Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
In this episode of Deeply Well, Devi sits down with Dr. Zelana Montminy, a leading behavioral scientist and resilience expert, to discuss the urgent issue of focusing in our distraction-laden world. Dr. Zelana shares insights from her new book, 'Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in the Age of Distraction,' which offers practical strategies to reclaim mental clarity and emotional resilience. They cover the impacts of our hyperconnected lives on our well-being, the science behind attention and distraction, and the critical need for boredom in fostering creativity. Dr Zelena also touches on mindful parenting in the digital age, the cost of over-communication, and the importance of authentic human connections. Listeners are encouraged to identify their biggest distractors and make small changes, such as not waking up with their phones, to regain their focus and fortify their mental health.
Airbnb Experience: Find your calm in a meditation with Devi Brown
Connect: @DeviBrown @DeeplyWellPodcast
Read: "Living in Wisdom" DeviBrown.com Now Available!
The Deeply Well Podcast is available on:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3n5hEIV…
Youtube: youtube.com/@DeviBrownWell-Being
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Deeply Well
Where higher consciousness meets the complexity of being human.
Hosted by Well-Being Master Teacher and multi-disciplinary healer
Devi Brown, Deeply Well is a soft place to land for those navigating the quiet, courageous work of becoming whole.Through soul-expanding conversations, guided meditations, and our signature Soul Work, each episode explores what it truly means to heal, to rewire, and to return—to your body, your truth, and your unique path.Created for the seekers, the sensitives, the creatives, and anyone reclaiming peace in a world that often overwhelms, Deeply Well invites you into presence, clarity, and self-mastery—one breath, one practice, one guest at a time.
Devi Brown is the founder of Devi Brown Well-Being, former Chief Impact Officer at Chopra Global, and the author of Living in Wisdom and Crystal Bliss. Her work honors the sacred complexity of healing and guides you gently back to yourself—again and again.
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Moments to Consider:
0:00 Welcome to Deeply Well, with our guest Dr. Zelana Montminy.
3:55 Balancing our digital and physical world, coming back to what makes us human.
8:00 The biggest costs of our attention economy, numbing, escapism and performing wellness.
11:40 The critical need to create shared experience through space and time to connect.
14:45 Being clear about where you’re placing your focus, and going all in on that.
16:37 Our attention is finite. Understanding the science of our need for rest and boredom.
20:57 What is happening when we pour attention into quick form content. The lazy reward.
23:01 How do we begin to retrain our brain? Prescribing moments of boredom.
25:39 The invisible layers complicating modern human life.
28:02 The high cost of the cultural expectations of being a woman. The myth of should and can.
29:38 What drove Dr. Zelana to this work and being a behavioral scientist.
31:55 The quality of your attention as a parent, and building in down time for your kids.
38:40 The rare super power of sustaining basic human connection through eye contact.
41:28 Dr. Zelana’s Soul Work: Audit your day for your biggest distractor.
43:25 Connect with Dr. Zelana! And check out her new book Finding Focus.
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Connect with Dr. Zelana’s:
Dr. Zelana’s Website: drzelana.com
Dr. Zelana’s Book Finding Focus: drzelana.com/findingfocus
Dr. Zelana’s Instagram: instagram.com/dr.zelana
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Connect with Devi:
Website: devibrownwellbeing.com
Living In Wisdom Book: devibrown.com/book
Instagram: instagram.com/devibrown
Instagram: instagram.com/deeplywellpod
Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=...
Merch: devibrown.myshopify.com
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Devi Brown is a Master Well-Being Educator & Healer, Advisor, Storyteller and Founder of Devi Brown Well-Being. The celebrated voice of daily meditation on the Chopra App and host of the iHeart media podcast, Deeply Well, Brown’s teachings have reached millions of seekers globally and counting. She serves as a well-being advisor for private, high-impact clientele and for Fortune 500 companies, including Chase, Microsoft, Chopra Global, and Overtime. With teachings rooted in spiritual psychology, advanced meditation, metaphysics, energy healing and trauma-informed facilitation, Brown’s mission is centered in the process of individual liberation that leads to community impact and an elevation of consciousness for all beings.
