Corinne Low PhD, HAVING IT ALL: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Totally Booked: LIVE! In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), Zibby interviews economist Dr. Corinne Low about her groundbreaking new book, HAVING IT ALL: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. Corinne shares how thinking like an economist can help women redefine what it truly means to “have it all”—not by maximizing achievement, but by maximizing utility: joy, meaning, and fulfillment over a lifetime. She opens up about her own life changes—from leaving a high-pressure job and a long commute to reshaping her marriage and motherhood—and offers data-driven insights on why modern women feel so squeezed, how to find balance, and what it really takes to create an equitable partnership at home and at work.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Totally Booked Live at the Whitby. I'm so excited to be here with Corinne Lowe, |
| 0:07.5 | talking about having it all, what data tells us about women's lives and getting the most out of |
| 0:13.6 | yours. Welcome, Corinne. Thanks so much for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure. I was so ready to |
| 0:20.4 | dive into this book because who does not want to get |
| 0:23.7 | more out of life? Like, let's be the most efficient we can possibly be. Tell us about your very |
| 0:29.1 | unique point of view as an economist, so I should really call you doctor, but I didn't. So Dr. |
| 0:34.2 | Lowe, give us the rundown on how to make the most out of our lives. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah, so the book is about thinking about your life like an economist, but I think that's going to be a kind of surprising point of view because it's actually a little bit of gentle pushback to kind of the lean-in girl boss idea that what that means to get the most out of your life is to maximize |
| 0:56.0 | your career or try to achieve or accomplish the most. So, you know, my reframe is that when |
| 1:01.8 | economists think about people, about, you know, in order to get the most out of your life, |
| 1:06.3 | you need to know, like, well, what does that mean? What am I maximizing? We know that firms |
| 1:10.0 | maximize profit, so that's easy, right? They want I maximizing? We know that firms maximize profit, |
| 1:11.1 | so that's easy, right? They want to make the most money. What are you trying to do? |
| 1:14.7 | And economists have this model for this, and it's called maximizing utility. And the reason |
| 1:19.5 | we have this new word, they're different word utility, is because it's not quite happiness |
| 1:23.3 | because sometimes you have to do something that doesn't feel great in the moment, |
| 1:27.9 | like close Netflix to work on a project or set a limit with your toddler, |
| 1:32.5 | but you know it leads to something better over the long term. |
| 1:36.0 | It serves your values. |
| 1:37.6 | And so utility is the sum total of the joy, contentment, meaning, and fulfillment over your lifetime, what you would look back on |
| 1:46.7 | when you're 85 years old sitting in a rocking chair and say, you know, that was a life well lived. |
| 1:51.1 | That's what I wanted that to look like. |
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