Digital Mindfulness: Recent Episodes
Digital Mindfulness
Join us as we speak with Author and Journalist Geoff White about his new book Cybercrime. We focus on the landscape of responsible cybercrime, and why focus on the dark web is on the wane.
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In this episode, we speak with industry-leading investor Ash Fontana about his new book, the AI-First Company and discuss the importance of the process, systemic and mindset changes involved in the global deployment of artificial intelligence.
In this fascinating episode, Ash takes us through the latest thinking on artificial intelligence and the challenges for companies if they don't operate in an AI-First way.
Edith and Shahed, co-founders of Noora Health discuss the importance of upskilling family members in the healthcare process. They share the ways that e-learning and WhatsApp have been used to effectively provide meaningful healthcare interventions in an affordable way.
In this episode, Professor Leah Plunkett discusses her new book Sharenthood and the importance of values-based parenting in a digitised age.
In this episode, Facebook's head of Responsible Innovation speaks with Digital Mindfulness about the importance of responsible digital transformation and how governance is implemented around the world to take advantage of technological innovation balanced with the needs of society.
In this episode, Nick Tong speaks to us about Unmind and the potential for digital mental health solutions to impact the quality of our lives.
In this episode, Cennydd Bowles discusses the latest landscape for digital ethics and how it is manifest in society and business today. This is a fascinating episode and gives us a real deep insight into the mind of a leading futurist and tech insider.
Arun Arora, Partner at McKinsey & Company joins Digital Mindfulness to discuss the insights from his new book Fast Times - the potential for responsible digitisation to impact the enterprise.
Dr Elaine Kasket joins Digital Mindfulness. She is the author of the book All the ghosts in the machine: Illusions of Immortality In The Digital Age, Elaine documents how the digital age affects how we live and how we die, and how that affects the living.
In this episode, Elaine talks with us about the far-reaching impact of our digital footprints, who is really responsible for our digital legacy, and why death in the digital age is more closely related to data and power than anything else.
Publicis Groupe Chief Strategist Rishad Tobaccowala speaks with Digital Mindfulness about the importance of integrating human values with data-driven work cultures.
Co-founders Will Ben Sims and Aimee-Louise Carton discuss their new app, KeepAppy, a tool for people to manage their mental health using a variety of tools.
Professor Charlton McIlwain joins us on Digital Mindfulness this week to discuss his new book Black Software.
Contactually CEO, Zvi Band, discusses the importance of intentional relationships in this episode of Digital Mindfulness and how the intersection of trust and intentionality is the core of human connection.
Photographer Dafydd Jones speaks to Digital Mindfulness about his new collection Screen Time, a fascinating visual exploration of the relationship people have with their devices at high profile events.
Author and designer Scott Riley talks to us about his new book Mindful Design and how designers can integrate more humanistic methods into their work.
CEO and founder of Journey Live, 'the Peloton of meditation apps', Stephen Sokoler joins the show to talk about the power of live communities, the importance of consistent meditation practice and how meditation apps will innovate in the future.
FitBliss CEO Navid Rastegar discusses the relationship with health, wellbeing and professional performance, and the ways data and analytics can help to improve the lives of employees everywhere.
Professor Brett Frischmann talks with about his new book Re-Engineering Humanity where he explores reverse Turing tests, Nudge Creep, and the impact of predictive analytics in public spaces.
Economist Dan Nixon speaks about the topic of applying mindfulness capacities to policy-making and social policy. Dan gives us real examples of the importance of mindfulness as a foundational capacity, attention in a world of digital distractions.
The team from the Royal Society of Public Health speaks with Digital Mindfulness about their new campaign Scroll Free September and the ways people around the world can lead more meaningful lives with social media.
Paul Miller, Bethnal Green Ventures CEO, shares his insights on investing in the tech 4 good sector and how startups in this space can create successful companies to tackle the world's most pressing issues.
In this episode, one of the world's leading futurists, Brian Solis, speaks with Digital Mindfulness about his new work Lifescale, and the effects of digital distraction on business, society and our close relationships.
In this episode, one of the world's leading futurists, Brian Solis, speaks with Digital Mindfulness about his new work Lifescale, and the effects of digital distraction on business, society and our close relationships.
