EVE RODSKY: Creating Better Balance at Home

EVE RODSKY: Creating Better Balance at Home

From The Double Win by Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt-Miller

April 29, 2026 · 45 min · Season 3 · Episode 54

About this episode

Eve Rodsky discusses the importance of ownership and accountability in creating balance in partnerships at home.

Even couples committed to a true, fair partnership can fracture under the weight of an invisible kind of work that almost always goes unacknowledged. In this episode, Megan and Joel sit down with Harvard-trained lawyer and bestselling author Eve Rodsky to talk about the reasons couples end up carrying unequal loads, and how ownership and accountability can help partners end cycles of resentment and defensiveness and move into trust. If you’re ready to feel like you’re on the same team again, this episode is for you. Memorable Quotes “At the time, we had no system for the home. We were using the three most toxic words that anyone can use for a relationship with kids: We were ‘figuring it out.’” “Fair Play is a system to restore accountability and trust, and the way you do that is by using very, very simple organizational principles… It has boundaries, systems, and communication.” “How do you fix that dynamic of somebody who's overwhelmed and somebody who's lost psychological safety in the home? There's only one way and it's ownership . That's it. You restore accountability and trust through ownership.” “There's only one scale that you'll learn in organizational management. There's…

People in this episode

Host: Megan Hyatt

Guest: Eve Rodsky

Topics covered

  • balance at home
  • partnership
  • accountability
  • trust
  • relationship dynamics

Keywords

  • balance
  • partnership
  • accountability
  • trust
  • relationship
  • Fair Play
  • invisible work

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard

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