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Parents Making Time with Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Intentional Parenting for Busy Parents episodes
- How to Stand Out at Work Part 2
In this follow-up to last week’s episode, we continue our deep dive into how you can stand out at work and make a meaningful impact in your organization. We explore the power of innovative thinking, how to present ideas that actually get noticed, and the key questions to ask when identifying opportunities for improvement. Plus, I share a real-world example from my own career that helped increase efficiency and profitability.
Not all ideas are equal—so how do you ensure yours are valuable? Tune in to learn how to think strategically, use data to back up your suggestions, and avoid common pitfalls that could undermine your efforts.
Easily improve your intentional parenting efforts at mealtime with our FREE resource, Dinner Conversation Starters.
Download our FREE resource, 30-Second Micro Moments of Intention with Your Kids, created for busy parents like you who need easy, actionable ways to have daily meaningful connections with their kids in less than a minute!
Parenting Questions? Email us at [email protected] (Please note, your question may be featured on the show).
For parenting inspiration, time management ideas, and encouragement for families, follow the hosts' individual accounts:
Anthony Craiker: Instagram | LinkedIn
Jennifer Craiker: Instagram
Interested in joining our free online parenting community? Send us a DM to receive an invite!
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://www.parentsmakingtime.com/
Enjoy the show? Leave a rating & review: Apple | Spotify
...26 min - How to Stand Out at Work Part 1
In this episode, we kick off a two-part series on how to stand out at work and become an indispensable employee. Whether you're aiming for a promotion, a raise, or simply greater job satisfaction, these principles will help you make a meaningful contribution to your organization.
Drawing inspiration from Seth Godin’s book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, we explore five key strategies to gain credibility, be seen as a valuable asset, and position yourself for success in your career. You'll learn:
✔️ The importance of executing your role with excellence
✔️ How to build credibility and earn respect from colleagues and supervisors
✔️ Why positivity and adaptability set you apart in the workplace
✔️ The dangers of workplace gossip and how to avoid it
✔️ When (and when not) to offer suggestions for improvementWe also discuss how to start thinking innovatively, ask the right questions about company systems, and present ideas that can boost efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
Tune in now to discover how you can elevate your career, make a lasting impact, and create fulfilling work!
Easily improve your intentional parenting efforts at mealtime with our FREE resource, Dinner Conversation Starters.
Download our FREE resource, 30-Second Micro Moments of Intention with Your Kids, created for busy parents like you who need easy, actionable ways to have daily meaningful connections with their kids in less than a minute!
Parenting Questions? Email us at [email protected] (Please note, your question may be featured on the show).
For parenting inspiration, time management ideas, and encouragement for families, follow the hosts' individual accounts:
Anthony Craiker: Instagram | LinkedIn
Jennifer Craiker: Instagram
Interested in joining our free online parenting community? Send us a DM to receive an invite!
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://www.parentsmakingtime.com/
Enjoy the show? Leave a rating & review: Apple | Spotify
...22 min - BONUS EPISODE: Our Experience at Podfest Multimedia Expo 2025
In this short bonus episode, Anthony is joined by his wife, Jennifer Craiker, to talk about their experience attending Podfest Multimedia Expo earlier this month. They discuss some of the highlights of the conference, including a keynote presentation from John Lee Dumas and Kate Erickson Dumas from Entrepreneurs on Fire. Jennifer and Anthony also reflect on how sharing the message of Fulfilling Work, Meaningful Life with the world through podcasting brings meaning and fulfillment into their lives.
Show Links:- Podfest Multimedia Expo
- Check out Alex Sanfilippo's company: PodMatch
- Rita Goodroe
- Check out Courtney Elmer's company: PodLaunch
Easily improve your intentional parenting efforts at mealtime with our FREE resource, Dinner Conversation Starters.
Download our FREE resource, 30-Second Micro Moments of Intention with Your Kids, created for busy parents like you who need easy, actionable ways to have daily meaningful connections with their kids in less than a minute!
Parenting Questions? Email us at [email protected] (Please note, your question may be featured on the show).
For parenting inspiration, time management ideas, and encouragement for families, follow the hosts' individual accounts:
Anthony Craiker: Instagram | LinkedIn
Jennifer Craiker: Instagram
Interested in joining our free online parenting community? Send us a DM to receive an invite!
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://www.parentsmakingtime.com/
Enjoy the show? Leave a rating & review: Apple | Spotify
...11 min - Five Practical Ways to Embrace Change
In this episode of Fulfilling Work, Meaningful Life, host Anthony Craiker dives into one of life’s inevitable certainties—change. Drawing from personal stories, timeless wisdom, and career coaching insights, Anthony explores how embracing change can lead to personal development, meaningful work, and a more fulfilling life. Whether you’re navigating a job loss, a major life transition, or simply feeling stuck, this episode provides actionable strategies to help you redefine what’s possible and thrive in the face of adversity.
Listen now to discover how you can flip the script on life’s challenges and create a path filled with growth, resilience, and purpose.
George Clooney scene from Up in the Air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkX-TPaodoM&t=18s (explicit language)
Coach Jim Harbaugh quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i81czbJYfk
Article from the American Psychological Association on building resilience: https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience/building-your-resilienceEasily improve your intentional parenting efforts at mealtime with our FREE resource, Dinner Conversation Starters.
