to feel better physically and mentally,
2:04.8	and to experience life in the moment and to take back control of your time. We discussed so many
2:11.7	things in this interview from what he's grateful for, an overview and origin of digital detox, the story of Levi Felix,
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