13: The Joy of Missing Out on Burnout, with Folk Rebellion founder Jess Davis

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-induced illness caused: that the way we relate to technology right now is not serving us at all.  Exactly one year ago, Jess wrote: “The zeitgeist is here. People are waking up. Thought leaders are joining the conversation. Brands are hopping on the moment. Tech companies are starting to acknowledge the humans in their users. Seth Godin says it’s a digital swirl with an enormous cognitive load we haven’t figured out yetVitamin Water is giving $100,000 to anyone who cannot touch a smartphone in 2019 - and prove it with a lie detector...lululemon updated their messaging on their bag and now includes digital well-being. This was all I wanted. An awakening. A Rebellion. And yet. We aren’t anywhere where we need to be. We are digitally overwhelmed. The internet has turned everyone into a product for selling. Talking heads everywhere hawking their goods and services and expertise. Us included. I can’t help but think we are a part of the problem. That maybe abstinence is the only way.” And then she disappeared from the Internet. Until now. In this episode, we discuss: 

• Where Jess went and why
• The next move for Folk Rebellion
• How hustle culture is literally killing us
• How a health breakdown and a digital detox made Jess realize the destructive effects of her relationship to technology
• How to negotiate the desire for opportunity and the ability to create change with the hidden costs and distortion of the messages we seek to bring to the world

 GO DEEPER Sign up + join the JOMO community at experiencejomo.com for gentle humor, powerful insights, and actionable tools to live joyfully in a digital age.  Favorite Quotes“I’m less talking about the technology, and more talking about what’s lost or gained due to your relationship with it.”“Now, anyone can write anything, everywhere… that’s a great thing, and that’s also an awful thing.”“Deep thoughts are becoming little snippets all over the place that are now being cannibalized and used by the marketing industry.”“My joy is first and foremost in owning my time.” Follow Jess Davis + Folk Rebellion: Folk Rebellion: https://www.folkrebellion.com/https://folkrebellion.substack.com/p/coming-soonInstagram: @folkrebellion Follow JOMO:Instagram: @experience_jomo SUPPORTIf you enjoyed this episode, we’d love your support. Subscribe + Write a 5-star review. Every rating helps attract new listeners, which helps us keep making the show!  If you want to be empowered to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life, become a JOMO member and engage directly with Christina at www.patreon.com/jomocast

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