How to Feel Alive

Feb 18 2025 10 ep. 32 mins 7
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Scroll less and live more with "How to Feel Alive," a podcast from journalist, author, and TED speaker Catherine Price. Listen for conversations, inspiration, ideas, and evidence-backed advice for how to fill your life with more fun, adventure, joy, connection, and delight.

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Phone Breakup Week 3: Dan Harris and Catherine Price on meditation, attention, and phone-induced anxiety

Feb 18 2025 19 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit catherineprice.substack.comThank you to everyone who tuned in to my Substack live today with meditation expert, 10% Happier host, and former Good Morning America and Nightline anchor, Dan Harris!As most of you know, I’m in the midst of hosting a February Phone Breakup Challenge, which is a chance for readers to go thro

The Feb Phone Breakup Challenge Starts Monday!

Jan 31 2025 1 mins  
Friends: Today’s newsletter is a quick reminder that Monday is the official start of the February phone breakup challenge—your chance to go through the 30-day phone breakup plan in How to Break Up With Your Phone with other people. As a reminder, “breaking up” with your phone doesn’t mean dumping it completely (unless you want to!). It means creating better boundaries wit

Meet Yondr founder & CEO, Graham Dugoni

Oct 01 2024 55 mins  
You know those lockable phone bags that are being used to create phone-free spaces in schools and at concerts? Those are Yondr pouches. Join Catherine Price as she talks with Graham Dugoni, founder and CEO of Yondr, about what inspired him to create Yondr pouches, and his broader thoughts about how our interactions with technology affect how we experience the world. Warning: it's a

A Delightful Conversation with Ross Gay

Jun 25 2024 46 mins  
Join Catherine Price, author of the How to Feel Alive Substack (as well as books including How to Break Up With Your Phone and The Power of Fun) as she talks with Ross Gay, poet, teacher, and author of books including The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy.Links to Ross's work (and to the other authors and books he mentioned in our conversation): https://www.rossgay.net/His books, w

What to Do About Kids, Smartphones and Social Media

May 20 2024 73 mins  
Listen to a talk by Catherine Price, founder of Screen/Life Balance and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, about kids, smartphones, and social media. In addition to running through some of the risks and threats, Catherine provides several new frameworks for how to make decisions about children and technology, and provides actionable, evidence-backed resources, a sample comm

Fun at Work: How Can We Help You?

May 03 2024 32 mins  
Today I’m pleased to bring you a new episode of the “How to Feel Alive” podcast: a conversation between me and Devin McNulty, who writes the Substack newsletter and is Funmentum Labs’ co-founder and “brain-tender-in-chief.” In today’s episode, we tackled challenges from three readers:-Someone who works at a nonprofit and is struggling getting her employees and co-work

Avoiding Small Talk With Charles Duhigg

Apr 13 2024 22 mins  
Scroll less and live more with "How to Feel Alive," a podcast from journalist, author, and TED speaker Catherine Price about how to fill your life with more fun, adventure, joy, connection, and delight.In today's episode, Catherine speaks with Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of books including The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators, abou

Fun at Work with Devin McNulty

Apr 13 2024 33 mins  
Devin McNulty is the self-described “head of braintending” at a consulting organization called Funmentum Labs. By tapping into the powers of fun and play, Devin has helped companies like ESPN, Google, Credit Karma, Logitech and Ubisoft unlock group creativity and create environments where people look forward to brainstorming and solving problems together.Those of you who have b

Talking Creativity with Wendy MacNaughton

Apr 13 2024 21 mins  
"Drawing for me is like a meditation and a joy. It's a time for myself. It centers me. If I prioritize it, everything else falls into line." —Wendy MacNaughtonI recently had the pleasure of speaking with artist Wendy MacNaughton about her artistic practice and her 30-Day "Drawing Habit" challenge that she offered to her substack community. If you enjoy our conversation, please si

A conversation with Kevin Roose

Apr 11 2024 22 mins  
Scroll less and live more with "How to Feel Alive," a podcast from journalist, author, and TED speaker Catherine Price about how to fill your life with more fun, adventure, joy, connection, and delight.Today's episode features a conversation with New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, about how (and why) he turned his phone from a time-sucking temptation into a source of deligh