Have you ever found yourself drowning in the endless to-do list of motherhood and wondered, "Is there a way I could use technology to actually make this easier?" Briana Dai is back for part two of our conversation we started last week, so if you haven’t checked out the first half, go listen to the last episode now!

Briana’s not only a pro at leveraging digital tools for her business and everyday life, she’s passionate about teaching moms and entrepreneurs how to work smarter, not harder—and it shows in everything she does.

We kicked off the conversation talking about just how intimidating (and, let’s be real, a little overwhelming) the whole AI world can seem for moms who are already juggling so much. Briana demystified things by sharing simple, practical ways to get started—like asking AI to help with meal planning, automating emails, or organizing a family schedule. I loved her example of using ChatGPT to whip up dinner with random ingredients or even plan out a postpartum workout plan. She even had me rethinking how these tools can bless our lives right here and now, whether it's prepping for a party, serving neighbors, or getting more family time in the week.

Of course, we didn’t shy away from the tough stuff—like how technology and screens impact our kids. I opened up about raising my own daughters in a digital age, the anxiety around it, and how I’m navigating boundaries and healthy habits, especially after reading "The Anxious Generation." What I love about Briana is that she doesn’t gloss over the challenges; she’s totally real about balancing the benefits of tech while protecting kids’ creativity and emotional health. Her approach is all about teaching that technology is a tool, not an identity—a lesson I’m trying to instill at home, too.

Briana broke down how AI workflows can help you reclaim hours (yes, HOURS!) every week, letting you focus on what matters most.

To gain access to her 15 Minute CEO resource, visit ewn.news/aiflow!

Honestly, this episode is all about giving moms encouragement, practical action steps, and permission to ask for help—even if that help comes from a robot assistant. If you’ve wondered about AI, felt overwhelmed by digital everything, or just want a little more breathing room in your life, this one’s for you. I got you, mama—and so does Briana.

I want to jump into some of this awesome AI stuff, if you guys don't know. She's the pro AI user over here in digital space, and she. She's learned to work smarter, not harder, and that's what she teaches a lot of. A lot of women, a lot of men, a lot of business owners, entrepreneurs. Right. I've seen her on stage, speak a lot about it, do demos. I don't know how much I've talked about it. I've got to certify in some different AI programs.

I'm kind of obsessed with it. I'm. You know, sometimes when my husband isn't efficient enough, I'm like, you could just. You can just throw that into AI.

And it will do the.

And he'll be like, I mean, I just, like, getting bored, babe. Get on board in that. In the household, when it comes to tasks, when even, you know, business. What are some of those, like, simple things? Let's say they haven't really tapped into it. What's a practical way that moms can, you know, be comfortable? Because I know they're like, oh, my gosh, it's so much. It's so overwhelming. And it was even talked about, like a. In church one Sunday, but in Sunday school, like, how much do we lean in? How much do we, you know, people are writing their sermons and their talks and whatever and using AI? Like, how much do we, like, think, like, whoa, that's not enough.

Some just needs to come from your own inspiration, this and that. And. And I was able to raise my hand and talk about, like, how. I was like, okay, well, let's say you want to take time out for more Bible study or more scripture or more time to your family, and you don't know how to jug it all or schedule it all. I was like, you could throw these things into this schedule and say, like, hey, can you spit out, like, 15 minutes a day throughout the, you know, five days of the weekdays that we could fit in some, like, family time, maybe a little scripture study? And I was like. And it could do that for you. I'm like, you can. You can serve your neighbors.

Like, they had this whole lesson on. I'm just, like, being prepared and stocking up and, you know, with all the fires and all the things that, you know, happen out here, I feel like in la, it's like, always something, so it's like, we're prepared, so then we can also help our neighbors. And I was like, how cool would it be to go to the old lady's house next door and you know, get stock of what she has using AI, Take a bunch of pictures, it'll count it all out for her and then, and then be able to spit out what she needs to be prepared for two weeks on her own if, you know, world shuts down or fires break out or she doesn't have access to this, this and this. And I was able to show some of these older ladies, I was like, and in 10 minutes, you know, here we go.

