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Zibby Owens
CEO, Podcaster, Author
Zibby Owens is the CEO of Moms Don't Have Time To, a media company she founded featuring podcasts, publications, and communities.
Zibby hosts the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, which was the 2021 People’s Voice Webby Award Winner in 2021. She also hosts the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight and SexTok with Zibby and Tracey. All podcasts are on the Acast network.
She is the author/editor of the anthology Moms Don't Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology, all proceeds of which go to the Susan Felice Owens Program for Covid-19 Vaccine Research in honor of her late mother-in-law. She is the Editor-in Chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write, a Medium publication, and founder of The Zibby Awards, celebrating the overlooked parts of books. She also founded the Moms Don't Have Time To Fellowship, Moms Don’t Have Time to Travel, and Moms Don’t Have Time to Grieve.
Named “NYC's Top Book-fluencer" by Vulture and on Oprah's list of top literary podcasts two years in a row, Zibby is a frequent contributor to Good Morning America, The Washington Post, Good Day LA, and other media outlets. She has two children's books forthcoming from Flamingo, a Penguin Random House imprint, and another anthology, Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids, debuting 11/2/21. Her upcoming memoir, The Book Messenger, was acquired by Little A, an Amazon Publishing imprint, slated for publication in late 2022.
Zibby currently lives in New York with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and her four children ages 6 to 14. She always has a book nearby. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens.
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