{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 141: Anna Lembke - Dopamine Nation: Overcoming Modern Addictions","slug":"episode-141-anna-lembke-dopamine-nation-overcoming-modern-addictions","published_at":"2025-02-07T10:00:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-141-anna-lembke-dopamine-nation-overcoming-modern-addictions","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1882342","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1882342/humans/2025_02_05_10_44_36_2bc22872-e2fb-448b-9cb5-14193ccb1e0a.mp3","summary":"Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and the author of \"Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.\" This is a rebroadcast of episode 35, from 2022. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (00:57) Anna Lembke’s interest in studying addiction (04:34) Defining addiction and the \"gremlin theory\" of addiction (15:19) Characteristics of an addict (23:48) The stigma around addictions (26:46) Characteristics of a healthy person living today (33:50) The importance and role of struggle in a good life (41:04) The impact of modern addictions on society today (46:54) Habit change ideas and the role of struggle in a good life (52:11) How to know if you're becoming an addict (58:45) The effective and ethical way to address addiction (01:03:58) Workaholism as an addiction (01:20:13) The connection between shame and a “never enough” attitude towards work","meta_description":"Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and the author of \"Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5124,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-141-anna-lembke-dopamine-nation-overcoming-modern-addictions/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-141-anna-lembke-dopamine-nation-overcoming-modern-addictions.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}