September Webinar: A Fireside Chat with Future of Work visionary and author Brigid Schulte
Join us September 13, 12pPT/3ET to discuss burnout, systemic toxicity, and solutions for fixing work, topics of her latest book, Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life
I read Brigid’s Schulte’s first book, the groundbreaking Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time and thought, this woman gets it. She gets ME and my struggle with wanting more out of life but not knowing how to disentangle from once-sacred beliefs in how work works. Ensconced in a successful, peripatetic role of journalist, wife and working mom, Schulte dug into the evolving history of work, gender roles, and found the thinkers and cultural revolutionaries who were forging new ways of being in our live-to-work society.
Today, Schulte continues her journey, post-pandemic, taking another critical look at how so many of us make a living: What has changed, what is and what will be the New Normal of work, and what has to change.
Elisa and I will conduct a fireside interview with Schulte, who once again brings to us stories of occupational outrage and inspiration, and the latest thinking of those who are rethinking work. And we invite members to join us for a live Q&A session with one of the visionaries on the front line of the future of work.
About Brigid Schulte
Brigid Schulte is an American journalist, New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and director of the Better Life Lab at New America. She was a staff writer for The Washington Post for nearly 17 years and was part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
In 2014, Schulte published her book Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time. Overwhelmed won the Virginia Library Association’s literary nonfiction award, and was translated into a number of languages. In the book, Schulte coined the term, time confetti.
Since 2015, Schulte has been the director of the Better Life Lab at nonpartisan think tank New America, advocating for work-family justice and gender equity through original research and reporting.
She hosts the Better Life Lab podcast, an Apple Top 50 podcast exploring the art and science of living a full and healthy life, and the future of work, care, and wellbeing.
IN the middle of Over Work and feeling like Brigid was a fly on the wall for every conversation we ever had about starting Optionality. I'm not sure the last book I nodded so vigorously during throughout!