And when I got home from sitting my mother in the hospital, I'd be building the project with Brody. Eve: That's how I ended up with Fair Play, which is a very easy -- the core and crux is a card game based on a hundred task cards that were derived from the Shit I Do spreadsheet. What inspired you to write this book? I'm trying to decorate the Christmas tree, try to do a holiday card, plan our Christmas travel, and I'm at my breaking point.". Yeah. And what I found was, the science backs this up. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Or like I like to say in the book that she-falls, for every single thing for my household and family, regardless of whether we work outside the home, women do two thirds of what it takes to run a home and family regardless of whether we work outside the home. New mom Eve Rodsky started a list of the time-sucking chores that consumed her day, and the list grew into a spreadsheet. ", Reese Witherspoon’s bestie organisation expert Eve Rodsky reveals the four household rules to share the domestic workload and have martial bliss. I say, well obviously you don't have to use Excel then, because it's tab 72, under medical and healthy living, you just didn't down to item 21, because it's there. And it would be really nice if my son who is popular and athletic and who has been at the school since kindergarten would make something really nice for this new girl. Eve Rodsky: That's a great question.
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You should feel bad for me. And it was a really fun exercise that took me months. I have returns for a new baby in the back seat of the car, because God forbid they have more than a 30-day return policy for clothes. It was that granular, sourced by dozens and dozens of women across the country. And it really, really affects women and men too. But there is time choice of how you use your time, and if I have less choice of over how or use my time, then my time is less valued. Every story in the book is true. So I only believe in unicorn space in the context of domestic rebalance, only in that context. Welcome, Eve. I asked men all over this country, are you proud of your wife, of your wife or your partner? And so that's what I started doing. So you get to read about all the people's mistakes and how to correct them. They just don't.
Here's what I mean. He just takes out a laptop. I get to the presenting problem, the underlying problems.
But what I found was that when you do that, it brings transformative change into the home, transformative change that lasts. Because back to what you said about societal change that starts in the home.
But I was able to go to my husband and say, "Well I have to prepare for this interview. That's what I was emotional about before, Zibby, about watching you live your unicorn space and how by having you out there championing so many authors, you're helping so many ideas get out into the world. And I think the reason Ed told me that, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I want to go back and ask him. Sorry for cursing. Like I said, treat our home like an organization, because when you do, then things start to change. Eve: All the science shows, including one of my favorite consultants, Professor Darby Saxbe, she shows that men take leisure time in much more abundance than women do because, my thesis, men view their time as finite and women’s is infinite. The book is now a New York Times bestseller. Eve: That's why those are my favorite interviews. You invest in those conversations, and it's a lifetime of change. I'm your host Lauren Schiller. A CPE model, when you're holding ownership of the conception and planning to the execution, you care. Speaking with me, live on stage at Inforum at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. Like that's completely not our habit." And it's a concept that has caught the attention of Hollywood heavyweight, Reese Witherspoon.
And what does that do for him? Eve Rodsky: My love letter to men, women all over the country were saying things to me like, "Well what do you mean Eve? 1.3K likes. And, more importantly, what am I supposed to do about it from the road?
From there, she really wanted to champion this as a company effort. Those rules are really important because they’ve been beta tested with over a hundred different couples at this point. When you give someone context to do their job, they are very, very competent in it. Everything comes down to communication. It proves that it has nothing to do with actual time. Every single company is moving towards a directly responsible individual model. I'm sobbing over off-season blueberries. They don't work for men. This benefits everybody.
So I got a call two days ago from a client in Seattle, who told me he was at a funeral, not to get all existential.