We have a plan of action or.

We have a schedule kind of nailed, nailed down that, you know, works with everyone in your family. And they all kind of went, oh, huh. Well, right. Because they're kind of anti a little bit. And I'm like, there are ways that it can bless our lives and it's happening anyway, so you kind of have to like, let's get on board and let's get educated behind it. But sure, practical ways that, that we can use. Yeah.

I mean, I think for sure the most practical way to implement AI is to think of it as just simply outsourcing your overwhelm, you know, outsource.

You want to think about this?

Yeah. It's about an overwhelming thought. Spit it into AI and see what it does. Just to help you out. But I mean, like, obviously in business I use it a lot. Drafting emails, drafting copy, creating campaigns, like all of those things. Looking and analyzing trends and, you know, uploading documents. I'll upload a bunch of surveys from the conference.

We took over a hundred surveys. So I took all of those documents that we had scanned into the system, uploaded all of them, and said, what were the trends here? What were the high points, what were the low points? Instead of having to manually read them and try to figure out what were the common threads, it helped summarize it all for me. It was really, really great. So in business, yes. But even in personal life, I can't tell you how many times I've been like, okay, I need to figure out dinner, but I don't have a lot. Okay, Chat GPT. I have this ingredient, this ingredient, this ingredient, this ingredient. Help me create a recipe for dinner that I can crank out in 20 minutes.

Comes up with a recipe, oh, I don't have that seasoning. Do you have any substitutes? Oh, here's a number of substitutes that you can use for that to make. And I can't tell you how many bomb dinners that Chachi PT has created for me with food that I already had. Just didn't know how to put together, you know, And So that was a game changer when I was getting my son into purees and starting to make his own food. Like, what should I make him? How can I make sure he's getting a balanced diet? What's the process? What's the, how should I introduce the allergens? Because they talk about it, you hear about it. But there's something. I like to have a process. I like to have like a point out, like do this, this, this and this.

Yeah, created that for me, you know, so I mean there's so many ways the groceries for sure. When I was doing postpartum and I needed ideas for how to start to work my core with my C section and I had a workout plan that was created with ChatGPT's help. You know, it doesn't necessarily replace the value of somebody that's really with you and helping you, but anytime I get like a crazy symptom. CHAT gbt, what does this mean? You know, and I like it a lot better than Google because it's way more realistic than the like doom and gloom results that you'll get from a Google.

It's true. It's like how many times did that person like Google this? And now like you're dying. Oh, you went from a sniffles like you're, you know, everyone has that friend who's a little.

Yeah.

On the like, I think I have cancer. And you're like, oh, did you go down the Google ramp?

Okay, yeah, that's what happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I find that AI is much more moderate with the way that it will give me those, those that feedback, you know, or even ideas like if my son has a cold and the pediatrician has said no, we can't give him anything. But you can do X, Y and Z. I'll go to at AI and just see are there any other remedies or any other things. And I get so many ideas from it. And so it's just really, it's like having a full time assistant that can help you outsource any of your overwhelm think of things that you hadn't thought of before. I was hosting a party, a holiday party at my house this past weekend and I was trying to prep for the party and I was starting to feel a little overwhelmed with the food prep and the decor.

And so I literally said this is what I have on, on my menu so far. Is there anything I'm missing that you think would round out? It was like, that was a really great start. Here's some other ideas that could round it out and so I ended up doing one of them. I made some bacon wrapped dates per chat GPT's recommendation. It helped me prepare and how to like what to prep on Thursday for Friday. And then Saturday it made my grocery list for me. It separated it by store and by run and it was truly like, oh my God, I don't even need to write out a grocery list. It has everything here for me.

And it told me, okay, Thursday we're going to do our grocery shopping and we're going to do some shopping and we're going to organize. Friday we're going to prep this and that. And then it was the easiest, breeziest hosting I have ever done. Like, I don't know about you, but if you're hosting a gathering, it can oftentimes bring out like the like host zilla in you and you're like yelling at your husband, just stop it.

Just do this.

Just get it. Like you just get so worked up. I do anyway. That's me. Oh yeah.

