UFYB 238: The Invisible Labor Load for Women & Families of Color: A Conversation with Amelia Pleasant Kennedy & Shawna Samuel
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
There’s been a lot of talk about the invisible load the last few years (especially through Covid when women were literally trying to do it all). Pushing back against the invisible load can look like “dropping the ball.” But “dropping the ball” isn’t always safe for those socialized as women who also belong to other marginalized identities.
Listen to this interview with two of my Advanced Certification in Feminist Coaching students, Amelia Pleasant Kennedy and Shawna Saumel, to learn how the invisible load is connected to your emotional and physical energy, the importance of negotiation in a relationship, and how living in other marginalized identities can exacerbate a woman’s drive to achieve and do more.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/238
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, |
| 0:14.0 | and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your |
| 0:19.3 | host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm so excited to share this episode with you, my chickens. And as you'll hear, this |
| 0:32.4 | is an episode about sort of emotional labor slash the invisible workload of women, second |
| 0:40.2 | shift, stuff, but in the context of families of color and sort of fleshing out some of |
| 0:46.1 | what was left out of the previous conversation I had with Susan Hyde about this. I talk |
| 0:50.4 | more about that in the intro to the episode. So excited to also have this episode with |
| 0:54.6 | some of my advanced certification and feminist coaching students. And so I want to let any |
| 0:59.6 | of you know who are listening and who are a coach that there's one way to kind of stay |
| 1:05.5 | informed about my advanced certification and other feminist coaching events. We are |
| 1:11.2 | going to be launching an event that will happen in the fall, but we're going to be opening |
| 1:15.4 | out for registration in a few weeks. That is an intersectional feminist coaching training |
| 1:20.9 | and it's going to be kind of a couple of days and a little bit of all of what I teach |
| 1:26.0 | in the advanced certification and it's going to be for coaches who have any kind of training |
| 1:31.2 | and certification. You don't have to have gone to the life coach schools can be for anybody. |
| 1:35.4 | It's on a certification. It's an event with kind of training and teaching about the ways |
| 1:41.8 | that I have developed and the work that I have created to bring an intersectional feminist |
| 1:46.6 | lens to thought work based coaching. So if that is something that you are interested in, |
| 1:52.4 | which you're a coach and you coach anybody really you should be especially if you coach |
| 1:57.7 | women or people of other marginalized identities or communities or backgrounds. This is really |
| 2:03.3 | like must have information and a must have perspective. I don't think that you really |
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