You're listening to 3 in 30 takeaways for moms episode 139.

How to find a happy balance with social media.

Welcome to 3 in 30, a podcast for moms who want to create more meaning in motherhood.

Each 30-minute episode will feature three doable takeaways for you to try at home

with your family this week. I'm your host Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here.

Hello my friends and happy Monday. I'm so excited to bring you this week's episode,

which is a topic that I think many of us spend a lot of time thinking about as mothers.

Are we spending too much time on our phones? Are we using our phones to numb out when we're having

uncomfortable emotions? And what are we modeling for our kids? Particularly after starting 3 in 30,

I found that my social media use was getting out of control and it was easy for me to justify it

as quote necessary for my business. But deep down I knew that was an excuse. And I also knew that

if I was going to use this podcast to encourage mothers to be intentional and present with their

families, then I needed to be doing my best to also live that way in my day-to-day life.

So over the past several years I've experimented with some concrete strategies to help me balance

my social media use with being present in my motherhood. And although I'm far from perfect at

this, it has helped me a lot and I hope that the three tools presented in today's episode

will help you as well. This episode is actually the audio recording of a class that I taught back

in February for a free online conference for moms called the I Am Mom Summit. Their mission is to

motivate, inspire and help you crush being a mom and they always put together an incredible line-up

of speakers and education on a wide variety of motherhood topics. Though this conference is usually

only available for free for a couple of weeks each year. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,

the founder of I Am Mom Summit, Jamie Taylor, decided to make all of the recordings from the past

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