“Overwhelmed” With Author Brigid Schulte
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Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd talk with Brigid Schulte, award-winning journalist for The Washington Post, and author of Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time. She shares why busyness has become the new status symbol, why moms are still the default caregivers/home managers, how kids are absorbing our stress, and why we should find more time for the present.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Todd Adams. |
| 0:07.0 | And this is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:11.0 | We have a conversation with people we love. |
| 0:14.0 | We have an author named Bridget Schulte. |
| 0:16.0 | She is the author of Overwhelmed, How to Work, Love, and Play when no one else has the time. |
| 0:22.7 | It's a New York Times bestseller, sweetie. |
| 0:24.3 | I know. |
| 0:24.8 | How about that? |
| 0:25.3 | I know. |
| 0:26.0 | So who is Bridgett? |
| 0:27.1 | Bridgett's an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and the Washington Post magazine. |
| 0:31.4 | She's part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. |
| 0:34.3 | That's crazy. |
| 0:35.1 | I know. |
| 0:35.5 | It's crazy. I know. It's amazing. I just found that out when I opened up the cover of your book. |
| 0:39.1 | She is also a fellow at the New American America Foundation. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, |
| 0:44.3 | with her husband and two children. So Bridget, welcome to Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:49.6 | Thank you so much for having me. I'm big fans. Oh, well, thank you. We're big fans of you. So, |
| 0:55.4 | Kathy and I want to kind of dive right in, but first we need to kind of give the listeners kind of a |
| 1:00.5 | heads up of what your book is all about. So I think you'd probably be able to do it a little bit |
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