No, I, I love a good party. I love. My husband likes to play. Call it over hosting or over decorating or over preparing even though I tend to procrastinate. But yes, the, the, the full spread and, and all the things, like it's so fun. And then you get in the middle of it and you're like, why do I think this is so fun? Like, did you just walk the floors? Why? People are coming over, they're going to trample over.

Just bob the floor. Yeah, exactly. Just. And.

But I love it.

I love it.

I love.

But it was the least stressful it has ever been. And I, it's really, truly because I outsourced some assistance from AI to help me just break it down and it became so much more manageable to pull it off. And it was a lot of fun, you guys.

It's free. It's free. Help. Anything to take away the overwhelm, you know, anything to take away the overwhelm. And you just get started by asking it to do stuff for you. And it does. Just sometimes you have to kind of, you know, fact check if you're really delving into like trying to diagnose yourself and do it like that, right? Like see where they're drawing the information and where they're drawing the studies from and ask, ask, where are you drawing these studies from? And it will tell you.

I have a hilarious story about an AI gone wrong. So I was using it to help me write a blog for our website. We do a weekly blog post and I wanted to write about the most inspiring books that every woman entrepreneur should read. And I had like three of them in mind that came top of mind immediately. But I wanted to make like a list of 10 and so I want. I went to AI to help me come up with some ideas for some additional books. And it gave me all these ideas for books that I had never heard of before, which I was surprised because I of a lot of books. But I just wonder, like, what would they think is the top 10 to really round out this list? So I was like, wow, I've never heard of this.

But this, like, it had the title of the book, the author, and then a description about the book. I was like, this sounds like a really good book. I can't believe I haven't heard of it.

Like, it's right up my alley.

Right up my alley. I'm gonna go and look it up before I just post it in my blog and I go to look it up and Carly, I can't find it anywhere. I can't even find the author. I'm looking for this book and come to find out it just made it up. Made up.

It's the book used to write.

Literally, I was like, wow, you just really, like, totally made up seven books out of nothing. So you do. You definitely need to fact check was.

Don'T trust everything you read, right? It is still the Internet. I'm in the process of building a mom bot on my website because for this reason, right, we're inundated with all this information and sometimes we Google and Google and Google people are stopping. They're now they're saying, now I I chat GPT it, right? I building a space where people can come, mothers can come and research something or ask a question, and it's only going to be answered with information that I have put in there. You know what I mean? Information that is vetted. That is research that is also vetted by our wonderful group of experts. I think it's important to now because it is. I mean, the amount of AI apps are in the hundreds, right, to also have a space. But still the Mombot is using AI, right? In a space where you can go and.

And know that anything that it spits out, hopefully all goes well, will be from information that I've downloaded that I and let's be honest, not me, my web guy has been downloaded and put in there as a resource for. For all our, all our mamas out there. Because sometimes it's nice to be able to go to a space. You're like, Okay, I can rely on this and trust this, and we'll trust your gut still listen, you know, but sometimes we just need that extra little, you know, information. It asks like, how are you doing today? Do you just want to vent or do you need specific information? You know what I mean?

Yeah. Oh, I love that. I will definitely be hitting up that mom bot. Like, hey, mama, I need a vent.

My teenager just yelled at me again, so I wanted to finish up just on a couple more things. You created this 15 minute CEO method. Is that through AI? Is it. Just tell me more about that and how moms can. Can apply maybe this similar principle.

Absolutely. So, yeah, I mean, as a working mom, specifically for any working mom or business owner who's also a mom, optimizing your minutes is what matters. And so that's where AI, I think, really has presented the best opportunity for us to really allow us to streamline and automate so many of the things that we used to spend a lot of time doing to give us more time back with our family. And so I created a download called the 15 Minute CEO and it has just five. Five simple AI workflows that I use to help me automate so much of what used to take me hours that I can now get done in 15 minutes. So, you know, there's so many AI tool out there. ChatGPT is one of them, but there's a ton others. And so this features five tools and five workflows that I've implemented to really cut down so much time and so much effort.

It's. It's really awesome. So definitely check it out. Um, I will put the link below. It's.

It's.

