Zach Rausch: "Smartphones are killing our children - but we CAN fix this"

The Starting Line with Rich Leigh

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Nearly 40% of teenage girls in the UK who spend over 5 hours on social media per day score as clinically depressed.

Anxiety diagnoses among 18–25-year-olds have increased by 92%.

Self-harm and suicide rates continue to increase around the world, beginning to spike in line with the rise of phone-based childhoods, as opposed to play-based childhoods.

And we need to do something about it. First, it means recognising why this might be - and this conversation, and many others like it, couldn't be more important.

Zach Rausch is an Associate Research Scientist at NYU Stern School of Business in the Business and Society Program.

He is the Chief Researcher for Jonathan Haidt and the #1 New York Times Bestseller "The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness".

In this episode we speak about why The Anxious Generation needed to be written - and how we, as a society, can turn this around.

Research link: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research

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The Starting Line Podcast, hosted by award-winning serial entrepreneur, PR expert, and best-selling author Rich Leigh, is all about drive, ambition and curiosity.

Speaking to entrepreneurs, entertainers, athletes, philanthropists and thinkers, we talk about positivity, success, resilience, perseverance, mistakes and more.

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From a turbulent childhood marred by domestic violence, addiction and crime to being named the #1 most influential PR person, my journey has been anything but conventional.

At 17, I dropped out of school. At 18, I became a father for the first time, and left the chaos of my family council house, determined to rewrite my story and break the cycle so many understandably struggle to.

By 30, I was a successful agency owner with a #1 best-selling book. We were working with some of the UK’s leading brands, entrepreneurs and celebrities, building, shaping and protecting reputations, using my influence to raise more than a million pounds for sick children.

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