Jonathan Haidt: How Phone Addiction & Social Media Are Making Us Anxious - And What To Do About It - Tools & Tactics
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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#890: Join us as we sit down with Jonathan Haidt – social psychologist at NYU Stern & bestselling author of The Anxious Generation – known for his research on morality, culture, politics & the impact of technology on society. In this episode, Jonathan shares the reality of social media & the impacts on children and adults. We also discuss the negative effects of smartphone dependence and solutions for healthy childhood development as well as adult guard rails in the digital age. We end the episode with practical digital habits you can implement today!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.7 | She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. |
| 0:07.5 | Fantastic. |
| 0:08.5 | And he's a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:10.8 | A very smart cookie. |
| 0:12.2 | And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. |
| 0:16.3 | Get ready for some major realness. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. |
| 0:21.8 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:24.7 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome back to the skinny confidential, him and her show. |
| 0:27.7 | Today we're sitting with Dr. Jonathan Haidt. |
| 0:30.0 | He is one of the most requested guests on this podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | We've been wanting to do this with him for a while. |
| 0:34.6 | For those of you that are unfamiliar with Dr. Jonathan Haidt, |
| 0:36.7 | he is one of the world's most influential social psychologists and best-selling authors. |
| 0:41.7 | Jonathan has spent decades researching morality, human behavior, and culture, but his latest work |
| 0:46.6 | zeroes in on something every parent, teacher and young adult needs to hear, hell, everyone |
| 0:51.0 | needs to hear, the profound impact of smartphones and social media on mental health. |
| 0:55.9 | In his new book, The Anxious Generation, Jonathan exposes how childhood was rewired in just a single |
| 1:00.8 | decade and why Gen Z is experiencing record levels of anxiety and depression. |
| 1:05.3 | We also talk about what modern smartphone use and social media is doing to adults, |
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