It's a pretty simple link, but it is. It's a game changer for sure. So definitely check it out. If you're trying to save yourself a couple of minutes, even if you just implement one workflow, that could save you an hour, how many of you would love an hour back? You know, it's like, please.

Yeah.

What it's about.

Yeah, yeah. And I think the more proficient we get within that world, right? Within. Even if it's just with a couple. A couple apps, it's cool. Then you could, like, yeah, you free up time and then you get to share that info with others. You know, I mean, that's what we're all about here is like, oh, I learned this thing. You should know about this thing. You know what I mean? Like, oh, I met this person.

You need to know about this person, right? Or we get on board and I'LL help each other. Right. All of us will be saving more time. Yeah. Right. Heavens are opening. We all love more time to do the things that we want to do. Even if that's like nothing.

Yeah.

When my kid says I'm bored, I'm like, oh my gosh, what would I give? Just be bored. I wish you just stay there being bored.

Yeah. Yeah.

So talking about like kids, boredom, technology. I have, I've realized this especially with my third and I've read the book the Anxious Generation, which will actually make you more anxious reading it. Yeah. But it talks a lot about the, the anxious generation. The generation that grew up with these kind of all access to technology. Right. Think of like probably more your generation. 0405 I grew up in the generation where it's like we had nothing like that to now we have everything.

Right. So I was an 80s baby, which blows my mind. And my daughter was asking about it the other day and she was like, she's kind of blowing my mind a little bit because she's like very, very self aware. And she was like, mom, I think you might need to take away my phone because it's become very distracting and I'm not getting things done that I need to. And we have a lot of conversations about it. Like she doesn't have social media. She tried to get it and then I caught her and then. And then she deleted it on her own, knowing that that wasn't healthy for her.

That's amazing.

A lot of therapy, a lot of communication, a lot of things. But it's like all these things in a 15 year old body and mine are starting to seep in and we have this, this pretty long conversation of. And she was like, I just feel like if I grew up without all this, I would be better off. And I was like, oh my God.

Oh my God. Oh, wow.

Well, did you grow up because you didn't have any of this? And I was like, no, I probably. And we kind of got into it. I was like, I don't know if I would be here anymore, to be honest, because I was bullied in high school. End up leaving school and. And if that had taken to the next level of like blasting things on socials or on cell phones or whatever.

Yeah.

I was like, girlfriend. I got like hate notes in my locker, like handwritten, you know.

Wow. Yeah. Right?

I was like, so it was different. I was like, I don't know if I would have, you know, survived that at that time. I was like, so I'm, I'm blessed that, that wasn't a part of my life. Cell phones didn't you know, they, they weren't a thing really. Not until I got to college. But. But what would you say to this next generation? My, I, I would say my youngest is probably more addicted because she, I don't know, she's been around it more because of her older siblings, you know what I mean? A little bit more access to it, but the more research being poured into it. Reading this book has really got me mean.

Like, and now no more YouTube. And now we gotta think Roblox. And now we gotta. You know what I mean? And you're heading into it with like, we're just. Even the next level up, we'll be like, I don't know. When Tatiana is a teenager, she'll be like tapping her brain and like you'll come on a holograph. I don't know. I wouldn't ask us to be there at some point, but feel real.

No, it's crazy.

Shaped by this, this technology. What do you as sort of next generation learns? Because it's. I'm kind of terrified. I don't want to be terrified. I want to be educated. I don't want to empower my kids to make smart decisions. But it's. You're not around them all the time and they're at friend houses and they're.

You know what I mean? And so I'm just trying to like build up their, you know, their confidence in their minds to be able to speak out and know what is, you know, healthy and good.

I'm really impressed by your daughter because that is next. How old is she? The one that had the discernment of.

Like, you'll be 15 in two weeks.

That's incredible. Like, hats off to you because you're clearly doing something right. And I need to take some notes because that to me is impressive. I mean, I've never heard of a 15 year old with that level of self awareness that when something's not good for you because it's designed to be addictive. So to recognize that even in the thick of that addiction.

Yeah, it's true.

Powerful. Really, really amazing. And I would love to code to do that for my daughter. She's only five right now. I mean she's.

