{"podcast":{"title":"AGING with STRENGTH®","slug":"aging-with-strength-7179340","podcast_index_feed_id":7179340,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/3037652.rss","website_url":"https://www.agingwithstrength.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3037652/a907398324d513fcd69c210172629582.jpg","author":"Paul von Zielbauer","episode_count":22,"summary":"Actionable aging intelligence from a lifelong athlete & Pulitzer-nominated former New York Times journalist.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T18:18:35.424178+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aging-with-strength-7179340"},"episode":{"title":"\"Strategically Tuning Out,\" with Gwendolyn Bounds","slug":"strategically-tuning-out-with-gwendolyn-bounds","published_at":"2026-05-08T20:57:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aging-with-strength-7179340/strategically-tuning-out-with-gwendolyn-bounds","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aging-with-strength-7179340","url":"https://www.agingwithstrength.com/p/strategically-tuning-out-with-gwendolyn","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196848405/d39b79f40c8c16ae9f92a82774c17102.mp3","summary":"Distilling our live conversation recorded above, Wendy aka Gwendolyn Bounds made a kick-ass list of 10 recommendations for strategically tuning out of the digital noise assaulting us all nowadays. Worth reading. Below, I add a select few of my own, forged and tested in the real world of a older single-dad entrepreneur: * Run a 1-minute experiment not reflexively looking at your phone . The next time you’re bored—or think you’re bored, because you may be only conditioned to feel bored when you’re actually full of interesting ideas and thoughts—instead of pulling out your phone, leave it in your pocket or bag for 60 seconds. Give yourself one short minute to have thoughts, let memories flood in, remember something you wanted to try or someone you want to get back to. When the minute’s up, reach for your phone, if you still want you. Try this experiment every day when you feel the urge to stare at your phone screen. Watch what happens after about 2 weeks of this daily experiment. * Brutally overhaul your phone’s notifications so that you: * don’t hear, see or feel a buzz or ding every time you get a text or email (but can still get your calendar reminders, which are obviously important to allow through. * activate the function that blocks everyone except the people you designate (ie, parents or children or school/doctor’s office) from reaching you when you’ve activated your “notifications silenced” setting. * experiment with activating this setting during work or evening hours, when you really don’t want to be jumping at the phone whenever it flirps. * End your relationship with your phone (temporarily) every night before bed . Just for the hour before you turn the lights out. The phone should be dead to you in the run-up to bedtime. * Run a 1-hour experiment—are you read…","meta_description":"Distilling our live conversation recorded above, Wendy aka Gwendolyn Bounds made a kick-ass list of 10 recommendations for strategically tuning out of the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3915,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/aging-with-strength-7179340/episodes/strategically-tuning-out-with-gwendolyn-bounds/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aging-with-strength-7179340/strategically-tuning-out-with-gwendolyn-bounds.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}