Analog-ish: Seeking low-tech ideas in a high-tech world

In this episode, you'll hear from Derek Beyer — writer, utopian thinker, and creator of the Substack newsletter Otherworlds Catalog — about what actually happened when he spent a full year deliberately auditing and dismantling his relationship with technology. Derek didn't go off the grid. He made a spreadsheet. And what emerged was something far more honest and sustainable than any detox challeng...

In this episode, you'll hear a conversation that will stop you in your tracks — and then make you think differently about rest for the rest of your life. Chrissy King, author of The Body Liberation Project, writer, speaker, and educator, joins host Becky Mollenkamp to explore what rest actually means for Black women — and why it is not a universal experience. Chrissy opens by reading a Substack po...

In this episode, you'll meet Sojourner White (the self-proclaimed Train Travel Queen and founder of Sojourneys) a travel blogger and full-time content creator who has made train travel her life's work and her entry point back to a slower, more intentional way of being in the world. What started as a midnight YouTube rabbit hole and a pandemic-era urge to move without flying turned into a cross-cou...

In this episode, you'll hear from Whitney Pollard — engineer, former corporate leader, world traveler, and founder of Homii — a community platform designed to bridge the gap between our digital lives and our desperate need for in-person connection. After getting laid off in 2023, Whitney gifted herself a year of travel, ended up in Vietnam, and stumbled into building something the world urgently n...

In this episode, you'll hear from Andria Singletary — podcast strategist, host of Evergreen Marketing Era for Women Entrepreneurs, and mom of (almost) three — about how she stopped building her business on borrowed land. What started as a necessity when her daughter was born became a full philosophy shift: ditching the social media hamster wheel in favor of long-form content that works while you s...

In this episode, you'll hear from Maz George (they/them), a queer neurodivergent astro coach, artist, and avid zine maker, about why the DIY publishing format is experiencing a radical resurgence. Maz shares the evolution of zine-making from the pre-internet days of typewriters and rubber stamps to today's intentional analog rebellion against algorithmic content. We explore how creating physical,...

In this episode, you'll hear from Paula Goldstein, former fashion director at Refinery29 and founder of Cuqui Media , about why she's bringing print magazines back for Gen Alpha girls. Paula shares her journey from UK teen magazines to working at indie fashion mags in London and Paris, and why the collapse of print publishing taught her what we lost when everything moved online. We dig into why ki...

In this episode, you'll hear from Altagracia Montilla, a visionary community architect, facilitator, and founder of the 7th Space Art Gallery and Wellness Center. Altagracia breaks down what third spaces actually are, and why they matter more than ever in our hyper-individualistic, screen-saturated culture. You'll explore the difference between a place and a space, why building community feels as...

In this episode, you'll hear from Jordan Maney, the Radical Joy Coach, about how tech has fundamentally changed our relationship to rest and joy. Jordan helps people recovering from burnout use rest as a space to experiment with joyful living while transitioning into something kinder. You'll explore how social media shifted from an event to a constant presence, why scrolling puts your nervous syst...

In this episode, you'll hear from Dr. Amelia Hruby—author of Your Attention is Sacred , host of Off the Grid , and founder of Softer Sounds—about her decision to take a full year off from using generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. Amelia shares what prompted her "GPT sobriety," how it's reshaping her relationship with creativity and skill-building, and why the pressure to use AI is actu...

In this episode, you'll hear from Mikki Kendall, author of Hood Feminism , about what happens when being online stops being casual and starts being work. Mikki shares how public visibility changed her relationship with social media—from casual check-ins with friends to weighing every word for potential backlash, death threats, and AI companies stealing her work. You'll hear about the real costs of...

Welcome to Analogish, a weekly podcast for people who are tired of being optimized. Hosted by Becky Mollenkamp, this show explores what it means to stay human in a high-tech world that profits from your exhaustion.  In this trailer, Becky shares why she started the podcast. What broke inside her when generative AI arrived and demanded even more content, faster, forever. She introduces the kinds of...