Ep 161: For Women Who Do Too Much (Like You!)

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Do you anticipate other’s needs before your own? Does your brain house the master to-do list for your entire family? You're a queen of emotional labor — the unpaid and unnoticed work that many women do to keep their loved ones happy. Gemma Hartley, author of "Women Aren’t Nags; We’re Just Fed Up," tells us all how we can cut back, and stand up for ourselves. In Mailbag, how to invest in Roth IRAs, prioritize saving versus investing, plus the dos and don’ts for downsizing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.0	Her money comes to you through PRX. Hey everybody it's Jean Chatsky.
0:38.0	Welcome to her money.
0:40.1	I've got a question for all of you in your household. Do you find that you are the one who
0:46.2	always says, don't forget to do this or remember to do that. You are the one who focuses on the bill payments and the appointments and the
0:55.9	social calendars and the birthdays. You're the one who anticipates other people's needs
1:02.3	before your own needs and you're solving their problems too.
1:06.9	If you are, you are taking on more of the emotional labor and chances are pretty good it's all you have ever known.
1:16.8	How do we know this?
1:18.5	Because Jemma Hartley told us this.
1:21.8	She made it actually a worldwide conversation back in 2017 when she wrote an article
1:28.9	entitled Women Aren't Nags. We are just fed up. It was published in Harper's Bazaar. It went viral and it led
1:37.4	to her first book called Fed Up Emotional Labor, Women, and the way forward.
1:43.7	Jemma, thanks so much for getting on the phone with us today.
1:46.7	Thank you so much for having me on.
1:48.9	Were you surprised that this article went viral? I was I was completely shocked I thought it was
1:56.0	something that I dealt with and that my friends dealt with you know everyone in my
2:00.1	little immediate circle but there were so many women like all across the world
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