The JOMOcast with Christina Crook

Here in 2020, we’re all confronting the challenges of technology more intensely than ever. Digital capitalism is working very hard to use our psychology and social environment against us - to hijack our attention and redirect it towards whatever they’re pushing. And it’s been working. These challenges are so new, it hasn’t been clear what the best solutions are. That’s why I created Navigate - a b...

“It’s so important for folks to carve out time to be creative in their lives. I think it’s something that’s missing right now.” Jen Duffin’s nom commercial is the imagination-stirring Nova Mercury, derived from her youngest daughter of the same name whose birth precipitated the maternity leave during which Jen launched her entrepreneurial venture. Creating a home business was the perfect pivot for...

“ If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.” The author of the globally best-selling “Essentialism” and the upcoming “Effortless” joins the JOMO(cast) to proudly announce that JOMO and the philosophy of essentialism are natural companions. He’s spoken at multinational brands, top-tier universities, and organizations around the world to share the simple, powerful message that individual...

"I always try and say to myself ‘Don't’ let your anxiety and your fears of rejection and people not liking your work stop you from doing something." Growing up as the first of four daughters — gender equality and leadership came naturally to British-import Ony Anukem. By day, she is the Advocacy Manager at the International Confederation of Midwives — but she also wears another hat as the Show Hos...

“The forces all around you are… pushing you to be a different way than you want to be. That’s a design problem.” Jay Vidyarthi was one of the creators of Muse , a headband utilizing biofeedback to guide and train meditation that introduced thousands of beginners to an accessible world of mindfulness practice. He’s also had a hand in the development and strategic launch of more than a dozen other a...

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, "The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology."...

Jillian Richardson created The Joy List when she moved to New York City to connect herself to the events and gatherings around the city that would give her the best chance to forge meaningful human connections and “find her people.” Since then, she’s made it her business to create “facilitated human connection”- intentional gatherings carefully curated and designed to foster friendship. Key Takeaw...

For 14 years, Lindsay Coulter was the Suzuki Foundation’s “Queen of Green,” the creator of newsletters and blog posts for the Foundation under that name with a readership of tens of thousands. Through her unique blend of spirituality, evidence-based science, and practical action, Lindsay has helped educate a generation on the immediate, impactful ways they can come to terms with their feelings, fe...

Born in Germany in 1937, technology philosopher Albert Borgmann has seen technological transitions and upheavals unknown to many listening to this podcast. Throughout his long life, he’s studied and written about the impact of technological advancement on every aspect of the societies that have evolved around him, especially the often-unseen second-order effects of tech that ostensibly improves li...

Pamela Pavliscak specializes in emotionally intelligent design and emotion-sensing artificial intelligence. Her research has been featured on CBC's Spark, Salon, and Quartz. Her book, Emotionally Intelligent Design , focuses on how to design a future that has as much EQ as it does IQ. Pamela is a TEDx speaker and has spoken at SxSW , Web Summit, Google Creative Labs. She teaches at the Pratt Insti...

Rachel Macy Stafford is the author of “Hands Free Life,” “Hands Free Mama,” “Only Love Today,” and the new “Live Love Now,” all books sharing Rachel’s powerful message of how learning self-love is the inflection point for nearly every part of how we live our lives that brings us closer to or farther from joy. In this episode, Rachel discusses some of the most important points from “Live Love Now”...

Kunal Gupta is the founder of Polar, a digital advertising agency that develops Social Display technology for hundreds of brands, generating millions of ads every year. He’s also on the board of CAMH, Canada’s Center for Addiction and Mental Health, where he advocates for public health policy rooted in ‘mindtech,’ a technology-enabled model for compassionate and effective mental health care. He wr...

“You have to earn the trust of people to share with you what it’s like to be them out in the world.” Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh is the Founder and President of Pivot for Humanity. This comes after a diverse and winding career in advertising, marketing, digital design, and entrepreneurship, which Jumana decided to synthesize into a mission focused on bringing ethical reform to the tech industry through pr...

