Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends. I'm so delighted to bring you today's conversation with the wonderful Amy Joyce.

I watched Amy with great awe as she left a long esteemed career at the Washington Post to open

Wonderland Books in Bethesda, Maryland. This conversation with Amy truly has something for everyone,

reflections on what it means to embrace whatever space you're in now, book recommendations to get

you out of a slump, thoughts on parenting in the sandwich generation,

and so much more. And also a little backstory about why it was extra meaningful to hop on the

mic with Amy. Back in 2021, when I started to think about tackling a longstanding goal of writing

for a major media outlet, it turned out that Amy Joyce was the first editor I pitched,

thanks to a generous introduction from a fellow writer friend. That resulting piece called

Why Working Moms Deserve a Tantrum and How to Get Through the Remainter of the Pandemic,

was written from a place of pain and frustration, and it clearly touched a nerve with a lot of moms.

It went viral and was picked up by a number of other outlets, including me being interviewed on

BBC World News. It was just wild and was really the beginning of what ended up being a very

fruitful effort to write on a bigger stage. But despite all of our email conversations through editing

pieces for the Washington Post back in the day, this conversation reflected the first time we

really had FaceTime, and it was just so nourishing. Let's have a listen.

Hello and welcome, Amy. I'm so delighted to talk to you and to see your face today. Hi.

Hi, it is so good to see you after all these years. This is amazing. I love it. Yeah, yeah. I'm really excited

to have you be part of this conversational series that I have developed. The conversations to date have been

amazing. And I will say you are one of the first people I thought of as far as somebody I wanted

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