{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"How Does She Do It?","title":"Stop Waiting Until the Kids Are Older: Making Time for Your Dreams in Motherhood | Kim Galloway","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3996,"description":"There is probably something you keep telling yourself you’ll get to when life settles down.\nMaybe it’s a book you want to write, a business you want to start, something creative you want to make or a skill you’ve been wanting to learn. You mean it when you say you’re going to do it, but motherhood is full, life keeps moving, and “when I have more time” can quietly turn into years.\nKim Galloway has learned to work with the life and time she actually has.\nKim is a bestselling author of more than 20 books, book coach, publisher and mother of four. She is raising four young children on a ranch, homeschooling, running a business and navigating a marriage shaped by her husband’s rotating work schedule. In the middle of all of that, she continues to write, build and make room for the things that matter to her.\nA big part of how she does it is knowing what deserves her time in the first place.\nIn this conversation, Kim and I talk about using small pockets of time to make meaningful progress, deciding whether the “juice is worth the squeeze,” protecting your priorities and giving yourself permission to invest time, money and energy into something that matters to you too.\nHere’s what you’ll hear in this episode:\n\n• How Kim decides what actually deserves her time: From her “half of the half” approach to asking whether the “juice is worth the squeeze,” Kim shares how she separates meaningful work from activity that only looks productive.\n• How small pockets of time can move a big dream forward: We talk about writing in 15-minute increments, using everyday moments as thinking time and letting go of the idea that meaningful work requires hours of uninterrupted space.\n• Why support matters when you’re pursuing something of your own: Kim explains why coaching, education and outside help can make it easier to keep going after the initial excitement wears off.\n• What our children learn when they see Mom pursuing her own dreams too: We talk about the example we set when our...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fBbtiFUFeYpYnvya2DhqAm2O6ty0INAzkt-vvAIICTE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80M2Nh/YjZjZTBiNTI1ZDY1/ODcyN2VmYmQ4NDMw/NTJiOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}