Rise & Shine with Adrienne Gold Davis
Jun 10, 2026 · 11 min · 11 segments
For 25 hours each week, Adrienne Gold Davis takes a vacation. Slip into endless summer, every week. Being Jewish makes that possible.
So the idea of keeping and guarding the Sabbath is a way of ceasing creation to remember that we are not the creator, of remembering that we have a creator.
And in this twenty four seven, twenty-four-hour-a-day world, this gift is a gift that keeps on giving, especially today as a society that lives on FOMO.
So this short and pithy acronym sums up in four letters the part of the human being that chases after absolute control and suffers profound anxiety knowing they will simply never accomplish it.
It's exasperated, and it's encouraged through relentless social media, through Facebook and Instagram and TikTok, as we relentlessly stroll and troll and scroll the lives of others, consciously and unconsciously comparing and measuring our lives to the lives of others, of our kids to the kids of others, of our selfies to the selfies of others.
And while social media doesn't cause narcissism, it certainly can help flip the switch of those tendencies that are latent inside of us, especially those of us who suffer FOMO by nature.
When I was a young girl, I constantly worried that I'd miss something, anything, that would change the tone and the balance of my carefully curated life.
In our family, kids came in for the night when the lights went on on the street.
And I remember, like it was yesterday, sitting in my room fretting over the potential new allegiances that would be formed without me.
So the idea of keeping and guarding the Sabbath is a way of ceasing creation to remember that we are not the creator, of remembering that we have a creator.
And in this twenty four seven, twenty-four-hour-a-day world, this gift is a gift that keeps on giving, especially today as a society that lives on FOMO.
So this short and pithy acronym sums up in four letters the part of the human being that chases after absolute control and suffers profound anxiety knowing they will simply never accomplish it.
It's exasperated, and it's encouraged through relentless social media, through Facebook and Instagram and TikTok, as we relentlessly stroll and troll and scroll the lives of others, consciously and unconsciously comparing and measuring our lives to the lives of others, of our kids to the kids of others, of our selfies to the selfies of others.
And while social media doesn't cause narcissism, it certainly can help flip the switch of those tendencies that are latent inside of us, especially those of us who suffer FOMO by nature.
When I was a young girl, I constantly worried that I'd miss something, anything, that would change the tone and the balance of my carefully curated life.
In our family, kids came in for the night when the lights went on on the street.
And I remember, like it was yesterday, sitting in my room fretting over the potential new allegiances that would be formed without me.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
