(BEST OF) The Panini Generation: Caretaking Without Losing Yourself with Ai-jen Poo

Sep 17, 2026 · 1h 0m

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0:00Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.

0:02Pod Squad, if you've been feeling like you can't quite keep up lately, I want to tell you something that I wish someone had told me a long time ago.

0:11Maybe you're not failing at all.

0:13Maybe you've been trying to do a job that was never supposed to belong to one person.

0:20So many of us are caring for children while caring for parents, caring for partners, caring for friends, caring for coworkers, caring for everyone around us while quietly wondering why we're so tired all the time.

0:36And because we're caregivers, we do what we always do.

0:39We assume the problem is us if we were just more organized, if we were just more patient, if we were just more efficient, more grateful, more resilient.

0:48But this conversation changed something for me because Ai Jen Pu helped me understand that what so many of us call burnout isn't just personal exhaustion.

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