Listen as Brooke and New York Times Bestselling Author Eve Rodsky discuss her new book, Find Your Unicorn Space. Eve shares her work with her previous book, Fair Play and how it has led up to her new book. The books have shown her that the antidote to burnout isn’t walking around the block, but being interested in your own life. She says having a four word audit is important to determine who makes your decisions and that there is a cultural movement to have people make different decisions about how they work, such as new decisions not based on assumptions but choice. Eve is trained as a lawyer but she has been involved in organizational management specifically with family foundations. That lens of how to design an organization has led her to understand that how we spend our time is subversive. She noticed that her husband had time to watch tv but she was doing household duties until her head hit the pillow. She said this creates a cycle of rage and resentment and we need to learn to fill our time nutritiously. When Eve researched how people feel about home life, the word that came up often was drowning but when she unpacked what that meant, the next two words that came up were overwhelm and boredom. These trends were triggering for Eve and she wanted to tell people how others have found how to rediscover the talents and curiosities that make you uniquely you. Unicorn Space is active pursuits that make you come alive. It’s not a hobby because people associate “infrequency” and “nice to have” as hobbies. How do you get there? It’s not a passion because that connotes we all have one that we can return to. We are allowed to change. Eve feels like she changes her passion sometimes daily. The connection with the world and completion are the other two pieces to Unicorn Space. Eve’s rest is the restorative practice of her Unicorn Space. It is a mental and physical space you can go to outside of your usual roles. Eve asks you to journal what is one thing that is important I am doing today that is outside of your usual role. Her word for the year is flourishing. Languishing was the word of 2021 and so she likes the -ish and wants to figure out ways to restore yourself through the active pursuit of flourishing. She wishes that for all of the listeners.
