083: Brigid Schulte

 

 

 

Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and Washington Post magazine. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. She is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. She is a regular contributor to the She The People blog and has written for Style, Outlook, and other outlets.

She writes about work-life issues and poverty, seeking to understand what it takes to live The Good Life across race, class and gender.

Her recent book is called Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

In This Interview Brigid and I Discuss...

• The One You Feed parable.
• How being overwhelmed never goes away.
• What "The Overwhelm" is.
• How it's not the amount of stress but how we feel about it.
• Busyness as a badge of honor.

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