Hello and welcome to Money Talks a special extra podcast from Slate Money where we chat with

brilliant and interesting people. I'm Emily Peck, I'm a writer at Axios and co-host of Slate Money and I'm here today with the incredible Bridget Schulte, the author of a new book called

Overwork transforming the Daily Grind into a quest for a better life.

Bridget I'm so glad you are here. I'm a huge fan of your work. Can you tell

listeners who you are and what you do and what the book's about? Yeah sure well

thank you. It's so great to be here. I'm a huge friend of yours, so right back at you.

So I'm Bridget Scholte.

I'm a longtime journalist.

I spent a lot of my career at the Washington Post.

There I wrote a book about time pressure and gender sort of based out of my own life like why was it so difficult to try to you know do a good job and raise children and you know have a life outside of work.

And then that book is really what led to this book.

When I was finished with overwhelmed,

I became convinced that so much of our modern misery

originates in our work culture. And so I really wanted to do a deep

dive into trying to understand what drives over work culture, what are the consequences,

and more importantly how do we change? Well when we come back we're going to get into all of this and more

and it's all coming up on money talks. It's another day, another debate.

I'm in a much better mood than I was after the debate in June.

Let me tell you that much.

But this time, the VPs are taking center stage. You know it's very much happy warrior against grumpy young guy.

I'm Mary Harris host of Slates Daily News Podcast What Next.

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