On Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions, episode 221.

If you're new to this program, it's where I answer questions from my audience about the

struggle to work and live deeply in an increasingly distracted world. If you want to submit your own

questions, there's a link right in the show description. Now, I'm here on my Deep Work HQ. I'm a

joined by my producer, Jesse. Jesse, I got a couple pieces of administrative work to do here,

a couple announcements to make, but I wanted to talk first about what's coming up in the show

because I'm kind of excited about it. We have a guest. We're going to actually integrate a

guest into a fuller episode. We're trying something new here. We have a deep dive coming up

after the deep dive. We have a guest, which I'll tell you about in a second, and then after the

guest, there is a little bit more to do. We are going to talk about the guest and one extra

issue that I wanted to bring up. The guest we have today coming up a little bit later is

Yael Shawnbrun from Brown University. Yael is a assistant professor of psychology,

and she has a new book out. I'm holding it up to the camera for those who are watching

called Work Parent Thrive. It takes a psychological approach to the issues that arise from being

a working parent. We hear about this a lot. Jesse, would you say this is like one of the,

I don't know, top five topics we hear is from people who are confused, emotional, frustrated,

or looking for help on the struggle of having a career while also having kids. It's definitely

one of our top issues. 100 percent. Yael has a fantastic approach that's rooted in acceptance

commitment therapy. As we'll talk about in this interview, it's different than the existing

approaches to this issue. It doesn't supplant them. It complements them, but as you'll see,

it's incredibly aligned with the deep-life style values driven lifestyle-centric career-planning

style approach we take to the show. Now we have a bona fide PhD psychologist who actually knows

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