PGK-Episode 159: Taking Your Time Back (with guest Christy Wright)

Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker

Dr. Meg Meeker

Kids & Family, Education, Parenting, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Women today typically deal with more stress than in past generations, and often struggle to find work/life balance. What is work/life balance? Is it a 50/50 split? How do mothers today juggle all that is required of them? Christy Wright, author of “Take Back Your Time: The Guilt-Free Guide to Life Balance”, provides tactical steps to create your own version of balance – where you get to decide what’s right for you! Dr. Meg & Guest Christy Wright (Part 1) Guest Christy Wright discusses the underlying narratives that mothers deal with on a regular basis, and provides a new definition of the word, balance. She poses the question, “What if balance isn’t something that you have to do, like a verb; what if it is something you can create in your life – to be able to feel a sense of balance in an out-of-balance world?” Another word for balance can be “peace” – You can be busy, and still be balanced, and at peace. You can be confident in your choices and decisions in how to spend your time. But how is this attained? Christy offers practical insights into what balance is, and provides 5 tactical steps to create your own version of balance in your life – you get to decide what’s right for you! Dr. Meg & Guest Christy Wright (Part 2) Dr. Meg and guest Christy Wright continue their engaging and informative conversation about balance, and how women can take back their time by creating their own balance that works for them. Fight the pressure of the culture that tries to tell you what a “good” mom is. Pinpoint what is stealing your time and energy. Decide what matters and then protect what matters by setting boundaries and saying no, when needed. It’s different for everyone. But the bottom line is: stop applying so much pressure on yourself. Find the balance that works for you, and begin to take back your time! FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode 159, “Take Back Your Time” and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SIX MILLION downloads! Subscribe, rate, and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools at www.meekerparenting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Blaze Pascal said, we spend most of our lives not truly living it all, but
0:05.6	shoring up goods for some time in the future when we can enjoy them, which
0:10.1	never comes, since we've incapacitated ourselves from enjoying the present.
0:16.0	It's no wonder that our waking hours are often filled with care and anxiety,
0:21.5	rarely with serenity.
0:25.0	Well, welcome to Parenting Great Kids. I'm your host, Dr. Meg Nieker, and this is episode number
0:33.0	159. You know, friends, my goal with every single podcast is to encourage you and give you the
0:40.5	tools that you need to be the parent you want to be. I don't want you to be the parent I want you
0:46.8	to be, but the parent you want to be, I interview the best child and adolescent experts around the
0:52.9	country to help you understand your kids and why they do what they do. My guess today is
1:01.2	Christie Wright. Christie's the number one national best-selling author of business boutique
1:07.5	and a certified business coach. Christie has a passion for equipping women with the knowledge
1:13.4	and steps they need to successfully run and grow a business. She's spoken to thousands across
1:19.6	the country at women's conferences, national business conferences, fortune 500 companies,
1:25.1	and her own sold out live events. All right, let's get to my interview with my dear friend,
1:33.2	Christie Wright. Well, Christie, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast. Today,
1:42.1	I'm so anxious to hear what you have to say about work, life balance, because of anybody
1:49.9	in the United States knows about it. It's you. Thanks for joining me. Oh my gosh, Meg. I just
1:55.3	love you. I've learned so much from you over the years. I'm so grateful for your friendship and
1:59.6	so excited to be here. So thanks for having me. You just wrote a fabulous book. Take back your time,
2:05.2	and it is so timely because your generation of mothers lives with so much stress.
2:13.6	Now, my generation of mothers, I'm 63. You know, we worked hard at our jobs. We worked hard at our
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