Fasting Social Media and How It Affected my Job
Overcomfort Podcast with Jenicka Lopez
My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
At the start of the year, I made a decision that didn’t make sense on paper — I fasted social media for a full week, even though my job, income, and visibility live online.
In this episode, I share what led me to step away, what fasting actually means (beyond food or religious pressure), and how deleting the apps became a real act of trust and sacrifice as a creator and influencer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome back to the Overcomfort Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Jennifer Lopez. |
| 0:15.2 | Thank you guys so much for choosing to listen and watch to today's episode. |
| 0:20.6 | And this is Vibe for anybody that doesn't know |
| 0:23.1 | who Vibe is. It's mainly a puppy boy. And he wants to hang out today. He's being really a big baby. |
| 0:28.9 | Anyways, if you guys clicked on to today's episode and chose to listen, you already saw the title, |
| 0:35.1 | the description, thumbnail, whatever. |
| 0:43.3 | We are talking about fasting and how I started the year out fasting. |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah, basically. |
| 0:52.5 | The title is fasting when your job is online. |
| 0:55.8 | And I think I've talked about fasting before. |
| 1:01.7 | And I wanted to share my experience in the beginning of this year. |
| 1:04.8 | I like to start the year out with a fast. |
| 1:17.7 | Usually churches do the Daniel fast, like a food one or one meal a day. And for me, and before we get into it, |
| 1:23.7 | I do want to start with the Bible verse of the day. It is John 15.5. I'm the vine. You are the branches. If you remain in me and I and you, you will bear much fruit. And this is the |
| 1:27.8 | main part I want us to focus on. Apart from me, you cannot do nothing. And this is what hits very |
| 1:37.2 | different. This is what I tied it to when I was fasting. And I actually have that, in a different |
| 1:44.0 | version, it says abide in me and I and you. |
| 1:46.5 | And abide means also like remaining in Christ and us and him and him and us. |
| 1:51.7 | And I got that tattoo, but that was a side note. |
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