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Ep.18: Learn by Doing with Maggie Whitley

Simple

Tsh Oxenreider

Education

4.3879 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What if you're a creative at heart and have an entrepreneurial drive, but you also have small kids at home and are up to your eyeballs in parenthood? That's what I talk about with Maggie Whitley, who's been rethinking her personal direction and her vocational calling so that work better fits her life and current stage. Maggie is a great model of a young person who wants to create and do work that allows her to be fully with her kids, so if this is you and you feel a little stuck, this episode is for you. Head here for the show notes: http://theartofsimple.net/18.

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0:00.0

It's the Simple Show. You've got episode 18.

0:04.7

Hey there, I'm Tishawkson writer, and I'm a writer, traveler, entrepreneur, and family gal.

0:09.1

I'm a big fan of simple living, but I don't think it's just about getting rid of your stuff.

0:13.2

It's about living holistically with your life's purpose.

0:15.9

On The Simple Show, I talk with other people about what that looks like for them.

0:25.4

Yeah. I talk with other people about what that looks like for them. In this episode, I'm talking to Maggie Whitley, who created a super successful online

0:30.2

handmade business called Gussie Soes.

0:32.7

Well, since then, she's become a mom to two with one more on the way.

0:36.7

So she's thick in the early, early

0:39.0

stages of motherhood. This has actually caused her to rethink her personal direction and

0:44.0

vocational calling work-wise, so she's made some changes that better fit her life in her current

0:48.9

stage. We talk about how the only constant in life is change, and how to lean into that instead of fight it.

0:56.4

She's a great model of a young person who wants to create and do work that matters and allows her to be fully with her kids.

1:03.4

So if that's you and you feel a little stuck right now, this episode is for you.

1:12.4

First, this episode is sponsored by Sparkle Stories.

1:16.6

Sparkle creates original audio stories for kids and families.

1:20.7

Their new website has almost 900 original stories.

1:24.0

All of them, delightful and funny and inspiring.

1:26.9

They have stories for everything,

1:28.3

like Christmas time, bedtime, travel, even stories to help with fear of the dark or moving

1:33.4

to a new house. With a subscription to Sparkle, you can enjoy all of them. Our family has listened to

1:39.3

quite a few of them, and they're super sweet. Plus, there's even a Sparkle Stories app.

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