TPP 029: Lifestyle Expert Samantha Ettus on Finding Work-Life Balance as a Mom
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Why do we feel guilty for taking time for ourselves and how does it affect our parenting?
You know, we we tend to feel guilty when we go out with friends or go out with our partner or, you know, go to work, but these are the things that actually make us better at being a good parent or a good sister or a good friend or a good, you know, wife. These are the things that make us happier and more fulfilled. And when we're happier and more fulfilled, we naturally do all of those other jobs better. We become better friends, better sisters, better wives when we're feeling happy and more fulfilled. And that makes us better parents to our children.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today I am happy to be bringing to the show author and media personality Samantha Edis, who is right smack in the middle of a very busy book tour for her new book, The Pie Life: A Guilt-Free Recipe for Success and Satisfaction. I really wanted to bring Sam on the show because I don't think we as parents of differently wired kids spend enough time thinking about ourselves and what we need to keep ourselves feeling inspired and fulfilled. And that's what her book is all about. As you'll hear, Samantha is also a big advocate for women and girls and has spent many years in the trenches doing work to support working moms in all areas of their lives.
But before we get to the interview, I have a quick message for new listeners to the Tilt Podcast. Well, more of an invitation to subscribe to us on iTunes or Stitcher or Podbean or PlayerFM. We release new episodes every week. It's hard to believe this is our 29th episode today, and we have so many powerful interviews coming up, including one with eye-to-eye founder David Flink, an episode specifically on girls on the Spectrum and a really powerful episode on managing relationships with our own parents and in-laws as we do our best to parent our unique kids. Okay, so there's my pitch. We hope you subscribe. And as always, thanks for listening to the Tilt Parenting Podcast. To learn more about Tilt, visit www.tiltparenting.com.
Hey everyone, Debbie Reber here with the Tilt Parenting Podcast. And today I'm speaking with a super inspiring woman, mother, author, speaker, and media personality, Samantha Edis. Welcome to the show, Samantha. Hi, Debbie. Thanks so much for having me. Well, and of course I know you as Sam. Um, you and I go way back and I was trying to think about how long we've known each other. It must have been nineteen ninety eight or ninety. When you're not going to be able to do We are both working on the Nickelodeon preschool show Blues Clues and watching you from afar, your career take off it's been really cool to watch.
That's how I feel about you.
And I'm excited to have you on the show today because you have a brand new book out. I think the TILD audience will find super interesting. It's called The Pie Life, a Guilt-Free Recipe for Success and Satisfaction. So I first of all want to congratulate you on the book. I know it's generating a lot of buzz. You've already been on you've been doing the the morning show circuit, the today show, Good Morning America, among others. And I appreciate you making time to swing by our modest little podcast here and to share your goodness. So thank you.
Thank you. No, I have so much respect for what you're doing and I love your show and I'm so excited. Yeah. Thank you.
Before we talk about the book, could you tell us just a bit about yourself and your family? Kind of put us put it in context.
Who is Samantha Ettus and what experiences shaped her perspective on work‑life balance?
Sure. I am a mom of three kids. Ella, who's ten, Ruby who's nine. I have to keep r practicing that because she just turned nine on Sunday. And Bowen, who is six, my baby boy. And I'm married and I live in California. Used to live in New York, grew up in New York. We moved five years ago. with no friends and no family. And those stories are in the book. All those stories of my failed first dates with other women.
We've all been there.
Yeah, exactly. And that's me.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do we feel guilty for taking time for ourselves and how does it affect our parenting?
0:00–3:31
2
Who is Samantha Ettus and what experiences shaped her perspective on work‑life balance?
3:31–7:24
3
What is ‘The Pie Life’ and who can benefit from its guilt‑free recipe for success?
7:24–10:55
4
How does the ‘seven‑slice’ pie framework redefine work‑life balance for busy moms?
10:55–14:26
5
What is intentional parenting and how can empathy replace exhaustive discipline?
14:26–18:14
6
Why is self‑care essential for parents of differently‑wired kids and what simple habits help?
18:14–21:51
7
How can partners shift their roles to support each other and reduce caregiver burnout?
21:51–25:31
8
What inspired the pie metaphor and how can embracing a ‘messy’ life improve satisfaction?
25:31–29:01
Speakers
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