Download our FREE resource, 30-Second Micro Moments of Intention with Your Kids, created for busy parents like you who need easy, actionable ways to have daily meaningful connections with their kids in less than a minute!
Parenting Questions? Email us at [email protected] (Please note, your question may be featured on the show).
For parenting inspiration, time management ideas, and encouragement for families, follow the hosts' individual accounts:
Anthony Craiker: Instagram | LinkedIn
Jennifer Craiker: Instagram
Interested in joining our free online parenting community? Send us a DM to receive an invite!
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://www.parentsmakingtime.com/
Enjoy the show? Leave a rating & review: Apple | Spotify
...21 min - The Legacy of Dan Miller and 48 Days to the Work You Love
This week, Host Anthony Craiker talks about the life and legacy of Dan Miller, popular author, speaker, podcaster, coach, and entrepreneur (or as Dan would say, "Eaglepreneur"). Anthony discusses Dan's popular book, 48 Days to the Work You Love, which provides a roadmap full of wisdom and practical advice for finding the work and life you love. Anthony also shares his own story about how this book inspired and helped him early in his career as a young attorney. Whether you're a Dan Miller follower or are just hearing about him for the first time, this episode will encourage you to find and create fulfilling work and a meaningful life!
Easily improve your intentional parenting efforts at mealtime with our FREE resource, Dinner Conversation Starters.
Download our FREE resource, 30-Second Micro Moments of Intention with Your Kids, created for busy parents like you who need easy, actionable ways to have daily meaningful connections with their kids in less than a minute!
Parenting Questions? Email us at [email protected] (Please note, your question may be featured on the show).
For parenting inspiration, time management ideas, and encouragement for families, follow the hosts' individual accounts:
Anthony Craiker: Instagram | LinkedIn
Jennifer Craiker: Instagram
Interested in joining our free online parenting community? Send us a DM to receive an invite!
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://www.parentsmakingtime.com/
Enjoy the show? Leave a rating & review: Apple | Spotify
...29 min - Introduction to Fulfilling Work, Meaningful Life
In this episode, host Anthony Craiker introduces Fulfilling Work, Meaningful Life and shares some of his personal story. He also discusses the meaning deficit many experience in their lives and highlights upcoming topics for future episodes.
Easily improve your intentional parenting efforts at mealtime with our FREE resource, Dinner Conversation Starters.
Download our FREE resource, 30-Second Micro Moments of Intention with Your Kids, created for busy parents like you who need easy, actionable ways to have daily meaningful connections with their kids in less than a minute!
Parenting Questions? Email us at [email protected] (Please note, your question may be featured on the show).
For parenting inspiration, time management ideas, and encouragement for families, follow the hosts' individual accounts:
Anthony Craiker: Instagram | LinkedIn
Jennifer Craiker: Instagram
Interested in joining our free online parenting community? Send us a DM to receive an invite!
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://www.parentsmakingtime.com/
Enjoy the show? Leave a rating & review: Apple | Spotify
...17 min
About Parents Making Time with Anthony & Jennifer Craiker | Intentional Parenting for Busy Parents
From the publisher's feed
Parents! Feel like you’re missing out on your kids’ lives while also never having enough time for yourself? Want to embrace intentional parenting but don't quite know how? Career pressures,…
shuttling kids around, volunteer commitments, and the endless tasks of caring for your home all place enormous demands on your time and energy, leading to mom guilt, dad guilt, stress, and ultimately regret. And while you’re trying to tend to your own self-care while also being a present parent who prioritizes family connection, your kids are growing up way too fast.
Sound familiar? If so—help is here! Unlike other parenting podcasts that just give you techniques for raising children or tips on childhood development, Parents Making Time focuses on helping YOU, the parent, prioritize YOUR life so that your parenting aligns with your values. Motherhood, fatherhood, marriage, and family are what we are all about. In 15-minutes or less, this weekly podcast helps busy parents like you learn to prioritize their relationships, be more present and intentional with family time, and build a lasting legacy of love—without neglecting their own well-being or feeling regret later in life. It's not just about learning to prioritize tasks or mastering time management, it's about becoming the parent you want to be so that you can stop feeling overwhelmed, learn how to have more time, and create lasting family memories.
Leveraging their 20+ years of parenting experience raising three thriving kids and leading and mentoring hundreds of children, youth, and families in volunteer church positions, hosts Anthony and Jennifer Craiker teach parents on a tight schedule how to balance work and family, create unbreakable family bonds, prevent parent burnout, and find JOY in parenting. In other words, we help you stop being busy and start actually applying the concept of intentional living.
If you’re ready to prioritize family time each day without feeling overwhelmed, you can count on this show to teach you how to be fully present with your kids, build lasting memories, prioritize your spouse, make dinner time count, connect with your kids after work, stop missing precious moments, savor family time, discover intentional parenting ideas, and so much more—all while learning how to implement quick self-care tips, create an intentional family legacy, and parent with no regret. So, hit PLAY, and let’s get started!
Popular Topics Include:
Intentional parenting
Present parenting
Self-care for parents
How to have meaningful connections with your kids
Work life balance
Mom guilt and Dad guilt
Building family bonds
Parenting anxiety
Time management
Motherhood
Fatherhood
Family life and routines
Tips for busy parents
Parenting in a digital world
Leaving a legacy