#13 Be the Change You Want to See With Micha Fritz

BE THE CHANGE: How to make the world better, starting at
home


Have you ever had childcare plans fall through and you had to
take your child to work? 


How did people react? Did you feel judged for not having your
life under control? Or were you congratulated on your excellent
multitasking? 


Your response may depend on whether you’re male or female, says
Micha Fritz. The activist and social entrepreneur had exactly
that happen to him when his wife went on her first overseas work
trip after giving birth, and he ended up having to give a speech
while he was literally holding the baby. "Afterwards all the
people came to me and were like, “Ey, so super, so avant-garde,”
he says. "And I just asked two people, “Would you have said the
same thing to my wife, or would she just have been really badly
organised?” And their faces just fell, because they realised.”


Micha has made a career of driving change, making the world
better, being a positive role model. But since he became a
father, he also sees the changes that need to happen at home. It
started with a parenting workshop that his wife set up just for
the two of them when they were first juggling parenthood and care
work - complete with "the flipchart, and the brainstorming, the
prototyping and the presentation.” 


He explains it beautifully in today’s podcast, but in case you
want to try this at home, here’s an overview of what they
did: 


 Together, brainstorm a list of every task you can think of
linked to child- and home-care.


 Organise the list into daily, weekly, monthly, annual
tasks.


 Work out roughly how much time is spent on each task, in
total, in an average month / year.


 Split that time between the people actually doing those
tasks.


 Add up the totals and if the balance is completely off,
make it fairer! (Tip - it helps to take each other’s individual
strengths into account when redistributing tasks)


"We realised that my wife was doing about 750 or 760 hours, and I
was doing about 200,” says Micha. So they fixed that.


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Speaker: Micha Fritz, Founder and CEO of Viva Con Aqua (amongst
others!) 


Interviewer: Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier -
Founder @MyCollective


Music: sponsored by @Michaelkadelbach


Picture: Micha Fritz


Graphic & Production: MyCollective