Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books

Zibby Owens

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Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books is the award-winning, author interview podcast hosted by author, bookstore owner, and publisher, Zibby Owens, dubbed "NYC's Most Powerful Book-fluencer" (Vulture). Hear from your favorite celebrities, novelists, memoirists, and others to inspire you to take the next steps in your own life, be entertained, and feel connected.

The podcast is part of Zibby Media which includes Zibby's Bookshop in Santa Monica, Zibby Books boutique publishing house, retreats, events, a book club more. Learn more at zibbymedia.com.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Lindsay Powers, YOU CAN'T F*CK UP YOUR KIDS

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05/08/20 • 27 min

Lindsay Powers is the author of You Can't F*ck Up Your Kids: A Judgment-Free Guide to Stress-Free Parenting and the creator of the perfectly named #NoShameParenting movement which has reached more than 170 million people across social media. A long-time journalist, her work has appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Post, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, CNN, and more. She was founding editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Parenting and most recently, she was the Vice President for Lifestyle and Entertainment at SiriusXM and the founder of a digital content consulting company. Lindsay and I talked over Skype about trusting your instincts as a parent, that one extra minute of screen time isn't going to preclude your kids from getting into college, and the importance of creating a judgement-free parenting culture. This book is terrific at any time, but it feels even more significant as parents are spending even more time with their kids right now!

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Katherine Wintsch, SLAY LIKE A MOTHER

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11/01/19 • 31 min

Katherine Wintsch is the CEO of The Mom Complex and a nationally recognized expert on the topic of modern motherhood. She's also the author of Slay Like a Mother: How to Destroy What's Holding You Back So You Can Live the Life You Want. Her work has been featured on major media outlets, she has spoken at TEDx and was recently named a Woman of the Decade by the Women’s Economic Forum. Her research about women across the globe inspired her to write about the "dragon" of self-doubt - and her book is about how we can all slay it.

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Bess Kalb, NOBODY WILL TELL YOU THIS BUT ME

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04/03/20 • 27 min

Bess Kalb is the debut author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me. She is an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live and wrote for the Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016 and the Academy Awards in 2017 and 2018. She regularly writes for The New Yorker's Daily Shouts and received a WGA Award in 2016. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me is a beautiful memoir written from the voice of her beloved grandmother. Bess began writing from her grandmother's perspective as a way to feel closer to her and process grief after her death. Bess and I chatted about the authenticity of writing from a loved one's voice and why she felt it was the best way to honor what she calls her grandmother's superhero origin story. I loved hearing about Bess's first experience as a six-year-old writer, something her mother still sweetly reminds her of, and her challenge to all of us to write from the perspective of someone we love. Make sure you catch the fascinating story of the Twitter side project Bess started to distract herself from a soul-crushing job and how this led to a career as a comedy writer! I loved having her as the featured author at my recent book club. To join the book club, check out the link in bio!!

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André Leon Talley, THE CHIFFON TRENCHES

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08/03/20 • 35 min

After this episode, Zibby wanted to give André Leon Talley a hug. He was Anna Wintour’s indomitable right-hand-man at Vogue for decades, but in this memoir, André revealed his serial sexual abuse as a young boy and his chronic eating disorder. He has so many poignant memories and extraordinary stories that he’s already at work on his next book.

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Dr. Madeline Levine, READY OR NOT

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03/31/20 • 36 min

New episode - and so needed right now! Madeline Levine, Ph.D., is a psychologist and the author of the New York Times best-selling books The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well. Dr. Levine’s most recent book Ready Or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World could not be more timely or helpful given the current environment.

She explores how today’s parenting techniques and our educational system are failing to prepare children for their uncertain future, and what we can do to ensure our kids' adaptability, resilience, health, and happiness. (I know I need this during this current coronavirus time of uncertainty and panic.)

