Eve Rodsky is the New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) and its highly anticipated follow-up, Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World. A Harvard-trained lawyer and former foundational manager at J.P. Morgan, Rodsky combines her experience in organizational management and family mediation with the science connecting creativity with improved mental and physical health. Her step-by-step approach in Fair Play, which helps partners rebalance their domestic workload, has been recognized by Reese’s Book Club, Good Morning America, Today, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and other outlets. Rodsky lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

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Key takeaways 

• Feeling like a failure and blaming herself for not creating the life that everyone told her she could have. The idea that you can have it all and be it all is a lie (5:40)
• Our society has been built on the backs of the unpaid labor of women and it's a house of cards (8:25)
• Boundary setting means you have permission to be unavailable from your roles as a wife, mother, etc. (13:30)
• The importance of unicorn space and why women don’t feel like they have permission to take it (14:30)
• We regard men's time like diamonds and women's like sand (17:06)
• Guilt and shame is a tool to keep you quiet and submissive (20:57)
• Working together as a couple to decide what you value as a family (24:17)
• What matters to you? What life are you building? When you decide that together, neither of you can say something is unnecessary (28:33)

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