This video of Brigid Schulte “Over Work” How to Live A Better Life” was recorded at the June 20, 2024 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference in Montreal Canada.

Brigid Schulte is a journalist, think tank program director, keynote speaker and author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, gender and modern life, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One has the Time. Her latest book is Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life (September 2024). She was an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine and was part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. She serves as director of the Better Life Lab, the work-family justice and gender equity narrative change program at New America. She hosts the Better Life Lab podcast on Slate. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Fast Company, and others.