I think it starts then too, right. Having that relationship with her.

So.

Or your kids in general that they can say those things.

Yeah.

You know, I mean that my, my daughter legit will like look around and be like, everyone's on their phone. Like, can we just. Can we just not, you know, she's already a little fed up with it because she doesn't have access to all the things that they have access to that they're looking at on their phone. And maybe she not. May not get all the jokes, the things that are trending on TikTok, so she feels a little left out sometime. But I think the more we educate our kids around what it's doing to them and their brains, I mean they've put out studies now that it's, it's legit. Like being on crack. Yeah, like brain studies, crack cocaine addiction to like addiction to technology.

They're the same. And I was like, well, I probably wouldn't want my kid to be addicted to crack cocaine. So if I think about it in that context of what right to their brains. And I'm trying not to be like a major hard ass either because I then I don't want them like hiding and trying to get away with it. You know what I mean? So it's finding that fine line. But, but it's, yeah, it is tricky. But if you see yourself in your little child and you're like, oh my gosh, yeah, as the mini me, I'm in so much trouble because we have a hard time parenting our like, what we like ourselves. And there was a lot of, like, a lot of roadblocks.

I had to get through a lot of my own therapy. I had to get through and able to embrace her and help her. And now that I'm seeing a lot of these similarities, I'm able to be like, I don't want you to go through the hell I went through, you know what I mean?

And I, yeah, she's already at 5. She loves taking photos. She loves like posing for pictures. Let me see it. You know, like that era, like, let.

Me delete that, delete that. Or my 9 year old like that. Oh, let me, let's do that again.

We haven't gotten there yet. But she definitely, she'll definitely ask to do more. She hasn't gotten to the I don't like that phase. She likes everything. So that's really good. I love that she loves herself. You know, we, we aren't doing. We have lots of friends that do tablets for the kids.

We have our own iPad and so we'll let her. There's like a program that her school has that she can log into at school and do like little educational games. There's a home version of it so she can log in and play little games. But we do no screens on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She can watch TV on Monday, Wednesday and Friday after school, but no TV after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I think is what we're doing. We. Right now, just because we want her to still be creative.

We want her to draw, we want her to use her imagination. We don't want her to just sit in front of a screen, whether it's a tablet or a TV or a phone. It doesn't matter. Like, we're not doing that. We're gonna. That's a lot.

This book is about. This book is. Says a lot about you. We've removed the sort of creative play and we've introduced play online and how you can just quit or leave a situation or leave a conversation. And so kids don' have these, like, even communication skills to work out things because they think they have a community online or they think they're working online, but they can just like, toss it to the side and be like, well, they're wrong, I'm right. And then let's, you know, and. And they're. We're losing a lot of those things that happen in our brain that only comes from playing and comes from figuring things out creatively, like with our hands and with.

With our minds, putting down our phones as parents raising these babies. Because now they're seeing that parents are holding their babies and they're always on their phones. And children and babies learn from getting in their face and being like. And seeing you move and be like, that's a tree. Can you say tree? You know what I mean? Yeah, we're doing less of that. And now they're finding these babies are like, more delayed.

And I'm like, we just need to know about. I know, I know. It's. It's. Yeah, technology is scary. I think that I've already come to the conclusion. I already know one thing. Like, once it does come in time, I'm going to delay the use of a phone for as long as possible.

But when we do eventually get to that point, I know I will never allow her to have a phone in her room. We're going to have our charging station downstairs and the common living area, and that's where phones will get charged overnight. I know that for a fact. But, you know, the reality is I do teach on the power of technology, and I love social media as an adult, and I didn't have it until I was a much older young adult. Older teen, young adult, you know, because it was like my space as a teenager and then it took off from there. So I kind of had a lot of growing up. I was really severely bullied in middle school as well, Carly. So I really resonated.

And if social media was around then and I was on it, I don't know that I would, I would have made it either, to be honest. Like, that is a really powerful like, aha realization. And I think any parent who has lived through that can resonate. Like, that's a challenge that I never had to deal with and I can only imagine how devastating that would be to get that whole cyber bullying world. So I want to delay that as long as I possibly can, but you.

