Look Up Not Down

Catch Rainar Angelo in an exclusive podcast, as he talks about digital wellness in his life and how he expands it into his workplace and among his social circles.

Catch Nina Hersher from Digital Wellness Institute in an exclusive podcast, as she talks about digital wellbeing in the workplace as well as how to overcome work-related challenges from a wellness perspective.

Catch Amy Giddon, CEO and Co-Founder of the Daily Haloha app, which has been gaining tremendous success across the globe for encouraging people to share their emotions. In a world where people normally dread to put out their raw emotions, fears, and failures on social media, Daily Haloha normalizes sharing our most common emotions, in a fun and modern way.

Amy is passionate about working and creating an experience of belonging and connection, not just with oneself but also the world. Connecting all her work is the belief that we need to see and hear each other — and that the world needs both our unique contributions and our collaboration. Join us as we talk about her inspiration behind creating Daily Haloha, how she maintains her own wellbeing and what she thinks about mindfulness being adopted in institutions and workplaces.

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Catch Indigo Mudbhary, a rising Senior at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, California, who loves running, reading, and is passionate about politics, as she describes the very different experiences she's had using a flip phone in this day and age. Using it unlike her peers, she has worked to build a healthy relationship with digital devices. As an esteemed TedX speaker, she has previously shared her experiences and insight on mobile phone usage and positively impacted several students. Join us as we talk about her journey using such a device, and what learning each of us can take from it.

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Catch Susan Reynolds talk about why the youth matter in the digital world, and the upcoming Y4Y iSummit 2021 in October, a global summit of the youth, by the youth & for the youth. The Y4Y iSummit is a catalyst for uniting, amplifying, and mobilizing youth advocates and their allies who are taking bold actions to create a healthy, more inclusive, and ethical digital world.

Susan Reynolds has over 20 years of experience in digital wellbeing, mindfulness and youth leadership. In 2019 she co-founded LookUp.live, a nonprofit sparking a social movement among Gen Z to discover and implement their own solutions to combat digital overload and 24/7 connectivity for greater tech/life balance and improved mental health. In partnership with the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth College, LookUp.live hosts LookUp StartUp competitions on university campuses.

Catch Steven Crane, research scholar and consultant with The Boundaries of Humanity project and Behavior Design Lab, Stanford University, in conversation with us about human behaviour & flourishing with technology. Join in as we converse with him on Screentime Genie, a tool to improve users’ relationships with their screen time, ethical technology, attentional immune system, tech-life balance as well as intentional screen usage.

Catch Janice Verghese, a techno lawyer, in conversation with us about the dark side of the internet and how to stay safe online. Janice is an advocate of stronger policies for an inclusive, peaceful and resilient cyberspace. She has conducted over 600 workshops and webinars for students, teachers, professionals and senior citizens on Online Safety and Digital Literacy. Through these sessions she has sensitized over 1,50,000 netizens directly, and reached out to over 5,00,000 netizens indirectly. She has also conduct capacity building workshops for police officers on Gender Sensitization and Investigation of Cybercrime Against Women and Children, and has trained over 600 police officers. She is currently working with CyberPeace Foundation and leading various capacity building initiatives to help spread awareness and make online safety a household term.

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Catch Barkha Tripathi, a 23 year old corporate professional turned social entrepreneur, in conversation with us. After graduating with a degree in Economics from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University in 2018, Barkha went on to work for PwC India as a Compliance Analyst. A year into her role, she decided to take a leap in the social sector, which led her to work for an ambitious social enterprise - India Leaders for Social Sector, as its Partnerships and Alumni Relations Associate for over a year. With an undying passion to work for women and children development, she recently embarked on a new journey of her own mking. The Zero Period was born with an aim to make sex education a sustained part of school curriculum in India. It plans to do so by advocating for and enabling a sustained sex education curriculum for school students, which will be taught in an accurate and age-appropriate manner. We talk with her to know how technology plays an immense part in this idea, as well as why every kid should learn to know about sexuality the correct way.

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Ever felt that you have less time for all the important work? Digital technology seems to demand more and more of your precious hours?
Bhumika Upadhyay, a Pranic Healer and ex-Goldman Sachs, joins us to talk about how she deals with the digital overload, and shares her tips and tricks in dealing with it.

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Are you mindful of your interactions with others? Do your devices allow you to look after your own well-being?
Shruthi Kumar of GoYogi LLC joins us to converse on her personal experiences with digital well-being, what she feels about humanity being forced to remain glued to their screens, how she manages to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and what we all could do to make our digital lives better.

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