On this episode of the Healthy Family Project Podcast, we’re joined by Jennifer Johnstone Lopez to chat all things tech tips and how we can use apps, platforms, and cool gadgets to make life easier! Jennifer is a wealth of knowledge and shared tons of apps she uses to maximize her limited free time and be super efficient when it comes to things like everyday tasks, meal planning, house chores and more.

One recurring thread in so many of my conversations with friends, colleagues and fellow parents is too many to-dos and not enough time. When you’re juggling a million responsibilities, it’s natural to want to find tools to help but it can be difficult to wade through the crazy amount of options available. We’re here to offer a great foundation for lots of pain points we face in our everyday lives like efficient meal planning, staying on top of tasks, and managing our homes.

Our guest, Jennifer, is the definition of techy and she’s tested tons of apps and different systems to bring us the creme of the crop when it comes to tech tips and apps that make life easier. Plus, she offered some really great insight on digital decluttering. It’s not enough to find the right apps, but also cut down on all the noise by eliminating the ones that aren’t serving you. This cuts down on the app and notification overload.

About Our Guest, Jennifer Johnstone Lopez

Jennifer Johnstone Lopez is a mother of three, Cameron (3), Caroline (2) & Carly (1), and wife to a serial entrepreneur, Ricky. She is also an international award-winning digital marketer, and co-founder and managing partner of Jalapeño Digital, a 7-figure ad agency lovingly deemed her “fourth child.” Jennifer loves to cook, entertain and tell stories. Why I Cried: Tales from Hysterical Pregnant Women is her debut (hilarious) book, though she is credited with many other published works including articles and blogs in her field, as well as poetry dating back to 2002. Much of the proceeds from the book go back to supporting Postpartum Support International (psi.org). In 2022, she is slated to publish the next book in the series called “Why I Laughed: Tales from Talkative Toddlers”

Jennifer’s mission is to help women see the joy in pregnancy & motherhood. To remind them to take time to breathe, laugh at themselves, laugh with their kids and find camaraderie among other moms, encouraging them to build a strong tribe. Also, since she has a background in digital marketing, she is up to speed on a lot of tech that mothers might not even know exists, and loves sharing all about tech resources that simplify motherhood – everything from apps to getting a load of laundry done, to the best resources out there to meal plan and prep.

Listen to Tech Tips & Apps That Make Life Easier

What We Cover:

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  • 2:14 Get to know Jennifer
  • 4:48 What technology have you come to rely on as a parent?
  • 6:27 Task management apps and platform
  • 11:30 Jennifer’s favorite home automation tools and apps
  • 16:10 Self-care app recommendation
  • 18:35 How to cut through the noise & avoid “digital clutter”
  • 26:50 Tips for managing the overload of photos we have on our phones
  • 32:34 Apple Air Tags
  • 39:01 Jennifer’s books
  • 42:56 What does a healthy family mean to you?

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Transcript for Episode 81

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Episode 81: Tech Tips & Apps That Make Life Easier

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Welcome to the Healthy Family Project Podcast covering the hot topics in the world of health,

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food, and family with a dose of fun.

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Welcome to the Healthy Family Project Podcast.

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I’m your host, Amanda.

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We took a quick summer break in July and I had a chance to reconnect with family and

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enjoy a bit of traveling.

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I’m feeling refreshed and ready to kick off what I always consider the new year because

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we’re headed into the back to school mode.

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Great time for a fresh start.

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Don’t forget to join the Healthy Family Project Podcast Facebook page and you can also follow

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We’re on everything out there.

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Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, Facebook, of course.

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And the group is a great spot to continue conversations from the podcast, connect with

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the audience, share information, and many of our guests are also in that group.

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So if you have questions specifically for any of our guests, they are usually willing

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and in attendance to answer your questions.

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Today’s topic is perfect for this time of year, really any time of year, but these tech

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tips that our guest is about to share with us will hopefully lessen your load, lessen

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the load for your family as we move back into full speed ahead with school and activities

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and some pretty useful things that we can implement into our daily lives.

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So today we are talking with Jennifer Johnstone Lopez.

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She is the mother of three and wife to a serial entrepreneur, Ricky.

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I’ve known Jennifer from a previous job many years ago, so I’m grateful to reconnect with

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her today to find out what she’s up to and get some of her insight.

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She is the international award winning digital marketer and a co-founder and managing partner

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of Jalapeno Digital.

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Why I Cried tells from a hysterical pregnant woman is her debut book, though she is credited

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with many other published works.

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Super Cool, a portion of the proceeds from the book go back to supporting postpartum

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support international psi.org and we’ll be linking up to that book and that organization

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in our show notes.

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This year she is slated to publish the next book in the series called Why I Laughed, Tales

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from Talkative Toddlers.

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Jennifer’s mission is to help women see the joy in pregnancy and motherhood, to remind

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them to take time to breathe, laugh at themselves, laugh with their kids and find camaraderie

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among other parents, encouraging them to build a strong tribe.

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Also since she has a background in digital marketing, she is up to speed on all of the

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tech tips.

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I think she’d have to with three kids under three running an agency, writing her books.

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She is up to speed on all of the tech tips that parents might not even know exist.

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And she loves sharing about tech tips, resources and simplifying parenthood.

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Everything from apps to getting a load of laundry done to the best resources out there

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to meal plan and prep.

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So let us jump in and learn all we can.

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We all want to take a little stress out of our lives and hopefully we walk away today

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with being able to do that.

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Welcome to the show, Jennifer.

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I am so glad you’re here today.

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Glad to reconnect.

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But before we jump in on our tech tips for parents, can you tell our listeners a little

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bit about you?

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Sure.

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Thanks so much for having me today.

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To give you a little bit of background, I have three kids.

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They are ages one tomorrow.

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And then I have a two year old and a four year old as well.

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And I am a work from home parent.

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So I run my own business.

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I’m also the author of a book.

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So I am kind of trying to figure out how I can manage it all.

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And tech for me has been a really huge help in my parenting journey.

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Wonderful.

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Well, it sounds like you’re just a little busy, but good busy because you, you know,

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it’s all good.

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We want to know how to be like you.

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So let’s kick it off.

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What are some of the most useful, what’s some of the most useful technology that you’ve

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come to rely on as a parent?

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So I would actually break this down into like a few different categories.

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So for me, I kind of put my technology into different buckets, right?

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So there’s a task management and implementation bucket.

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And that’s all the tools that can like help me get chores done, like grocery delivery,

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mail planning apps, prep, any laundry services.

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There’s even apps where you can have someone come and give you a car wash.

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So all that task management implementation is in one bucket.

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The next is home automation.

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So I’m very big on having an automated home.

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So we use Nest or Ring Doorbell, a robot vac, Alexa.

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There’s so much cool tech for the house that helps everything run smooth.

