Digital Wellness & Screen Time for entrepreneurs

“There absolutely is some added levels of pressure because a lot of the retainer sort of agreements that I look at, people's income can be based off of how many views they're getting. And that's a really kind of difficult position to be put into where a certain amount of money is not guaranteed to you. That can put a lot of strain on you mentally.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 15:49· listen →

“It's so interesting to be working out of the Center for the Creator Economy because I'm very critical of social media. I'm a creator and I talk about social media every day, but I'm also very critical of it. It is very much an attack on our focus and our time if you allow it to be.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 25:13· listen →

“Yeah, it is. I mean, our brains have been hijacked by dopamine. You know, the apps that we use are designed to create a dopamine spurt in our brain that does distract us. and hijack us and can take away our time.”

Stoicism for Entrepreneurs: Lessons from Ken Davenport · 18:15· listen →

“The first one that I always say is you really do have to create for yourself. If you can find a way for you to be able to feel comfortable in saying that this is an extension of yourself, this isn't— instead of you posting content, you're sharing content, you're extending yourself to people. That can be a place where you find validation regardless of views, regardless of engagement, regardless of traction.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 19:19· listen →

“What works right now and has worked all of human history is storytelling. And now more than ever, you have an outlet to tell your story, tell your why or your business's why, and potentially reach millions of people. That is awesome. That is a real, real opportunity.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 33:59· listen →

“He said, get it out at 85%. If that video is 85% done, get it out. Even because in your mind, you'll see 15% that still needs to get done. But that last 15%, a lot of times ends up taking 2 extra days for some reason, because you start thinking about the details and you start thinking about the tiniest little thing that realistically nobody has the time to notice.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 38:31· listen →

“If you are going to the office and you leave your brick at home, you're screwed. If you are going to travel and you leave your brick at home, you're screwed. Whatever that is, it's an additional layer of friction that something like an Opal or a Freedom or a lot of these software blocker apps can't provide.”

Digital Wellness for Founders with Randy Ginsburg · 25:03· listen →

“It's all about intentionality, right? Like, I'm not saying anyone to become a Luddite. I'm very pro-tech. I think innovation is fantastic and I'll use every new gadget that comes out, but it's just how do you set up guardrails to be mindful about using it for the intended purpose as opposed to allowing it to use you.”

Digital Wellness for Founders with Randy Ginsburg · 27:23· listen →

“All of our relationships with tech are different. I think it's very close from an analogy to food in the sense that one, we all have a different relationship with food, but it is very impactful in all these different areas in our life.”

Digital Wellness for Founders with Randy Ginsburg · 22:10· listen →

“Yeah, it is. I mean, our brains have been hijacked by dopamine. You know, the apps that we use are designed to create a dopamine spurt in our brain that does distract us. and hijack us and can take away our time.”

Stoicism for Entrepreneurs: Lessons from Ken Davenport · 18:15· listen →

“I have a hunch that when you remove the devices, when you remove the phones, you are able to create a really deep emotional connection with whatever type of brand or product that you were currently experiencing during that time.”

Digital Wellness for Founders with Randy Ginsburg · 13:46· listen →

“The Stoics were essentially focused on this basic question that you cannot control what happens to you in your life, but you can control how you react to it. And in this age of social media and technological kind of overkill in terms of information, I think we're all struggling to figure out how to make sense of our lives and how to create control where we can.”

Stoicism for Entrepreneurs: Lessons from Ken Davenport · 1:50· listen →

“I always look for what I call the 4 Horsemen of executive burnout. So the first one is sleep latency extending beyond 25 minutes... The second one is cortisol staying elevated after 10... There's also how your fasting glucose is going to vary during the day... The last thing is your heart rate variability when you sleep.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 16:23· listen →

“It's the Sleep Foundation that has a study that says that every single night of poor sleep can reduce cognitive performance the next day by 25%. And it's the equivalent of a blood alcohol level of 0.05%.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 34:38· listen →

“I guess it's also important not to obsess on the worst-case scenario, right? You want to identify identify it, come to grips with it, be comfortable with it, but not obsess over it because, you know, like you said with those other quotes and another one that I love is when you worry, you're basically praying for something that you don't want.”

Stoicism for Entrepreneurs: Lessons from Ken Davenport · 14:11· listen →

“Get up, brush yourself off and take a step. Mark Aurelius has this quote that well-being is realized by small steps, but it is no small thing. In other words, small steps are not a small thing. Small steps are how you get moving forward.”

