Julie Vick, BABIES DON'T MAKE SMALL TALK (SO WHY SHOULD I?): The Introvert's Guide to Surviving Parenthood
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Zibby is joined by Julie Vick to talk about her latest book, a parenting guide for introverts titled Babies Don't Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?). The two discuss what makes someone an introvert, an extrovert, or an ambivert (and why they're both introverts), as well as how the pressures of parenthood could feel even heavier with the added weight of social anxiety or shyness. Julie also shares she found her way back to writing after having her second child and how she cultivated a platform for herself on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. |
| 0:25.7 | Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. |
| 0:28.5 | And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books. |
| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.4 | Julie Vic is the author of Babies Don't Make Small Talk. So why should I? The Introverts Guide to |
| 0:46.5 | Surviving Parenthood. It's a humorous advice book for introverted parents navigating the early |
| 0:51.5 | years of parenthood. She has written for New Yorker Daily Shouts, |
| 0:54.9 | Parents Magazine Real Simple, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. And most importantly, one of her |
| 0:59.3 | tweets once appeared in-touch weekly. She teaches writing at the University of Colorado, Denver. |
| 1:04.1 | Welcome, Julie. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss. |
| 1:08.9 | Babies don't make small talk. So why should I, the introverts guide |
| 1:12.2 | to surviving parenthood? Thank you. Thanks so much for having me. This is definitely one of the |
| 1:18.5 | funniest in like a very clever, smart, almost tongue-in-cheek sense of humor books that I have |
| 1:25.3 | ever read about parenting. And every chapter was so refreshing, |
| 1:29.1 | even like, I might actually be here to make friends, finding parent friends, and potential how you |
| 1:34.4 | talk about how to call a stranger to ask about child's care. It's like so funny because I've |
| 1:38.9 | imagined that so many times. Problems with common advice people like to give you. And then your |
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