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And then the last bucket for me is what I call the make it easy tech.

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So these are kind of like the extras.

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They’re not necessarily apps, but there’s things that we do around our house that kind

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of keep our family running smooth.

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For example, we use a timer for many things.

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We’ll do apps that help us meditate and things that just make everything a little bit easier

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on the home front.

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Awesome.

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I like the idea of putting those into those buckets and looking at it that way.

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I feel like when you do that, it kind of with anything in life, creating those buckets is

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definitely makes things easier to kind of tackle and look at where you can need that,

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where you need the help.

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So awesome.

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All right.

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So anything in those, do you want to talk about like in those categories, your favorite

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technology in each, should we go that route you think?

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Yeah, I think that would be great.

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So starting with task management.

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So for me, I’m very like type A. So having like a list of things is very important.

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I agree.

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I have a husband.

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So having lists is really important.

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So historically, I would use an app called Any.do and it was just like a long running

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task list that I would just add to and check stuff off throughout the day.

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It was just a really simple, straightforward app.

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So if you’re new to list, Any.do is a great one.

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Now I have kind of gone full scale with this.

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So in our home now we use what’s called monday.com and it is very cool.

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There’s a free version and there’s all these different boards.

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So you kind of think of it like Pinterest.

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So you can make a board like for us, I have a board, we own two properties.

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So I have a board for each property.

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I have a board for each kid.

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I have all different, all different types of boards.

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I have boards of, you know, shopping and some things I need to buy.

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And what’s cool about monday.com is you create these different boards and tasks under them

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that you can actually invite team members, which is so great.

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So for example, I have a board for each of the cars, but the cars is my husband’s domain.

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So he’s invited as a team member to the car boards and anything on there like oil changes,

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car washes, he just gets alerts and takes care of and I don’t have to bug anybody.

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This would be super ideal like if you have a team who does chores around the house, you

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could assign them a board.

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Yeah, big like shared task management.

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So monday.com is a little bit more complex, but has been really great for us.

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Another thing on the task management side that I love is there’s an app called Plan

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to Eat, which is absolutely amazing.

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Plan to Eat was something that I just didn’t know existed.

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So in our family, we have a lot of like dietary needs.

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My son had an allergy to egg.

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My husband has high cholesterol.

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I’m doing Weight Watchers.

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So when I was coming up with meals, it was like a very hard long process, but I had a

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system.

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It was me laying in bed and finding recipes and pinning them and going to Instacart and

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ordering delivery.

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And it was just a process that was like far too long to do every week.

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But I was kind of like, well, nothing’s broken, but it’s just annoying.

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Then I found Plan to Eat and it is amazing.

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It’s essentially an app and a desktop version.

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It’s an empty database, if you will, and you load it with all your own recipes.

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There’s website scraper tools.

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So you could upload all the recipes from like ProducersKids or from your Pinterest board,

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which is amazing.

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And what you do is you’ll go ahead and they give you a big calendar and you can plan.

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You just click and drag all of the meals that you upload to different days of the week.

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And the part that I love that takes it one step further is once you have that meal plan,

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you can actually do this every Friday.

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I set a timer for 30 minutes and I set up my menu for the following week and you can

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click shop and it actually takes your list, it collects all the ingredients together and

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makes you a shopping list.

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So if one recipe is like a half a cup of flour, one is a full cup of flour, it’ll say, okay,

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you’re going to need a cup and a half of flour.

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Okay.

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So you can get that shopping list for you and then you can actually send that right

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to some grocery delivery services like Instacart, which is amazing.

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So it actually builds a full list for me and Instacart, which I just double check against

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like ingredients I already have.

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I just double check this list quickly and set it up for delivery.

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So that’s part of my routine with task management is every Friday, I just plan a week out and

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I go ahead and get all those deliveries ready so that they come on Monday morning.

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That’s awesome.

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We talk a lot about meal planning and I know it always sounds, it’s one of those things

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where it’s like meal planning is so hard, it takes so much time, but it’s also like

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one of those things in life, like many others, where you put a little bit of work on the

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front end and then your lack of stress and ability to enjoy time with your family and

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everything that is the result of that little bit of work on the front end.

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But this is awesome because anything to make meal planning easier, I think is just great.

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Yeah.

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And there’s so many different resources.

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I mean, this is what works for me because we have such customized meals.

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I upload recipes and I can edit them.

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So anything that has egg, I just replace with yogurt.

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So I can edit all the recipes too before it goes for like delivery.

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But some, I’ve had other parents that I speak with use things like prep dish, sort of, you

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know, more like both, like let’s cook a whole bunch of things at once to have it ready for

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the week.

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So meal planning is tricky because there’s a lot of preferences and time considerations

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that go into it, but Plan To Eat has been a savior for me.

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In terms of home automation, so we do a lot of things.

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We have Nest, we have Ring Doorbell, we use floodlight cameras, but my absolute favorite

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has been two things.

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So our robot vacuum, it’s actually a robot mop.

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So we have a mop and a vacuum.

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I definitely recommend the mop.

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It is surprisingly really good.

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It’s not wet floors everywhere.

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Like I have three kids and no one’s flipping all over the place.

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Like it’s not really dramatic.

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Like you’d think it kind of dries up like as it’s doing a wet mop.

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So I set up that robot mop, mops my house every night.

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I already have it on a schedule.

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It mops the house at 9 p.m. every night.

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And I wake up to like just a slightly cleaner house, which makes me feel so much better.

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That is awesome.

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What is the brand?

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You don’t mind mentioning the brand of your mop?

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It is a Roomba and it’s square.

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So it’s the square one, which is most of these vacuums and mops are circular.

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And this is exciting.

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So maybe square and it gets under the corners and you can set up zones.

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I can have it don’t go and my daughter’s running this time or and you set everything up and

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I just keep it automated to like nightly at 9 p.m.

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And there’s a little bit of upkeep on it.

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You know, you have to put more solution in or, you know, clean the mop pads.

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But other than that, it’s super easy.

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For me, like a clean house is a happy house.

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Yes, I agree.

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Yeah.

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And then my other favorite thing that goes into the home automation is new for us, but

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it is those like automated locks on your doors with like people have them where they’re digital

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or they’re keypads.

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But we have like a very active neighborhood.

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They’re constantly like ringing my doorbell asking for my kids to come hang out.

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I mean, kids are like two and four, but they’re hanging out outside with all of these kids

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and people are going in and out of the house.

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And so for me, having the passcode on the door where the kids like my kids can get into

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the house if they get locked out and the door automatically like locked behind us has been

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really, really helpful.

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I can imagine, you know, if we’re talking about kids going back to school, like for

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any teens, but you know, take the bus or get home before mom and dad, not having to worry

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about whether your kid has their key and they just have a passcode, they can type in to

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get in and out of the house.

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Right.