Know what I mean, that's what I'm trying to empower more moms to do is like, you're the parent, you get to be the parent. You can be a friendly parent, but you're not their friend that's telling them, yeah, you should use Instagram. It's great, right? Like, be the parent and delay it. Yes. As long as possible so their brains can develop more. And like, I now realize, because I delayed it so long in Elsie, my oldest, like, she's now a little bit more ready to be able to have it maybe, you know, when she gets to be a sophomore or something. But it's, it's, you know, 13 year old brains, they're not, they're not, they're.

Not, they're not ready for that. No. I think, I just really hope that they learned that technology is a tool and not an identity. Their identity doesn't belong online. It is there to just, to purely be a tool. And no algorithm can ever replace discernment.

Yes.

An algorithm cannot replace empathy, it cannot replace courage. Like, that is all within you and that is your identity. And so I want that foundation to be strong first and for technology to only be there to support them in helping them achieve whatever it is they need to achieve, whether it's school studies or, you know, building a brand. If she decides that she wants to do that, there's a lot of kids I don't know, I'm not, I'm not going to be, I'm not going to be encouraging that. I want to keep her off of online as long as I possibly can. But if she really wants to do something, I don't ever want to clip her wings. She's definitely not express interest in that right now. Although she did get introduced to YouTube kids and she loves watching kids play with their toys on YouTube.

And recently she was playing, she's like, mommy, film me doing this. And she doesn't ever Ask for it to be posted. Thank God. But I can tell she's emulating what she's seeing and wanting to be filmed playing and things that. That's really cool. So, you know, that's fun. And that's also her way of just kind of expressing herself. So I want to support her in that.

But yeah, I think it is scary and I don't have all of the answers because I'm not there yet, but I am very clear that technology is not a safe space for a child. And the longer that we can delay introducing it, the better. And so that is my plan. I don't. We'll see. We'll. We'll loop back on another podcast in 10 years and we'll. We'll reassess, you know.

Yeah. And I'll get. And it will, you know, it will get harder the more they ask. But again, I am a strong believer that it all starts in the home. Right? What we're building, what we're. What we're teaching, like you said, those skills, those empathy, courage. You know what I mean? That all starts in the home. And we need to lead by example and not be like, well, mommy is a grown up and I can be on my phone whenever I want.

You know what I mean? Like, I really, really love that you have that boundary of like putting the phone down and being really present because it can be such, such a distraction. I can get into a show and be like, oh, just really just.

Can you just.

I just want to watch this next episode.

Yeah. Yeah.

I need help with homework. Ask AI. I can't help you there homework anymore. I don't even understand third grade math for real.

I felt algebra. So she's in trouble when that comes. She's gonna need her dad. That's dad's job.

Maybe a little tech help in that realm is okay, right? We've come a long way, which is really exciting, girlfriend. Thanks for coming, being on our show. Yeah, like, you know, for hours and hours this morning, I don't know what I was thinking. I don't know, maybe because I see you online once a week or whatever. I was like, oh, I have a question. I mean, text her real quick. I was like the vibe of like, you know, I could, I could text you for, you know, questions for sure.

I'm so glad we did this. Thank you. I could talk to you forever. So this has been so fun. We'll do it again. Again.

If it'll all be in the show notes, I would love for you guys to reach out to follow Briana her 50 minute CEO method that's going to be in the show notes. Click on that link. Take advantage of that jump into chat GPT see how it can help your life. See how it can help you lift some of this overwhelm. We're very like we all need massages right now. We just need some of that that weight lifted off especially busy times of year right where yes, we just need all the help we can get. And you are, you need to accept all the help you can get. I'm a strong believer in that.

No matter how well you think you're doing, no matter, you know, you feel like you've conquered the mountain, we can always use more support and help. So know the Brian's got you mama. I got you. Don't forget to like and subscribe. And if this resonated with you and you feel like this episode would really resonate with some of your friends, anyone, please go ahead and share it. We would love it. We appreciate your support. Love your faces.

Love you Briana. Appreciate you.

Bye for now. Bye for now. Thanks for having me.