EP: 034 |  The Digital Leash: Taking Your Family Back from the Scroll with Drew Canole

Drew Canole, founder of the superfood company Organifi, said something that made me want to throw my phone in a drawer: "You have more stimulation than ever before, but you feel more alone than ever before."

I watched this man describe being the only dad at the park who's not staring at a screen, spinning ten kids on a gyroscope while every other parent scrolls, and I thought, that's the picture of what our kids are actually starving for.

Here's what Drew knows that most parents don't: the phone on the dinner table, even flipped over, is still stealing a chunk of your attention, and our kids feel every bit of it. We got into his phone-free weekend ritual, the gut-brain connection I lived through firsthand with Zak, and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), the body-based practice Drew says did more for his childhood trauma in five sessions than 20 years of talk therapy.

You'll walk away knowing the next right thing to do to loosen the digital leash on your family, 100% without shame and without perfection.

🌱 KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  • Why Drew calls your phone a "digital leash" and the one weekend ritual that releases it

  • The stat about kids under 10 that left both of us reeling

  • What researchers found about the phone sitting face down on your dinner table

  • The rewatch trick that wires little brains for safety and better sleep

  • The gut and brain connection most pediatrician visits never touch

  • A five-minute shaking practice that unlocked what decades of talk therapy could not

  • The state warned his parents not to adopt him; now he's the most present dad at the park

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Connect with Drew:

✔️ Organifi Use code BADMOM for 20% off.

✔️ Instagram

✔️ YouTube where you can find his TRE demonstration video

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