Episode 178 What Would You Do with the Gift of Time? with guest Emily Gibson

About this episode

Erin and Emily discuss how to effectively use unexpected free time through intentional planning and the Found Fridays project.

What do you do when life hands you unexpected free time — not a vacation, not a long weekend, but a recurring, reliable gift of unstructured hours every single week? That's exactly the situation Erin's best friend of over 30 years, Emily Gibson, found herself in when a shift in her employment created free Fridays from now through the end of the year. Instead of defaulting to scrolling, guilt, or vague intentions, Emily got intentional. She designed the Found Fridays project — a personal framework and Instagram series where every Friday is planned with purpose, organized into meaningful categories including rest and relaxation, house and home, friends and family, and fun and festive. Each Friday has a specific activity. Each activity is chosen on purpose. In this episode, Erin and Emily explore what it actually takes to move from "I have free time" to "I used that time in a way I'm proud of" — and why most of us fail to bridge that gap, even when the intention is there. What You'll Hear in This Episode How Emily went from a long weekend of wasted potential to designing a full semester of intentional Fridays Why she created categories instead of a to-do list — and how that…

People in this episode

Host: Erin Vandeven

Guest: Emily Gibson

Topics covered

• time management
• intentional living
• personal development
• accountability
• self-care

Keywords

• free time
• Found Fridays
• intentional planning
• self-improvement
• accountability

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