Dr Robyn Miller | Fair share - lightening the mental load that women too often carry

Robyn Miller is a medical doctor who has spent the past 10 years helping people from all walks of life, in all sorts of places – from rural hospitals in Australia to refugee camps in Africa.
Now living in Brisbane, Robyn is completing her specialist training in paediatrics. She gets a lot of enjoyment out of working with children, and she and her partner recently welcomed a child of their own.
Since becoming a mum, life has taken an interesting turn for Robyn who found being a working mother brought some unexpected challenges. Like many women, she experienced the overwhelm of the ‘mental load’ – that exhausting mental work of keeping everything on track in your home life, your family life, your social life and your career, which still seems to fall to women in particular.
When she couldn’t find the support she needed, Robyn decided to draw on her own skills and experience, to develop some strategies for her and her partner to share the mental load in a more equal way… and it worked so well for her, she’s now turned it into an online course to support other women too.
In this episode, Robyn talks about:
· her unusual educational path into medicine· working in Africa as a field doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)· becoming a mum and the challenges she faced as a working mother· what she learned about the mental load, how it can hold women back and how it can be overcome· the kind of future she wants for her daughter’s generation and the women who inspire her

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Host and producer: Jacqui OoiJoin us on Instagram: @whatshedidnextpodcastOur website is coming soon: whatshedidnext.com.au
With thanks to our guest Dr Robyn Miller, founder of The Mental Load Project, a six-week online course teaching women and their partners effective strategies to shift ingrained habits, divide and share the mental load, and achieve true partnership. Visit mentalloadproject.com to join the email waiting list for the next course. Listeners can receive a limited-time discount offer* using the code WHATSHEDIDNEXT20 for the course starting in March 2020 (*offer valid until 13 March 2020).