How To!: Carve Out Creative Time
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Allison is on the hunt for her next hobby. One that's satisfying. One that she can stick with. One that will fit into her family's very busy schedule. Except…maybe she's thinking about that last part all wrong. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play and Find Your Unicorn Space. Eve argues that drawing—and defending—boundaries for individual, creative pursuits is necessary for living a fulfilled life. She'll share how to balance domestic labor in order to carve out creative space and pick something that makes your soul sing.Â
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| 0:45.0 | So I go to this preschool program where I'm finally getting my older son into school and |
| 0:50.0 | the preschool teacher affirms that the people around me are going to become my support |
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| 0:55.5 | And then I looked down at my name tag, Allison, and my name tag said, Zach's mom. |
| 1:01.2 | And so I remember thinking that day, these are the people that are going to know me better than anyone's ever known me in my entire life. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, they don't even know my fucking name. |
| 1:10.0 | And that's when I realized that not only would I be abandoned by my husband and my workplace, |
| 1:15.6 | but by society in general, by having them force me into these boxes, parent, a partner, and a professional. |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome to How To, I'm Courtney Martin. |
| 1:28.0 | You know, this might surprise you, |
| 1:31.0 | but I've been thinking a lot about man caves, you know, those bases. surprise you |
| 1:33.0 | but I've been thinking a lot about man caves you know those basements or garages or whatever where guys get to play poker and let it all hang out |
| 1:38.8 | far from the watchful eye of wives and daughters and such well as you might be able to tell I am |
| 1:44.9 | skeptical of the way mancaves are glorified but I'm also sort of weirdly into |
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