Yumi Stynes
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1,797 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Yumi Stynes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This podcast was produced on the lands of the Gadigal, Muwanina and Darawal people.
Ladies We Need to Talk is mixed by Anne-Marie de Betancourt.
It's produced by Elsa Silberstein and Sarah Mashman.
Our supervising producer is Emma Morris and our executive producer is Tamar Kranswick.
This series was created by Claudine Ryan.
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In 2017, back when Ladies We Need To Talk was just a baby podcast, we spoke about the
At the time, a new generation of women were discovering language that helped describe something that we'd felt for a long time, and the invisible labour that had always been dumped on women was finally getting ventilated.
It was a real relief to hear it said out loud.
But solving this riddle of the mental load was another question entirely.
Well, that same Leah has spent the almost 10 years since her appearance on this podcast trying to figure that out.
She's a professor of sociology at the University of Melbourne and visiting professor at Vanderbilt University.
She recently published her book Drained, Reduce Your Mental Load to Do Less and Be More.
Since we first spoke about it, our understanding of the mental load has evolved.
It's not just list making, it's the constant unseen work of planning, worrying and remembering across the full spectrum of life.
The challenge and what Leah has written about in her new book is what to do about it.
How can we learn what to hold on to, what to share, and most importantly, what to let go of?
I'm Yumi Steins.
Ladies, we need to talk about redistributing the mental load with Leah Rupana.
Leah Rupana has spent the last five years working on a research project into the mental load.
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