TPP 029a: How to Live a Satisfying Life While Raising a Differently-Wired Kid, with Samantha Ettus
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is Samantha Ettus’s background and why is she a work‑life balance expert?
Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. Every Friday I'll re-release one of my favorite conversations from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, you just may get something completely different listening to it this time around.
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 Player FM. 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 were 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.
How does Samantha define the challenges that working moms face?
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.
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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Samantha Ettus’s background and why is she a work‑life balance expert?
0:00–3:37
2
How does Samantha define the challenges that working moms face?
3:37–7:15
3
What is the core concept of “The Pie Life” and who is it for?
7:15–10:45
4
How can parents practice intentional parenting with empathy for a differently‑wired child?
10:45–14:12
5
Why is self‑care critical for moms and what simple daily habits can they adopt?
14:12–18:10
6
How can partners be brought into the parenting loop and avoid the “partner‑shift” trap?
18:10–21:24
7
What are the seven “slices” of the Pie Life framework and how do they help balance work and family?
21:24–24:58
8
What practical steps can listeners take right now to start living a more fulfilling, messy life?
24:58–29:21
Speakers
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