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Totally Booked with Zibby

Paula Faris, YOU DON'T HAVE TO CARRY IT ALL: Ditch the Mom Guilt and Find a Better Way Forward

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Julie Chavez interviews Emmy Award-winning journalist, speaker, and mom-of-three Paula Faris about her latest book, You Don’t Have to Carry It All: Ditch the Mom Guilt and Find a Better Way Forward. Paula discusses her research on working moms in America, pointing out the systems and outdated gender expectations that continue to make their lives so challenging. She also talks about CARRY Media, the organization she founded (after abruptly losing her TV job), to advocate for and celebrate working moms through load-lessening content and resources.


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

0:06.7

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

0:14.9

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

0:21.9

Our books are already out now.

0:23.5

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

0:25.6

And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

0:31.2

features.

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That's at Zibbymag.com.

0:33.1

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

0:35.4

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop

0:40.3

at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

0:47.9

our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

0:56.1

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it.

1:02.8

Paula Ferris is the author of You Don't Have to Carry It All, Ditch the Mom Guilt,

1:06.7

and Find a Better Way Forward. This episode has been guest-hosted by Julie Chavez, podcast

1:12.0

hosts of Ask a Librarian, and author of the upcoming Zivie Books title Everyone But Myself.

1:18.0

Paula is the founder of Carrie Media, which advocates for working moms through load-lesonning content.

1:23.5

Prior to founding Carrie in 2022, she worked in network news, including anchoring Good Morning

1:28.3

America and co-hosting The View. She has interviewed the likes of Reese Witherspoon, Tiger Woods,

1:33.8

now President Joe Biden, and Nikki Haley. Paula Ferris lives in a small town in South Carolina

1:39.3

with her husband John and their three children. Paula, welcome to moms don't have time to read books. I'm so happy

1:45.9

you're here today. I am so thrilled to be here today. And we've just like had a blast getting to

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