“Overwhelmed” With Author Brigid Schulte

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Todd and Cathy Adams

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🗓️ 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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