Why "Having It All" Is Possible—But Isn't Worth It

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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There’s an expectation on women that we should be constantly striving to “have it all.” But as the pandemic laid bare, “having it all” usually just means “doing it all,” and doing it all...just doesn't work. Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former Executive Editor of Teen Vogue and author of The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning, joins me this week for an honest conversation about where we go from here—and what type of reckoning our workplaces and family lives face as women respond to structures that no longer make (never made?) sense. Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/having-it-all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A few months ago we had Elizabeth Wallace a life coach on the money with Katie's show. And okay,
0:13.4	correction, she's my coach. So I am biased, but she shared a
0:17.3	sentiment about the type of client that she likes to work with.
0:25.0	They've been doing everything right, so really, really driven women who have done all the things, right?
0:29.0	They've gotten the grades, they've gotten the job, the promotion.
0:33.0	They have a good salary and a good title.
0:36.0	And they bought the house, you know, all of those check boxes,
0:40.0	and they're like, I'm doing it. But my insides are screaming.
0:54.0	Right, it looks like I'm doing it.
0:56.0	I should be checking the boxes.
0:58.0	So why do I feel like shh?
0:59.0	That is to say from the outside looking in, you have it all.
1:04.0	But if your day-to-day experience of life
1:06.7	feels unsustainable or joyless, where do you go from there? Welcome back to the Money With Kady's show, Rich People. I'm your host, Katie Gotti Tossan, and today I am joined by author Semita Mukupadai to discuss her new book
1:28.5	The Myth of Making It, A Workplace Reckoning. it, a workplace reckoning.
1:40.1	Samita is the former executive editor of Teen Vogue and feministing and the current editorial director at Meteor.
1:42.8	Her book just came out yesterday,
1:44.5	so we'll link it in the show notes.
1:46.4	In it, she writes about a particularly discordant time in her life.
1:51.2	She says, I was at the apex of my career, but I was
1:54.8	dissociated from the reality of my actual life. The bigger question this
2:00.2	brought to mind for me, Katie, was,
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