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Deeply Well with Devi Brown

Multitasking is a Myth - with Dr. Zelana

Deeply Well with Devi Brown

The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Deeply Well, Devi sits down with Dr. Zelana Montminy, a leading behavioral scientist and resilience expert, to discuss the urgent issue of focusing in our distraction-laden world. Dr. Zelana shares insights from her new book, 'Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in the Age of Distraction,' which offers practical strategies to reclaim mental clarity and emotional resilience. They cover the impacts of our hyperconnected lives on our well-being, the science behind attention and distraction, and the critical need for boredom in fostering creativity. Dr Zelena also touches on mindful parenting in the digital age, the cost of over-communication, and the importance of authentic human connections. Listeners are encouraged to identify their biggest distractors and make small changes, such as not waking up with their phones, to regain their focus and fortify their mental health.

Connect with Dr. Zelana

Dr. Zelanas Website: https://drzelana.com/

Dr. Zelana’s Book Finding Focus: https://drzelana.com/findingfocus

Dr. Zelana’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.zelana

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Website: https://devibrownwellbeing.com/

Living In Wisdom Book: https://www.devibrown.com/book

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast. Take a deep breath in through your nose,

0:33.6

in through your nose holds it now release slowly again deep inhale hold Deep inhale.

0:56.0

Hold.

1:02.0

Release.

1:12.4

Repeating internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I am deeply well.

1:17.9

I am deeply well.

1:25.3

I am deeply well.

1:34.0

I'm Devy Brown, and this is the Deeply Well podcast.

2:03.6

Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place to land on your journey, a podcast for those that are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher consciousness and self-care. This is where we heal. This is where we transcend. Welcome back to the show, everybody. This is deeply well. Of course, I'm your host, Debbie Brown. Today, we're going

2:08.3

to be diving into a topic that feels honestly more urgent than ever, our ability to focus in a world world that's consistently, constantly, pulling at our

2:21.1

attention, be it through screens, our schedules, and just the endless noise of what it is to be

2:28.3

alive on earth as a modern human, many of us are struggling to stay present to what truly matters to us and to remember

2:36.6

that there are other ways to be, even with all of this noise happening. So today we're having a

2:43.4

powerful conversation. Get your journals ready because honestly, we are going to have so

2:48.1

many tips and processes and kind of ways to work with your

2:52.3

biology, ways to work with your life. So I know this episode is going to be one of those.

2:58.1

Y'all know how it goes. Joining me in this conversation today is someone who has been leading

3:03.2

the way and helping us understand how to reclaim our mental clarity and our emotional resilience.

3:12.0

Doctors the Lana Momini is a leading behavioral scientist, resilience expert, and author

3:18.5

dedicated to helping individuals and organizations thrive in the face of modern stress and distraction.

3:26.7

Her newest book, Finding Focus, Own Your Attention in the Age of Distraction, offers a science-backed

3:33.7

roadmap for reclaiming attention in today's hyper-connected world.

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