Living a Hands Free Summer with Rachel Macy Stafford

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Macy Stafford was missing life. Her planner bulged, her phone buzzed, her calendar constantly full. In a painful moment of realization, Rachel discovered she was choosing distraction over connection with her young family—and she decided enough was enough. In 2010, she started the Hands Free Mama blog, where she documents her journey to slow down and focus on what truly matters. Since then Rachel has become the New York Times bestselling author of three books: Hands Free Mama, Hands Free Life, and Only Love Today. In our conversation, Rachel tells us what living “hands free” means and gives us practical tools to help us slow down. We talk about how to teach our kids to use technology, how to let go of mom guilt, and what kids really want to do with their parents this summer (spoiler alert: it’s not going to Disney World).

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to cows, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening.
0:18.4	We hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.0	Hey everybody, it is Jen Hatmaker, your host on the For the Love Podcast.
0:26.0	Super glad that you are here today.
0:27.4	We are in a really fun series called For the Love of Summer.
0:32.3	And we're dipping into all kinds of ideas, all sorts of summer things.
0:36.9	My guest today is Rachel Macy Stafford.
0:39.3	A lot of you already know her and love her and follow her.
0:43.1	Rachel is a mom, she's a wife, she's a writer and a teacher and a merger.
0:47.7	She's a New York Times bestselling author of three books.
0:51.8	She's free mama, hands free life and her latest, which is called Only Love to Date.
0:57.8	So Rachel started her career as a special ed teacher.
1:00.2	She's a master's in education.
1:01.4	And so after doing that amazing work for 10 years, in 2010, and we'll talk all about this,
1:07.5	Rachel felt compelled to start the hands free mama blog and she's going to tell you
1:11.6	what that means and why.
1:13.5	But at hands free mama, she sort of documents her journey to let go of all these like daily
1:19.2	distractions.
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