Why Women Carry Everything (And How to Finally Put It Down) with Eve Rodsky

Women are often taught to treat everyone else’s time as protected and their own as endlessly available. Over time, that can affect their careers, relationships, confidence, and sense of identity.

New York Times bestselling author Eve Rodsky joins Tamsen to explain Fair Play, a system that makes invisible work visible and gives one person complete ownership of each responsibility, from noticing that it needs to happen through planning and execution. Eve shares the “blueberries breakdown” that led her to create it, why “Just tell me what to do” still leaves women managing the work, and how boundaries, systems, and communication can change the way a family runs.

If you are the person who remembers every appointment, manages an aging parent’s care, or follows up when no one else does, this episode offers a practical way to stop carrying everyone else’s responsibilities in your head and start treating your own time as equally valuable.

They get into:

- How Fair Play applies beyond marriage and motherhood

- How to tell whether the problem requires a boundary, a system, or a conversation

- When guilt is really a response to someone else’s discomfort

- Why fairness does not always mean a 50-50 split

- What it takes to build an identity beyond being needed

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