Hey guys, welcome to a preview alliance podcast.

In today's episode, I have a very special guest with me today.

It is Dr. Leah Rappaner, and she's a professor of sociology and a founding director of the

Future of Work Lab at the University of Melbourne.

If you can see her featured in many articles and her research, which I love, and I know you

will love, is helping busy women trade in mental low burnout for more joy, fulfillment,

and connection.

So, Leah, welcome to Preview Alliance podcast.

I'm a huge fan. I love your research. And our audience, such research-based. And we are so

excited to have you. Thank you very much for having me. So let's dive in because you are the queen

of the mental load. And for some of our listeners,

they may have never had someone break it down. What really is the mental load, right? We feel like

we know what the mental load is. We may talk to our friends about it or we may read an article

and be like, yeah yeah but what is this

why is it so heavy and am i the only one no you're absolutely not the only one if you were the only one

i probably wouldn't have a job to do to actually define the mental load this is a really interesting

question thank you very much for asking And it's one of the things

that I think we get the most wrong. So we did a podcast on my misperceived that talks about it and

breaks it down. And I also have a book coming out next year, drained, that is going to give you

all a brand new definition of the mental load and its complexity. So I think you will feel very

happy in about spring 2026. But basically, we wrote an article in 2019 with myself,

Brandon Churchill and Liz Dean here at the University of Melbourne. And one of the things we

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