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So it would just be so awesome for any, you know, parents willing to, you know, invest

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in some home automation.

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And then let’s see.

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Yeah, the last thing in my make it easy bucket.

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I feel like this is really simple, but it’s not an app, but we use it’s a actual like

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physical clock.

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It’s called the time timer.

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You can get it on Amazon.

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It’s perfect for my kids because it’s a really visual clock.

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So you would think of it almost like, you know, there’s like Sam clock that you like

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flip over and this is kind of like that, but it’s actually by minute.

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So it’s an actual clock face and it kind of shows red and how much time you have left

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and it takes down and for kids my age.

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So we’re talking like toddler ages, having a timer for things where they can visually

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see when I say we’re going to do this in five minutes or 10 minutes.

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I don’t know what that means yet.

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So this like helps them understand that.

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So we’ll set a timer for like tons of different things.

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Like if you know, I’m working from home and my son really wants to hang out, I’ll just

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say, Hey, we’re going to do that in 10 minutes and I’ll set the timer and he gets it.

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He’s like, Oh, I see when this clock beeps and all the red is gone.

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That’s when we’re going to do stuff together.

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So making it easy, I think is really great.

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I use that for morning tasks too.

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Like this is when we’re going to leave for school or we’re going to take a bath once

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this timer goes off.

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So the timer has been huge.

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My kids actually really love it.

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But he, sorry again, they’re, you know, a year, two years and four years old.

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My son told me he was going to set me a timer.

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So he said, yeah, I’m going to set you a timer for 25 minutes.

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And I was like, if I can get a 25 minute shower, that would be literally insane for me.

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So I love it.

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Like it’s quick five minute showers at this age.

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So I’m getting them to set you a timer.

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You might get a lot more time than you bargained for.

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So I like that.

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Yes, for sure.

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All right.

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What do you also, we have that we’ll make it easy.

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What about relaxing?

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Do you have like for us parents, like I just, because I just had this conversation, like

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how do I shut it off?

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How do I like let it go at night?

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So I’ll tell you how I do.

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And I probably do this.

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I would say I’m maybe closing on three times a week that I do this, but there is an app.

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It is an app that you pay for.

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They might have a free trial, but it’s called Mama Zen.

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And it is like nightly meditation or music, but you can kind of pick the category so that

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you start, they give you like a little quiz, like the age of your kids.

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And if you’re pregnant, that’s one, like if you’re pregnant or recently postpartum, or

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you know, even if you have kids or in the teens and every night you can pick or it’ll

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recommend a new meditation for you.

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So like for example, one of the meditations I listened to like not long ago was like letting

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go when the house was a mess.

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Like it was just one of those days.

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And it was like a nice meditation right before I went to bed that, you know, there’s, I feel

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like there’s not a lot of things out there that’s like meditation, but specifically in

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your parenting journey.

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They even have a few, it’s called Mama Zen.

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They do have a few tracks for dads too, which is really cool.

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And so it kind of just helps you kind of think about things, you know, from a parenting perspective

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and kind of let go with some of those expectations so that you can have a healthier, happier

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day in the morning, that’s for sure.

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I know I really need to look into that because I think that’s cool.

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Because I, so this kind of will segue into our, my next question for you, but you know,

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you’re like, okay, I need an app so that I can relax.

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And then you go to the search and it’s like, oh my gosh, there’s so many and now I’m stressed

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and now there’s so many.

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And then you like, you know, try one, you’re not sure if you like it.

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And then it’s like, okay, now you have to pay like whatever to continue on.

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And then if you’re me, it’s like, all right, this is too stressful.

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So my next question, technology, it can be overwhelming for a lot of people.

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You know, there’s many that are like, all right, I just need to do all of this old school.

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So how do you suggest managing, I guess, all the things, like I said, I feel like I’m constantly

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downloading something new to help me and then end up not using it and feeling distressed

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that I can’t like find the right thing.

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And then I have all these apps on my phone and just clogging things up.

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So how do I do it?

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Yes, I will tell you, so I actually have a few tips for that.

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So one of the things that I realized with me is like, they’re one of the things that

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I guess stresses me out, like just as a parent of a person is clutter.

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So the more clutter there is, like to me, clutter, I heard someone once say clutter is

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just a bunch of like, unmade decisions, like you just don’t know what to do with it.

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You don’t have to need it.

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You don’t have to keep it.

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And so what I think people downplay is that digital clutter is a real thing too.

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And so I’ll walk through these tips, but I think that we all have so many apps on our

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phone that it comes to like decision overload.

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So before even downloading any new apps to help you simplify your parenting journey,

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my first thing is clear out every app you’re not using first.

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There’s hundreds of apps, I’m sure hundreds, that just need to be deleted.

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Just get rid of stuff because it’ll be decision overload.

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It makes it harder to find the things that you are using.

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So that’s the first thing is clear out anything you’re not using.

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Next apps that you really use or want to use to put them on your home screen on your phone.

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You’ll be able to get to them quicker.

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There’s no searching.

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You don’t forget you have them.

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Another thing that can help with that is enabling notifications.

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So I am very particular about notifications from apps.

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Like I have almost zero notifications.

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In fact, I have almost like my phone only actually rings when it’s my kids school or

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my husband or my mom.

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The only time my phone rings, everyone else is on silent because I don’t like to be disrupted.

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Like I’ll check my phone a million times a day.

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But if I’m in the middle of something, a phone ringing can kind of like pull me out.

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So I would say for apps, really care about enable the notifications that’s going to help

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you see them more often and find that right cadence.

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So some apps will notify you every day.

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You can back that off to like a couple times a week.

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So in regards to finding the right tech for your family, like what apps are out there

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and is this something that’s going to help you?

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The way I started really figuring out the right tech for us was writing out our pain

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points and really asking like, how can you make it easy?

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A huge pain point and our family has been sleep.

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Not only sleep for me, which the mom and dad app like actually really helps with, but sleep

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for my kids.

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So I wrote out as like my kids sleep time is one of the most stressful things, especially

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as we’re getting into like a new school year and you’re going to have to reset like summer

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bedtime or if you have to go to school and wake up early.

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So writing out those pain points kind of helps point me in the right direction.

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Like I need something to help them go to sleep at night.

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So for us, one of the things we use is the Moshi app, tells bedtime stories and soothing

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music for your kids.

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So sometimes we’ll use the app if we’re having a tough time going to sleep and then we’ll

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use an okay to wake clock.

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So for an older kid, maybe it’s just an alarm clock, but for my kids, they would get up

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at like four in the morning and be standing at my bedside.

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So I was like, what are we doing?

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An okay to wake is like, it turns green when you should come out.

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You actually should be awake and kind of helps that like internal clock get back to track.

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So identifying those team points, right?

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It’s going to help you find like what type of tech should you be looking for?

