Working Moms are Homemakers Too: From Hustle Culture to Intentionally Spending Time With Family
Today, we continue our discussion on being working moms and homemakers. Working women, along with busy moms everywhere, will gain life-giving insights on rejecting hustle culture and creating a home your family loves.
Episode # 103 – Working Moms Are Homemakers Too (part 2)
In this episode, I continue an interview with author, mom, and English professor Charity Gibson to dive into her inspiring and practical new book, The Working Homemaker: Employed Christian Moms Desiring a Thriving Home Life. We explore the countercultural, Christ-centered vision of homemaking, motherhood, and calling. She challenges the “you can have it all” narrative and invites us to consider a slower, more sacrificial, and ultimately more fulfilling way of living. A rejection of hustle culture to embrace one rooted in biblical values, limitations, and everyday faithfulness.
We discuss what it means to set the spinning plates down and nourish our families in meaningful, lasting ways. Whether you’re a working mom, stay-at-home mom, or somewhere in between, this episode will leave you feeling seen and encouraged in the season you’re in. And you’ll gain practical insights on how to be more intentional at spending time with family and creating a home you don’t want to escape from.
If you missed the first half of our conversation, head back to episode #102, Home Management for Working Moms.
In this episode, we discuss the following topics related to working moms as homemakers:
- Why men are better able to compartmentalize work and home, and the need for women to find a system where we can carry both roles (the nurturer and the career)
- How sacrifice and smallness reflect the servant-hearted life of Jesus
- Practical ways to protect what matters most — even if that means saying “no”
- Creating rhythms of connection through simple, meaningful family practices
- How to combat hustle culture by building a life you don’t have to escape from
- Staycations, grilled cheese dinners, and game nights as sacred acts of homemaking
- Understanding the difference between traditional and biblical values in family life
- Reframing guilt and regret as opportunities for grace, not condemnation
- Why moms are still the most important educators in our children’s lives
- Encouragement to weary moms: God sees your faithfulness, even when no one else does
Also mentioned: Episode #95 – Struggling to Accept God’s Will? Find Hope in Surrender…
Connect with Charity and read her monthly blog here.
And make sure to grab her amazing book, The Working Homemaker: Employed Christian Moms Desiring A Thriving Home Life. [1]
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