Professor Nikolai Siggelkow speaks to Digital Mindfulness about his new book Connected Strategies and tells us more about the benefits of being an ethical, connected company.
Jana Partners' Charlie Penner joins us to discuss the role of the global investor community in fostering both responsible innovation and greater value creation.
In today’s episode, we feature Jonathan Garner, the Founder of Mind Over Tech - a wellbeing & productivity company helping people transform from distracted end-users to intentional humans who make technology work for them. In this episode, Jonathan talks to us about the importance of intentional technology use as a route to psychological wellbeing and enhanced productivity, the most impactful people in the intentional technology space at the moment, and the steps you can take right now to create a better relationship with your digitised life.
Our guest Janice Taylor is the CEO of the social network Mazu. Mazu is a social media platform with the mission to provide a safe, fun environment for children to learn how to navigate the online social media landscape.
Sarah is the CEO and Chief Storyteller of the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality company Healium. In this episode, Sarah talks with us about the vast potential of virtual reality to radically improve the quality of our mental health.
Marc Lesser, author and former CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute talks with Digital Mindfulness about his new book and the benefits of mindful leadership in a digitised world.
Space CEO, Georgie Powell, and Digital Wellness Collective co-Founder Gabi Jubran discuss the current global digital wellbeing landscape and how it will affect us during the course of 2019.
Director of the Legacy Lab, Lucas Conley talks to Digital Mindfulness about the potential for brands to build long-lasting foundations in a constantly shifting digital world.
Light Phone co-Founder Kai Tang talks with Digital Mindfulness about the Light Phone, the challenges of designing a distraction-free phone second time round, and how consumer tastes are likely to change as increase our discussions about our screen time.
The founder and CEO of Recipes for Wellbeing, Greta Rossi talks with Digital Mindfulness about the expanding field of digital wellbeing and how everyone can take concrete steps to achieving an improved relationship to their digitised lives.
Author and international keynote speaker Yukai Chou talks to us about his Octalysis framework and how we can use the principles of gamification to trump motivation and help us towards positive behaviours online.
Doug Clinton, Managing Partner with Loup Ventures talks with us about the challenges and opportunities associated with addictive technologies and how innovative companies are designing for time well spent from the ground up.
Taylor Jacobson, CEO and Founder of Focusmate talks with Digital Mindfulness about the importance of digital accountability in helping us to do our best work, and how solo remote work may not be all it's cracked up to be.
Professor Sonia Livingstone shares her insights on the decades of research that analyses the impact of technology on children. In this episode, Sonia debunks some widely held beliefs and brings us up to date with the most current thinking.
Google's Jeni Miles talks to Digital Mindfulness about the use of persuasive technologies to build meaningful app experiences and the hidden techniques app makers use to help people fulfil their goals.
Google's Scott Jenson talks to us about bringing the company's Digital Wellbeing vision to life, and the potential of a mindful approach to technology can improve the quality of digital interactions for everyone.
Leadership and Teamwork expert and Author Mike Robbins shares his insights on ways people can be their best selves while being in increasingly digitised environments
Robert Plotkin, founder of Technology for Mindfulness, talks to us about the intersection of mindfulness and digital technology, and the potential to improve our lives by incorporating more mindfulness in our everyday digital lives
Lawrence Ampofo from Digital Mindfulness speaks on Control Talk Now about the application of digitally mindful buildings. What is the potential for mindful buildings to impact the quality of our lives? What is the economic benefit? Lawrence discusses all this and more with hosts Ken and Eric
Robby Macdowell, CEO of RescueTime talks about the transformative effects on productivity and wellbeing of digital awareness, and how he grew RescueTime to an established digital productivity platform
CEO and Founder of the mobile app Space Georgie Powell talks to us about the digital wellness landscape, how we can consciously connect and the potential to improve global wellbeing
Professor Raian Ali discusses the latest developments in the field of digital addiction, the most common examples of digital addiction in our lives, and how we can blunt its impact on our lives.
