Ep 10: Play Date with Sarah Raad

That's one of the points of this podcast is to get women thinking about creativity very broadly.

But I'm going to shift focus a bit.

And I also talk a lot about rest and the importance of rest.

And I think you do too.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and why you think it's so hard for women in particular to just let ourselves rest without it feeling like a failure.

Though I do have to add a caveat.

Last night, I Listen to one of your, I think you called it a voice note, but a podcast episode where you were trying to delineate the difference between rest and letting yourself off the hook.

I loved it.

But if you could wrap all that together, that would be awesome.

Oh, I love that episode because, yeah, we tread a fine line, don't we? Because I think to answer your first question, I think it's just complete conditioning.

I mean, people, not just women, I think human beings through, I would imagine ever since the Industrial Revolution, have been valued by our worth in terms of our output.

So, you know, even in factory definitions, people would clock in, clock off, like time was a real thing.

How many

things you

could do

within a certain amount of time.

you know, yards of material woven or whatever.

And people think it's just human nature.

And I don't think it is because I think prior the industrial revolution, without getting too historical on you, people didn't work like that because they just did the work that was there and in front of them.

So there wasn't just this endless productivity thing.

And obviously there were times of the year where there was a lot of work, like harvest time and planting time and that kind of thing.

And then I think there were lots of other times where there wasn't so much work and people only had to do what they needed to do in order to just be, didn't they? Just to have roof over their head, clothes on their backs, food on the table.

So all of this sort of productivity does seem to have spun out of the Industrial Revolution and now capitalism, etc.

And I think for women, it's even more difficult because we've been given two roles.

So if you're a man or traditionally, if you're a man, your job was to go out Spend money, free it back.