Stoicism for Entrepreneurs: Lessons from Ken Davenport · 19:57· listen →

“Marcus Aurelius's quote around that is interesting. He said, you know, the impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. So what stands in the way becomes the way because it's actually the impediment is what's going to move you forward when you're able to overcome it.”

Stoicism for Entrepreneurs: Lessons from Ken Davenport · 28:20· listen →

“When you're not doing it, your home life is falling apart, your relationships are falling apart, your health is falling apart, and you're not happy. Only when you're working real hard, right? Or doing drugs or doing alcohol or shopping. Addiction can take on many, many forms.”

The Spiritual Is Scientific with Rev. Tony Senf · 9:01· listen →

“I felt like I was just putting a bandaid on a cancer basically.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 2:14

“There was a study that showed that only 12% of Americans are actually metabolically healthy on all measures.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 20:22

“Alcohol is the worst... it's still a poison, you know. It's terrible for your liver. It's just a poison for your arteries as well. And more than that, you know, it also really messes up your sleep.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 28:12

“70% of chronic diseases are lifestyle-related and therefore preventable today.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 42:50

“McKinsey conducted a study with leaders and they showed that the leaders who prioritize their own wellbeing inspired 90% higher employee satisfaction and 70% lower burnout rates in their teams.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 45:34

“Because hard choices then are happening when discomfort happens, some self-control happens, and we are more aligned with the long-term vision for ourselves and wait for the reward. It's really hard to do it, hard to save money, let's say, and put the money into retirement and wait and have that vision and connection all the time to the future.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 0:31

“My purpose was to find money to drink, right? If I could find money and the money I could find with other people, somebody was paid, somebody had some things, and we always found these people who had money.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 6:36

“So we said no, the strike happened. I was one of the leaders of the strike. And after 10 days, helicopter landed on the room or the roof, and then tanks moved in. And they took us out.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 10:14

“Definitely, the goal that helps with hard choices has to be really the big goal. We want big things. And even if they take 5 years, they can help us with those hard choices now and develop this microprogressive system to get there.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 18:45

“So that is the same thing. We go to the gym and we spend in the gym 5 years or 10 years, and we are the same or worse. A lot of people have experienced like that. Or you go to the gym and have the plan, have the strategies. You still go to the gym like others. You do the training.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 20:36

“Say 1 drink a day, 7 drinks a week. The general consensus that I can see is that that's probably not like really bad, but it certainly is not better than zero.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 5:05

“There are ways to create that sort of social connection of feeling like you're drinking without actually ingesting much... one of my go-to drinks is bitters and soda.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 8:19

“As a human, your number one job in life is to be a professional sleeper... if you can do that, then the idea is you go to bed on time and you wake up when you're done, the same way you go to work on time and you leave work when you're done.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 13:43

“You have 2 women who have 26% body fat. One might have 1 pound of visceral fat, one might have 3 pounds. They're the same weight, the same percent body fat, but the amount of visceral fat they have is dramatically different.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 18:09

“The number one thing I think that is maybe a misnomer in this space, I think personally, is that diet is 80%, 90%, the most important thing you can focus on... it's not to say diet isn't important because it is, but this sometimes becomes a limiting belief.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 24:45

“If there is a secret to longevity, it's not a secret, it's first your lifestyle. The things that have the most proof are caloric balance, exercise, sleep, aggressive screening. There's no secrets out there.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 27:18

“My fear with a biological clock is that you're doing things that may be making it look younger on the test that doesn't actually make you younger in reality.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 33:29

“The 2 things I think are most foundational are blood work and DEXA scan... they're not expensive, it's like $50 to $100.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 38:55

“No amount of alcohol is safe. I'm never going to demonize anybody for drinking because it's a personal choice. And maybe I don't drink, but I love sugar and I love chocolate and I eat more chocolate probably than I should. So I think everybody makes their choices.”

Redefining Your Relationship with Alcohol | Silvia Subirana · 8:22

“The way that one drink affects me as a non-drinker or someone who drinks frequently, even though I feel the effects and that person doesn't, it affects exactly the same way in the body. It has the same harmful effects.”

Redefining Your Relationship with Alcohol | Silvia Subirana · 17:34