Meagan Briggs: "Want to Be a Bookworm Even As a Busy Mom? Here's How to Make it Happen!"

About Progress

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What if you never saw yourself as a “reader”—until one book club invitation changed everything? In this inspiring session, Meagan Briggs shares her unexpected journey from reading just one book a year to devouring over 150 annually—all while navigating the chaos and beauty of motherhood. Discover how she found connection, fulfillment, and a new sense of self through books, and why it’s never too late to reclaim a hobby that lights you up. Packed with practical tips, honest reflections, and a few can’t-miss book recommendations, this conversation will leave you rethinking what’s possible to turn the page and prioritie a new hobby in your own life. FREEBIE for all: Meagan's Book Club Current Top Reads Get the Basic Pass to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written. Meagan has been gushing about books on Bookstagram for over six years. Based in Colorado and a mom of four, she squeezes in reading time between school runs, snack refills, and recording episodes of her bookish podcast. She’s all about buzzy new releases, emotional book club picks, and audiobooks that make chores feel magical. If it’s twisty, heartfelt, or totally unputdownable, chances are Meagan’s already posted about it (and convinced you to read it too). FOLLOW ON IG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,
0:06.2	The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,
0:11.9	habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available
0:17.1	on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and
0:22.1	audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the
0:27.4	conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now
0:33.4	on to our special session.
0:43.8	Thank you. on to our special session. Megan Briggs, it's such a joy to have you part of the More for Mom's Conference. Thanks for being here.
0:48.9	Thank you so much for having me. I truly feel like such a special girl to be invited to this. Okay, that makes me feel so good
0:56.9	because the feeling is mutual. This is something that I have been looking forward to talking about.
1:02.0	Also because it's something that at one point in my life was real natural for me and then it fell off.
1:07.9	And then it was something I had to build my way back up to. And I'm sure a lot of women relate to that, this desire to have a hobby of reading in their life.
1:16.0	So I wanted to begin with your own Bachelor Word journey with reading.
1:20.6	We love that.
1:21.3	Yeah, don't we love that?
1:22.7	I want to hear about if you've always been a reader, and even more more I want to hear how your reading path has been
1:29.1	as a mom. Oh, perfect. So I am probably the non-typical route. I was not a reader growing up at all.
1:39.1	I think I just read what was expected. You know, I read Twilight. I read The Hunger Games, Harry Potter,
1:47.6	you know, just kind of the big named book series that were all around us all the time growing up,
1:54.2	you know, as a millennial. And around the time when I had my third baby, and I was taking my kids to the library all the time,
2:05.1	story time, you know, bonding with fellow moms in the same season.
2:10.5	And I wasn't really around women who were, I guess, prioritizing books.
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