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What if pausing is the most ambitious move you could make this year? Kristy set a stretch target of 1,500 responses for her gender capacity gap survey. By the Monday after it was shared there were 2,000. By the time she hit record, there were more than 3,600, and 1,297 women had volunteered their time to talk further. Many said they had never told anyone what they wrote. That kind of trust asks for something back: time, energy and attention, the three human currencies this podcast has asked you to protect all season. So in this Season 1 finale, Kristy does what she has spent 40 episodes encouraging you to do. She names what success looks like in this season of her life, and chooses it on purpose. Along the way she thanks the guests and listeners who shaped the show, and traces the four themes that ran through Season 1. In this episode Kristy shares The number she got very wrong: 1,500 versus 3,600 Why 1,297 time-poor women offering an interview about the gender capacity gap is its own data point What women confided in their open-ended responses, and why so many thought they were the only ones Why "data doesn't change anything on its own", and the slow work that turns it into change Why a weekly episode recorded by a woman "quietly running on empty" would be hypocrisy Theme 1: the load was never a personal failing, with Maggie Dent, Georgie Dent, Marilla Akkermans and Yas London Why her language has shifted from the gender wellbeing gap to the gender capacity gap Theme 2: your biology isn't broken, with Dr Sarah McKay, Amelia Phillips, Amanda Stevens and Lisa Corduff Theme 3: capacity is designed, not willed, with Andrea Culligan, Manelle Merhi, Dr Adam Fraser and Dr Vanessa Lapointe Theme 4: you get to decide what success is worth, with Philippa Moig-Ryan, Tory Archbold, Taryn Brumfitt and Amanda Delosa Biological bandwidth: why there is no separate tank for the podcast Attention residue, and why you cannot write a book with half your mind on Friday's episode The leadership leak: when capacity stays depleted, women pass on the stretch role and step sideways This week's Power-Up: name your one potent thing, and the one that can wait Key Quotes "It is a season. It is not a sentence." "Data doesn't change anything on its own." "Pausing something doesn't mean that you have failed. It doesn't mean that you've given up. Sometimes it's the most ambitious thing that you can do." Timestamps (00:09) Why this episode is different (01:31) 1,500 versus 3,600: the gender capacity gap survey (04:10) 1,297 women who volunteered their time (04:54) What women shared in the open-ended responses (06:59) Why data alone changes nothing (08:05) The success tax and a hard conversation (09:26) What does success in this season of your life look like? (10:20) Four themes from Season 1 (10:27) Theme 1: The load was never a personal failing (13:40) Theme 2: Your biology isn't broken (16:15) Theme 3: Capacity is designed, not willed (18:52) Theme 4: You decide what success is worth (21:13) Thank you to our guests and listeners (22:57) Biological bandwidth and Kristy's next season (25:43) The leadership leak (27:41) This week's Power-Up (29:25) Three small requests Spacious Success with Dr Kristy Goodwin Website: https://www.drkristygoodwin.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-kristy-goodwin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drkristy/ Speaking enquiries: https://www.drkristygoodwin.com/speaking Gender capacity gap survey: https://www.drkristygoodwin.com/gender-capacity-gap-survey References Leroy, S. (2009). Why is it so hard to do my work? The challenge of attention residue when switching between work tasks. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 109(2), 168–181. Other episodes you may be interested in EP0 Everyone Needs a Karen (where the "what does success in this season look like?" question began; called back at 08:43) EP1 From Code Red to High-Res (Kristy's emergency department wake-up call and the success tax; called back at 07:19) EP7 Productivity Hijackers (attention residue and why switching costs more than you think; called back at 23:19) EP35 I Probably Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Naming the Gender Wellbeing Gap (the earlier framing that evolved into the gender capacity gap; called back at 12:50)
