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Tales of a SAHD: How Tough Could It Be?

Kentfield, CA 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 Armstrong?s, 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, America?s 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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