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Northstar Unplugged

#049. Brigid Schulte: author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time

May 3, 2021
01:03:08

Brigid Schulte is a journalist, public speaker, and program director of the Better Life Lab, the work-family justice and gender equity program at the nonpartisan think tank New America. She’s also the author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, gender and modern life, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time, which was named one of the notable books of the year by the Washington Post and NPR, and won the Virginia Library Association’s literary nonfiction award.

Resources:
Brigid’s website, and  Facebook page.  Follow her on Twitter.
Better Life Lab
Better Life Lab Experiments (BLLx)
Caring for Dying Loved Ones is a Luxury Few Can Afford. I was Lucky.” (Brigid Schulte) The Washington Post
A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself” (Brigid Schulte) The Guardian
It's Time to Reset Your Relationship's Power Dynamics” (Brigid Schulte) Forge
The Third Path Institute

Brigid’s recommended books:
Finding Time (Heather Boushey)
What Works (Iris Bohnet)
The Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored) (Maxine Eichner)
Waiting for The Weekend (WItold Rybczynski)
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (Stuart Brown)
Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper)
Rest: Why Your Get More Done When You Work Less (Alex Soojung-Kim Pang)

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