Press Kit

BIO

Catherine Price is an award-winning health and science journalist and speaker, founder of the Screen/Life Balance movement and the bestselling author of books including How to Break Up with Your Phone, Vitamania, The Power of Fun, and The Amazing Generation (co-authored with Jonathan Haidt).

Catherine and her work have been featured in The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, The Wall Street Journal, The Oprah Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Slate, The Washington Post Magazine, and Time Magazine, as well as on Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, The Today Show, NPR, and the BBC, among many other outlets. She writes the popular Substack newsletter, "How to Feel Alive"  and her TED talk on fun has been viewed more than 6 million times. Her goal is to help people of all ages scroll less and live more.

Headshot photo credit: Colin Lenton

LINKS & HANDLES

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Get a free preview of the amazing generation
Get a free preview of how to break up with your phone
Free Phone Breakup Starter kit
book club/discussion guide for how to break up with your phone
“Catherine Price [is] the Marie Kondo of brains.”
— The New York Times

Talking Points for The Amazing Generation

Below is a selection of subjects Catherine can speak to:

  • What is The Amazing Generation? Why is it personally meaningful to you?

  • Why is having a book that speaks directly to kids so important?

  • How did you design the book? What was the thought process?

  • How can families use the book start a conversation about smartphones and social media with their kids?

  • How can families use The Anxious Generation, How to Break Up With Your Phone, and The Amazing Generation together?

  • Why do you believe children themselves need to be active participants in shaping healthier screen habits, rather than just having adults tell them what to do?

  • What does it mean to be a “rebel” and what is the “rebel’s code”?

  • What’s the difference between real friendship, freedom, and fun and the “friendship,” “freedom” and “fun” offered by smartphones and social media?

  • What do you hope that young readers will do / how do you hope they’ll change as a result of reading the book?

Talking Points for How to Break Up With Your Phone

Below is a selection of subjects Catherine can speak to:

  • Why most attempts to cut back on screen time fail (and how you can be successful)

  • How to transform your phone from a temptation to a tool

  • What to do about kids, smartphones, and social media

  • How to survive 2026: how to control your inputs, avoid doomscrolling, and stay up-to-date on the news/current events without being consumed by anxiety

  • How to get your attention span back

  • How our phones are hurting our relationships—and how to confront a loved one about their screen time

  • What the rise of AI means for our relationships with our phones and social media—and what we should do about it

  • How (and why) our phones and apps are designed to addict us—and who it benefits

  • How our smartphones are making us dumb (if you feel like your phone time is affecting your memory, productivity, creativity, and ability to concentrate, you’re right)

  • How your phone is messing with your sleep, stress levels, satisfaction—and who you actually are!

  • What social media companies know about the effects of their own products (i.e. what they don’t want us to know)

  • How to transform your phone from a time-sucking temptation to a practical tool

  • How to deal with phones on vacations

  • How to be productive in the age of constant distraction

  • How to use technology to protect yourself from technology: apps and products that can help you create a healthy longterm relationship with your devices

  • The importance of finding positive alternatives for the time you’re currently spending on your phone—and how to do so (Price’s follow-up book, The Power of Fun, is about exactly that!)

  • How “breaking up” with your phone will change your life