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Mary's Cup of Tea: the Self Love Podcast for Women

#168: Imbalances in Relationships & How to Fix Them with Eve Rodsky

Mary's Cup of Tea: the Self Love Podcast for Women

Mary Jelkovsky

Body-image, Education, Relationships, Self Compassion, Society & Culture, Self Love For Women, Self Love, Self-improvement, Advice For Women, Women's Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Love Yourself, Self Worth, Self-love, Body Image

4.9745 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

WOW!!! This one is going down in history as one of our favorite episodes. Get ready to feel seen, heard, and understood thanks to this conversation with Eve Rodsky about the INVISIBLE and UNPAID labor of women. Note: though we speak in heteronormative terms, this conversation is for anyone who feels like they’re taking on more responsibility in their relationship than their partner. And if you’re single/ dating and see yourself in a long-term partnership in the future, NOW is the time to start thinking about what “fair play” looks like. You will learn... - the 3 words that RUIN all relationships - why women do more unpaid labor + some shocking statistics - the secret formula for rebalancing the responsibilities in your household - how to challenge cultural assumptions that say you must “do it all” and create a more equitable dynamic in your relationship Remember: these gender imbalances are NOT YOUR FAULT nor are they your partner’s. There are a lot of cultural assumptions at play here and it’s time to dismantle them to create “fair play” between men and women. Eve Rodsky transformed her “blueberries breakdown” into a catalyst for social change when she applied her Harvard-trained background in organizational management to ask the simple yet profound question: What would happen if we treated our homes as our most important organizations? Her New York Times bestselling book and Reese’s Book Club Pick, Fair Play, a gamified life-management system that helps partners rebalance their domestic workload and reimagine their relationship, has elevated the cultural conversation about the value of unpaid labor and care. In her highly anticipated follow-up, Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World, Rodsky explores the cross-section between the science of creativity, productivity, and resilience. Described as the ‘antidote to physical, mental, and emotional burnout,’ Rodsky aims to inspire a new narrative around the equality of time and the individual right to personal time choice that influences sustainable and lasting change on a policy level. Rodsky’s work is backed by Hello Sunshine—Reese Witherspoon’s media company whose mission is to change the narrative for women through storytelling. Rodsky was born and raised by a single mom in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Seth and their three children. Learn more about Fair Play and Unicorn Space at fairplaylife.com Get the book, Fair Play: https://amzn.to/3N3Bxax And the Fair Play card deck: https://amzn.to/43CKvmi If you enjoyed this episode, share it on social media! Make sure to tag @maryspodcast and @fairplay so we can see! Mentioned In This Episode... Extreme Ownership book: https://amzn.to/45TZNVc TED Talk Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness: https://youtu.be/8KkKuTCFvzI

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mary's Cup of Tea, the Self-Love Podcast for Women.

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I'm your host, Mary Jolkowski, an author, speaker, and all-around self-love advocate.

0:12.6

And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.

0:18.6

Hello, self-lover. Before we dive into today's podcast episode, I want to make sure you know about my two books on self-love.

0:25.9

If you're struggling with body image or self-acceptance, then I highly recommend you check out my first book, The Gift of Self-Love.

0:33.0

It's a comprehensive workbook to help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to love who you are.

0:39.5

Thousands of people have this book and the five-star reviews are so amazing. They give me so much

0:44.7

life, so I hope that this is something that can help you too. You can get it wherever books are

0:49.2

sold by searching for the gift of self-love or go to my website, maryscup of tea.com slash book.

0:56.3

After releasing the gift of self-love and reading all your positive feedback, I realized that

1:00.7

we really needed something to keep us going every single day. So not a deep dive workbook,

1:06.0

but maybe like a micro dose of self-love in your daily life, which is why I wrote 100 days of self-love.

1:13.0

It's a guided journal with, you guessed it, 100 prompts, that cover so many areas of life,

1:18.1

including body, identity, purpose, emotions, mindset, relationships, and more.

1:24.1

So you can really think of it as a metaphorical multivitamin, something to keep you

1:28.4

going, or as I like to say, growing on your self-love journey. You can get this journal wherever

1:33.3

books are sold as well by searching for 100 days of self-love or go to mary's cup of tea.com

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slash journal. It's my mission to share all the self-love tea with you. So I hope that both my books and this podcast can do

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just that.

1:51.9

On April 19, 23, after getting off the phone with one of my good friends who is a new mom and has

2:00.5

multiple times told me, quote, I am in a decade-long,

2:06.9

wonderful, beautiful, amazing marriage, and yet I feel like I am a single mom. I got off that

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