About... Balancing Goals, Marriage, and Kids as Successful Creatives (with Alex!)
Tell Me More with Nicole Walters
Dear Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
"You don't get MORE time, you just get much better about your time. And that is non-negotiable."
Alex is back to chat through what is working as we chase big goals, stay connected in marriage, and raise kids while building creative careers. We're balancing family life with ambition, navigating postpartum life, rebuilding after hard seasons, and learning how to use time with intention (because there is no alternative!)
We share the productivity habits helping us move forward, including our favorite brain dump method for reducing stress, getting organized, and creating momentum. We also talk honestly about money, freedom, identity, marriage, and why protecting fun, connection, and purpose matters just as much as working hard.
Don't Miss This Chat On:
- How we manage our time and stay productive as creatives
- Our strategies on staying connected as a couple during busy seasons
- Postpartum life and getting back into work mode
- Financial freedom and why flexibility matters
- Why we protecting fun, identity, and joy in our marriage
- How to grow without losing yourself or your family
If you’ve ever wondered how to grow your career without losing yourself, your relationship, or your family in the process, this chat is for you.
Connect with Nicole:
- On her *new* Substack: https://nicolewaltersofficial.substack.com/
- On Threads: https://threads.net/nicolewalters
- WATCH Tell Me More: http://nicolewalters.com/youtube
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm Pia Barangini, the creative director of LPA, an entrepreneur, a wife, and a dog mom based in Los Angeles. |
| 0:10.7 | This is my new podcast, Everything is the Best, where we basically ask interesting people, how did you go from zero to yacht? |
| 0:16.6 | I'm always curious how to help people became successful, and I figured you would be too. |
| 0:20.7 | Get on the internet with me. Let's laugh, let's cry, let's overshare, and let's get inspired |
| 0:25.1 | to live our best lives. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. It's all for you, baby. Thanks |
| 0:30.4 | for listening. Love you, mean it. |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome to the Tell Me More podcast with Nicole Walters, the only podcast where I'm not seeking to make you think more like me, but to help you keep thinking for yourself. |
| 0:58.5 | Okay. for yourself. Hey, y'all, so I have your favorite person in. |
| 1:00.9 | People always ask me, what is it like, you know, being married to the most interesting, |
| 1:06.7 | riveting, brilliant, and handsome man in the world? |
| 1:09.5 | And I always say, I will let you know when I find out. I was motioning over here like, keep going, keep going. No, I like that. I was literally going to go with it until you started leaning in. Then I was like, oh, no. I like, no, I like this. Keep going. No, it's true. My husband is like, honestly, one of the best people I've ever met my life. He is such a good human and I feel so spoiled. |
| 1:29.0 | And it's fun to share him with you just as like, I'm not going to lie, a little flex. |
| 1:33.5 | Like, ah. |
| 1:35.4 | Married. |
| 1:36.1 | Okay. |
| 1:36.3 | But also because he's smart and he's wise. |
| 1:39.2 | And I feel like he's such an integral part in how I'm getting better every single day in the family we're building. So I love to share his wisdom with everyone else. And to give you guys a little look, right, at how we do things and how we're getting by. And it's just another take, I think, when you see from the outside the Nicole version and my interpretation of it, but you get to see, I guess, the truth because he'll lie. I can't. I don't think I have that ability. |
| 2:02.7 | So let's talk about you not lying and having that ability. |
| 2:05.2 | When I tell you, you have forced me to be a level of honest, not just with myself, but with |
| 2:10.2 | others in this marriage that I am really seeing fruit from. |
| 2:13.8 | Like, it's like, for instance, and for anyone here who may be noticing online, you may have seen kind of a surge of energy. |
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