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The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger

Tracy Foster, A Champion for Digital Health (pt. 1)

The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger

Jessica Honegger

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51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today we continue our series all about our digital health. Joining Jessica is Tracy Foster – the Co-Founder and Executive Director of START. START champions using technology responsibly for overall digital health.

Tracy and Jessica's conversation will not only give you practical tools for how to parent in a tech-driven world but will share vulnerable stories of what it means to learn from our mistakes.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast.

0:04.0

This is your host, Jessica Honeger, founder of the Social Impact Fashion Brand

0:08.0

Noon Day Collection.

0:09.8

Join me here every week for conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared.

0:16.6

All right, this is our second week in our digital health series and I am excited to share this conversation

0:22.1

with you today.

0:22.8

It's pretty vulnerable.

0:24.8

I got Amelie's permission.

0:26.1

Just wanted you to know that.

0:27.6

This is one of two conversations that I had with Tracy Foster.

0:30.7

Tracy is the executive director of Start, an organization that informs,

0:35.3

and equips parents and families to maximize the benefits of technology

0:40.6

while minimizing the harmful side.

0:44.0

Tracy and I first connected in late February,

0:48.0

so this is just a few weeks shy of when the pandemic swept across the U.S US and we began to shelter in place and we found ourselves

0:57.1

on technology all the time and all of my tidy little boundaries went out the door.

1:06.4

We talked in this conversation about developing practical strategies to creating tech health

1:11.3

safety nets in our homes. But even throughout the last three months

1:16.0

I've held on to this conversation even as our world has completely changed. And when I reflect back on this episode, I come back to the

1:25.8

fact that Tracy's work and message is just as relevant, if not more now than ever. In fact, and I think we talk about this today, we talk about

1:36.2

consumption, creation, connection. That these are the three things we talk about a lot in our home.

1:43.0

How much are you using tech for consumption?

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