Is Your Media Consumption Making You Sick? Ruby Warrington’s “content diet” for better living

The Unspeakable Podcast

Meghan Daum

Society & Culture

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

As you make your new year’s resolutions or plan for Dry January, returning guest Ruby Warrington has another idea for better living in 2025: go on a “content diet.” In this conversation, Ruby describes the overwhelming nature of content consumption and its impact on mental health and wellbeing. She draws parallels between the “sober curious” movement, which she spearheaded, and the need for conscious content consumption, emphasizing the importance of awareness in our media engagement. We also talk about the pressures of content creation, the role of intimacy in communication, the rise of AI-generated content in the digital landscape, and the important of reading novels and listening to music.

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Ruby Warrington is the author of Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood and is the creator of the term “sober curious." Author of the 2018 book Sober Curious and million-download podcast of the same title, her work has spearheaded a global movement to reevaluate our relationship to alcohol. Other works include Material Girl, Mystical World (2017), The Numinous Astro Deck (2019), and The Sober Curious Reset (2020). With 20+ years’ experience as a lifestyle journalist and editor, Ruby is also the founder of the self-publishing incubator Numinous Books.

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0:00.0	The content that we consume on some level shapes who we are because it shapes dramatically shapes how we think.
0:10.8	And so it's a part of our diet as much as anything, any of the food or drink that we consume.
0:20.1	Welcome to the unspeakable podcast. I'm your host, Makin' Down.
0:24.0	Happy holidays, everyone. Before I introduce this week's premium episode, I have a couple of announcements
0:31.4	about, you guessed it, the unspeak-easy. That's our community for free-thinking women. And sometimes we include stuff
0:40.2	for the guys. There is so much coming up in 2025, and I'm going to be telling you more about it
0:45.7	in the coming weeks. But for now, I will say that we have several retreats planned for next year.
0:51.4	I'll tell you about a few of them. The first one is in Dripping Springs,
0:55.3	Texas. That's right outside of Austin, March 17th through 19th. The next will be April 5th and 6th.
1:03.0	That's a weekend in Los Angeles. There are more planned for after that, including at least
1:08.3	one co-ed retreat. So go to the unspeakeezy.com to find out about
1:14.5	that. As always, our online women's community is absolutely amazing. It's like bursting at the
1:22.4	seams with activities and discussions and guest speakers and book clubs and all manner of everything.
1:30.6	We've got some holiday specials going. So if you've been on the fence about joining,
1:35.1	this is a great time to do so. And by the way, as you know, you have to apply. That just means
1:41.3	tell us how you found us, what you're interested in, and so we can make sure
1:45.8	we're all on the same page.
1:46.8	This is not a college application.
1:48.5	Anyway, okay, we have reached the end of what seems like a very long year.
1:53.7	If you make New Year's resolutions, you may have noticed that the ways that we could be
2:00.0	living healthier lives are boundless.
2:03.5	There are obvious things to cut back on, like alcohol or crappy food or social media.
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