Jose Santana spent eight months making a concerted effort to quit video gaming. and almost a year later, says he'll never play a video game again.
In this week's episode, 16-year-old Jose joins Julie to share his personal experiences growing up in this digital world, and expresses his love/hate relationship with modern technology and social platforms.
Kids and teens are especially encouraged to listen to Jose's story to hear about his past experience with gaming addiction, his current life as a small-business owner and intern, and his goals for the future.
Cool fact, Jose is a student advisor to the Digital Wellness Lab.
And as mentioned in the episode, here's a link to Jose's pastor-dad's YouTube channel for all of you Spanish-speakers. And here's Jose's channel.
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