Your Phone Is Either a Weapon or a Wound

Win Make Give with Ben Kinney

Ben Kinney Training

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Chad Hyams and Bob Stewart discuss transforming your smartphone into a productivity powerhouse rather than a distraction. They delve into utilizing phones for building relationships through calls, setting Do Not Disturb for focused time, and using lock screens as vision boards. Discover tips on leveraging phones for mental recharging, on-demand learning via podcasts and audiobooks, and capturing fleeting ideas with note-taking apps. This episode offers practical steps to help you harness the power of your mobile device, ultimately guiding you toward greater personal and professional success.

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00:00 Olympic Highlights and the Excitement of Winter Sports

03:45 Transforming Phones From Distractions to Tools for Success

10:45 The Power of Phone Calls in Building and Maintaining Relationships

6:10 Mastering Phone Settings for Focus and Productivity

20:51 The Surprising Lack of Knowledge About Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

23:16 Using Vision Boards and Lock Screens for Goal Setting

26:38 Intentional Phone Use for Mental Recharge and Learning

31:19 Fixing Smart Toilets and Childhood Memories

32:55 Six Ways to Use Your Phone Wisely

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wind Make You podcast.
0:09.0	Chad, I'm here.
0:09.9	Bob, Stuart over there.
0:11.9	Bob, how are you doing today?
0:13.4	Dude, that was right before we jumped on.
0:15.2	You're Canadian in you just like flared out of you.
0:18.3	You were like, let's go, man.
0:19.7	I got a hockey game to watch. Yes. Bob, if you go to watch? Unless you're out of you. You were like, let's go, man. I got a hockey game to watch.
0:39.8	Yes. Bob, if you go watching, unless you're part Canadian, you know what I'm saying? Have you been watching the Olympics? So you know what's funny last night? My wife, like I'll sit out of the couch. She's in the other room. She's like kind of doing her thing and I'm doing my thing. and she hears Sarah Brightman coming off of the TV.
0:37.8	Do you know who Sarah Brightman is? She's like an opera singer right?
0:44.0	She's like, why are you listening to Sarah Brightman kind of yells? And I'm like, I'm not. I'm like,
0:49.9	I'm watching the Olympics. And she's like, why is Sarah Brightman playing on the Olympics? And I'm like, it's the figure skating, which led into a whole like, what? He liked watching figure skating? I'm like, no, not really. But I love watching the Olympics. So yes, Chad, I watch it every night. I have it on. And I'll watch the curling. Curling the, the, the curling is awesome.
1:28.2	Curling is awesome, Bob Stewart. It's awesome. The bobsled is that the, the bobsled is nuts, dude. Did you see the video of, um, who was it? Colin on the. Yeah, yeah. Colin doing it. Yes. It made, it made the, uh, viral feeds. Right. It was like Colin Jost, right? he did it and like,
1:30.8	I don't think like until you're inside that thing,
1:29.7	you're like it doesn't really look that aggressive on the from the outside right
1:35.0	but things always mounting I mean just go like this away and be like I thought I was going to die I've never
1:40.5	really like you know you don't really hear the perspective of somebody that's not a bobsled or talk about riding down in a bobsled. So I'm even more fascinated by the
1:48.1	bobsled now than I've ever been. Because you are Bob Stewart, I'm guessing. And of course,
1:53.7	Bob, it's the, uh, the, the, there's been a lot of things that people have been looking forward
2:00.6	to and building up in the
2:02.5	2026 winter Olympics which are coming near and end while we're recording this uh they were looking
2:09.5	at ilia the the quad god right who was supposed to go out and do this amazing routine he fell i watched
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