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The Third Shift: Simplifying the Mental Load

Ex-BCG Principal helping parents simplify the mental load — so you can enjoy your kids. Default COO of your household? Here’s how to make it manageable.

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What is a family operations consultation?

How two kids' art systems illustrate management consulting for the mental load

You’re not imagining it — your mental load is growing.

Institutions are dumping work on you, and no one’s stopping it. Here’s how to tame Parenting Administrative Scope Creep.

Can AI Lighten the Mental Load? A Conversation with Danielle Matarasso, Founder of AI After Carpool

What AI can (and can't) do for the mental load, why apps may not be the right entry point, and the risk of induced demand

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Why Is the Mental Load Getting Worse? A Debrief with Emily King, CEO and Co-Founder of Faye

Listen now | The vocabulary around the mental load is forming. The research is building. The interventions are lagging. And the problem, in the meantime, is getting worse.

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The Presence Protocol in Action

What it looks like when load smoothing works — and what happens when you skip it

Is Multitasking Robbing You of Quality Time?

Introducing The Presence Protocol — a framework for being fully present during your busiest family moments

Can Women Have It All? Reading Corinne Low’s Having It All with a Fintech Product Manager

The data-based case that the system is broken — and what to do within that constraint

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How to Make a Birth Plan (When You’ve Never Given Birth Before)

The exercise matters more than the document. Here’s how to actually do it.

The Best Time to Set Up a Family Email Account Is Before Birth. The Second-Best Time Is Now.

How to benefit from a family inbox without creating something else to manage

10 Completely Unconventional but Absolutely Essential Things To Do Before Giving Birth

What actually prepares you for parenthood-- It's not the nursery or the registry checklist or the babymoon.