Brat McCay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Now, do you ever get to feeling kind of down, dejected and anxious come Sunday evening?

People refer to this phenomenon as the Sunday Night Blues, and it's a common experience.

You may have chalked it up to ruin the fact that your fun and restful weekend is over,

then you have yet another work week ahead.

And my guests would say that your Sunday Night Sadness may also be rooted in the feeling

of regret.

Through the fact that you didn't put your weekend to good use, that it wasn't restful

and fun, that it was instead busy, draining and once again, a big letdown.

Her name is Katrina Onstad, and she's the author of The Weekend Effect.

Today, Katrina Sharers had the idea of the weekend of having two back-to-back days off

from work came about how it's been challenged and subsequently eroded in the modern day.

We then talked about how to take back your weekends, so that your invaluable Saturdays

and Sundays feel more the way they did when you were a kid, filled with a sense of possibility.

After shows over, check out our show notes at aam.is slash weekend.

All right, Katrina Onstad, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

So you've got a book called The Weekend Effect, and this is all about the benefits of actually

enjoying those two days that we get for a weekend and how to make the most of them.

Curious, was there a moment in your own life where of life of weekends where you realized, man,

my weekends, they're not great, I could probably do these better.

Well, it's funny now post-COVID, right? Because of course, a weekend looked pretty different

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