Visioning & Future Casting In Midlife
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Time is slippery—especially when you’re standing in midlife, looking both forward and back. Today Meagan and Sarah continue unpacking one of the most elusive and shape-shifting concepts we wrestle with: time. How do we imagine the future, how do we plan for it (tarot cards, anyone?), and how does our relationship to longterm planning and future-casting change in our forties? We explore the common traps we fall into when envisioning what’s next, the lessons that still haven’t quite landed, and how midlife has reshaped our goals, timelines, and even the way we dream. Join us!
This is Part 3 of a three-part series about Time running this spring. Check out Part 1: On Balance & Busy-ness and Part 2: Time-Saving, Time-Shifting, Time-Surrendering.
HELPFUL LINKS:
- Meagan mentioned the author Jon Acuff
- Episodes From The Archives About Time
- 7 Habits Of Moms Who Make Time For Reading: Episode 492
- The Lazy Genius Helps Fix Our Time Management Troubles: Episode 485
- Time Management For The Season You’re In: Episode 483
OTHER HELPFUL LINKS:
- Order Meagan’s book: The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Read: How We Let Our Kids Go and Embrace What’s Next
- Visit our website
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Megan. |
| 0:01.8 | And I'm Sarah. |
| 0:02.7 | We're two moms with eight kids between us, and we're the hosts of The Mom Hour. |
| 0:06.9 | On this show, we're joined by a team of unique mom voices from across the country and in different stages of motherhood to bring you tips, ideas, and encouragement. |
| 0:15.3 | And to help you feel a little less alone. |
| 0:17.3 | We all know that motherhood is a lot easier when real moms share honest truths and remind |
| 0:22.0 | each other that it's all going to be okay. We're not experts. We're parents who've been there. |
| 0:26.4 | We're not perfect. We're real. Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:31.1 | Hey everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I am Sarah Powers here on a Friday with Megan |
| 0:36.2 | Frances. Hey, Megan. Hey, Sarah. Well, we are wrapping up a three-part |
| 0:41.7 | series that has been very loosely around the concept of time. So we're coming to you in June. |
| 0:49.0 | Back in May, you heard us talk about time saving and then we didn't really talk about time saving. |
| 0:55.0 | I was going to say, I feel like this whole series has been where we started to talk about |
| 0:58.6 | something and then it diverted and we ended up talking about something. |
| 1:01.6 | Like we basically just debunked concepts. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, this is where we are 10 years into this podcast is you all may want tips about |
| 1:10.1 | time saving and tricks about |
| 1:11.6 | productivity. And we're here to say, mostly there's no such thing. Let's just agree. No, but very |
| 1:19.3 | loosely back in April, we did talk about balance and busyness and how we each relate to those |
| 1:26.9 | concepts and how hard it is to kind of find |
| 1:29.3 | your sweet spot. |
| 1:30.1 | We got a lot of nice feedback about that episode. |
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