Cade Diehm from The Tactical Technology Collective talks to us this week about weaponised design, data awareness, and how their data detox toolkit can help improve the quality of your digital life
Laura Willis, co-founder of Shine Offline talks with Digital Mindfulness about the relationships big companies have with technologies and how they can vastly improve the performances of their teams by rethinking the 'always-on' culture.
Ken Sinclair, founder of Automated Buildings, talks to Lawrence Ampofo about the potential for buildings to become more digitally mindful to improve the lives of people who are more connected and work from multiple locations.
Jeremy McCarthy from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group talks to Lawrence Ampofo about the growing area of digital wellness and how the combined efforts of people around the world promise to improve the digitised lives of everyone.
Digital Strategist and Wim Hof Method teacher Níall Ó Murchú talks with Lawrence on the show about the powerful benefits of the Wim How practice, and how they enable him to lead a better and more intentional digitised life
In this episode, Dr Rita Orji from the University of Waterloo talks to Digital Mindfulness about the impact of persuasive technologies on our daily lives and how they can be used for good
Change Sciences Founder Pamela Pavliscak talks today about the emergence of emotionally intelligent machines, and how such digital experiences have the potential to radically improve society
Stanford University's Dr Leah Weiss talks with Digital Mindfulness about her new book How We Work and how we can integrate mindfulness principles into our increasingly digitised workplaces
Dr Yuhun Park CEO and Founder of the DQ Institute talks with Dr Lawrence Ampofo about the importance of digital intelligence and changing educational paradigms needed to implement it
The co-founders of the digital wellness platform Holistrio - Andrew Johnson and Mike Schneider talk with Digital Mindfulness about the potential for digitised meditation and mindfulness to impact the lives of tens of millions of people
VP of Unstuck app, Nancy Hawley, speaks with Digital Mindfulness about how we can use technology to help us get unstuck in our daily lives
Bjorn Lee, co-Founder of the mindfulness app MindFi talks with Digital Mindfulness about the impact of an always-on lifestyle and how a mindfulness practice can help busy professionals navigate a digitised life
Patricia Karpas - co-Founder of Meditation Studio, one of the top apps in the App Store, talks with us about the potential for apps to impact the quality of our health, wellness and digitised lives
Beyond Verbal CEO Yuval Mor speaks with Digital Mindfulness about the potential for emotion analytics and affective computing to transform the quality of human life and understanding
Dopamine Labs COO Ramsay Brown talks to us this week about addictive technologies and why they are so important at helping people to become the best versions of themselves, from financial management to human interactions
Andrew Dunn, CEO of Siempo, talks with Digital Mindfulness about the rising importance of digital wellness - particularly in the workplace - how we can incorporate greater intentionality as we use our digital devices, and why we might need to rethink the statistics we relate with our relationships with technology.
Kevin Holesh, Founder of the popular iOS app Moment talks to us about the app, the challenges he faced, and why it is so important for us to strive for quality screen time
Dr Anna Cox, a human computer interaction professor, talks this week about the potential for technology and work-life balance in this hyperconnected age.
CEO and Founder of Ransomly, Zack Prager, talks with Digital Mindfulness this week about his new app, and how we can create digital blue zones to improve the quality of our lives.
CEO and Founder of Ransomly, Zack Prager, talks with Digital Mindfulness this week about his new app, and how we can create digital blue zones to improve the quality of our lives.
81: Technology & Developing a Well Tuned Brain with Peter Whybrow by Digital Mindfulness
Nichol Bradford, CEO and Founder of Willow, a transformative technology company, talks with Digital Mindfulness about the changing technology landscape and its impact on health and wellbeing
Award-winning experience designer and researcher Jay Vidyarthi speaks with Digital Mindfulness about mindfulness, technology and the role of the attention economy
In this episode, I speak with the University of Sydney user experience expert Dorian Peters about Positive Computing and the impact it is having on the industry
In this episode, we speak with the Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, author and researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang about his new book Rest: Why we get more done when we work less
In this episode, I speak with the founder and CEO of Momentum, Levi Bucsis about the role software plays in improving our productivity, and our mental health.
