Domestic + Emotional Load Of The Mom/Stepmom: Negotiating Fairplay with Eve Rodsky
The KICK-ASS Stepmom Podcast
Jamie Scrimgeour
4.9 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week on The KICK-ASS Stepmom Podcast, I am chatting with New York Times Bestselling Author and the founder of Fairplay, Eve Rodsky about the unfair distribution of unpaid labour in marriages and how it comes into play for stepmoms.
We cover:
- The importance of communication
- Creating shifts in how you're running your home
- Fairplay being a gender issue, not a money issue
- Negotiating the domestic workload
- The emotional labour of women (and stepmoms)
- Fairplay in the stepfamily dynamic
- Why Jamie was resentful of Darren in the beginning
and more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jamie Srimjure. When I became a stepmom, I quickly realize that while |
| 0:11.1 | moms are encouraged to keep it real, there's a big double standard when it comes to stepmoms. |
| 0:15.9 | So, I decided to start the conversation myself. Thriving as a stepmom doesn't just come from conversations |
| 0:21.8 | about being a stepmom now. Here we dive into marriage, relationships, personal growth, and more. |
| 0:27.9 | My mission? Inspire you to live a kick-ass life while bringing you along as I create my own. |
| 0:32.9 | This is the kick-ass step-mom podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello, hello, welcome to the kick-ass stepmom podcast. Hello, hello. |
| 0:40.5 | Welcome to the kick-ass step-mom podcast. |
| 0:42.8 | Okay, guys. |
| 0:43.9 | Sometimes I literally have to pinch myself about the conversations that I get to have on this podcast. |
| 0:50.6 | Like how I get to have conversations with such inspiring thought leaders in strong women in our society, it blows my mind. |
| 1:00.3 | But today is one of those moments. |
| 1:01.8 | I just want to pinch myself. |
| 1:04.5 | So today's episode is with Eve Rotsky. |
| 1:06.6 | So she is a New York Times bestselling author and the founder of Fairplay. |
| 1:11.4 | So Eve took her Harvard trained background in organizational management to ask a simple |
| 1:16.4 | yet profound question, what would happen if we treated our homes as our most important |
| 1:21.5 | organizations? |
| 1:23.3 | And her New York Times bestselling book and Reese's book club pick, which is super cool, |
| 1:28.6 | Fairplay is all about rebalancing the domestic workload in our homes. And when I say that, |
| 1:35.4 | I'm just talking about how women are doing so freaking much. In this episode, we dive in to |
| 1:41.9 | the fair play method, the unequal distribution of unpaid labor within the home today. |
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