All kids are going to use technology as adults. The jobs they may have as teenagers

will require them to use technology. So as parents now we have this added

responsibility of helping them to use technology

with discipline and responsibly.

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Today I welcome Bill Brady who is co-founder and CEO of Trumi Wireless, which is a mobile phone platform designed to

improve kids mental health through a safe and balanced relationship with

technology and this is something really important in this day and age.

We are talking about balancing the benefits and concerns of kids and phones.

Thank you so much for joining me today, Bill.

Oh, thank you, Dr Monaa great to be with you. Yeah and so

tell us more about yourself and what brought you to found Trumi Wireless. Well first and foremost, I'd say the most important job I have is I'm a dad to five kids.

So like, you know, all of your listeners, I'm in the thick of dealing with all of these

questions and issues around kids and technology just like they are and our

oldest is 19 years old.

So she's on the entering adulthood phase.

But we still have a seven-year-old and then a bunch of kids in between.

So my wife and I, we've been married 23 years and I think we've always been pretty sensitive or cautious or just aware about technology and we've tried to be pretty intentional about

what we allowed into our house and what we didn't and what was the right time frame

for introducing technology to kids and through my career as a marketer

I spent two decades owning marketing agencies but got to a point where this was a problem that needed to be tackled and I got into this space of

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