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And then when it goes into that research, I recommend reaching out to any parenting groups,

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mom groups that those groups have helped me really find the tech.

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That’s where I found plan to eat in one of the groups I was in.

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But of course, before downloading anything, definitely check reviews and really look at

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the feature set.

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So like you said, sometimes you’ll download an app and it’s like not exactly what you

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wanted to have everything.

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So like I just avoid all of that by just making sure that I’m really reviewing the features.

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So you know, if for example, if monday.com like didn’t have that teammate feature, that

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would have been a deal breaker for me because I wanted my family to have access to certain

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boards so that they can help me with things.

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I didn’t want to manage an entire home on my own.

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And then the last thing is if you don’t use it within a week or two, just delete it.

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If you find something that even if you think it’s really cool and you’re not and you’re

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not using it, I don’t just keep it on my phone because that helps, you know, kind of enhance

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all of that clutter and all of that decision overload.

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And I think it takes away from the time with the apps that do help make our lives easier.

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Yeah, I agree.

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I just looked down at my phone and as you were talking, and it’s really overwhelming

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because I do have so many apps and I just need to go through and really do inventory.

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Like what am I actually using here?

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Because there’s a lot of it that I’m like, I don’t know, I might have used it here and

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there or, you know, and you can always read download it too.

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You know, so I feel like it’s like deleting sometimes you feel like it’s forever gone.

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But like, you know, if I need it, I can get it back.

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I do.

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And just looking down at my phone too.

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I’m like, oh, I have all of the little red.

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Maybe you have a tip for this.

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All of the notifications.

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I don’t know if they’re called notifications, but so like, for instance, like my YouTube

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app has 201 next to it.

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And I hate that because it makes me feel like 201 things I haven’t like checked in on.

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So I maybe need to go into all those settings and fix something because that makes me feel

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like

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like reverse, you know, I mean, back in the day before like internet was really like on

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our phone, it used to be us reaching for our phone because we needed something.

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And now it’s the phone like pulling us in like the phone being like you’re needed here,

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you’re needed there.

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But like I had to, I mean, it was a couple, a couple months ago, maybe like late last

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year that I really was like hard stop.

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Like I’m in control of when I look at my phone, how often I look at my phone and all of these

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things.

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I mean, that’s why it’s actually hard for people.

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Like if you’re going to call me, you’re likely better to get through the text.

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But like, I, I silence a lot.

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I don’t have a lot of notifications.

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I felt a lot of calls.

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I don’t have all of the notifications that come through unless it’s an app that I really,

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really use.

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But the reason I did that is because you’re always reaching for your phone anyway.

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Like how about a time you’re welcoming that like you’re reaching for your phone.

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You want to go to your YouTube to check your notification.

413

00:25:01,080 –> 00:25:04,720

Like it’s not like you’re going to forget that you have YouTube all of a sudden.

414

00:25:04,720 –> 00:25:05,720

Right.

415

00:25:05,720 –> 00:25:10,280

Maybe you don’t need YouTube, but you know, like it’s, you know, going on Instagram, like

416

00:25:10,280 –> 00:25:14,880

I don’t need all the, I don’t have any notifications come through for Instagram, for Facebook.

417

00:25:14,880 –> 00:25:15,880

Like nothing’s that immediate.

418

00:25:15,880 –> 00:25:19,240

You know, like if you need me, send me a text, right?

419

00:25:19,240 –> 00:25:23,080

Like I’m going to check Instagram probably twice or three times a day without even realizing

420

00:25:23,080 –> 00:25:24,880

it just mindlessly on my phone.

421

00:25:24,880 –> 00:25:26,880

I don’t want it to pull me in.

422

00:25:26,880 –> 00:25:27,880

Right.

423

00:25:27,880 –> 00:25:31,880

So that’s actually a really good tip that you, if you can reverse that where the phone

424

00:25:31,880 –> 00:25:36,040

isn’t pulling you in, you’re the one going like making that conscious choice.

425

00:25:36,040 –> 00:25:42,000

I think overall, that’s just really a great way to kind of set it up and look at it.

426

00:25:42,000 –> 00:25:44,720

All right.

427

00:25:44,720 –> 00:25:49,880

So Oh, before we move on from that, because you know, it’s all about me and solving my

428

00:25:49,880 –> 00:25:50,880

problems.

429

00:25:50,880 –> 00:26:00,360

Photos on your phone as a parent, I feel like we just, I mean, back in the day, actually

430

00:26:00,360 –> 00:26:03,600

I’ve asked my parents, I’m like, why do you have no photos of this?

431

00:26:03,600 –> 00:26:05,280

Like did no one take a picture?

432

00:26:05,280 –> 00:26:07,160

My mom’s like, it’s so different.

433

00:26:07,160 –> 00:26:13,800

You know, we had to develop, go develop our film and pay for our film and pay for the

434

00:26:13,800 –> 00:26:14,800

developing.

435

00:26:14,800 –> 00:26:16,280

And so we were a little more selective.

436

00:26:16,280 –> 00:26:21,720

Like we couldn’t take like 30 photos of your first step or like whatever.

437

00:26:21,720 –> 00:26:25,080

We just, it’s just wasn’t how, how it is.

438

00:26:25,080 –> 00:26:29,840

So now I look at my phone and I won’t even tell you how many, what my photo and video

439

00:26:29,840 –> 00:26:32,800

count is right now.

440

00:26:32,800 –> 00:26:39,240

But I’m like, Oh my gosh, why did I need to take 35 photos of, you know, the whatever

441

00:26:39,240 –> 00:26:43,440

Sarah the honor roll ceremony or whatever it might be.

442

00:26:43,440 –> 00:26:49,240

Do you have any apps or tech that helps like get you on track with getting rid of photos?

443

00:26:49,240 –> 00:26:53,080

So sort of, so sort of.

444

00:26:53,080 –> 00:26:56,040

So one thing I do is I have a backup for all my photos.

445

00:26:56,040 –> 00:26:58,720

So that’s the first thing is I never want to like lose myself.

446

00:26:58,720 –> 00:27:02,960

First of all, I don’t understand the cloud as techie as I am, I don’t get the cloud.

447

00:27:02,960 –> 00:27:07,600

So I mean, if they’re like the iPhone, whatever that is, whatever I like a for all this storage

448

00:27:07,600 –> 00:27:09,840

for, like, I don’t know where they actually are.

449

00:27:09,840 –> 00:27:11,800

I’m actually afraid to plug my phone into my computer.

450

00:27:11,800 –> 00:27:16,560

Because I feel like every time I do that, I lose something right or like my husband’s

451

00:27:16,560 –> 00:27:17,880

contacts merge with mine.

452

00:27:17,880 –> 00:27:19,360

So I don’t understand that cloud.

453

00:27:19,360 –> 00:27:21,560

But what I do have is Google Photos.

