The Emotional Labor Podcast - Dr. Susan Landers
Release Date: 12/06/2023
The Emotional Labor Podcast - Dr. Susan Landers
The Emotional Labor Podcast
Dr. Susan Landers retired from her work as a neonatologist – a career that spanned 34 years. But alas, although “retired” Dr. Susan found, “I just could not sit still.” Sharing compelling stories from her medical practice with her book club members, as she shouldered the heavy load of raising a family, her cohort encouraged her Susan to write about her experiences. As such, Susan went from birthing babies to birthing a book, and in 2021, was born. I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Dr. Susan – smart, thoughtful, and reflective, she shared the...
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - David Smith
The Emotional Labor Podcast
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - Ingrid Jansen
The Emotional Labor Podcast
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - Gifty Enright
The Emotional Labor Podcast
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - Joanna Schroeder
The Emotional Labor Podcast
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - Sara Madera
The Emotional Labor Podcast
It’s not often I read an article with the words “gender equity” embedded in the title. I had not finished reading Sara Madera’s article, when I started my email to Sara inviting her to the Emotional Labor podcast. And I’m so glad that I did. Aside from being an insightful writer, Sara Madera brings her understanding of gender equity at home as a career coach for working moms. Sara comes to her knowledge of household equity through experience – living with her spouse and children and having what sounds like substantive...
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - Dr. Shahrzad Nooravi
The Emotional Labor Podcast
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - Kelly Ryan Bailey
The Emotional Labor Podcast
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - Sari Solden
The Emotional Labor Podcast
I started my organizing business two months after my university job layoff. An academic at heart, I devoured a lot books to help me learn my new craft. And it was with great excitement and glee when I can across Sari Solden’s, Women with Attention Deficit Disorder. Page after page of important insight and analysis of how the mental load of emotional labor lands on the ADD females typically raised to do all the work household management (aka –‘women’s work’). Sari expands the definition of emotional labor by adding the invisible concepts of empathy - and -- spending time on...
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The Emotional Labor Podcast - Maureen Nolan
The Emotional Labor Podcast
Maureen Nolan is an ‘attention coach’ who is using the book, with her clients seeking the ability to focus, and improve awareness about relationships. A specialist in working with people with executive function challenges, Maureen works with her clients through the lens of the client’s past traumas to help identify attachment styles, attention styles, and how in adulthood we mimick the people who were important in our lives which if trauma-based doesn’t typically work for a happy and emotionally healthy adulthood. And we had an interesting conversation about all of it. Shorty after we...
info_outlineDr. Susan Landers retired from her work as a neonatologist – a career that spanned 34 years. But alas, although “retired” Dr. Susan found, “I just could not sit still.” Sharing compelling stories from her medical practice with her book club members, as she shouldered the heavy load of raising a family, her cohort encouraged her Susan to write about her experiences. As such, Susan went from birthing babies to birthing a book, and in 2021, So Many Babies: My Life Balancing a Busy Medical Career and Motherhood. was born.
I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Dr. Susan – smart, thoughtful, and reflective, she shared the evolution of how she came to understand how she grew a successful career, stayed married, and raised 3 children. She describes her journey through the decades.
Dr.Susan’s husband, Phillip, a practicing physician in his own right (Pediatrics) did a lot around the house when the kids were young but Susan recognized that she was carrying the bulk of the physical work and the mental load of emotional labor. She said it took her 10 years to figure out how to ask for help because before asking for help she was growing resentful of all that was on her plate, and Philip did not intuitively know how to partner with her in the household. And so she had to learn to identify the need and ask for help. The second decade of marriage was all about helping Philip learn to listen, instead of wanting to fix things. Which brought the couple to a new and more sustainable way to communicate.
In this, her fourth decade of marriage and just a few years out of a fulfilling career, Dr. Susan Love speaks to women in the struggle to find their footing amidst a culture that expects women to do all the work. To that end, aside from her book, Dr Landers offers cool, and very accessible Ebooks – free to download – resources for parents – to discover real conversations about, and real hacks for, finding that footing, and feel steady on solid ground.