In this episode, I interview Irene Au - Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures about her unique perspective on design, and how blending it with mindfulness creates better digital experiences
73: How Your Digital Personality Defines You Offline with Elias Aboujaoude by Digital Mindfulness
In this episode, I speak with the best-selling author and entrepreneur David Kadavy. In this episode, we talk about the creative process, how we can love our work and how we can even learn to love the mundane so we can create our best work
In this episode, we speak with the founder of the Consciousness Hacking movement, and Stanford University lecturer Mikey Siegel about the ways technology can be created to foster deep human connections for our wellbeing
In this episode, we speak with the co-founder of OK Cupid and the author of Dataclysm Christian Rudder. In this fascinating show, we speak about the ever-closing merging of our online avatars and in-person behaviours, and how we can actively understand ou
In this episode, we speak with the founder of Compassionate Coding, April Wensel about the importance of a healthy culture in a digitised workplace
In this episode of The Digital Mindfulness Podcast, I talk with Elizabeth Marsh of the Digital Workplace Group about her insights on the way digital transformation is affecting work life balance.
In this episode we speak with the co-founder of 99u.com Jocelyn Glei about email, productivity, creativity and her new book Unsubscribe.
In this episode, we speak with Google's Golden Krishna about, amongst other things, his new book The Best Interface Is No Interface and how to design in an age of screen-first thinking can be re-approached.
In this episode, we talk with the founder of www.turn2me.org, Oisin Scollard about the state of online mental health
We talk with the celebrated author and entrepreneur Martin Ford about the effects of automation and AI on the future workplace
This week we talk with the TED speaker, author and entrepreneur Amber Case about her new book, Calm Technology
In this episode, we talk with the co-Founder of the Information Overload Research Group, Nathan Zeldes
In this episode, I speak with the co-founder of unplug.ie about corporate wellness, tech-life balance and how we can all unplug.
In this episode, I speak with Professor David Levy about his new book Mindful Tech and how people can combine a contemplative practice with the demands of digitised society.
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Aaron Balick about the psychological dynamics that are behind human interactions online.
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Aaron Balick about the psychological dynamics that are behind human interactions online.
Interview with Joe Burton, CEO of Whil.com, Jim Gimian,co-Founder of Mindful Magazine and Erick Randolph, Producer of the Mindful Business Conference
In this episode we talk with Rohan Gunatillake, creator of the popular meditation app Buddhify
In this episode, we speak with Professor Cal Newport about combatting digital distraction with Deep Work
In this episode, I speak with the co-founder of the Holstee company Michael Radparvar about mindful art and the incredible success of the Holstee Manifesto
In this episode, we talk with the Web Psychologist Nathalie Nahai about the psychology of online persuasion
Podcast with digital detox company founder Lucy Pearson on Unplugged Weekend and the benefits of unplugging.
In this episode, I talk with professor Feona Attwood about the impact of online porn on people and society
In this episode, I talk with Jodi Forlizzi from Carnegie Mellon about the ways technology and design can help us live better lives
We talk with David Ryan Polgar about the effects that technology is having on people, culture and particularly teens.
In this episode, we speak with Professor Neema Moraveji about the role of calming technology and the work of his company Spire.io. If you have an iOS device visit www.spire.io/r/digitalmindfulness
In this episode host Lawrence Ampofo speaks with the academic and broadcast journalist Aleks Krotoski about her work on television, academia and how social psychology and the web interrelate.
In this episode, I speak with the director of the Persuasive technology lab at Stanford University and one of the pioneers of persuasive technology research, Professor BJ Fogg.
In this episode, I talk with the entrepreneur and digital expert Steven Van Belleghem about the ways companies can increase their human moments while going through digital transformation
The benefits of meditation have been widely documented. Learning to live in the present moment decreases stress, improves our memory and makes people less irritable. In this episode of Digital Mindfulness, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Judson Brewer.
Dr. Brewer is the director of research at the Center for Mindfulness and he is also Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical school. Dr Brewer is an internationally recognised leader in mindfulness training and has also developed mindfulness programmes for the treatment of addictions including app-based treatments.
This is a special edition of the Digital Mindfulness podcast, as I talk with Tristan Harris, who works on behaviour and ethics for Google.
Have you ever thought of blogging as a means to help to support and discover your spiritual side? In this very special episode, I speak with the author and publisher Margaret Cahill about how her commitment to her Blog became a spiritual practice and even helped to improve her physical health.
