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📱 Taking Back Control of Your Phone with Emily Bowman
Our phones are designed to keep us coming back—but what happens when constant notifications, endless scrolling, and rapid-fire content start affecting the way our brains work?
In Part 2 of her conversation on phone addiction, Emily Bowman breaks down the dopamine cycle behind our digital habits and explains why constantly consuming short-form content can leave us feeling distracted, unmotivated, and even emotionally numb.
Emily also shares practical ways to reset your relationship with technology, including taking a 72-hour break from entertainment apps, delaying phone use in the morning, using physical timers, limiting short-form videos, and switching your phone to grayscale.
IN THIS EPISODE
Understanding the Dopamine Cycle
- How constant notifications can affect your dopamine baseline.
- Why endless scrolling can contribute to emotional numbing.
- What a 72-hour break from entertainment apps can do.
- Simple strategies for managing phone cravings.
- How to make your phone less addictive without giving it up completely.
🏀 The Future of Recreation in Montrose with Justin Mashburn
For more than two decades, Justin Mashburn has been part of the Montrose Recreation District. Now, as Executive Director, he's helping shape what recreation will look like for the community for years to come.
Dennis and Joey sit down with Justin to talk about how the Recreation District has grown into a major community hub serving more than 8,200 active members across a 500-square-mile area. They also discuss the new Montrose Fieldhouse at Secret Creek, the future of the outdoor pool, adaptive recreation, fee assistance, and how community feedback is helping guide what's next.
From youth programs and sports to family activities and Special Olympics, this conversation shows just how much recreation contributes to the quality of life in Montrose.
IN THIS EPISODE
Building What's Next for Recreation
- The vision behind the new Montrose Fieldhouse at Secret Creek.
- How financial planning is helping fund the Fieldhouse without increasing costs to taxpayers.
- The future of the 40-year-old outdoor pool.
- Growing opportunities for adaptive recreation, Special Olympics, and fee assistance.
- New programs including middle school dance nights and Generation Wild.
- How community input will shape future recreation spaces.
- Upcoming opportunities for residents to get involved.
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