Today's episode is entitled The Trouble With Hustle Culture.

Hustle culture is the idea or the message that our productivity is the most valuable thing about us. Or that if you work harder and faster and more that somehow your value increases.

The reality is that lessons on the dangers of hustle culture are often learned by burnout. The messages of 'rise and grind' or 'if you want it hard enough' also lack so much nuance, context and real life grounding around peoples differing responsibilities, accessibility, of mental health needs, of time constraints, of financial obstacles, of physical abilities. And when we hold this culture up as the one that is the pinnacle and fob all of that contextual stuff off as ‘excuses’ then the damage is absolutely real.

So today I want to talk through four ways that I see hustle culture seeping into how we are expected to work today, why it’s a troubling message and what the alternative is.