Show Notes
00:02:08 — Bringing Awareness to the ‘Invisible Work’ Conversation
- Household inequalities that prevent us from exploring our creative space
- Going from a lawyer to a gender division of labor expert
- Her dreams of smashing glass ceilings to feeling emotionally and physically abandoned at work and at home
- The start of her Fair Play journey after becoming a mother of two
- Learning that 93% of household work is done by mothers
- Why invisible work remains unseen for late stage capitalist patriarchy to continue
- Pushing for equality in the school system
00:11:40 – Quantifying the “Sh*t I do” Spreadsheets for Maternal tasks
- Dispelling the conditioned belief placed on mothers to manage the household
- Create an ownership mindset with Fair Play cards
- How the ‘lead dad’ movement started creating more connection in their lives
- Turning the mom and dad job description into an even playing field
- Kelly’s take on her non-traditional household & addressing mom guilt
- Sharing the Magic Suit (invisible workload)
- Checking in with your partner to divide up the workload
- How taking ownership and accountability for mistakes creates new relationship dynamics
00:24:35 — Setting Boundaries, Systems, and Communication in the Home
- Learning to treat your home as the most important organization
- Applying her project management skills to her own home
- Setting boundaries around your ‘availability’ as a mother
- “Why did I have to earn my own personal time?”
- The generational disconnect: from selfless to selfish
- Women’s time being infinite like sand, and men’s time being finite like diamonds
- Changing the narrative that has led us to become compliant in our own oppression
00:38:08 — Protecting Your Unicorn Space
- 3 exercises to create curiosity, connection, and completion
- Defining your guilt & shame
- Setting up your Unicorn Space by outlining your values
- Creating the system behind setting boundaries
- Why stripping your values strips you of yourself
- Honoring your partner’s creative space
- Trade in assumptions for value-based decision making with Fair Play & Unicorn Space
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