The Perfect Graduation Gift — with Great Life Advice
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Christina Geist, bestselling children’s book author and brand guru, wrote Before You Fly Away: Life Lessons from Home, a beautifully illustrated gift book. It’s chockfull of short thoughts and sayings that Christina put together to help her kids out in the world. But really, it’s going to help all our kids. And, perhaps, us, too. Stay tuned on my Instagram for a giveaway this week!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at |
| 0:40.9 | Zibby Owens. Christina Geist is the author of Before You Fly Away, Life Lessons from Home. You might hear |
| 0:50.5 | my kids behind me because they have not flown away. Christina's latest book, Before You Fly Away, Life Lessons from Home originated as a self-published |
| 0:58.9 | gift for her college-bound daughter and became number one parenting book on Amazon. |
| 1:03.2 | International Gift Book publisher Andrews McMill is now re-releasing the book to reach parents |
| 1:08.2 | everywhere. |
| 1:09.1 | Christina is the New York Times best-selling author of three |
| 1:11.7 | children's picture books, including the beloved, sorry grown-ups, you can't go to school. |
| 1:16.6 | I thought I was going to say the other one, but Buddy's Bedtime Battery and other books. |
| 1:22.2 | Christina is the co-founder of True Geist, a branding and design firm serving corporate and consumer |
| 1:26.8 | brands around the world, and the founder and former CEO of a custom memory box company, Boombox Gifts. She lives in |
| 1:32.8 | New York with her husband, Willie Geist, host of NBC's Sunday Today and MSNBC's Morning Joe, |
| 1:39.4 | and their children, Lucy and George. Welcome back, Christina, for what, I don't know, like the 10th time that we've |
| 1:45.2 | talked about your books on the show to talk about before you fly away, life lessons from home. |
| 1:50.9 | Congratulations. Thank you, Zibi. It's good to be back. It is true. I feel like you've been the |
| 1:55.5 | most generous friend and supporter. I was just thinking about the first time I was on the podcast, and I think it was |
| 2:01.5 | with, sorry, grown-ups, you can't go to school, which was 2019. So I'd like to consider myself one of the, |
| 2:08.5 | like, OG podcast authors. And it's such an honor to be back. And I really have enjoyed watching |
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