Tales of a SAHD: How Tough Could It Be?

Austin Murphy and his wife decided to trade places, so she could renew her writing career and he could enjoy his 8 and 6 year old children and get a break from his job as senior writer for Sports Illustrated Magazine. Asking "How Tough Could It Be," Murphy got a jolt of consciousness raising as he volunteered at school, directed the morning traffic circle, learned to cook and clean and wash, and tended to his children in sickness and in health. Murphy recounts parts of his experience on Internet radio program "Full Power Living" on Tuesday, 8 a.m. PST, August 17, 2004 on VoiceAmerica.com

Kentfield, CA (PRWEB) August 10, 2004 -- Sports Illustrated senior writer Austin Murphy, author of How Tough Could It Be? appears on Internet Radio, Full Power Living," 8 a.m. Pacific Time on Voice America.Com. Murphy and his wife, Laura, conducted an experiment" of trading places, so that Murphy could stay home and raise Willa, 8 and Devin, 6. Becoming a SAHD (Stay At Home Dad) turned out to be more of a challenge than he thought! This program is rebroadcast at 8 p.m. Tuesdays and is available on VoiceAmerica.com archives three days post-broadcast. VoiceAmerica is the world's leading live talk radio network.

Austin Murphy has worked for 21 years as a Sports Illustrated writer, writing for at least 3 swimsuit editions, and only recently returning from covering the final days of the Tour De France, reporting on his friend, Lance Armstrongs, remarkable victory. He and his wife traded places for six months, leaving Murphy in charge of raising their children, making cupcakes for school, cooking all the meals and folding the laundry on the same day it was washed! Murphy went from asking How Tough Could It Be" to realizing a profound humility and appreciation regarding the job of being a stay-at-home-parent with small children.

Full Power Living, a program dedicated to the positive and proactive use of emotions as both a tool and a guidebook for creating the life people want to live, is an Internet radio show on VoiceAmerica.com, Americas voice, hosted by psychotherapist Ilene Dillon, M.S.W., airing at 8 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesdays. Dillon is a professional member of the National Speakers Association.

Austin Murphy, Senior writer for Sports Illustrated magazine and author of How Tough Could It Be? appears on the Internet radio program Full Power Living, 8 a.m. Tuesday, August 17th, 2004, on www.VoiceAmerica.com, recounting his emotional reactions and misadventures as a stay-at-home-dad trading places for six months with his wife.

For additional information, contact:

Ilene L. Dillon, Host

Full Power Living

905 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ste D

Kentfield, California 94904

www.EmotionalPro.com

1-866-385-5769

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