Time to Parent: Julie Morgenstern on Raising a Human While Being One (TPS612)

The Productivity Show

Asian Efficiency

Management, Education, Careers, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

How do you stay productive, present, and sane while raising kids who seem to change the rules on you every few years? Julie Morgenstern — New York Times bestselling author of Time to Parent — has spent 30 years helping people answer exactly that question, and she brings a refreshingly framework-driven approach to one of […]

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0:00.0	Thanks to Select Quote for supporting the Productivity Show.
0:02.7	Get the right life insurance for you, for less, and save more than 50% at selectquote.com slash TPS.
0:15.1	Welcome to The Productivity Show, a podcast by Asian Efficiency to help you maximize your productivity so you can get everything
0:21.7	done without having to sacrifice your health, family, and things that matter to you.
0:26.8	We've helped tens of thousands of people save time, be happier, and become more productive.
0:32.1	It's Brooks here, and today I'm speaking to Julie Morganstern, who is the author of five books,
0:36.4	including the New York Times bestsellers
0:38.2	organizing from the inside out and time management from the inside out, both great books.
0:43.4	We're going to drill down into the topic of parenting and ways you can organize your life to bring out the best in your child and in yourself.
0:50.8	We get into a framework she's developed to do this, and you know how we love frameworks here on
0:54.7	the productivity show. The framework comes from Julie's book, Time to Parent. You can find links to
1:01.7	everything that we share in the show notes by going to the productivity show.com, and now on with the show.
1:08.0	All right, Julie Morganstern, super happy to have you on the productivity show. So welcome.
1:13.0	Thank you. I'm excited to talk to you. Great. And I'm super happy to have you on for a bunch of
1:18.6	different reasons. But one of the reasons is that longtime podcast listeners will know that the podcast
1:23.5	was started by a few kind of young dudes who are not, and as far as I know, still not,
1:28.3	even close to having families. And so a lot of advice in the early days for the podcasts and of
1:34.3	the blog going back to 2011, we'd have a lot of feedback that would say, yeah, sure,
1:41.2	these time management tips are great and they are, but they work for you when you're a
1:45.7	single guy, but for me with a family, you know, I consider my morning a success if all my kids
1:51.5	make it out of the house with their clothes that are at least the right side out. So, you know,
1:56.9	we have a lot of that feedback that, you know, we need some time management tips for people who actually have families. Now, things are a lot different now than those
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