Navigating Parenting Imbalances + Double Standards (with Mary Catherine Starr)

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Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Even if you have a partner who is a competent, functional human being, imbalances and double standards are common. Christine talks with Mary Catherine Starr about her compelling comic artistry related to subconscious beliefs, double standards, maternal gatekeeping, and more. For links and resources visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:12.3	Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:26.9	Hello, friends. I am thrilled to bring you this conversation today with Mary Catherine Starr.
0:33.7	The author of Mama Needs a Minute, a candid, funny, all too relatable comic memoir about surviving motherhood.
0:41.1	I fell in love with Mary Catherine when we both spoke on the same panel at the Boston Globe Working Mother's Summit earlier this spring.
0:49.6	And even though I am well past the deep and extreme chaos of the early parenting years, I appreciated
0:56.6	each and every example and each and every comic. This book is candid, funny, and thought-provoking,
1:04.2	and it's important to note that the imbalance gulf can grow between two people, even when you
1:10.4	have a partner who is a competent
1:12.1	functional human being as Mary Catherine's husband is. Her work is a wonderful
1:17.4	representation of the power of creativity and art to communicate with people around
1:22.4	challenging topics. Let's get right to it. Hello and welcome, Mary Catherine. I am so excited to have you on the
1:30.9	mic today. Hello. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to chat with you. Yes. Well, selfishly,
1:36.2	I am really happy to have dedicated time with you today because I fell in love with you when I met you in
1:42.6	person at the Boston Globe Working Mother's Summit.
1:46.0	And then you blew my mind when you created a comic version of me.
1:49.6	I'll link that in the show notes.
1:51.6	And then I read your book and was like, oh my gosh, this woman and I need to be BFFs because I was just so impressed by what you have created. I truly hope I haven't made
2:02.8	things like terribly awkward right now. Oh my God, please. No, I was equally like totally in love
2:07.5	with you ever since you said that thing about I'm going to say something women are supposed to talk
2:10.6	about. I like making money. Ever since you said that, I was like, okay, yes, I love this woman.
2:15.5	She is like exactly what I need in my life. So I'm really happy we connected.
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