454

00:27:21,560 –> 00:27:24,200

So everything I have is backed up with Google Photos.

455

00:27:24,200 –> 00:27:29,880

So anytime I take a photo, it automatically is going to my Google Drive.

456

00:27:29,880 –> 00:27:36,520

And I didn’t really have a great way of organizing this just really the like sense that it did

457

00:27:36,520 –> 00:27:37,520

need to get done.

458

00:27:37,520 –> 00:27:42,360

It did need to get done because now we’re at the age where we’ve already taken all these

459

00:27:42,360 –> 00:27:46,000

billions of pictures of our kids, you know, and what are we going to do about it now?

460

00:27:46,000 –> 00:27:49,040

So I kind of just threw them all into Google Drive.

461

00:27:49,040 –> 00:27:55,000

And one sort of techie thing I have to have a virtual assistant and you can find someone

462

00:27:55,000 –> 00:27:57,160

of course that can do this on Upwork or Fiverr.

463

00:27:57,160 –> 00:28:01,720

But I had a virtual assistant go through and actually organize so she kind of hit all the

464

00:28:01,720 –> 00:28:07,640

big things like you know, baby shower for kids one, two and three, all of the gender

465

00:28:07,640 –> 00:28:09,640

reveal parties, birthdays.

466

00:28:09,640 –> 00:28:13,720

And so she organized those things just with like a simple it started with just like a

467

00:28:13,720 –> 00:28:16,440

list of me giving her like, these are all the kids birthdays.

468

00:28:16,440 –> 00:28:21,320

So she was really like easily able to spot, you know, by date, like, okay, all of these

469

00:28:21,320 –> 00:28:22,320

are clearly birthday photos.

470

00:28:22,320 –> 00:28:26,080

So she organized all of the big like moments for me.

471

00:28:26,080 –> 00:28:30,520

There’s so many like little, you know, moments that the great things that happen aren’t always,

472

00:28:30,520 –> 00:28:32,480

you know, on a set day in time.

473

00:28:32,480 –> 00:28:35,200

So, you know, there’s still time to go through.

474

00:28:35,200 –> 00:28:37,200

But it did make me feel really organized.

475

00:28:37,200 –> 00:28:43,720

Well, and I was going to say, we just talked about this before we started recording like

476

00:28:43,720 –> 00:28:49,800

the Fiverr’s and the what you say, is it Upwork or like some of those other sites?

477

00:28:49,800 –> 00:28:56,200

Yeah, where you are able to get assistance.

478

00:28:56,200 –> 00:28:59,280

And it’s oftentimes very affordable.

479

00:28:59,280 –> 00:29:04,080

I mean, most of the time, I find it to be very affordable to just have someone I know,

480

00:29:04,080 –> 00:29:06,400

even on Fiverr.

481

00:29:06,400 –> 00:29:13,800

I think you can send like, I don’t know, like the dimensions or kind of a photo of space

482

00:29:13,800 –> 00:29:16,240

in your home, like a room or something.

483

00:29:16,240 –> 00:29:22,960

And then they will come back to you with like, photoshopped like idea of what you could do

484

00:29:22,960 –> 00:29:25,720

with that space, just to like give you an idea.

485

00:29:25,720 –> 00:29:29,360

Like I feel like Fiverr, there’s a person on there for everything.

486

00:29:29,360 –> 00:29:34,160

And I think organizing into those, again, back to the buckets, right?

487

00:29:34,160 –> 00:29:42,680

So organizing your photos by like those events as much as you can, I can imagine that then

488

00:29:42,680 –> 00:29:47,680

at that point, it would be easier for you to say, you know what, once a week, I’m going

489

00:29:47,680 –> 00:29:54,100

to go into one of those buckets and clean it out, like just get rid of like if there’s

490

00:29:54,100 –> 00:29:56,080

duplicates or if there’s whatever.

491

00:29:56,080 –> 00:30:01,440

But I think when you’re looking at like your photos as like this huge mountain of just

492

00:30:01,440 –> 00:30:06,080

like stuff from years and years, it’s a little more daunting.

493

00:30:06,080 –> 00:30:11,640

Yeah, I know one thing I mean, I hope that I didn’t do all of this in vain.

494

00:30:11,640 –> 00:30:19,880

But one thing that I also did when it comes to photos is I had heard before my first pregnancy

495

00:30:19,880 –> 00:30:22,920

that people set up email addresses for their kids.

496

00:30:22,920 –> 00:30:26,520

And so that was something I kind of filed away in the back of my mind.

497

00:30:26,520 –> 00:30:29,360

And I actually did do that when every kid was born.

498

00:30:29,360 –> 00:30:33,000

I mean, my third one had an email address before she even got here, like we were ready.

499

00:30:33,000 –> 00:30:36,080

But so I have email addresses for each of the kids.

500

00:30:36,080 –> 00:30:40,800

And occasionally I’ll send just like sweet little notes or funny things they said, you

501

00:30:40,800 –> 00:30:43,160

know, when you’re sitting there, like just scrolling through your phone, I’m like, this

502

00:30:43,160 –> 00:30:47,240

could be like a really special moment for my kid, you know, later in life.

503

00:30:47,240 –> 00:30:52,000

So my plan is to give them all access to their email addresses, like when they’re 18, and

504

00:30:52,000 –> 00:30:55,240

they’ll just have tons of photos, no, they’re kind of like the little moments.

505

00:30:55,240 –> 00:31:00,080

I mean, I know I’ve gotten written them short emails, like on really hard days, or just

506

00:31:00,080 –> 00:31:05,240

like funny things that wouldn’t have fell into, you know, a bucket or a folder on Google

507

00:31:05,240 –> 00:31:06,240

Drive.

508

00:31:06,240 –> 00:31:10,640

So that’s one, that’s one thing that I’m hoping like I said, I hope it’s not all in vain,

509

00:31:10,640 –> 00:31:15,400

like hopefully emails still exist.

510

00:31:15,400 –> 00:31:19,440

Like I laugh because I’ll use emojis when I talk to them too on their email.

511

00:31:19,440 –> 00:31:23,480

And like emojis like probably won’t even be able to like be understood by them, like they

512

00:31:23,480 –> 00:31:25,320

probably won’t even be read.

513

00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:29,680

But it’s one thing that you know, even if not for my kids later, it helps me feel like

514

00:31:29,680 –> 00:31:32,520

I’m kind of like connecting with future them if you will.

515

00:31:32,520 –> 00:31:34,280

Yeah, I like that.

516

00:31:34,280 –> 00:31:37,080

That’s a that’s a really cool idea.

517

00:31:37,080 –> 00:31:40,240

Because there’s so many things you think you will remember.

