Women Aren’t Nags, We’re Fed Up- Podcast #495
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Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Todd and Cathy talk with Gemma Hartley, author of Fed Up. They discuss emotional labor, how it affects partnership and parenting, and why it needs to be an evolving and ongoing conversation. Gemma will be taking questions during our Team Zen talk on June 4th – click here to join Team Zen and participate.
Time Stamps
1:49 What is emotional labor?
6:08 “Tell me what to do.” Helping vs being in charge of the household
8:00 Is there a difference b/w a full-time mom and a professional mom?
11:02 Perfectionism
13:02 Are moms more biologically more nurturing than dads?
18:27 Post partum depression
23:27 Why do guys gets so defensive?
26:07 Invisible labor
37:13 What are guys missing?
40:15 Are we speaking different languages?
52:52 Why do we want to win?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Todd Adams. |
| 0:07.3 | This is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome back to yet another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:10.8 | This is podcast number I don't know. |
| 0:13.3 | So that was helpful. |
| 0:14.5 | But if you want to know, just look on your phone or however you listen to it because by then I will have known what it is. |
| 0:20.3 | This is a special podcast, isn't it, sweetheart? |
| 0:22.7 | Who do we have with us? |
| 0:23.9 | We have Gemma Hartley, author of Fed Up, who we've talked about actually quite a bit on the show |
| 0:28.2 | because her book came out. |
| 0:29.8 | What month did it come out, Gemma? |
| 0:31.6 | It came out in November. |
| 0:33.4 | Came out in November. |
| 0:34.4 | And even before it came out, we were talking about Gemma's book because she |
| 0:37.7 | wrote the article for Harper's Bazaar called We Aren't Nags. |
| 0:43.5 | We're just fed up. Yeah, women aren't Nags. Women aren't Nags. Yes. Yeah. And so we've been |
| 0:49.0 | talking about her work for a long time. So we're just so glad to have her on the show and to be able to, so you guys |
| 0:55.5 | can hear directly from her rather than Todd and I putting to, you know, talking about her work. |
| 0:59.9 | She can talk about it on her own. So should we, you just introduced her. So we don't need to |
| 1:04.3 | do that. So we've done three full, I don't believe we've ever done three full shows on one |
| 1:09.0 | specific topic in the way that we |
| 1:11.8 | have with Gemma's work. |
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