Women feel a tangle of cultural pressures when facing down a to-do list — pressures that many men simply do not.

Now, add a pandemic to the list and what do you get? A whole lot of women, pushed to the brink physically and emotionally as they try to juggle it all at the same time, with no break or escape.

Overscheduled and overwhelmed women need solutions right now, and that shouldn’t mean we have to lean out nor should we need superpowers. In this episode, we talk with Erin Falconer, the author of the first productivity book for women written in over a decade to explore the current state of women, work and family, including how the pandemic exposed and intensified the inequities between men and women.

Learn simple actions that will help you immediately gain better control of your days short-term and identify what we can do to achieve systemic changes necessary for long-term results so that we put an end to the antiquated aspiration of becoming superwoman.

 

Erin Falconer

ERIN FALCONER is an author, digital entrepreneur, and psychotherapist. In 2018, she released the critically acclaimed self-improvement/female empowerment book, How To Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need To Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything. Since 2008, she has been the editor-in-chief and co-owner of PickTheBrain (PTB). PickTheBrain is not only a great passion project but is also one of the most trusted self-improvement websites and communities on the web. It has been named Top Motivation Blogs for 2017 by WealthyGorilla and, in 2013, Forbes Magazine named PTB as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Sites for Women.” In 2014, the Wall Street Journal included Erin in their prestigious “Women of Note” network. She is also the co-founder of LEAFtv, a video lifestyle brand for the Millennial woman. Falconer’s next book, How To Break-Up with Your Friends: Establishing Boundaries in Modern Friendship, is out January 2022. @erinfalconer

 

Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee is a communication and human nature expert, and an award-winning journalist. She is a professional speaker, and also the author of Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, Heard Mentality and We Need to Talk. In her twenty-year career in public radio, she has been the executive producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio, and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as cohost of the national morning news show The Takeaway from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Headlee’s TEDx talk sharing ten ways to have a better conversation has over twenty million total views to date. @CelesteHeadlee

 

Additional Resources:

* Learn more about Erin at ErinFalconer.com

* “Grow yourself” at Falconer’s website PickTheBrain.com

* Subscribe to her Pick the Brain podcast

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