You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast.

A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom.

I'm your host, Diana Renee.

And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back. I kind of feel like I hacked the mom

system, and I'm here to share all the tips, tricks, and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show.

Welcome to another episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast this week. We are going to talk about an app that I was recommended by a friend about maybe a month

and a half, two months ago.

And it has been really, really, really helpful for me as far as limiting my social media

and phone use when my kids are home after school. And I've talked about

this quite a few times on this podcast because over the years, I've tried so many different things,

especially working online. Like my job is online. I work remote. I am working from my computer. I am working from my phone

probably 80% of the time that I am working. So it's really easy for me to just get sucked in. And even

before I had my business, it was really easy for me to get sucked in just because I was a stay-at-home

mom and like I was home with my kids

a lot and like yes of course we left the house but it was just me and the kids so much of my day

that like it felt if social media and like texting and all of that felt like a connection

to the outside world that I was missing,

you know, like actually communicating with adults throughout the day. And so it was easy for me then.

So I think different seasons of my life have presented different challenges and have shown me

different ways that I am essentially like addicted to my phone and I think we all are

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