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Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Zibby Owens

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9609 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Author and podcaster Zibby Owens joins Rhett from her home in New York City to talk about her uninhibited creative process, her detailed approach to research and the importance of trying new things. Libby explains the genesis of “Moms Don’t Have Time To…” and why you will probably have to invent your dream job.  Zibby Owens is the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. Zibby, named “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” by New York Magazine’s Vulture, conducts warm, inquisitive conversations with authors, making her show a top literary podcast as selected by Oprah.com in 2019 and 2020. She also created the Moms Don’t Have Time to Lose Weight community and hosts the accompanying podcast. Zibby is the Editor-in-Chief of Moms Don’t Have Time to Write, a Medium.com publication. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Your Volkswagen ID electric car is so easy to charge, it becomes part of your nightly routine,

0:05.7

just like plugging in your phone, finishing that chapter of your book, or switching off the

0:11.4

bedside lamp.

0:13.4

The ID is so easy to charge, you can do it in your sleep.

0:18.1

Night night, night. Drive electric with the Volkswagen ID range.

0:22.5

Plug in and charge overnight.

0:23.8

Home wallbox recommended.

0:25.3

Off-street parking required.

0:26.7

Three-pinned plug charging available with optional cable sold separately.

0:30.3

Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

0:35.2

I'm Rhett Miller.

0:36.8

That's when they got wheels off. They started up and we anchor. of the creative life. I'm Rhett Miller.

0:57.1

You are going to have to wake up with if you want to keep up with Zibby Owens.

1:00.6

What a force of nature!

1:08.0

To say that she has a lot going on is to discredit the idea of a lot.

1:10.1

She has a lot going on.

1:15.9

She's been the host and brains behind and engine behind any number of projects under the moms don't have time to umbrella. The main thing I think that

1:24.4

people know are from is the moms don't have time to read books podcast that she's been doing for the last three years. But as you will hear during the course

1:31.5

of this interview, she has done a lot. Apparently she has time. Like I said, we woke up pretty

1:39.2

early for the conversation you're about to hear. But she had already recorded an interview of her own before we

1:47.4

even logged on. Zibby Owens is a super positive, inspiring, fun, supportive human being. She is one of those people that loves art and

2:09.4

creativity and does everything to bolster it and support it and shine light on it. She makes

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