#DeviBrown #DeeplyWell #WellBeing #LivingInWisdom
In this episode of Deeply Well, Devi sits down with Dr. Zelana Montminy, a leading behavioral scientist and resilience expert, to discuss the urgent issue of focusing in our distraction-laden world. Dr. Zelana shares insights from her new book, 'Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in the Age of Distraction,' which offers practical strategies to reclaim mental clarity and emotional resilience. They cover the impacts of our hyperconnected lives on our well-being, the science behind attention and distraction, and the critical need for boredom in fostering creativity. Dr Zelena also touches on mindful parenting in the digital age, the cost of over-communication, and the importance of authentic human connections. Listeners are encouraged to identify their biggest distractors and make small changes, such as not waking up with their phones, to regain their focus and fortify their mental health.
Airbnb Experience: Find your calm in a meditation with Devi Brown
Connect: @DeviBrown @DeeplyWellPodcast
Read: "Living in Wisdom" DeviBrown.com Now Available!
The Deeply Well Podcast is available on:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3n5hEIV…
Youtube: youtube.com/@DeviBrownWell-Being
✺
Deeply Well
Where higher consciousness meets the complexity of being human.
Hosted by Well-Being Master Teacher and multi-disciplinary healer
Devi Brown, Deeply Well is a soft place to land for those navigating the quiet, courageous work of becoming whole.Through soul-expanding conversations, guided meditations, and our signature Soul Work, each episode explores what it truly means to heal, to rewire, and to return—to your body, your truth, and your unique path.Created for the seekers, the sensitives, the creatives, and anyone reclaiming peace in a world that often overwhelms, Deeply Well invites you into presence, clarity, and self-mastery—one breath, one practice, one guest at a time.
Devi Brown is the founder of Devi Brown Well-Being, former Chief Impact Officer at Chopra Global, and the author of Living in Wisdom and Crystal Bliss. Her work honors the sacred complexity of healing and guides you gently back to yourself—again and again.
✺
Moments to Consider:
0:00 Welcome to Deeply Well, with our guest Dr. Zelana Montminy.
3:55 Balancing our digital and physical world, coming back to what makes us human.
8:00 The biggest costs of our attention economy, numbing, escapism and performing wellness.
11:40 The critical need to create shared experience through space and time to connect.
14:45 Being clear about where you’re placing your focus, and going all in on that.
16:37 Our attention is finite. Understanding the science of our need for rest and boredom.
20:57 What is happening when we pour attention into quick form content. The lazy reward.
23:01 How do we begin to retrain our brain? Prescribing moments of boredom.
25:39 The invisible layers complicating modern human life.
28:02 The high cost of the cultural expectations of being a woman. The myth of should and can.
29:38 What drove Dr. Zelana to this work and being a behavioral scientist.
31:55 The quality of your attention as a parent, and building in down time for your kids.
38:40 The rare super power of sustaining basic human connection through eye contact.
41:28 Dr. Zelana’s Soul Work: Audit your day for your biggest distractor.
43:25 Connect with Dr. Zelana! And check out her new book Finding Focus.
✺
Connect with Dr. Zelana’s:
Dr. Zelana’s Website: drzelana.com
Dr. Zelana’s Book Finding Focus: drzelana.com/findingfocus
Dr. Zelana’s Instagram: instagram.com/dr.zelana
✺
Connect with Devi:
Website: devibrownwellbeing.com
Living In Wisdom Book: devibrown.com/book
Instagram: instagram.com/devibrown
Instagram: instagram.com/deeplywellpod
Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=...
Merch: devibrown.myshopify.com
✺
Devi Brown is a Master Well-Being Educator & Healer, Advisor, Storyteller and Founder of Devi Brown Well-Being. The celebrated voice of daily meditation on the Chopra App and host of the iHeart media podcast, Deeply Well, Brown’s teachings have reached millions of seekers globally and counting. She serves as a well-being advisor for private, high-impact clientele and for Fortune 500 companies, including Chase, Microsoft, Chopra Global, and Overtime. With teachings rooted in spiritual psychology, advanced meditation, metaphysics, energy healing and trauma-informed facilitation, Brown’s mission is centered in the process of individual liberation that leads to community impact and an elevation of consciousness for all beings.
#DeviBrown #DeeplyWell #WellBeing #LivingInWisdom
