The Tech Exit: Is There a Better Way? | Clare Morell | Episode 359

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, author, and mom Clare Morrell joins Blake to discuss her book The Tech Exit and the challenges of parenting in a tech-saturated world. Clare shares her motivation for writing the book, rooted in her background in child protection and tech policy, and emphasizes the need for a countercultural approach to screen use. She encourages parents to reject the idea that giving kids smartphones or social media is inevitable and offers practical principles based on families who have successfully done just that. Throughout the conversation, they stress that this is not about judgment but about equipping parents with hopeful, actionable tools to protect their children’s development in a digital age. In this episode, you’ll be able to… Understand why parental controls and screen time limits often fail to protect kids online. Discover the developmental reasons why kids and teens are more vulnerable to digital addiction. Explore practical alternatives to smartphones that support healthy, age-appropriate tech use. Clare is the author of The Tech Exit – available everywhere now!To connect with Clare…X: @claremorellEPPCInstagram: @claremorell_thetechexit Thanks to our sponsors! AquaTru - Get 20% off any aqua purifier when you use code BLAKE on AquaTru.com. AirDoctor - Visit airdoctorpro.com and get up to $300 off an air purifier when you using the code BLAKE and get a FREE 3-year warranty! Fatty15 - Take charge of your health by visiting fatty15.com/BLAKE and using the code HEALTHY to get an extra 15% off your 90-day subscription Starter Kit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another week of the Speak Easy podcast. Today we're talking about something that
0:04.1	affects nearly every modern family, but we're all out here just trying to figure out what to do
0:10.4	about it, and that is kids and smartphones. My guest today, Claire Morel, is here to offer a radically
0:17.5	different version than the ideas we have been sold about technology.
0:22.8	One where we don't just manage tech, we lead our families out of it.
0:27.1	Today we're talking about her book, the tech exit, and what it means to opt out of the default,
0:32.6	how to raise screen-free kids in a screen-saturated world, and why saying no to smartphones and social media
0:39.8	until adulthood isn't just possible? It might be one of the most freeing decisions you'll ever
0:45.1	make. So whether this is far down the road for you, whether you're just starting to feel the weight
0:50.1	of it, or you're already in the midst, this episode will meet you right where you are with clarity,
0:55.2	hope, and a practical path forward without judgment. So let's get into it.
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1:40.3	All right, Claire, welcome to the show.
1:42.5	Thank you so much for having me on.
1:44.6	This is a, do you feel like it's a sensitive topic? Do you feel like sometimes you have to kind
1:49.8	tread lightly? Yes, I think that any kind of parenting topic, people feel sensitive about
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