DEEP DIVE: Laura Vanderkam on "Tranquility By Tuesday"

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Comedy, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Laura Vanderkam⁠ is the author of several time management books, including the just-out ⁠"Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters."⁠ She hosts the every-weekday-morning podcast "Before Breakfast" and also co-hosts "Best of Both Worlds" with Sarah Hart-Unger. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and five children. Laura explains: How to create a "resilient" schedule How to start small with prioritizing the more important things What keeps people from taking ownership of their time Starting small is the key, Laura says, by investigating how you currently spend your time and using that information as a launch point to move towards a more "resilient" schedule. Here's where you can find Laura: https://lauravanderkam.com @lvanderkam on Twitter and IG @lauravanderkamauthor on FB Buy Laura's book: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780593419007 We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/⁠⁠ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, productivity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup hello everyone and welcome to fresh take from what fresh out laughing in
0:35.3	the face of motherhood. This is Margaret.
0:42.5	And this is Amy. And today we're talking to our friend Laura Vandercam. She is the author of several time management books, including the brand new Tranquility by Tuesday, nine ways to
0:47.8	calm the chaos and make time for what matters. Laura hosts the every weekday morning podcast
0:53.2	before breakfast. And she also co-hosts the podcast
0:56.6	Best of Both Worlds with Sarah Hart Unger.
0:59.6	Laura lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and five children.
1:03.1	Welcome, Laura.
1:03.9	Thank you so much for having me.
1:05.3	I'm excited to be here.
1:06.6	We're excited to have you.
1:08.0	We have had you on before with your podcast co-host, but I think we said at
1:13.0	the time, way before, we now know Laura in real life, but way before we ever met you, Amy has
1:19.7	been a Laura Vandercombe devotee. I mean, I remember her talking about your books. I mean, you really light up Amy's, what do you call
1:32.0	them? Neurons. The centers of my brain, my productivity centers. The productivity centers. She's into
1:37.9	the productivity, yes. I met Laura, because our first books came out at the same time in 2010.
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