518

00:31:40,240 –> 00:31:44,800

And then down the road, they just kind of get, you know, kind of bogged in and all the

519

00:31:44,800 –> 00:31:47,960

craziness and just the busyness going on.

520

00:31:47,960 –> 00:31:50,320

So I love that idea.

521

00:31:50,320 –> 00:31:55,680

Okay, so I know in our Facebook group, which if you haven’t joined it, it’s healthy family

522

00:31:55,680 –> 00:31:57,000

project on Facebook.

523

00:31:57,000 –> 00:31:59,120

So go over and and get in there.

524

00:31:59,120 –> 00:32:07,000

But on our Facebook group, some of the parents were talking about apps to help monitor your

525

00:32:07,000 –> 00:32:08,000

kids online.

526

00:32:08,000 –> 00:32:12,600

We do have a full I think two full episodes, which we’ll link to in the show notes.

527

00:32:12,600 –> 00:32:17,760

So if anyone wants to go back and listen to those kind of monitoring the online activities

528

00:32:17,760 –> 00:32:22,220

in the apps, I don’t want to get too far down the road since we do already have a couple

529

00:32:22,220 –> 00:32:23,220

episodes on it.

530

00:32:23,220 –> 00:32:25,480

But I know what the question did pop up.

531

00:32:25,480 –> 00:32:27,840

So I know your kids are younger.

532

00:32:27,840 –> 00:32:29,520

But what are you thinking?

533

00:32:29,520 –> 00:32:34,520

You have one or two that you know of that you might recommend.

534

00:32:34,520 –> 00:32:35,520

So you’re right.

535

00:32:35,520 –> 00:32:40,240

So my kids are so young now that you know, when I give them they both they both use iPads,

536

00:32:40,240 –> 00:32:44,400

I control every app that goes on their iPad and they have pretty limited screen time right

537

00:32:44,400 –> 00:32:48,840

now so I don’t really have an asset monitors their online activities exactly.

538

00:32:48,840 –> 00:32:54,400

But I do something a little bit different kind of in regards to monitoring is monitoring

539

00:32:54,400 –> 00:32:55,880

their physical beings.

540

00:32:55,880 –> 00:33:02,200

So I send my kids to daycare during the day and all of my kids I bought on Amazon a four

541

00:33:02,200 –> 00:33:05,040

pack of Apple AirTags.

542

00:33:05,040 –> 00:33:11,400

And so you get the Apple AirTags and you can get like little kids watch holders for them.

543

00:33:11,400 –> 00:33:15,960

And so all my kids actually like are being physically tracked throughout the day while

544

00:33:15,960 –> 00:33:18,120

they’re in school and daycare.

545

00:33:18,120 –> 00:33:21,800

It’ll let me know if they kind of stray too far from the location like I mean, guys are

546

00:33:21,800 –> 00:33:23,400

dead something ever happened.

547

00:33:23,400 –> 00:33:27,240

But you know, if a kid walks through a door, they’re not supposed to and gets out of their

548

00:33:27,240 –> 00:33:30,920

school for some reason like there will be an alert on my phone probably before someone

549

00:33:30,920 –> 00:33:34,720

would even realize that you know, one of them escaped.

550

00:33:34,720 –> 00:33:40,440

It’s great for going out to so with an iPhone like I can find everything inside my iPhone

551

00:33:40,440 –> 00:33:42,520

and I set up my own alert.

552

00:33:42,520 –> 00:33:47,320

But I took the kids not long ago down to the Children’s Museum down here.

553

00:33:47,320 –> 00:33:50,920

And it’s the Children’s Museum, there were kids everywhere and like they were just so

554

00:33:50,920 –> 00:33:54,880

excited they were like running all over the place and I had like a lot of trouble like

555

00:33:54,880 –> 00:33:59,760

overwhelmed making sure that like I had all three of them with me at all times.

556

00:33:59,760 –> 00:34:04,120

My son, and so this is something that I did ask about it.

557

00:34:04,120 –> 00:34:08,120

It just made me feel a little bit better knowing that I’m going to get an alert if they’re

558

00:34:08,120 –> 00:34:13,080

too far away from me if one of them runs and I just God forbid don’t see it.

559

00:34:13,080 –> 00:34:16,880

And you know, they’re too far away to where they’re like, you know, outside the museum

560

00:34:16,880 –> 00:34:18,360

or it’s going to alert me.

561

00:34:18,360 –> 00:34:23,280

So at this age, I mean, I hate that it you know, comes back but like at this age, like

562

00:34:23,280 –> 00:34:27,080

I’m monitoring their like physical being not just what they’re you know, what they’re doing

563

00:34:27,080 –> 00:34:30,960

online and after that, which you know, I’m sure they get older.

564

00:34:30,960 –> 00:34:38,320

Yeah, I like that idea and I just had like a flashback to me at like, I think it was

565

00:34:38,320 –> 00:34:41,720

called like monkey joes or something like that one of those train I guess it’s like

566

00:34:41,720 –> 00:34:47,560

a tramp maybe a trampoline place that was just like a Saturday and you couldn’t move

567

00:34:47,560 –> 00:34:51,720

because there were just kids like flipping and flying and running around everywhere.

568

00:34:51,720 –> 00:34:56,640

And I feel like that air tag would have been key because then you’re as a parent you’re

569

00:34:56,640 –> 00:35:01,800

just like running around from apparatus to apparatus like what where are they?

570

00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:03,080

Okay, were they over here?

571

00:35:03,080 –> 00:35:04,080

They were there.

572

00:35:04,080 –> 00:35:08,960

So I feel like in those instances, like you said in the museum, it’s like, okay, I have

573

00:35:08,960 –> 00:35:09,960

it I’m watching them.

574

00:35:09,960 –> 00:35:14,760

You know, I mean, yeah, well, that’s the thing, you know, it’s definitely nothing’s gonna

575

00:35:14,760 –> 00:35:18,480

you know, of course, substitute you, you know, applying and engaging and being part of that

576

00:35:18,480 –> 00:35:19,480

time while you’re there.

577

00:35:19,480 –> 00:35:25,200

But at the same time, I mean, scary things happen and being able to be able to find them

578

00:35:25,200 –> 00:35:29,520

on the phone to know if they go too far away from something it even tells me I leave them

579

00:35:29,520 –> 00:35:34,160

at school at daycare every day my phone dings to be to tell me that I left them behind.

580

00:35:34,160 –> 00:35:38,840

Which I think I did that on purpose, you can set up notifications, I got to fix that.

581

00:35:38,840 –> 00:35:41,560

So it doesn’t keep telling me that.

582

00:35:41,560 –> 00:35:43,120

But you never you never know.

583

00:35:43,120 –> 00:35:45,440

And so you know, at this age, like safety is important.

584

00:35:45,440 –> 00:35:47,480

And my kids do they both understand it.

585

00:35:47,480 –> 00:35:50,160

Like we say we’ll play hide and seek with it in the house.

