Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning

and planning adjacent.

I have a treat for you today.

I have Alison Daminger on who is a sociology professor and

absolute expert on the topic of kind of managing logistics in families, managing the mental

load, figuring out ways to share that load, and figuring out the best ways to organize it.

So this episode, I think, is going to answer a lot of listeners' burning questions.

And I hope you enjoy it. I do want to do a tiny disclaimer. We did talk about, you know,

ways of dividing labor in the home. And I did mention that we have someone that we hire to do a

lot of that. And every time I mention this, I just want to make sure I do acknowledge that

I recognize not everyone is at a position to do this. We certainly were not early in our careers

as a residence. And so I know that's not an obvious solution for everyone. But if you do have

two people that are in professional roles with the ability to hire someone to help outsource

some of these tasks. I do think it can be sometimes a neglected option or one that society

kind of frowns on but not for any clear real reason. So I hope you enjoyed this episode.

I think that it's a fascinating topic and there's so much personal choice around

how people choose to do things. At the end of the day, what is working for you and your family

is the right choice for you, whatever that choice is. And I think Allison does get to that

somewhere in the episode as well. So without further ado, here we go. I hope you enjoy this. Well, I am so excited

to welcome Allison to the show. We are going to talk about a topic that I probably get more questions

about. Well, actually, the most common question I get is I am very busy. What planners should I use?

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