What happens when you're trying to lead a team toward being focused while still struggling with your own digital habits?

You're in a meeting. It's going well. Someone shares something vulnerable. Then your phone buzzes. You glance at it, just for a second, but the moment shifts. Trust thins. Connection breaks. You suddenly realize you're asking your team to be present while you're still figuring out how to do the same.

If you’ve ever felt that tension, this episode is for you. We’re unpacking what it really looks like to lead your team with intention, honesty, and presence in a world where distraction is the norm.

Because leadership isn’t about perfection. It’s about direction.

What you’ll learn:

• Why vulnerability is your superpower when it comes to leading digital change
• How to model focus without being ten steps ahead
• What to say when you're ready to open the conversation about presence with your team
• One simple habit that helps you stay off your phone during meetings
• Why your small, visible actions matter more than formal policies

You don’t need to have it all figured out before you lead. You just need to be willing to go first and invite your team into the journey with you.

Like Craig Groeschel says, people would rather follow a leader who is always real than one who is always right.

And Philippians 2:3-4 gives us a powerful reminder: Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Being fully present is one of the most powerful ways you can reflect Christ’s love and leadership to your team.

So let’s talk about how to lead meetings that are more focused, conversations that are more meaningful, and teams that are more connected, starting with your next small step.

Resources & Next Steps:

Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

Want more tips on healthy tech habits? Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

Let’s Connect! Leave me a voice message with your thoughts or questions via Speakpipe on my website.

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In today's episode, I'm sharing a simple but powerful 3-step digital declutter that focuses on what your eyes encounter countless times each day: your lock screen, home screen, and notifications. These small changes can dramatically shift your digital landscape and, more importantly, your spiritual attention.

• Why what you see first on your phone matters
• How to transform your lock screen into a spiritual anchor point
• Simple steps to declutter your home screen to reflect your true priorities
• Practical ways to tame notifications and reclaim your focus
• How to use Focus Mode as a guardian for your attention
• Biblical perspectives on stewardship and how it applies to your digital life

Resources & Next Steps:

📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

Want more tips on healthy tech habits? Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

Let’s Connect! Share your experiences by leaving me a voice message through Speakpipe on my website!

📩 Email: hello@julianneaugust.com 📱 Instagram: @julianne.august 📘 Facebook: Julianne August 🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com

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Those seemingly insignificant waiting moments throughout your day might be more valuable than you realize.

This episode is an invitation to reclaim those small 3-minute pockets of time that we so often surrender to our screens – the doctor's waiting room, the grocery checkout line, the school pickup lane, the moments before a meeting starts.

If you've ever caught yourself mindlessly reaching for your phone the second you have a moment to breathe, this conversation is for you.

We'll explore how these brief waiting periods aren't just empty transitions but meaningful opportunities woven into the fabric of your life by a God who doesn't waste a single second. You'll walk away with practical ways to redeem these moments without shame, guilt, or rigid rules.

• Why your automatic response to waiting might be robbing you of meaningful moments
• What "redeeming the time" really means from a biblical perspective
• How small moments of presence add up to approximately four entire days of your life each year
• The neuroscience behind habit interruption and creating new choices
• 5 simple practices to transform waiting moments into spiritually grounding experiences
• Why these "thin places" of waiting might actually be divine invitations to deeper awareness

Whether you're feeling digitally drained or simply wanting to bring more intention to your day, this episode will help you transform those small gaps of time into opportunities for presence, peace, and purpose.

Resources & Next Steps:

Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

Want more tips on healthy tech habits? Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

Let’s Connect! Share your experiences with the Waiting Room Challenge by leaving me a voice message through Speakpipe on my website!

📩 Email: hello@julianneaugust.com 📱 Instagram: @julianne.august 📘 Facebook: Julianne August 🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com

🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need to reduce their screen time and reclaim their focus.

Hashtags: #ScreenFreeSaturday #RedeemingTheTime #DigitalWellness

You don’t need to toss your phone or move to the mountains to find peace but if you’ve been feeling distracted, drained, or disconnected… it might be time to do something different.

This episode is an invitation to rediscover the quiet power of analog moments, not as a rejection of technology, but as a rhythm that restores what hustle culture has taken from your soul.

If you’ve ever thought, “I know I need to unplug... but I just can’t seem to,” this conversation is for you.

We’ll unpack how screen-free, hands-on activities aren’t just old-fashioned, they’re spiritually grounding, neurologically healing, and surprisingly life-giving. You’ll walk away with practical ways to bring balance to your digital life without shame, guilt, or rigid rules.

• What analog habits actually are and why they matter more than ever
• How digital life speeds you up, but analog rhythms slow you into peace
• Neuroscience behind why screen-free activities restore focus and clarity
• Why God often moves through the physical and tangible, not just the digital
• 5 ways to integrate simple, soul-anchoring analog rhythms into your daily life
• A powerful reminder that your screen habits are forming your soul so choose them wisely

Whether you're in a season of digital overload or just looking for a better rhythm, this episode will help you return to what matters most and find your footing again.

Resources & Next Steps:

Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

Want more tips on healthy tech habits? Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

Let’s Connect! Leave me a voice message with your thoughts or questions via Speakpipe on my website!

📩 Email: hello@julianneaugust.com 📱 Instagram: @julianne.august 📘 Facebook: Julianne August 🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com

🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!

