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Ever spend a whole day working, and still feel you haven’t done enough? Ever not?
Journalist Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed and Over Work, has spent years investigating why work takes so much out of us—and how it could be different.
In this conversation with Women Amplified host Lisa Bennett, Schulte explores why working more doesn’t necessarily mean doing better work, why women so often feel they’re falling short, and how to begin changing those expectations.
Lisa Bennett
Lisa Bennett is the host of the Women Amplified podcast and Editorial Director for the Conferences for Women. An award-winning journalist and longtime communications director for mission-driven organizations, she is also the editor of Women Amplified and co-author of Ecoliterate with emotional intelligence pioneer Daniel Goleman.
Brigid Shulte
Brigid Schulte works at the intersection of personal transformation and systems change to ensure that all people have the opportunity to a rich, full, and wholehearted life. She’s an award-winning journalist, think tank program director, keynote speaker and author of Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life andthe New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, gender and modern life, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time. She was an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine and was part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
She serves as the director of the Better Life Lab at New America, which produces and supports award-winning research, journalism and practical tools to help reimagine better work, family, gender, and care and wellbeing in public policy, workplace practice and cultural attitudes. She hosts the Better Life Lab podcast on Slate. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, the Guardian, Time, Slate, U.S. News & World Report, New York Magazine, Fast Company, CNN, and many others. She is a frequent television, radio and podcast guest and has been quoted in numerous media outlets.
She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband and their two children.
