Unplugged: Dopamine Dysregulation, Founder Minimalism, and Why You Need to Put Your Phone Down, with founder Hector Hughes

Today on the podcast we are joined by Hector Hughes, the founder and CEO of Unplugged . Unplugged offers you the opportunity to get completely offline - for a few days. They have over 55 offline cabins in nature across the UK and Spain, all close to the major cities. In this episode, we go beyond the polished founder origin story of Unplugged to explore burnout, addiction, shame, and the deeper search for meaning. We unpack how dopamine dysregulation, phone addiction, and suppressed emotions show up in modern life, and why numbing becomes our default. We also explore the power of subtraction, digital detox, spirituality, and emotional honesty as routes back to joy, presence, and a kinder way of being in the world. Unplugged aims to offer a sanctuary away from screens, stress, and scrolling. In just a few years, they’ve helped tens of thousands of people go offline - when staying guests have to literally lock their phones away, and switch off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Unplugged: Dopamine Dysregulation, Founder Minimalism, and Why You Need to Put Your Phone Down, with founder Hector Hughes is an episode from Out of Hours: The Podcast by Georgia Ritter.

This episode is 1:04:27 long.

This episode was published on Feb 20, 2026.

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