Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Working Overtime: Balancing Parenthood With Creative Work
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus episode from our friends at Slate's Working podcast: host Karen Han poses a listener’s question to co-host Isaac Butler about how to be a parent and how to remain a creative person. They ponder the challenges of parenthood, but also the joy and inspiration it can bring. They also share advice for staying creative and finding time for your work.
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Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, mom and daughter fighting listeners. |
| 0:02.8 | We're off today enjoying the winter break with our families, but we didn't want to leave you without an episode. |
| 0:08.1 | So we're sharing an interesting working episode all about balancing parenting and creative pursuits. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm going to turn it over to a dear friend of the show, Isaac Butler, and we'll see you back here on Thursday. |
| 0:33.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Working Over Time, the advice-focused Pluto to Working's Goofy. I'm your host, Karen Hahn. And I'm your other host, Isaac. |
| 0:38.6 | How are you doing, Isaac? You know, I'm all right. Unlike Pluto, I'm wearing pants. So, you know, I feel like that's a win. That's important. Yeah. And a shirt. Impressive. Yeah, exactly. I, you know, I do it up. This is not to imply that Isaac isn't usually wearing his shirt because if he weren't, we probably wouldn't be still doing this. Yes, yes, that's true. I probably |
| 0:56.8 | would have been fired by now. This is not to imply that Isaac isn't usually wearing his shirt, because if he weren't, we probably wouldn't be still doing this. |
| 0:55.7 | Yes, yes, that's true. I probably would have been fired by now. |
| 0:59.6 | Okay. So on this episode, I wanted to break down a listener email from Allison Weisgall, Robertson. |
| 1:07.5 | Here is what she wrote in. |
| 1:09.7 | Hello, I very much enjoy the working podcast and would like to suggest an episode |
| 1:14.0 | specifically about parenting slash caregiving and working. |
| 1:18.4 | I hear references to here and there, i.e. Isaac discussing his family responsibilities, |
| 1:23.5 | but I think a whole episode dedicated to it would speak to much of your demographic. |
| 1:27.8 | What are the unique challenges facing creative type and freelance parents? |
| 1:32.1 | Financially, artistically? |
| 1:33.9 | How do all the things you talk about, finding inspiration, scheduling, etc., |
| 1:37.8 | change or don't when caring for a child or perhaps elderly parent is involved? |
| 1:42.6 | Thank you, Allison. |
| 1:47.3 | Now, Isaac, you're the only one of us hosts who is a parent. So this episode is going to be sort of a mini interview. Are you ready? |
| 1:52.6 | All right. Hold on. Let me just do some jumping jacks to warm up. Fair enough. All right. So my first |
| 1:59.0 | question is, how did you decide that you were ready for a child? And I guess |
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