Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milneight.

This time, we revisit a guest some of you first met three years ago.

She's eloquent on a topic most of us don't discuss, and you certainly won't read about it in books or articles on professional women.

Yes, we've gained ground.

And yes, we have more important positions and we're more influential.

The price is that we are working more and many of us are working for less money.

And that takes a toll on people's self-care practices, including paying attention to their intimate lives.

Yep.

Evelyn Resch,

I'm actually going to suggest you hit pause on this show now and go and download or play that original show first.

It's number 19. I also repeated it as show 38. It's called Women, Work and Sex. It's a great introduction to Evelyn and to why I wanted

to talk about sex in the context of a podcast like this one. But the thing with this show is it's not

just about our working lives. It's about

our lives. And work affects so many aspects of life, including our sex lives. And for the more

reticent among you, know this isn't about to turn into the Dan Savage sex podcast. Evelyn is a nurse

midwife, and she comes at this from her position as someone who

cares deeply about women's health and about women's ability to take pleasure in life, all

types of pleasure. And she says our 24-7 culture has pretty much eroded our relationship to

slow enjoyment of everyday things. Even something as simple as sitting down with a

cup of coffee and reading the paper rather than grabbing it on the go and slurping it in your car.

We had a long conversation and what I'm doing is I'm going to divide it into two shows. So I'll

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