Journalist Marisa Bate gave up Instagram five years ago after she started to question what she was getting out of it. The experience has been entirely positive, even though she works in the media where many say it's impossible to be without social media. We talk about the navel-gazing and self absorption that Instagram encourages and how, even in a pandemic, those traits just don't seem to have lessened.**Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**Find Marisa on Twitter twitter.com/marisajbate and through her website Writing About Women.It's Complicated is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpodFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and Time To Log Off https://www.itstimetologoff.com Get Tanya's books: 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' and 'Stop Staring at Screens'Find out about the digital detox and digital wellbeing course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-courseIt's Complicated is produced by Time To Log OffTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, US billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, talks about his early days founding the website that has become part of the cultural fabric of the internet, and his philanthropy with its emphasis on promoting trustworthy journalism to fight the war against disinformation online. Craig has given away nearly $200million to support the fight against disinformation and describes himself as "an old school nerd doing what I can to support the people who fight to protect the values that America aspires to: fairness, opportunity and respect".**Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**Find Craig on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/craignewmark and Craig Newmark PhilanthropiesIt's Complicated is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpodFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and Time To Log Off https://www.itstimetologoff.com Get Tanya's books: 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' and 'Stop Staring at Screens'Find out about the digital detox and digital wellbeing course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-courseIt's Complicated is produced by Time To Log OffTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pat Allerton, vicar of St Peter's church in Notting Hill in London, chats about how he earned the nickname 'the portable priest' in the pandemic after his cycling services - bringing a hymn and a prayer to lockdown London - earned him a global following. And we talk about faith both on and off screen, and whether being able to access church services on YouTube and Zoom has made more people attend them than they might have done before.**Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**Find Pat on Instagram https://instagram.com/theportablepriest and St Peter's on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0eiU8Xhh42EOOB4zjorT2QIt's Complicated is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpodFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and Time To Log Off https://www.itstimetologoff.com Get Tanya's books: 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' and 'Stop Staring at Screens'Find out about the digital detox and digital wellbeing course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-courseIt's Complicated is produced by Time To Log OffTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amika George, British activist and campaigner, joins for the 50th episode of 'It's Complicated' on International Women's Day. She's talking about her new book 'Make it Happen: How to be an Activist', and how social media has been the gateway and catalyst which enabled her at 17, to found her charity, Free Periods. Free Periods campaigns to end period poverty in the UK and has successfully lobbied the government to provide free period products for girls at school.**Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**Find Amika and Free Periods on Twitter https://twitter.com/AmikaGeorge and https://twitter.com/Free_Periods and on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amikageorge and https://www.instagram.com/freeperiodsIt's Complicated is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpodFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and Time To Log Off https://www.itstimetologoff.com Get Tanya's books: 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' and 'Stop Staring at Screens'Find out about the digital detox and digital wellbeing course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-courseIt's Complicated is produced by Time To Log OffTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim Harford, economist, broadcaster and author, is helping us make sense of the numbers, statistics, graphs and charts that are increasingly overwhelming us on social media. He explains why we need to calm down when we look at them, and he shows us how to distinguish between those who brandish them like weapons to win political arguments, and those who use them to help explain what is going on in the world. The author of eight best-selling books, Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019.**Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**Find Tim on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/timharford and on his website www.timharford.com. How To Make The World Add up is on Amazon (Published as The Data Detective in North America).It's Complicated is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpodFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and Time To Log Off https://www.itstimetologoff.com Get Tanya's books: 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' and 'Stop Staring at Screens' Find out about the digital detox and digital wellbeing course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-course It's Complicated is produced by Time To Log OffTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, joins Tanya to talk about her pioneering career in digital; from the earliest days of the dot.com boom when she co-founded Lastminute.com in 1998; through her work as government Digital Champion from 2009-2013, spearheading the digitisation of government and the launch of gov.uk; the establishment of her responsible tech charity doteveryone which ran from 2015-2020 and finally, to her current role as Chair of the House of Lords Covid-19 Committee, which is looking at the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economic and social wellbeing of the United Kingdom. The episode focuses on digital inequalities in the UK, the large section of the population still without internet access and digital skills, and how the UK must eliminate this digital divide.**Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**Find Martha on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/marthalanefoxIt's Complicated is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpodFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and Time To Log Off https://www.itstimetologoff.com Get Tanya's books: 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' and 'Stop Staring at Screens' Find out about the digital detox and digital wellbeing course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-course It's Complicated is produced by Time To Log OffTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sports broadcaster Andrew Cotter turned his skills in lockdown to hilarious and heartwarming commentary on the antics of his two labradors, Olive and Mabel. His videos went viral and have been watched over 80 million times, with his book 'Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs' becoming an instant worldwide bestseller. He joins Tanya to talk about what it was like to become Insta-famous in a pandemic, the pressure to keep producing videos to satisfy Olive and Mabel's global fans, and his love-hate relationship with digital.**Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**Watch the Olive and Mabel videos on YouTubeFind Andrew on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mrandrewcotter and Twitter https://www.twitter.com/MrAndrewCotterIt's Complicated is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpodFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and Time To Log Off https://www.itstimetologoff.com Find out about the digital detox and digital wellbeing course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-course Get Tanya's books: 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' and 'Stop Staring at Screens' It's Complicated is produced by Time To Log OffTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Iconic Liverpool and England footballer John Barnes joins us for the Series 5 finale to talk about discrimination both on the field and off, using Twitter to call out racism, his admiration for Marcus Rashford's work in the pandemic and his exhortation to young footballers with their huge social media platforms to use those positions to affect real change in their communities.**Please subscribe, rate and review this episode, if you enjoy the podcast**Find John at https://www.twitter.com/officialbarnesy and https://John-Barnes.co.uk For more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and https://www.twitter.com/tanyagoodinTo find out about digital detox course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-course Use Code NOW25 for 25% off.'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' https://getBook.at/OFF And 'Stop Staring at Screens' https://getBook.at/STOPSTARINGFor more about Time To Log Off visit https://www.itstimetologoff.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Woman Who Set Up a Bank, Anne Boden, joins us this week to talk about the incredible journey she's been on to found one of Britain's most successful new banks; mobile-only bank Starling. She chats about Olivia Coleman playing her in the film of her best-selling book, the billionaire who flew her to his yacht in the Bahamas to talk about investing in her, and how so nearly losing her bank in the early days made her even more determined to make it work. And she shares how her determination to #MakeMoneyEqual has opened up the conversation about financial inequality far beyond the gender pay gap.**Please subscribe, rate and review this episode, if you enjoy the podcast**Find Anne at https://www.twitter.com/AnneBoden and her book Banking On It ---> https://www.amazon.co.uk/BANKING-How-I-Disrupted-Industry/dp/0241453585/Starling on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/StarlingBankStarling on Instagram https://www.instagram/StarlingBankFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and https://www.twitter.com/tanyagoodinTo find out about digital detox course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-course Use Code NOW25 for 25% off.'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' https://getBook.at/OFF And 'Stop Staring at Screens' https://getBook.at/STOPSTARINGFor more about Time To Log Off visit https://www.itstimetologoff.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Photographer Finn Beales joins us to chat about being an early adopter of social media, how he so nearly made a fortune creating filters for Instagram, his journey to becoming a celebrated photographic storyteller, the power of his connection with nature and why we all need to go for a walk more.**We would love it if you would subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**Find Finn at https://www.madebyfinn.comFinn on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/finnFinn on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/finnbealesFor more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and https://www.twitter.com/tanyagoodinTo find out about digital detox course from The Time To Log Off Academy: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-course Use Code NOW25 for 25% off.'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' https://getBook.at/OFF And 'Stop Staring at Screens' https://getBook.at/STOPSTARINGFor more about Time To Log Off visit https://www.itstimetologoff.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.