How Does She Do It? Managing Time in a Busy Life | Laura Vanderkam & Sarah Hart-Unger

The Jesse Mecham Show

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Kids & Family, Education

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jesse chats with Laura Vanderkam and Sarah Hart-Unger, two time management experts and the hosts of the Best of Both Worlds Podcast, a show all about balancing busy lives and careers. Sarah is a pediatric endocrinologist while Laura is a writer (and author of I Know How She Does It), and both of them are also busy mothers. While they approach the challenges of time management with different strategies, they are both experts in making things fit in a busy life without getting burned out.

Sarah and Laura point out that the things you spend your time on -- the things you say yes or no to -- are ultimately a reflection of your values. If something doesn't fit in your priorities, you simply won't do it. Sounds familiar, eh? Money, or rather the things you spend money on, is also a reflection of your values, as Jesse has argued on previous shows. So, the first step in wrangling your time management problem is to take a hard look at the things you value and see if the things you are spending your time on actually align with those values.

Secondly, Laura reminds us that everyone has the same amount of time in a week to get things done, to relax, to pursue hobbies. 168 hours every week, in fact. Unlike money, this resource is equally distributed to all, and we cannot change the amount of time we have. So, being mindful of how you spend your weeks not in days, but in hours, can be a useful exercise. Do you have a hobby that you wished you spent more time on? A stack of books you wish you could finally read? Start tracking your time, and you might be surprised to find a spare hour or two that you were previously wasting on mindless tasks (or social media). Like spare change, these hours can slip between the cushions of the weekdays and weekends.

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

https://theshubox.com/best-of-both-worlds

Laura Vanderkam

https://lauravanderkam.com

Best Laid Plans Podcast with Sarah Hart-Unger

https://theshubox.com/best-laid-plans-podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, Weinabbers. My name is Jesse Meakum, and this is podcast number 482 for Weinab,
0:09.2	where we teach you four rules to help you stop if you paycheck to paycheck, get out of
0:12.0	debt, and save more money. Today, I'm pleased to have with you Sarah Hart, Onger, and Laura
0:16.3	Vanderkamp. They are both time management experts. They're both extraordinary women that
0:22.6	I had the chance to chat with together, and we just, they co-host a podcast called
0:27.3	the best of both worlds. And it's the idea that, you know, work and life, you can have
0:31.9	the best of both worlds. You don't have to give up one to have the other or vice versa.
0:36.2	I really like that idea. We actually, I go into it really quickly and ask them why, why
0:41.6	don't I like the phrase work life balance? And why does that bother me? And they give
0:45.4	me the answer. Let me give you a quick bio here. So, Laura is a physician. She is endocrinologist.
0:50.6	She's a mother of three, a podcaster, and has been a dedicated Weinab user since 2014.
0:56.4	Now Laura, we're still working on, all right, everybody. But she can be found, Laura,
1:00.4	Sarah, excuse me, can be found right in the shoebox, the THESUbox.com, and is on two podcasts.
1:07.0	The best of both worlds podcast that I already mentioned, where she co-hosts with Laura,
1:10.9	and then another podcast called Best Lade Plans. Sarah is a planner, and we talk about
1:17.0	that. And it's no wonder that she likes Weinab so much as men using it since forever.
1:21.9	Laura is the author of several time management books. One of them is called 168 Hours.
1:28.4	What, where's the 168 Hours come from? We figure that out. And also another book called
1:32.6	Off the Clock. She's the host of the Daily Before Breakfast Podcast, and also co-host of
1:38.3	Best of Both worlds with Sarah. Her work has appeared in publications including The New
1:42.2	York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company. And there's a TEDx talk where Laura
1:47.8	just does a fantastic job of talking about time management. I really, really love it.
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