153: Podcaster/Journalist Sets Her Sights on New Forms of Family

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Brandie Weikle, founder and editor of thenewfamily.com and host of The New Family Podcast, is a 15-year veteran of parenting journalism. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Family magazine and held senior positions at a number of other parenting publications on and offline. Her website's 1,000 Families Project explores the variety of modern families. “It's very easy for people, especially women, to stay where they are in a job if it's comfortable. But I have advised every young woman I've mentored to be willing to move around. You need to do that sometimes to advance yourself.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 143. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:29.4	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Brandy Weikley.
0:33.5	Welcome, Brandy.
0:34.6	Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
0:36.3	Thank you so much.
0:37.6	Brandy, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:40.6	I sure am.
0:42.0	All righty.
0:42.6	We want to hear the entire story.
0:45.0	Brandy is the founder and editor of the newfamily.com and host of the new family podcast.
0:52.0	A 15-year veteran of parenting journalism, Brandy has been the editor-in-chief
0:56.9	of Canadian Family Magazine and held senior positions at a number of other parenting publications
1:02.2	on and offline. Brandy's on a mission to explore and celebrate the many forms that modern families
1:09.3	can take through her website's
1:11.1	1000 Families Project and through the interviews on her podcast.
1:16.0	Brandy, that's a pithy summary of your career today.
1:18.8	Tell us what you're working on now that has you engaged and excited.
1:22.3	Well, I'm just really happy to have my own venture now.
1:26.9	As you mentioned in the bio, I have worked for a number of
1:31.0	other parenting publications over the years. And I had this URL for a while, knowing that when
1:37.1	the time was right, I would launch my own project, my own website with a modern take on family
1:43.7	life. And it's just a thrill to see
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