EP96: Who Are You When Nobody Is Watching? The power of going offline.

<p>I just walked over 600,000 steps across Italy and one of the most powerful things I chose to do along the way was to go offline.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode, I share what that space brought up because within minutes of coming back online after one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life, I immediately felt behind. Nothing had changed. I had just checked social media.</p><p><br /></p><p>This episode is about what being offline reveals — about our identity, our attention, our relationship with comparison, and the question I kept coming back to on the road: how much of what we do are we doing because we truly want to, and how much are we doing because we want to be seen doing it?</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Key Topics</strong></p><ul><li>What going offline for four weeks actually revealed about identity and wellbeing</li><li>Why comparison hit the moment social media was back and the reframe that helped</li><li>How fragmented attention is quietly costing us more than we realise</li><li>The 2025 study that found blocking mobile internet for two weeks improved attention, wellbeing and mental health</li><li>Who are you when you are not performing for an audience</li><li>How to be more intentional about what you consume and what you share</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>social media, identity, wellbeing, comparison, attention, digital boundaries, offline, mindfulness, authenticity, burnout</p>