TJ POWER: PHONE ADDICTION IS REAL & HERE'S HOW WE BEAT IT

Great Company with Jamie Laing

Jampot

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

I am addicted to my phone. I use it for work, I use it for my personal life, I use it to unwind to and be entertained by, but I’m also very aware I probably use it too much. TJ Power is a neuroscientist whose mission is to explain and help us take control of the dopamine addictions so many of us nurture - be it co-dependence on our phones, overwatching porn or struggling to motivate ourselves through the day.

Author of ‘The DOSE Effect’, TJ explains the roles dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins play on our decision making, the importance of finding balance and harmony between them.

We cover:

How chasing dopamine is impacting your dating life or long term relationship
Why watching porn is destroying the male brain
Tips to reduce your phone usage
How we’re flooded with oxytocin in childbirth
The power of nature in rebalancing our brain chemistry
Tips to make us less dopamine addicted

This conversation seriously blew me away and has inspired me to be more proactive in my relationship with my phone

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Exec Producer: Jemima Rathbone

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Jamie Lang and this is Great Company.
0:09.6	Well, sorry, don't know, let's start again.
0:13.6	No, we're going to keep that in.
0:14.8	No, that sounds like a burp.
0:16.5	Everyone's just picked up their phone.
0:19.3	Yeah?
0:19.6	That's how they listen to it.
0:20.7	Yeah. I actually do listen listen to it. Yeah.
0:21.2	I actually do listen to my phone at my ear when I'm brushing my teeth. You do that. Do you do that? I don't. I, because I have an electric toothbrush. Right. Fancy. Yeah, very nice. I'm earning the big bucks. I'm burning the big bucks. I'm burning them big bucks. I'm earning the big bucks and I have an electric
0:21.9	toothbrush and sometimes Big bucks. I'm burning them big bucks. I'm earning the big bucks. And I have an electric toothbrush. And sometimes I'll listen to a little something while I'm getting ready for bed. What do you listen? Through your toothbrush? No. Through my phone. Could be. A toothbrush that can play music. Yeah, because it's very loud when it's on in my head. So then I have to hold my phone
0:54.4	right to my ear. Interesting. I think lots of people do that. Okay. Well, that's... Write in if you do.
1:01.4	Right and where? To this address. Look it up. Right into our PO box. We should get a PA box.
1:09.6	I would love a PO box. Hello, everyone. Hello. I am Jamie, the host of the show, and this is my producer, Jemima. PJ. Yeah, she is. Yeah. Welcome back to Great Company. Welcome back. The podcast, which is full of fun, laughter, ups and downs, lefts and rights. Northeast, South and West.
1:27.8	South.
1:26.2	South and West. Jamie did in a really weird mood. We also just came up with a small handshake before. I think everyone should do that in life. If you haven't come up with a handshake with your friend, do it today. Come up with a handshake. It involves a dab slash bow. A dab slash bow, which is quite exciting. Hey listen, we should probably tell who we have on the episode today.
2:01.3	Oh, I'm so excited. We have T.J. Power on today. And T.J. Power... You like this episode. So much. So T.J. Power actually DMed us and was like, I'd love to come on the show. And I have listened to him on other podcasts. Yes. Don't listen to those.
2:02.1	Listen to this one.
2:04.7	But I heard him on fun, gotten to a happy place.
2:09.1	And like, I, he's just full of wisdom.
2:13.2	And he talks all about phones and how addicted we are and kind of all our brain chemicals.
2:13.6	Yeah.
2:20.4	And this episode, I found actually deeply profound. And I have changed my life since listening to it. Have you? Yeah. And this episode, I found actually deeply profound, and I have changed my life since listening to it. Have you? Yeah, big time. Wow. Okay. This is interesting, because halfway through,
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