How to Take Back Your Weekends: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Two Days Off

Modern Husbands Podcast

Katrina Onstad is a Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated writer. One of her books, The Weekend Effect, brilliantly chronicles the birth, death and revival of the weekend.
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Toronto Life and The Walrus. She’s won several National Magazine Awards and was an American National Magazine Award finalist.
And as it pertains to today’s topic, her book, The Weekend Effect, Katrina will share with busy spouses and families how to get our weekends back.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:55 A history of where the weekend came from
0:06:00 What is pushing the shift to losing our weekends to work
0:04:04 The weekend impact on personal happiness
0:10:22 How the weekend impacts the personal and relational happiness
0:17:22 Why weekends be framed in a similar way as vacations
0:23:12 Additional weekend happiness hacks to truly relax on the weekend
0:26:30 Where our listeners learn more about you or follow Katrina
0:27:38 Chores, screens, and shopping
0:29:12 One piece of easily actionable advice for our listeners
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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. A history of where the weekend came from (00:00:55)

3. What is pushing the shift to losing our weekends to work (00:06:00)

4. How the weekend impacts the personal and relational happiness (00:10:22)

5. Why weekends be framed in a similar way as vacations (00:17:22)

6. Additional weekend happiness hacks to truly relax on the weekend (00:23:12)

7. Where our listeners learn more about you or follow Katrina (00:26:30)

8. Chores, screens, and shopping (00:27:38)

9. One piece of easily actionable advice for our listeners (00:29:12)