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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She spoke to people in the US and Australia about how it impacts their day-to-day lives.
And not just women with kids, but child-free women, people caring for their aging parents, and importantly, men.
Okay, so it's omnipresent, it's constant, and honestly, it's exhausting.
But Leah is a solutions gal and wanted to take the conversation further and give women tools on how to sort out their mental load and share it around.
To get us started, Leah has broken down the mental load into eight different categories.
It's not just the never-ending jobs on our list.
It's the micromanagement that squeezes our brains.
Did your kid remember their sports uniform?
Has your partner booked his doctor's appointment?
And what the hell are we having for dinner again?
Even if you're not the one actioning the tasks, you're still managing the when and the where and the how they're getting done and if they'll be done properly.
The
That care and attunement combined with your observation skills keep those around you emotionally supported.
And for women, it feels like there's a whole lot more of this emotional labour in our lives.
We are expected to juggle multiple relationships and be emotionally available.
From late night chats with your friend going through a divorce, to your kid's 8am meltdown, to your mother-in-law's constant requests for more photos of the grandkids,
The third category is something Leah calls relationship
So you call that relationship hygiene.
So that's sort of keeping the social wheels oiled.
The fourth category on the list is all about when you have to make big life events feel super special.
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