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What We Spend

How to Support 10 Kids? Write 55 Books

What We Spend

Audacy

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6689 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Angela is a single mom raising 10 kids in Iowa. She manages a lively home, all while supporting her family with a career that isn’t guaranteed to be lucrative — writing novels.


If you want to learn more about the organization that supported Angela, Dress for Success, check out their website: https://dressforsuccess.org/


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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:30.8

A heads up before you listen. This podcast is intended for informational and entertainment purposes

0:37.1

only. We are not financial advisors.

0:40.2

You should always do your own research and consult your own financial advisor before spending

0:45.1

or investing your money. Please note that all income, financial information, and expenses

0:51.1

in what we spend are self-reported.

0:59.5

Can you just tell me what goes into running a household with 10 children?

1:01.2

So a lot.

1:05.4

Just being very organized, but also being flexible,

1:09.2

because with kids you can't always predict somebody's going to have some disaster or somebody's going to forget some project or something. So you have to be flexible. But other than that, my time is very blocked out. Like, okay, I'm doing this, this, this, this, and this. I tell everyone is not like, everyone's like, wow, that's a lot. I don't know. I got used to them. I didn't have any twins or anything. So I got used to them one at a time. So it's like, it's just life, I guess.

1:34.0

This is Angela.

1:35.7

She lives in Iowa, and she's a 40-year-old single mother of 10.

1:40.6

And how old are each of your kids?

1:53.1

2018, 17, 15, 14, 12, 10, 9, 8, and 6. One of her sons is away with the Marines, but his wife and her nine other kids live at home.

1:59.6

And she pays for everyone by doing something that's not known for being super lucrative.

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