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You and your husband both did it. I would love to hear about the connection with him and the connection with your kids kind of before and after SHIFT.

As far as my husband and I, honestly, being able to use it together has created a lot of great conversations around our screen use.

We've been married almost eight years. Around year seven, I would say we were in a rut of just being on our phones a lot.

We got SHIFT over the new year and we were very much determined, like this has to change.

We've both had full days where we've actually shifted our phone all day together.

Even just our evenings together after the kids go to bed, most of them have turned into little unique date nights because we're not just scrolling or turning to a show or turning to an easy on the phone.

For sure, we've had just better quality of time together.

I have searched and searched for the right app for me to block all these distracting apps and essentially get my life back together.

Beginning to lose hope in my search until I stumbled upon SHIFT.

SHIFT blocks all of the bad apps and keeps all the good apps that make your phone a tool instead of a time consuming life waste.

I kid you not, my screen time went from five to six hours a day easily down to one hour, 30 minutes, two hours a day.

SHIFT has really helped me get my life back together.

This helped me get my time back, stop being distracted by all the useless stuff that we see on social media.

Changed my life, it could change yours too.

Before SHIFT, I tried getting a dumb phone. I have several dumb phones in the drawer next to me here.

I tried using different apps and blockers and things like that just to reclaim my time. Ultimately, it just wasn't working for me.

SHIFT has been awesome because I've been able to cut my screen time down to just about under 30 minutes a day.

It's only the useful tools I need to get my job done day in and day out.

And I've noticed I've been leaving my phone in a shelf in other places throughout the day because it's just not something I remember to pick up.

It's not like a core part of who I am anymore like smartphones have been for everyone over the last decade.

I can't recommend SHIFT enough. It's awesome.

I was a little bit skeptical at first because I've used almost all of these app blocker apps and most of them don't really work.

It's just way too easy to uninstall or disable.

Once you've shifted your phone, it's literally impossible to get around.

And the great thing is that it's ridiculously easy to use as well, because it's literally just one button.

You just click a button and all the noisy, distracting apps that are wasting your time just disappear.

And it feels very liberating to be honest. I feel like this is what technology should be: useful.

Now, I paid $99. I think it's amazing value because I got it for life.

If you're like me and you're struggling with being distracted or being unproductive and constantly looking at your phone, then I think SHIFT is definitely a no brainer.

Do you remember what your screen time was before you tried SHIFT?

My screen time was crazy. It was like seven, eight hours in the worst days.

I can say I was reading an article for work, I was doing this for work, but let's be honest.

It was five minutes of this video, then answering WhatsApp, then I jump a little bit into Instagram, then I'm doomscrolling.

Now we're talking about three and a half hours.

Those four and a half-ish hours that you've gotten back since you started shifting, where have you found them reallocated to in your own life?

Good question. I'm trying to go back to more contemplation, more walking, being outside, reading outside.

It's kind of crazy, life after smartphone. You need to relearn how to read, how to spend time on an article.

I love to run. I go for long runs, and sometimes I was afraid not to run with my phone because I would be like, "Oh my gosh, I'm going to be out for one and a half, two hours. What am I going to do?"

Right now it is just going out running and listening to whatever is happening around me. Birds, the lake, the wind.

It gives you the chance. It gives the chance to your mind and your spirit to go places that you cannot go if your attention is taken all the time.

Was this worth your investment? Oh, 100%. Yes.

SHIFT presented to me like the thing I was waiting for.

I have six daughters. My third daughter, she's the first one we've ever allowed to have social media because there was never a way to control it.

But with SHIFT, she gets social media from six to eight in the evenings in my living room.

The rest of the time her phone is shifted. It's not even an option.

I mean, I've tried everything. I've given Covenant Eyes I don't even know how much money, because I really like what they're doing, but it's just not that effective.

But yeah, it's allowed so much additional freedom for me as a parent because, as far as I've seen, you can't crack it.

I can't just say my kids aren't going to have cell phones because unless you live in like an Amish community, that turns your kid into a stinking pariah.

In order for your child to have friends, this is how kids communicate now.

So it's just nice being able to really put some strict controls on it and then even change the controls day to day.

Like, "Oh yeah, I'll fix that for this weekend because this is what we're doing." That's really nice.

Has your daughter found a way around SHIFT? No.

What was your screen time prior to SHIFT? Ooh, it was about eight hours.

I do work on my phone as well, but I would say more than half of that is just scrolling anyways.

It dropped to like half overnight, literally.

I'd say one of the biggest things that I like about the app is the schedule length.

I am chronically online as soon as I wake up. It's the first thing I go to.

So I purposely schedule a block from 6 AM to I think it's like 9 AM, so I don't start my day in that bad habit.

Another cool thing is I use AI a lot, so Claude or ChatGPT. A lot of times it takes a minute or two to respond, and I would constantly check my phone in between.

So when I catch myself this time, I go straight into SHIFT and I'll hit a 60-minute block or 90-minute block.

It doesn't take the trigger away because the trigger will still happen, but it'll take the scrolling away.

Would you recommend this to other people, and has it been worth your money? Yeah, I definitely would say it's been worth my money.

In the amount of hours it's saved, the math is there, but what you can't quantify is the marriage, being there for spouse, and not scrolling straight on your phone.

It's just the mental health that comes with that. The cognitive benefits.

I've been on it for three weeks or so. Two days and 23 hours, it saved me. So that's time I now have that I wouldn't have.

Do you remember what your screen time was before you tried SHIFT? I mean, I could take a shot. It's gotta be above five hours.

Let me look today. It's one hour and 13 minutes today. One hour and 13 minutes because you guys got my life back.

Consistently, I would say that I'm gonna do things, commit to certain times, being with people, praying more.

And then I'm just in my bed, scrolling an hour past when I should be up.

When I took that out, I ended up being so much better about my promises. Things I said I was gonna get done.

I have two friends. I sent Jessie and Sam and they kind of blew it off. And they both done it. They've done REHABs, jumped right into the REHABs as well.

They were like singing its praises to me. They were like, wow, this is awesome. I wish I found this earlier.

I spent 30 days with absolutely no social media on my phone, no Instagram, no X, no scrolling, nothing.

Within about a week, something strange started to happen to my mind.

I realized I can't have a way out of this. I couldn't just delete the apps because I'll go back later and just re-download them.

So what I did was I used an app called SHIFT. It takes away these apps and blocks these apps from your browser so that you can't possibly access any social media.

SHIFT has this 30-day program called REHAB. Once you turn it on, you literally cannot turn it off. You can't undo it until the 30 days are up.

That was kind of scary for me, but it was like, you need to do something drastic.

I started to feel like my mind was just much more clear. I didn't feel like I had a bunch of different tabs open in my head.

The best thing about this was that I realized I was having so much more time. I read two books and I listened to a third one.

I actually wanted my social media back and started trying to find ways around it. Like I said earlier, there's no way to get around SHIFT.

I tried to find ways. There's no way to undo it.

It just felt like my brain had more space. It was just like a deep breath, calmness in my brain.

I loved it. It was great. I can't wait to do it again.