About the Author

Betsy Talbot can't live without a Moleskine notebook, her passport, and happy hour. She sold everything she owned to travel the world with her husband Warren in 2010, and she's been enjoying her midlife crisis ever since. Betsy writes about creating the life you want from the life you already have in her books and on the Married with Luggage website. Drop her an email at btalbot (at) marriedwithluggage (dot) com and check out her Google+ page.

Encore Podcast #71: Why You Only Get 3 Chances at Love with Ty Tashiro, PhD

August 19, 2015 by Betsy

A note from Married with Luggage: we are taking the month of August to enjoy visiting Galicia, Spain. We’re housesitting in a motorhome and decided to leave our microphone behind. Instead we are sharing a few of our most popular episodes of the last 2.5 years. Whether you are listening for the first time or have […]

Worth exploring

The Stunt Husband by Catharine Bramkamp

August 6, 2015 by Betsy

Editor’s Note: Guest author Catharine Bramkamp is a popular author/award winning poet/ podcaster/ champion of Newbie Writers everywhere. She is a successful writing coach and author of a dozen books including the Real Estate Diva Mysteries series, The Future Girls series (Eternal Press) and editor of the Redwood poetry collection, And the Beats Go On. Her […]

Podcast #120: Getting Your Financial House in Order

July 1, 2015 by Betsy

Listen to the Show http://traffic.libsyn.com/marriedwithluggage/Podcast_120_-_Step_10_-_Get_your_financial_house_in_order.mp3 About This Episode Today we’re talking about how to make your money work for you instead of the other way around. This is the tenth step of The Best is Yet to Come Series, an exploration of the building blocks to create your best life, no matter what your age. […]

Breaking Up with the Bad: Step #3 in The Best is Yet to Come Series

May 17, 2015 by Betsy

We don’t know about you, but making that list of negatives back in step #1 was freeing. Simply saying what was wrong out loud lifted a giant weight from our chests. Griping was fun! It felt so good that we didn’t at first realize how quickly we needed to take action…until the feeling started to fade. […]

Calling in Sick

March 14, 2015 by Betsy

When he stayed in bed, I knew there was a problem. Warren is a leaper, seizing the day from the minute he wakes up. His hair was tangled and matted from rolling around in discomfort all night, and his eyes were watery and red. “I think I’m sick.” Warren had the flu, the full-on flu, […]

365 Shades of Love (or, How to Create an Annual Love Contract)

February 14, 2015 by Betsy

Today is Valentine’s Day, and we are not impressed. Not one little bit. We might get hate mail from Hallmark and Victoria’s Secret for saying it, but we don’t think one day a year is enough to show your partner how much you love each other. Especially if that one day is the highlight of your […]