The Cost of Always Being Connected
Let's Be Cleere
Cleere
5.0 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This conversation started not because I think social media or the internet is the enemy— that would be a little crazy considering you are reading this on an app and you most likely heard about it through social media. I am SO GRATEFUL for the gift of the online space, the community it provides, the resources it has illuminated, and the ability to connect with others in the most unique ways.
However, I started to notice that I was literally scrolling at night and I could not even tell you what I saw. I was numbing out and I knew it, and yet I kept doing it.
I noticed how tired my mind felt even when my body was still. How easily my attention scattered. How quickly I moved from one thing to the next without really being in any of it. Nothing dramatic. Just subtle. Quiet. Cumulative.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Let's Be Clear. I always think when I start episodes about |
| 0:07.5 | when Will makes fun of me when I say hi, friends, but hi, I hope you're having a great week |
| 0:14.2 | wherever this is finding you, whenever you're listening. I'm really excited about today's |
| 0:19.9 | episode because honestly, writing it and leaning into this topic has deeply challenged me. We are going to be talking about the cost of always being connected. Like what is it doing to our souls that we are always available? And whether |
| 0:41.7 | it's even online, texting, email. So as I'm walking through today's episode, I want you to |
| 0:47.2 | just think about all of the ways that we constantly have the device in our hands or we feel like |
| 0:52.9 | we are just having so much output and we're exhausted. |
| 1:00.6 | So anyway, we're going to dig into that. To be honest with you, when I started, so a lot of |
| 1:07.5 | this is based on kind of my journey as we, this is a new product that's releasing |
| 1:12.2 | called Life Happens Offline. |
| 1:14.4 | And a lot of leaning into this has been kind of a journey of realizing like what is |
| 1:21.0 | getting stolen from us at the expense of producing or showing up or being available, which are praised by the culture |
| 1:30.2 | around us, but what we are losing in turn. |
| 1:34.4 | And so this podcast is not to shame you or social media. |
| 1:38.6 | I mean, my goodness, that's probably how you're listening or heard about, let's be clear. |
| 1:42.6 | Or there's so many ways that it encourages you |
| 1:45.2 | I mean for clearly stated I depend on my online community to learn and show up and support and so I'm so |
| 1:56.3 | grateful so this is not like shaming it and I think it can be such a healthy space. |
| 2:02.6 | But I just wonder what we are losing and honestly writing this set, this new product as I kind of did step away, which I'll explain that in just a second. |
| 2:15.1 | But it's brought awareness to my own heart of the cost. And I've just |
| 2:20.0 | felt assaulted lately by time, how quick it's passing. Like, I feel like we were, you know, |
| 2:25.9 | it's like in retail too. You're always living kind of six months ahead planning, but you always feel |
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