UFYB 239: How Productivity Culture Burns You Out: An Interview with Tina Koch and Rachèle Summers
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It would be nice to think we can leave capitalism at the office when we go home for the day. But the truth is, its reach goes far beyond just the way we make, sell, and buy stuff. It can affect the ways we place value on the actual human beings who do the work, which in turn can lead to burnout, hustle culture, and even ableism.
In this episode I’m joined by two of my Advanced Certification in Feminist Coaching Students, Tina Koch and Rachèle Summers, as we discuss the tricky triad of internalized ableism, productivity culture, and capitalism.
Listen in to learn how you can begin changing productivity-related tendencies by examining the ‘shoulds’ in your life, how the first step in changing your internalized ableism is to approach your thoughts around it with compassion, and how you can begin pushing back on hustle culture and build emotional resilience by learning to sit with cognitive dissonance.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/239
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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. |
| 0:28.1 | Alright my friends, if you have been feeling burnt the fuck out, then this is for you. |
| 0:35.9 | So here's how to know if you're feeling burnt out. Do you feel like you wake up in the |
| 0:40.9 | morning and you are already tired? Do you feel like you are at the edge of your rope |
| 0:47.7 | and about one small mishap away from completely losing your shit? Spill the coffee and that's |
| 0:55.8 | it? You'd rather just lay down on the floor and die. Am I right? Do you feel like you are |
| 1:01.6 | snapping at your goods in your partner or your parents or your co-workers more than you |
| 1:05.9 | mean to? Keep telling yourself that you'd like to stop doing that and be better about it |
| 1:11.7 | and feel nicer. But then the next minute there you are snapping again. You just don't |
| 1:16.6 | have a lot of emotional energy. You're overwhelmed. You're exhausted. You take a vacation. |
| 1:21.1 | You don't really feel any better. The weekend feels like it's over before it began and you |
| 1:26.3 | feel like you didn't get anything done, but you also didn't rest. These are all signs |
| 1:30.8 | of burnout. So if you're feeling this way, you are not alone. I feel like we are in a |
| 1:36.8 | global burnout right now between years of the pandemic, inflation, prices are rising. |
| 1:45.6 | The global warming is continuing to accelerate. There's a war in Ukraine and every time you |
| 1:53.1 | turn on the news something else terrible seems to be happening and you're tired and your |
| 1:57.7 | kids have been in and out of school because of COVID and you've been working from home |
| 2:02.6 | or you're back at the office and no one is wearing their mask. Whatever is going on, |
| 2:06.4 | you're not alone in feeling this way. But here's the other thing I want you to know. |
| 2:11.2 | Even though it really feels like burnout is created by the world, which is why so many |
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