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Are you constantly juggling five things at once… but still feel behind, foggy, or frazzled?

This week's podcast episode is a breath of fresh air.

• Why multitasking actually makes you less productive
• What’s happening in your brain every time you switch tasks
• How attention residue quietly drains your energy and focus
• Why multitasking is costing more than just time, it's stealing your peace

Resources & Next Steps:

Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

Want more tips on healthy tech habits? Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

Let’s Connect! Leave me a voice message with your thoughts or questions via Speakpipe on my website!

📩 Email: hello@julianneaugust.com 📱 Instagram: @julianne.august 📘 Facebook: Julianne August 🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com

🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!

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You want to help your kids break phone addiction and be aware of their screen habits but you also find yourself scrolling, zoning out, or sneaking Instagram in the bathroom. So how do you lead well when you're still working on it too?

In today’s episode of Overcome Digital Distraction, we’re getting real about one of the biggest parenting tensions of our time: modeling healthy screen use without pretending to have it all together.

We’ll talk about:

• Why digital distraction is different for this generation of kids
• The difference between false guilt and authentic conviction
• 4 practical, grace-filled ways to lead your family through this
• Why your kids don’t need your perfection, they need your honesty

You’ll also learn how to help your kids break phone addiction by:

✔ Speak in values, not just rules ✔ Create intentional family rhythms (without overcomplicating it) ✔ Be honest and invite your kids into the process ✔ Hold boundaries with kindness and choices

Plus: We unpack the biblical wisdom of the Shema (Deut. 6:4-9) and how it points us to present - not perfect - parenting.

This one is for every parent who's ever said, “Do as I say, not as I scroll.”

Resources & Next Steps:

Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

Want more tips on healthy tech habits? Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

Let’s Connect! Leave me a voice message with your thoughts or questions via Speakpipe on my website!

📩 Email: hello@julianneaugust.com 📱 Instagram: @julianne.august 📘 Facebook: Julianne August 🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com

🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!

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You didn’t mean to scroll for that long, but now you’re feeling off. You’re second-guessing your progress, your purpose… even your worth.

Comparison doesn’t just make you feel bad, it distracts you from who God made you to be.

In this episode, we’re naming the trap of comparison and how it sneaks in through our screens. More importantly, we’re uncovering three biblical truths that can ground you in your identity and free you from the grip of “not enough.”

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why social media comparison feels so heavy and what’s really going on
• How jealousy operates like a spiritual stronghold (and how Scripture exposes it)
• 3 biblical truths that remind you who you are and why you matter
• Simple, life-giving habits to stay rooted in identity, not image
• A powerful invitation to trade comparison for confession, clarity, and freedom

This episode is both deeply practical and deeply spiritual. If you’ve been feeling “less than,” this one’s for you.

Want a prayer to break agreement with jealousy and comparison? Grab your free copy here 👉 Jealousy & Comparison Prayer

Resources & Next Steps:

Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

Want more tips on healthy tech habits? Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

Let’s Connect! Leave me a voice message with your thoughts or questions via Speakpipe on my website!

📩 Email: hello@julianneaugust.com 📱 Instagram: @julianne.august 📘 Facebook: Julianne August 🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com

🎙️Don't forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!

Hashtags: #ScreenFreeSaturday #ComparisonTrap

In today’s episode, we’re tackling one of the most common and overlooked sources of digital distraction, the news. Whether you’re someone who casually checks headlines or finds yourself deep in the rabbit hole of doom-scrolling, this conversation will help you understand how today’s 24/7 news cycle is affecting your mind, mood, and spiritual clarity.

You’ll learn how to set intentional boundaries around your news intake, how to recognize signs of news fatigue, and how to stay informed in a way that fuels action and peace, not anxiety. Most importantly, we’ll look at how to guard your heart and stay anchored in God’s truth as you engage with the world around you.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• What news fatigue is and how it silently impacts your mind, emotions, and body
• Why today’s news is designed to hijack your attention (and how to stop letting it)
• 3 practical boundaries to help you stay informed without spiraling
• How to filter what you share or react to through a biblical lens
• Ways to balance the hard headlines with hope-filled stories and redemptive action

If you’ve ever felt anxious, cynical, or emotionally exhausted after reading the news, this episode will give you tools to engage with wisdom, guard your peace, and move forward with clarity and calm.

🎧 New Here? Take the Screen Time Personality Quiz and get your 3-Day Digital Peace Plan - a free guide to help you reset your screen habits and reclaim your focus. 👉Screen Time Personality Quiz

📲 Grab Your Free Wallpapers Get your free gallery of truth-filled phone and desktop wallpapers, designed to help you pause, reset, and refocus every time you reach for your device. 👉Digital Wallpaper

Want more tips on healthy tech habits? Check out Episode 5 and download your FREE Guide to Grayscale with step-by-step screenshots to turn your phone into a calm, less-distracting space. 👉Guide to Grayscale

Let’s Connect! Leave me a voice message with your thoughts or questions via Speakpipe on my website!

📩 Email: hello@julianneaugust.com 📱 Instagram: @julianne.august 📘 Facebook: Julianne August 🌐 Website: julianneaugust.com

Don’t forget to follow the podcast and leave a written review, it helps this message reach more listeners who need it!

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