Good Life Jam: Parenting Burdens & Self-Help Book Burials | Leah Smart

In this new Good Life Jam format, host and guest Leah Smart dive into two pressing topics. First, they explore why women’s increased earnings fail to reduce the invisible mental load of household management, even as physical chores become more equitably shared. They discuss how scorekeeping and unrealistic standards—like one word that reset a personal bar—can strain partnerships. Second, they examine the decline in self-help book sales alongside the rise in coaching, suggesting that people are seeking personalized, human connection over generic advice. Both threads converge on the idea that the discomfort we try to optimize away is often the very thing we need to lean into.