586

00:35:50,160 –> 00:35:52,760

They love that they love like, okay, come find me now.

587

00:35:52,760 –> 00:35:55,480

I know, pull up the app.

588

00:35:55,480 –> 00:35:57,440

So they think it’s really cool how it works.

589

00:35:57,440 –> 00:36:00,280

But they know like, this is their tracker watch.

590

00:36:00,280 –> 00:36:03,480

And like, they know that they need to wear it so that I can always find them.

591

00:36:03,480 –> 00:36:09,960

Well, and I will say I love that idea and having older kids I use I know a lot of people

592

00:36:09,960 –> 00:36:13,240

with iPhones do like the share location.

593

00:36:13,240 –> 00:36:19,840

But both of my girls have their own phones and they I use life 360, which I think a lot

594

00:36:19,840 –> 00:36:23,480

of parents use.

595

00:36:23,480 –> 00:36:29,880

And it’s really cool because they can see my physical location, you know, so if I’m,

596

00:36:29,880 –> 00:36:34,280

you know, in the middle of a work call, or I’m recording a podcast or something like

597

00:36:34,280 –> 00:36:36,120

they can look on life 360.

598

00:36:36,120 –> 00:36:40,480

Why isn’t mom answering the phone, you know, and they can look on and see that I’m like

599

00:36:40,480 –> 00:36:45,760

at the office or where I’m at and just kind of recognize, you know, okay, I need to just

600

00:36:45,760 –> 00:36:47,320

like give her a second.

601

00:36:47,320 –> 00:36:52,440

But I can like watch them to which sounds super stalker.

602

00:36:52,440 –> 00:36:57,480

But you know, I don’t have to constantly say like, Hey, where are you now?

603

00:36:57,480 –> 00:36:58,480

Hey, where are you now?

604

00:36:58,480 –> 00:37:04,360

I just kind of log in and I was joking with my oldest she was at the beach with friends

605

00:37:04,360 –> 00:37:06,160

a couple weeks ago.

606

00:37:06,160 –> 00:37:11,480

And it actually showed like movement from like the sand like into the over into the

607

00:37:11,480 –> 00:37:16,040

water and I was like, Oh, how’s the water and she was like, you are so scary.

608

00:37:16,040 –> 00:37:22,080

Right, a little bit creepy, you know, and you know, the age I have, I feel like they’re,

609

00:37:22,080 –> 00:37:28,560

you know, they’re not at the, oh, that’s my privacy, you know, all of these things, but

610

00:37:28,560 –> 00:37:30,160

knowing where they are so important.

611

00:37:30,160 –> 00:37:33,400

One thing that I will say is obviously they don’t have phones, but I like that the air

612

00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:38,160

pads I mean, you can put on a purse, you know, anything were to happen, but I feel like a

613

00:37:38,160 –> 00:37:44,360

lot of phones are the first thing they, you know, get taken away or, you know, the phone

614

00:37:44,360 –> 00:37:49,360

having the only security there makes me really nervous because if they forget a phone or

615

00:37:49,360 –> 00:37:55,000

walk away or left it at the beach, like these are really cool in that they, you know, you

616

00:37:55,000 –> 00:37:58,720

can put them, you can put them in a purse, you can put them in their pocket anywhere.

617

00:37:58,720 –> 00:38:01,480

Yeah, I like it.

618

00:38:01,480 –> 00:38:03,200

I wasn’t completely familiar with them.

619

00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:06,000

So now I feel like I got the download from you.

620

00:38:06,000 –> 00:38:08,400

So thank you for that.

621

00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:12,000

So I would definitely have to look more into it because maybe I’ll be putting those on

622

00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:16,400

like the lanyards.

623

00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:19,400

A little more stealth with your monitor.

624

00:38:19,400 –> 00:38:20,400

Yeah.

625

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So, okay.

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So I know we could talk forever tech tips and we’ll definitely have you back on as we,

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you know, as new things come out and we get down the road here.

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I know every day there’s something new technology.

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So keep us in the loop.

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If something there’s something we need to know about, we’ll definitely need to get you

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back on the show.

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But okay.

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00:38:40,360 –> 00:38:43,600

So we talked about all these tech tips today, but we have to talk, we have to hear a bit

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about your books.

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So fill us in.

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We are going to have a little bit of a giveaway on Instagram in July.

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So if you’re listening to this episode, you’re going to need to check the Healthy Family

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Project Instagram for that.

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00:38:58,300 –> 00:39:02,400

So yeah, tell us about your books or books, I should say.

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Yeah.

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00:39:03,400 –> 00:39:10,280

So my first book, so I came up with my first book when I was pregnant with my first child.

642

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My first son.

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So I had had two miscarriages before my healthy pregnancy.

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So at that time, like when I was going through all the pregnancy fields, it was like a really

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exciting time for me because you know, my last two had ended in miscarriage.

646

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So like every piece of the pregnancy was like so important for me.

647

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And so I began writing a book, which is a debut book and it’s called Why I Cry Tales

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from Pisterical Pregnant Women.

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So it’s a compilation of like various hormone driven short stories of moms and navigating

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pregnancy.

651

00:39:42,160 –> 00:39:44,160

It showcases a ton of different moms.

652

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There’s a bunch of different moms and their stories included in the book.

653

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It all walks a life.

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So there’s like single moms, married moms, young moms, there’s military moms in there

655

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and kind of like just showing that common thread of you know, laughing till they cried

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during pregnancy.

657

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The book is sold on Amazon, online at Target, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble.

658

00:40:06,040 –> 00:40:11,160

And we also, it’s a really cool thing where we carry it in pregnancy gift box sets.

659

00:40:11,160 –> 00:40:13,120

So a lot of great pregnancy boxes.

660

00:40:13,120 –> 00:40:16,000

I don’t know if you need to get a gift for anyone, are on Etsy.

661

00:40:16,000 –> 00:40:20,720

And so yeah, these are really cool, big beautiful pregnancy boxes, kind of like bump boxes,

662

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would be like a more traditional one.

663

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But on Etsy, there’s these wonderful like homemade ones, a lot of times by moms, so

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it helps support them too.

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And the book has been included in a lot of those gift boxes.

666

00:40:30,600 –> 00:40:34,720

But the whole book, it was just really an incredible effort.

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00:40:34,720 –> 00:40:36,640

Like it was by moms and for moms.

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I mean, every writer was a mom, obviously, for the content, but the cover artist was

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a single mom.

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00:40:42,920 –> 00:40:47,040

The proofreader is actually mom to seven kids.

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She has a state of her own and or adopted.

672

00:40:51,040 –> 00:40:56,920

So really every every piece of the book was like a nice heavy lift by all of my mom friends.

