hi I'm Chrissy Persico and I'm the head
of consumer public relations at Google
recently Google introduced various
digital well-being tools to help people
find a little bit more of a balance
between life and technology I wanted to
use them for myself for two reasons one
it's my job to really know our products
inside and out and talk to the press
about them but I knew that I had some
adjusting I wanted to do in my own life
pretty much a typical day for me is I
wake up at about 6:30 in the morning
take a look at my phone to see if
there's any you know breaking news I
should know about and do a quick look at
my email you know but then I pretty
quickly have to put my phone down
because I need to get my kids up and
ready for school I'm a single parent so
it's only me in the house and getting my
kids up is a trial they you know go to
bed pretty late and they don't pop out
of bed in the morning and then I begin
my commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan
where we work at Google on 15th Street
and 8th Avenue in Chelsea when I'm at
work I'm really not on my phone very
much because I'm using my laptop to get
back to emails and check my calendar
so I come home and I see my kids who've
been at school all day
they're usually you know pretty excited
to see me and and you know tell me
what's been going on in their day or
asked me to do something with them I do
find that I need a little time to wean
myself off the phone so I oftentimes
will come in take a seat on the couch
and just go through a few more emails
and give myself a little time to
transition from from work to home on my
phone it turns out that my kids are sort
of in the same boat you know they've
been at school all day they've been
doing their homework they've been really
engaged with Melissa or babysitter and
it gives me my time to get what I need
to done I usually listen to the news
again in the kitchen while making my
food and my daughter Annabelle who is a
really communicative person it makes it
clear sometimes you know how many hours
we've seen each other during the week
you know she and and she's right you
know we see each other in the morning
for 45 minutes
then we see each other for a couple
hours on a weeknight before she goes to
bed and that that really is something
that can make you stop and think that
all the time that you have together is
really precious and the last thing you
want to be doing is is wasting some of
that time right or or using it in a way
that doesn't feel valuable and
productive what I found using our
digital well-being tools for the past
month or so is that there's no one
blueprint for how to use them you know I
think you have to be self aware and you
have to really think about what your
habits are on your phone and what you
want to change and also what you want to
bring into your life I my real goal I'd
say is that in the time that I have with
my kids during the week I want to make
the most of that time I want to be a
little bit smarter about it and these
tools are helping set a path for me to
get there