Catherine Price

*And How to Have More of It

The idea of prioritizing fun might seem counterintuitive—perhaps even counterproductive—especially at work.

But according to CATHERINE PRICE, science journalist, Screen/Life Balance founder, and author of The Power of Fun, How to Break Up with Your Phone, and the popular Substack newsletter, How to Feel Alive, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Instead, she argues that “True Fun” (which she defines as the magical confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow) can be a powerful tool that increases connection, creativity, productivity, collaboration, engagement, and happiness in all areas of life.

Audiences leave Price’s presentation—which can be delivered as a keynote, chat, workshop, or moderated Q&A — feeling both inspired to make a change, and equipped with tangible things they can do that very day to increase the amount of true fun that they have, both at home and at work.

Groundbreaking, eye-opening, and packed with concrete examples and useful advice, Price’s presentation will revolutionize the way that audiences think about fun.

This presentation is appropriate for a wide variety of industries and organizations, including finance, technology, internet security, education, government, real estate, healthcare, entertainment, HR, publishing, travel, and health and wellness, among others. Past hosts include The Aspen Ideas Festival, TED, Morgan Lewis, the NSA, Penguin Random House, Anheuser Busch, and Cigna, among many others.

Sample audience feedback:

"Magnificent"
"I loved your session!"
"Thank you very much for teaching me how to incorporate more fun into my life!”
Price’s TED Talk on this topic, which has 5M+ views, was one of the “Most Popular TED Talks of 2022.”

Note: this talk can also be coupled with access to Catherine’s text-message-based “Find Your Fun” course (which participants can take individually or as a group) as a way to team-build and further put their insights from the presentation into practice.

CATHERINE PRICE, health and science journalist and author of The Power of Fun, How to Break Up with Your Phone, and the popular Substack newsletter, How to Feel Alive, shares her most profound insights gathered from a career spent researching how to live well—a question that is increasingly urgent, as we spend ever more time on screens.

But Price doesn’t just talk about the problems that we face; she offers concrete solutions and ideas for things people can try that very day. Audiences leave Price’s presentation—which can be delivered as a keynote, chat, or moderated Q&A, and is relevant for a wide range of audiences — feeling both inspired to make a change, and equipped with tangible steps they can take to increase their happiness, strengthen their relationships, and feel more alive.

Past audiences have included companies and organizations in finance, technology, internet security, education, government, real estate, school commencements, healthcare, entertainment, HR, publishing, travel, and health and wellness, among other fields.

As the founder of Screen/Life Balance, the author of How to Break Up with Your Phone, a parent of a young child, and a former middle school teacher, CATHERINE PRICE is a leading voice in the conversation about digital devices and how to create healthy relationships with technology.

She has done presentations about smartphones, social media and screen/life balance for organizations including Fortune Brainstorm Health, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Yale University, ISC(2), The Pennsylvania Conference for Women, Colorado Academy, Livongo Health, Credible Behavioral Health, Clementine Montessori, Flintridge Prep, the International School of Denver, Rancho La Puerta, Miraval, and The Philadelphia School, among many others. Price is also officially collaborating with Jon Haidt (bestselling author of the Anxious Generation) as a speaker, advisor, resource curator, and writer, and has received his public endorsement: “She gave one of the best talks I’ve seen on the problem of the phone-based childhood… It’s a talk that every parent should watch.”

CATHERINE PRICE, science journalist, and author of The Power of Fun, How to Break Up with Your Phone, and the popular Substack newsletter, How to Feel Alive, offers a customizable presentation — delivered as a talk or informal chat, either in-person or virtually — on how “breaking up” with your phone and prioritizing screen/life balance can help you lead a happier, healthier life.

A leading voice in the conversation about technology and digital devices, Price has spoken about screen/life balance and phone breakups in front of audiences including among many others, and her work has been featured in countless podcasts, television shows, and newspaper and magazine articles, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America, and the podcast of the Surgeon General of the United States.

After revealing why screen/life balance can be so challenging to achieve (especially now, given the increasing prevalence of AI), Price explains how audiences can create more balanced and intentional relationships with their phones and devices—and how doing so will improve their resilience, relationships, attention spans, creativity, productivity, and mental and physical health. This program combines a lively, compelling keynote with actionable, evidence-backed suggestions that people can begin to put into practice that very day.

Note: this talk can be coupled with access to Catherine’s text-message-based 30-day “Phone Breakup” course, which participants can take individually or as a team, as a way to team build and put the skills and philosophies of the talk into practice for the long run.