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Join James Petrossi in 'Leave the Feed: 30 Days of Disconnect' as he interviews creators and mental health advocates about their journeys, the digital quagmire, and tips to create a healthier relationship with social media.
Coming Mid-January 2026
James Petrossi: Hi am James Petrossi, and welcome to Leave the Feed 30 Days of Disconnect, where we interview epic creators and mental health advocates, all with stories and insights and inspiration on how you can have a healthier relationship with social media. Let's see what's in store for this season.
Ryan Lu: My relationship with being a creator is very complicated, because it really could be so easy for it to impact your mental health, especially how you're perceiving yourself.
Eric Artell: The, the whole mechanism of getting likes and getting engagements tying your self-worth to that is extraordinarily tempting extraordinarily damaging.
Manasi Patil: You know, am I doing enough? Am I posting enough? Am I growing enough? And it can get toxic. If you don't pause.
Hayden Trowbridge: Social media, [00:01:00] right? The doom scrolling. It's the thing that holds us captive, yet we can't get away from it. Why is that?
Nila Makhfi: it's funny because you realize that you're just scrolling a lot and that you just can't stop, but if we just focus on our own story and see all that we're accomplishing.
Juan Faura: all too often people will go a week without being on social media, but then they go in the same rat race and so how do you actually really transform your mind when it comes to social and your relationship?
Shauna Cummins: And, bring yourself to a place of awareness where you can start to a sense of when the social media is triggering you, what it's taking away from you, how to interrupt that
Gigi Robinson: You have to shut it off at some point. And when you're a creator, if you let that boundary go, or if you don't establish that boundary, you're gonna find yourself feeling drained.
Shira Lazar: when you give yourself that boundary, that time off. It does wonders for your brain.
Dylan Huey: Leave the Feed isn't completely get rid of. TikTok, get rid of Instagram, [00:02:00] don't post content.
Dylan Huey: But I think it's a remembrance of the importance of relationships. I think that truly it's, you know, getting to know yourself and getting to know the people who are around you.
Fiona Frills: The element of like connecting with someone else that's not always just on the computer feels so refreshing and so. Good.
Justin Leusner: if you're watching this podcast listening to this right now, and this is intriguing to you, don't stop here. Listen to the other episodes on this podcast.
Justin Leusner: You know, read the Lead the Feed book. I believe that this movement of disconnecting from social media, especially amongst Gen Z, will continue to grow. Don't stop here. Keep going.