Your Attention Is Worth Fighting For.

Your phone was engineered to be addictive. Tips and hacks don’t go deep enough to make a difference. Fight Your Phone offers new tactics to win back what addictive apps have taken from you.

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

Then I noticed my phone time was sabotaging my energy and my best ideas.

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

How I Can Help

The 30-Day Phone Fight

A structured, science-backed online course that guides you to identify the apps hijacking your life and then break free from them -- without giving up your phone.

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Speaking & Workshops

I bring the Fight Your Phone framework to universities, organizations, and events. My keynote lectures and day-long workshops are funny, research-driven, and built to change behavior.

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Substack

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

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Participant Testimonial:

“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.”