EP182 The Weekend Effect: Why your time off is worth fighting for (with Katrina Onstad)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The history of the weekend is a fascinating one, and author Katrina Onstad is here to tell us why (and how) workers' rights have evolved over time. She shares the ancient concept of rest from working hours, and describes how the encroachment of work on our personal lives changed with industrialization, and changed again now that technology keeps us connected 24/7.
Katrina also shares some systemic changes we can make in schools to fight the culture of overwork, and shares practical things you can do to get the benefit of "the weekend effect" and maximize your time off to create a true break. To learn more, get Katrina's book, "The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 182 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.8 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:11.9 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the weekend. and weekend effect about the history of the weekend and why your time off is |
| 0:24.4 | essential and worth fighting for. Visit truth for teachers.com to get the |
| 0:29.0 | transcript or find our new truth for Teachers podcast community on Facebook. |
| 0:33.7 | You can share your thoughts on the show there and reflect with other listeners in our private group. |
| 0:38.9 | This episode is sponsored by ViewSonic Education. |
| 0:42.0 | They're the creator of View Board, an interactive white board for the classroom, |
| 0:45.8 | and My View Board, which is the corresponding digital whiteboarding app. |
| 0:50.3 | To gather these tools help teachers create engaging lessons from anywhere and present them in the classroom. |
| 0:56.0 | You can search the internet, open your favorite apps, and play educational videos, |
| 1:00.0 | all from your digital whiteboard. To learn more, visit viewsonic.com |
| 1:05.0 | slash education. |
| 1:07.0 | So my guest today is Katrina Onstad. |
| 1:11.0 | She is a writer whose first non-fiction book is called The Weekend Effect, |
| 1:16.6 | The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Her Work. |
| 1:21.8 | Now if you know me at all you can imagine that that |
| 1:25.8 | title just jumped off the shelf at me when I was at the book fair and I knew I had to |
| 1:31.7 | read it. I made it probably to page 4 before emailing her and saying, |
| 1:38.0 | I would love to have you come on my show. I was so excited to read this book. I couldn't even get through the whole thing. |
| 1:45.0 | Without reaching out to her, I was already formulating questions for her |
| 1:48.0 | in my mind about how to apply her work specifically to teachers. |
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