Finding Strange Pockets of Time with Jo Piazza
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author and podcaster Jo Piazza (Under the Influence; Everyone Is Lying to You) joins Vanessa to talk about juggling three young kids while moving her mom into Center City Philly. From au pairs to CVS purgatory, they get real about efficiency, boundaries, and multigenerational caregiving.
For more from Jo, check out her newsletter, Over the Influence.
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Our production team is Shoshi Shmuluvitz, managing producer and editor; Lily Houston Smith, senior producer; Ashley Warren, production manager; Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan, studio recordist; and music by Mark McAdam and Amber Devereux.
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| 0:00.0 | I just find weird pockets to do things. |
| 0:04.6 | I mean, that's a great other name for this podcast, weird pockets of time. |
| 0:08.3 | Weird pockets of time. |
| 0:09.5 | Like, I get a text in and I'm like, okay, I need to go pick up these prescriptions for my mom. |
| 0:15.6 | I also need to work out. |
| 0:16.8 | So I'm going to go for like a quicky 20 minute run and then loop by the pharmacy on my way |
| 0:24.4 | back from the run because I've got this kind of weird pocket of time. But I've also got my |
| 0:28.3 | AirPods in so I can get that call out of the way that I have to do. It's like multitasking on steroids. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank you everybody for coming back to So Your Parents are old. |
| 0:39.3 | This week, we have an amazing writer, Joe Piazza, who I have sort of known for a very, |
| 0:46.2 | very long time. |
| 0:47.3 | I've known of her. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm not even sure we've met in person. |
| 0:50.9 | This might be one of multiple times. |
| 0:52.9 | We've talked to each other remotely, |
| 0:54.8 | but she has a fantastic podcast that you should check out called Under the Influence. |
| 1:00.0 | And also the most hilarious book, she became obsessed with tradwives. |
| 1:06.4 | And she wrote a novel, a thriller about that whole world called Everybody Is Lying to You, which is a huge hit. |
| 1:15.0 | And she's been running around touring with it. |
| 1:16.8 | So we are going to talk to her about all things, taking care of kids, taking care of parents, how you balance your work as well. |
| 1:25.0 | The famous three shifts that we all do, the third shift being |
| 1:28.7 | dealing with your parents. Thanks so much, Joe. Thanks for being here. Thank you so much for having me on. |
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