Mental Load: Find Healing In Your Partnership & Balance Inequality in Your Home with Kate Mangino

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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329. Mental Load: Find Healing In Your Partnership & Balance Inequality in Your Home with Kate Mangino Gender expert Kate Mangino discusses the depths of carrying the mental load in a family–even when you have a partner who wants to be supportive. Listen to this conversation with your partner(s): -The stages of mental load – and why “helping out” or completing a task doesn’t reduce it; -The cost to partners who miss out on fully participating in the mental load of the household; and -The shocking statistics about the difference between childcare in the 70s and now. Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home is available in paperback wherever books are sold on August 20th. About Kate: Kate Mangino is a gender expert who works with international organizations to promote social change. She has written and delivered curricula in over 20 countries about issues such as: gender equality, women’s empowerment, healthy masculinity, HIV prevention, and early and forced childhood marriage. Kate is the author of Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home. Other episodes to check out: 6. OVERWHELM: Is our exhaustion a sign that we’re CareTicking time bombs? 246. The Answer to Caregiving Burnout with Ai-jen Poo

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0:00.0	Pod Squad Squad, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Today we shall prove that we indeed can do hard things.
0:19.4	What we are intending for this episode, we have humble intentions which are we want to just
0:25.8	change the complete planet with this episode and we have a plan to do so because a while back in Yonder Yore we did an
0:40.0	episode called Overwhel. Okay and you might remember that episode.
0:45.0	It was episode six,
0:47.0	wow, that was so early.
0:48.0	It was like, we only have a few things to say in the beginning
0:51.0	and this is one of them,
0:52.0	it was like so important to us to
0:53.6	still talking about it. To talk about overwhelm and the idea of carrying the
1:00.3	whole mental load of a family even when you have a partner who wants to be
1:05.8	supportive and it was really just Amanda was exploring her feelings of
1:11.4	overwhelm and it just connected just
1:14.4	seismically within our community and outside of it. Yeah and inside this family. Yes yes. I loved that episode. It helped me a lot. Yeah and then after we did
1:26.1	another conversation with I Jen poo who I worship we really talked about in that episode, which was number 246, about the power structures
1:37.0	and lack thereof that kind of lead to women being the safety net of our households, families and the entire nation.
1:45.7	So those two are the setup for this episode.
1:48.5	Now here is what we want for this episode.
1:57.3	We want you to be able to
2:00.3	sit with your partner,
2:07.6	listen to this episode and have mental load explained in a way that is non-accusatory that is non-judgmental in a way that is really helpful to all parties because there's so much
2:16.7	shame in it and that it's hard to listen to sometimes.
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