How to Make Social Media Work for You
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Matt Willis goes beyond the surface of social media in this solo episode. He shares his honest experiences with the pressures, comparisons, and negativity that online life can bring, and how these challenges have affected his mental health and recovery.
Rather than an anti-social media rant, Matt offers practical ways to stay mindful and intentional, setting boundaries, curating feeds, taking breaks, and pausing before reacting. He also reflects on the emotional toll of viral content, online debates, and the pressure to constantly stay informed.
This episode is a candid exploration of how to engage with social media thoughtfully, protect your well-being, and maintain perspective in an ever-connected world.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. |
| 0:09.6 | Hey everybody, it's Matt Willis here. Welcome back to On the Men, the show that looks back to move forward. |
| 0:14.2 | Today's conversation is all about social media. Now, I want to start, this is not an anti-social media rant, right, but a conversation about |
| 0:24.2 | what it's doing to our mental health, self-worth and recovery journeys. Who's up next week? Follow us to |
| 0:30.9 | find out. Watch wherever you get your podcasts. I'll be honest, I felt really unsure about doing this |
| 0:36.1 | episode. I think the reason I want to speak about this right now is because it's affecting me right now. |
| 0:41.0 | I'll be as open as I can. |
| 0:41.9 | I've been really affected the last couple of weeks by what I've seen online. |
| 0:47.5 | And it's made a massive impact in my day-to-day life, which I was quite surprised by because I've always felt like I've got a bit of a filter, |
| 0:56.1 | you know, and I can watch something and it doesn't necessarily, I don't have to carry that |
| 1:02.6 | with me. But I feel that recently something has shifted in the world and especially on social |
| 1:09.4 | media and the stuff that I'm seeing out there is really |
| 1:14.3 | affecting my mental health and I don't know about you please let me know if what I'm about |
| 1:20.8 | talk about and what you have been seeing recently is affecting you because it's it's I really feel like something's changing I think the thing about social media right is because it's, it's, I really feel like something's changing. |
| 1:29.2 | I think the thing about social media, right, is that it's a proper double-edged sword. |
| 1:34.1 | Because on one side, it can be incredible. |
| 1:36.5 | It connects us. |
| 1:38.0 | It lets us see people that we haven't seen for a while or something that we're really interested in. |
| 1:43.4 | We can learn more |
| 1:44.2 | about it. It gives us community like this one, but this one is a very active community on the social |
| 1:49.3 | media and I enjoy connecting with you on social media. So I really enjoy that connection. But then there's |
| 1:55.1 | this other side, right, which is the endless scrolling, the comparison, the trolls, the pressure to look like you've got it |
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