Dr. Ellen Langer, a social psychology professor at Harvard University, is widely considered the “mother of mindfulness”, researching the topic since the 70’s.  She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, the Liberty Science Center Genius Award, the Distinguished Contribut...

David Heinemeier Hansson is a leading mind in the tech world inspiring the world to reconsider it’s working relationship with, well, work. As the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework, co-founder & CTO at Basecamp -- a saner way to manage projects and communicate company-wide -- and bestselling author, along with Basecamp co-founder Jason Fried, of It Doesn't Have to B...

Damian Bradfield, Chief Creative Officer at WeTransfer and Author of the Trust Manifesto, on what we need to reclaim to create a better Internet for all.  We’re at a very unusual moment in modern history, where a roughly equal number of generations alive today have either a lived experience of near-total personal privacy, and with it, great consumer power over the way they were marketed to- or a l...

Canadian researcher Kate Tilleczek, Canada Research Chair on Youth, Education & Global Good, addresses the impact of online education on child development, during COVID-19 and beyond. Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, millions more children than ever are learning at home- and online. But the transition to increasingly digital and online environments for youth education was happening, and as us...

Christina Crook on how Covid-19 has helped us leave the FOMO-fuelled Age of You behind.  Welcome to the Age of Us. In this episode, we explore the many ways the COVID-19 crisis can teach us about ourselves- and joy. Just as we’ve had to give up expectations for normalcy when this began, we will have the privilege of deciding what to take with us back into ‘normal life’ and what to leave behind. Wh...

Glitch CEO Anil Dash joins me to reflect on the past, present, and future of who we are when we’re with our tech, starting with the inception of that crazy little acronym -- JOMO.  In this episode, we discuss: How the domination of the digital landscape by social media and marketing was neither a natural nor inevitable progression How Anil’s moments of unplugged silence have made him realize...

Folk Rebellion founder Jess Davis and I reconnected after she emerged from a year-long hermitage away from the impossible pace of her work building a ‘hustle-free movement.’ A stress-induced heart condition, which caused her to collapse in an airport between speaking engagements, was telling her that enough was enough. Jess’ Folk Rebellion is an expression of the very problems that her hustle-indu...

Letters are intimate and a delight to receive. Thanks to their miraculous homing instincts, pigeons have a long and honourable track record delivering letters. The ancient Greeks sent them out to broadcast the names of victorious athletes at the original Olympic Games. And Julius Caesar employed pigeon post during his conquest of Gaul. In recent centuries, of course – ever since 1660, when King Ch...

Ingrid Fetell Lee is the author of Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, and the site The Aesthetics of Joy, where she shares amazing actionable tips and essays about how we can find joy absolutely everywhere around us. She’s also been a speaker on TED Talks and brings more than a decade of experience in design and branding to showing audiences how to m...

Christina Malecka is the founder of Digital Mindfulness Retreats. She hails from Seattle, a city that she has seen transform dramatically over her lifetime with the arrival of Amazon and the massive influx of the technorati. She has a psychotherapy practice rooted in her experience as a community environmental activist, which she characterizes as a “macro to micro shift to social change.” Christin...

Cristian Villamarin and Alanna Harvey are the creative minds behind Flipd, the app that demonstrates how digital well-being and productivity are naturally compatible- and how JOMO is not about turning your back on tech, but changing your relationship to it to one that’s intentional, healthy, and positive. Flipd is a productivity package that includes social interaction, education, and tools that d...

If you’re old enough to remember the birth of the Internet as we know it, you probably remember the unbridled optimism that accompanied the “digital revolution.” There was no question that “the Web” was all benefit: we’d be more productive, more efficient, better educated, better entertained, better… connected. We wouldn’t have to miss a thing. Tiffany Shlain remembers. She remembers how the birth...