Christina and Ryan Hillsberg, LICENSE TO PARENT: How My Career As a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Former CIA spies Christina and Ryan Hillsberg realized that parenting was a lot like their agency training: remove yourself from danger as quickly as possible, stay focused on the task at hand, and pay attention to lessons that become more self-sufficient. The Hillsbergs have passed this knowledge on to their children and want to help other parents incorporate it into their lives, too. With personal stories from their lives at home and in the field (all approved by the CIA, of course), License to Parent offers great advice for raising resourceful and self-sufficient kids.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of
0:21.9	moms don't have time to write a new publication on Medium. And we're accepting submissions.
0:26.8	So please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on
0:31.2	Instagram at Zibby Owens and my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:41.1	Christina and Ryan Hillsberg are the co-authors.
0:46.2	Well, actually, Christina is the author and then it says with Ryan, which as a husband and wife,
0:51.5	there was some negotiation about by and with. But anyway, their book is licensed to parent.
0:54.5	How My Career as a Spy helped me raise resourceful,
0:56.0	self-sufficient kids.
1:02.0	Christina and Ryan are both former spies with more than 20 years experience working at the CIA before transitioning to the private sector.
1:04.8	They live near Seattle, Washington with their five children and two Rhodesian Ridgebacks.
1:09.8	I was honored to have blurbed this book, which means that I wrote the little,
1:14.2	I wrote one of the quotes that says how great it is on the back of the book.
1:18.0	And it's really fantastic, and I'm just so honored to be associated with it in any way.
1:22.7	We did an Instagram live on their publication day, which I mistakenly didn't save correctly.
1:28.5	So what you're listening to now is a full on regular podcast that I did with them afterwards.
1:33.8	So enjoy.
1:34.9	Welcome, Christina and Ryan to Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss license to parent how my career as a spy help me raise resourceful, self-sufficient kids.
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