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This podcast episode featured Jodie Jackson discussing the impact of media consumption on mental health and performance, particularly for student athletes and coaches. Jodie shared her personal journey from experiencing anxiety and depression caused by consuming negative news content for six years to creating the website "What a Good Week" as a therapeutic response, which helped her shift from believing the world was awful to recognizing its progress and potential. She explained how media functions as a psychology platform designed by behavioral scientists with business models that prioritize shareholder interests, and emphasized that people need to actively design their media diet rather than passively consuming content. Jodie discussed the importance of understanding how media affects the brain through repetition and mirror neurons, and shared her vision for making mental nutrition and fitness as standard as physical diet and exercise in education and sports training. She provided practical advice for managing media consumption, including measuring usage patterns, asking whether media serves to tune out or tune into potential, and treating the mind as a valuable asset requiring protection. The conversation concluded with Jodie offering three simple tips: learn from experienced guides, apply the knowledge rather than just understanding it, and get information from notebooks into one's nervous system through action.