Your Attention Is Worth Fighting For.

Hi. I'm Emmy Laybourne, an author, educator, and speaker. I founded Fight Your Phone to help people reclaim their lives from addictive technology.

The Work

The 30-Day Phone Fight

A structured, science-backed program to break free from the apps hijacking your attention -- without giving up your phone.

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Speaking & Workshops

I bring the Fight Your Phone framework to universities, organizations, and events. Funny, research-driven, and built to change behavior.

Substack

Essays, research, and dispatches from the front lines in the classroom. My substack, “Emmy Laybourne Fights Her Phone” is free to read, worth your time.

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“My attention is back. It is palpable. Instead of frittering away four or five hours a day on my phone, I am spending my precious, finite time on things I'm truly enjoying and that I'm not going to regret."

- Steve Pratt, author of Earn It and co-founder of The Midlife Field Guide

Emmy Laybourne spent years working as a creative -- novelist, actor, director, screenwriter, teacher.

Then she noticed her phone time was sabotaging her best ideas.

What started as a personal fight became a program, a course, and a mission to help people reclaim their creativity and well-being.