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00:40:56,920 –> 00:41:01,680

And then, you know, we made it so that a portion of the proceeds go to postpartum support international

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too, which is, you know, an organization that I’m really passionate about.

675

00:41:06,880 –> 00:41:08,360

And so we’re hoping to do it again.

676

00:41:08,360 –> 00:41:10,680

So we have a follow up book that we’re working on now.

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00:41:10,680 –> 00:41:14,600

And it’s called Why I Laugh Tales from Talkative Toddlers.

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00:41:14,600 –> 00:41:20,280

So we’re pretty far into getting that written and we’re hoping that that’ll come out late

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2022.

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00:41:21,280 –> 00:41:22,280

Wonderful.

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00:41:22,280 –> 00:41:25,560

Well, yes, go check those books out.

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00:41:25,560 –> 00:41:29,720

Definitely look and look out for the giveaway.

683

00:41:29,720 –> 00:41:30,920

These are so important.

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00:41:30,920 –> 00:41:35,360

I feel like like just I mean, that’s awesome.

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All of caregivers, you know, whoever you might be.

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00:41:38,000 –> 00:41:43,680

But I feel like showcasing the common thread, like you said, that we’re all kind of in the

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same circus, if you will.

688

00:41:46,240 –> 00:41:47,240

Yeah, together.

689

00:41:47,240 –> 00:41:48,240

Yeah.

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00:41:48,240 –> 00:41:51,360

And it makes you feel like you’re not alone.

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00:41:51,360 –> 00:41:57,640

I mean, I haven’t dove into the book, but I can only imagine at every stage you feel

692

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like, oh, my gosh, what am I doing wrong?

693

00:42:00,160 –> 00:42:05,020

Even in those pre, you know, even before your baby even arrives, I feel like inherently

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you’re already like, ah, I’m feeling like crazy.

695

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And so this is awesome.

696

00:42:11,700 –> 00:42:16,840

And then I can’t wait to to look at the Tales from Talkative Toddlers because I have kind

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00:42:16,840 –> 00:42:22,560

of like a little quote book that I wrote down some of the things that my kids said, and

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00:42:22,560 –> 00:42:24,600

I’ll read them to them sometimes.

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00:42:24,600 –> 00:42:27,960

And they’re just like, oh, my gosh, that is the funniest thing.

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00:42:27,960 –> 00:42:33,040

And I’m so glad that I jotted them down because another thing that I just when I read back

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on them, I’m like, I totally wouldn’t have remembered this.

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So good that I wrote it down.

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00:42:37,240 –> 00:42:40,760

That’s, you know, that’s how most of our stories are being developed.

704

00:42:40,760 –> 00:42:43,960

It’s all just the notes we took, you know, over time.

705

00:42:43,960 –> 00:42:44,960

Yeah.

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00:42:44,960 –> 00:42:45,960

All right.

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00:42:45,960 –> 00:42:51,400

So before we close out, I’ve been asking all of our guests on the podcast the same question.

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There’s really no right or wrong answer.

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00:42:52,800 –> 00:42:54,360

It’s just fun to hear what everyone thinks.

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00:42:54,360 –> 00:42:57,840

What do you think being a healthy family means?

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So a healthy family for me, I think, starts with trust.

712

00:43:03,760 –> 00:43:06,760

The trust is really big in our family.

713

00:43:06,760 –> 00:43:09,800

Every important thing I can think of leads back to trust.

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00:43:09,800 –> 00:43:13,480

So if you want open communication with your kids, you need trust.

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00:43:13,480 –> 00:43:16,400

If you want a healthy eater, you need a kid that trusts you.

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00:43:16,400 –> 00:43:19,400

It’s going to let you kind of take them through new foods.

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00:43:19,400 –> 00:43:22,480

If you want your kids to go outside and experience life, you need trust.

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00:43:22,480 –> 00:43:26,280

I know, you know, and we’re also we’re saying you need trust, but we’re also saying here’s

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a thousand ways you can track your kids.

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00:43:28,160 –> 00:43:34,400

But I guess I’m just other people around my kids, but I definitely trust my kids.

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00:43:34,400 –> 00:43:39,080

But giving your kids that trust and instilling in them like how much they can trust you,

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00:43:39,080 –> 00:43:44,280

I just think that’s a huge foundation to a healthy family and healthy family relationship.

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00:43:44,280 –> 00:43:48,000

I think trust will get you very, very far.

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00:43:48,000 –> 00:43:51,880

Yes, I agree with you.

725

00:43:51,880 –> 00:43:56,800

Just thinking of you saying all things lead back to trust.

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00:43:56,800 –> 00:44:02,320

And it’s so great that that’s the foundation that, you know, you’re looking at, even though,

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00:44:02,320 –> 00:44:09,000

you know, your kids are younger ages, because I can definitely vouch as they get older.

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00:44:09,000 –> 00:44:15,240

That trust becomes and especially with the open communication, you know, to have that

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00:44:15,240 –> 00:44:20,880

and really understand and not be caught off guard, you know, and be able to trust each

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00:44:20,880 –> 00:44:26,400

other, be able to not just the kid, you know, child or teen or whatever coming to you and

731

00:44:26,400 –> 00:44:27,800

being able to share with you.

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00:44:27,800 –> 00:44:34,320

But for as adults, for us to be able to trust saying, I’m going through a difficult time

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and I’m going to, you know, being able to express ourselves and not feel like, you know,

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00:44:40,600 –> 00:44:44,440

you know, however, maybe back in the day, it was like the parent needs to be like, you

735

00:44:44,440 –> 00:44:45,440

know, whatever.

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00:44:45,440 –> 00:44:51,240

But being able to talk openly about your feelings and what you might be going through.

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00:44:51,240 –> 00:44:52,640

So I love that.

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00:44:52,640 –> 00:44:56,040

Thank you for sharing the trust is key.

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00:44:56,040 –> 00:45:00,320

Well, and again, I guess we’re going to close out here.

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00:45:00,320 –> 00:45:05,180

But thank you so much for joining us today, sharing lots of great tips and ideas.

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00:45:05,180 –> 00:45:09,320

So before we close out, can you tell listeners where they can connect with you?

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00:45:09,320 –> 00:45:15,800

You can find me online at yibooks.com and on Instagram at yibooks.

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00:45:15,800 –> 00:45:16,800

Awesome.

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00:45:16,800 –> 00:45:19,280

Thank you for joining us today.

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00:45:19,280 –> 00:45:23,400

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00:45:23,400 –> 00:45:24,400

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00:45:29,360 –> 00:45:34,280

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00:45:34,280 –> 00:45:41,560

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everyone in there sharing all kinds of goodness.

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00:45:43,940 –> 00:45:45,840

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00:45:49,280 –> 00:45:54,840

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00:45:56,920 –> 00:45:57,920

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00:45:57,920 –> 00:45:58,920

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Bye.