Dr. Levine is a wealth of knowledge on parenting. We chatted about her efforts to overcome the idea that a woman can’t beat the boys, how people behave in situations of uncertainty and the concept that to build self-esteem in your child you must let them learn to master things without breathing down their necks. We discussed how pressure, uncertainty, and social media have led to a rise in anxiety and how our 24-hour news cycle can leave us feeling like trauma victims. Dr. Levine explores concrete solutions and coping mechanisms we can use to correct that behavior. I think we could all use these strategies today.

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Stephanie Danler, STRAY: A MEMOIR

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04/01/20 • 32 min

I’m obsessed with Stephanie Danler’s brilliance. She's the author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter and the executive producer of the Sweetbitter series on Start (which Kyle and I started watching last weekend - so good!). Her latest book, Stray: A Memoir, is set to release in May of 2020 so you can pre-order it now. This forceful and emotional book explores Stephanie’s life as a child raised by an addicts and alcoholics, the damage she inherited, and the journey to move forward towards a different way of life. This book has gotten me out of my own head more than almost anything else lately because it’s just so immersive and beautifully written. Stephanie and I discussed her choice to start this book when her son was five months old, why she had to move several time zones away in order to find the focus to create, and the hardship of writing about such deeply rooted traumas. Stephanie shares her extremely stressful coronavirus experience and the idea that we are all grasping for the illusion of control at this moment in time. I loved Stephanie’s advice to just finish what you start and so much more. I couldn’t wait for her pub day to share this given all of our talk about what’s going on RIGHT NOW. I promise it will help you through.

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Megan Angelo, FOLLOWERS

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04/05/20 • 25 min

Megan Angelo is the debut author of Followers: A Novel. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , where she helped launch comedy coverage, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Elle, and many other publications. This debut novel takes place in two different time periods. One storyline centers around two girls who hatch a scheme to become famous in the year 2015. The other revolves around a futuristic celebrity who spends the majority of her time in front of a camera in the year 2051. Megan and I chatted about the journal entry that sparked her interest in this topic and the research she pulled from her background as a celebrity journalist. Megan discussed her relationship with social media and her interest in how the internet has become something we can't seem to walk away from. I particularly loved Megan's very candid discussion of motherhood and the realities of writing while caring for three kids under five!

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Jason Rosenthal, MY WIFE SAID YOU MAY WANT TO MARRY ME

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07/13/20 • 24 min

This heart-breaking yet inspirational story by Jason Rosenthal is an ode to his deceased wife, Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Amy wrote a “Modern Love” piece in the New York Times as she was dying called, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” His memoir, My Wife Said You May Want To Marry Me, was based on his answer to her article, also in the “Modern Love” column. Jason spoke to Zibby about everything from falling in love to putting himself back together after the worst came true.

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Susie Orman Schnall, Author of THE SUBWAY GIRLS

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09/20/18 • 33 min

Susie Orman Schnall, author of THE SUBWAY GIRLS, THE BALANCE PROJECT and ON GRACE, talks about work/life balance, careers, living in the moment and her writing habits. Her series of celebrity interviews about work/life balance has informed her discussion and made her realize that there is no one "right" way to do this! THE SUBWAY GIRLS, her latest novel, uses a dual story line to illustrate some compelling narratives and issues facing women over the past 100 years.

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Cheryl Strayed, THIS TELLING

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10/14/20 • 37 min

Zibby did an Instagram Live with bestselling author Cheryl Strayed (author of WILD) and was over the moon to be interviewing her. They talked about This Telling, her Amazon Original Story, feminism over the last century, the radical act of telling the truth, and vulnerability.

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Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books currently has 2031 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Parenting, Reading, Moms, Entertainment, Podcasts, Books, Connection, Inspiration, Arts and Literary.

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The episode title 'Lindsay Powers, YOU CAN'T F*CK UP YOUR KIDS' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books is 27 minutes.

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Gretchen Rubin

@gretchenrubin

Aug 25

Zibby is a friend and true book-lover who’s always spreading the love of reading.

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Raquel Kelley

@raquelkelley

Aug 19

I adore this podcast as well! Also I adore your Happiness Project for Moms Journal. My go-to gift for new mom friends. My husband told me I have bought it 18 times on Amazon 🤦‍♀️

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