At Digital Mindfulness, our singular focus is on how we can help other people and organizations humanize their lives in this digitized world we live in. This is in contrast to other views of our techno-society in which the machines are projected to eliminate jobs and make human beings redundant.
In this episode, my guest, Jack Hooper from technology company Doppel, and his team have created just such a wearable device from a body of research they are calling Empathic Technology. Having just raised seed finance for their wearable product from their recent Kickstarter campaign, I talked with Jack about their campaign, their new product and where he thinks this new area of research can eventually go.
How do we thrive online? In this episode, the author, TEDster, philosopher, Fellow of the Saïd Business School and The School of Life In London Tom Chatfield, and I speak about his varied perspectives on how we can thrive in a digital age. In this amazing, wide-ranging talk, Tom and I discuss how our interactions with technology can be made more meaningful by embracing the innate qualities that make us uniquely human.
In this episode of the Digital Mindfulness podcast I talk with the psychologist and TED speaker Jocelyn Brewer about Digital Nutrition. Digital Nutrition is her framework for ways in which people, and particularly parents, can ensure their children live healthier lives with digital technologies. Imagine if we were able to navigate our consumption of digital technologies with a clear understanding of which services had a positive effect on our bodies and our minds and those which were less so.
In this episode of the Digital Mindfulness podcast I talk with the psychologist and TED speaker Jocelyn Brewer about Digital Nutrition. Digital Nutrition is her framework for ways in which people, and particularly parents, can ensure their children live healthier lives with digital technologies. Imagine if we were able to navigate our consumption of digital technologies with a clear understanding of which services had a positive effect on our bodies and our minds and those which were less so.
In this episode, I speak with the author, thinker and technologist Linda Stone about the various ways technology can enhance the quality of our lives. In this fascinating discussion, Linda explains from her very unique perspective, how technology can degrade the quality of our lives and what we can do to manage that.
In this episode of Digital Mindfulness, I speak with the Educator and Research Psychologist, Dr. Larry Rosen about his work and his perspective on the psychology of technology.
During the time Digital Mindfulness has been live, one thing has concerned speakers more than any other topic we have spoken about; that in an age of constant digital connection, the available time for our own for our own thoughts and our own company is eroding by the day. The human need for solitude, very different to loneliness, is essential and helps people to creatively process complex thoughts, increase intimacy and bring peace of mind.
Smoking, sex, food, alcohol, tobacco, narcotics; these are all things we know are addictive in some way but the addiction to the Internet?
In this very special episode I talk with Dr. Kimberly Young about the reasons why people become addicted to the Internet and what they can do about it.
What does it mean to be a Mindful Cyborg? What are the effects of mindfully approaching digital experiences? In this episode, Klint Finley* joins us. A long-time writer for Wired Magazine, he is also one of the hosts of the popular podcast Mindful Cyborgs, which focuses on “mindfulness, cyborgs, contemplative computing, bio/lifehacking, quantified self netocracy and digital duality”.
In this episode, I talk with UC Irvine Professor Gloria Mark about her work with digital distraction and attention.
In this episode, I talk with Neil Seligman, the founder of the Conscious Professional about the benefits of mindfulness and meditation in the digital age
My guest today is Tanya Schevitz, the spokesperson for Reboot’s massively popular National Day of Unplugging. Reboot’s National Day of Unplugging is a now international project which encourages people to disconnect from our digital devices and reconnect with our peers, family, nature and ourselves. In this episode, Tanya outlines the overall mission of Reboot, how you can take time during your day to unplug from digital devices and how you can get involved in the National Day of Unplugging.
In this episode, we talk with the Silicon Valley author and entrepreneur Nir Eyal about his new book Hooked and why we become so addicted to technology
In this episode, we talk with the Silicon Valley author and entrepreneur Nir Eyal about his new book Hooked and why we become so addicted to technology
In this episode, I talk with the author Alex Soojung Kim Pang about his work on contemplative computing and his book, Addicted to Distraction
In this episode, we talk with Martin Talks of Digital Detox about the ways a digital detox can help improve your life in the digital world and the real world