#148 - Improve Your “Family System” by Creating “Fair Play” at Home with Eve Rodsky

May is mental health awareness month and I’m focused on shows
that can help you create a better life and support your
well-being. 


This [COVID-19] Mother’s Day, women are still providing $10.8
trillion dollars a year of invisible, unpaid labor. 


My guest this week Eve Rodsky says it’s unsustainable and she
used her Harvard degree in organizational management to develop a
structure for families to redistribute all it takes to make
families work. Fair Play is a bestselling book and card game Eve
developed over 7 years of working with families so that
collaborative conversations and planning can take place to
benefit every family member.  


I want to share with other women and families a way forward to
improve the “family system”.  I’m sharing this as a
beginner, someone who has read Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play and who is
scared to bring it up, but I’m doing it as my Mother’s Day gift
to myself. 


I’ll be honest, I’m not looking forward to spending more time on
my family operations, but after recording this podcast, I can see
how my efforts in approaching my family with a “systems function”
viewpoint will help us all learn and grow together.  


After talking with Eve (and a surprise special guest) on this
podcast, I’m more hopeful and confident than ever. 


Have a listen and follow my updates on weekly Instagram lives
Mondays at 2 p.m. ET. I’m committing to sharing updates weekly
for four weeks, though I am certain it will take much more time
to adapt to Fair Play at home. 


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Other Reading


The coronavirus pandemic is creating a ‘double double shift’
for women. Employers must help - Op-Ed by Sharon Salzberg in
Fortune

Body Kindness COVID-19 Resources

All COVID-19 themed Body Kindness podcasts



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About Eve
Eve Rodsky is working to change society one marriage at a time
with a new 21st century solution to an age-old problem: women
shouldering the brunt of childrearing and domestic life
responsibilities regardless of whether they work outside the
home.


In her New York Times bestselling book Fair Play: A Game-Changing
Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to
Live), she uses her Harvard Law School training and years of
organizational management experience to create a gamified
life-management system to help couples rebalance all of the work
it takes to run a home and allow them to reimagine their
relationship, time and purpose.


Eve Rodsky received her B.A. in economics and anthropology from
the University of Michigan, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
After working in foundation management at J.P. Morgan, she
founded the Philanthropy Advisory Group to advise high-net worth
families and charitable foundations on best practices for
harmonious operations, governance and disposition of funds. In
her work with hundreds of families over a decade, she realized
that her expertise in family mediation, strategy, and
organizational management could be applied to a problem closer to
home – a system for couples seeking balance, efficiency, and
peace in their home. Rodsky was born and raised by a single mom
in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband
Seth and their three children.


everodsky.com | Fair Play book | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter


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