Jul 6 2023
Unraveling Clutter and Redefining Labor: An Interview with Dr. Regina Lark, Founder of A Clear Path
Embark on a captivating journey with Dr. Regina Lark, the visionary founder of A Clear Path, as she unveils her transformative approach to decluttering and redefining labor.
Dr. Regina Lark is the founder and owner A Clear Path: Professional Organizing and Productivity. Regina earned a Ph.D. in U.S. Women’s History from the University of Southern California then worked with the UCLA Women’s Studies program. In 2008 she left higher education to start A Clear Path.
Thought leader on the topic of women, emotional labor, and our brain. Emotional labor is the unnoticed, unwaged, unwritten work women do in the home and in the paid workforce. It includes everything from assuring socks match to coping with a pandemic, schooling, a job and family life all under one roof. Largely invisible, the mental load of emotional labor weighs heavily on the shoulders of women. Emotional labor is generally thought to be women’s work, whether at home or in the office, but it is actually not gender specific. It’s just, well, work! And for women with executive function challenges, the work becomes even more challenging.
Regina Lark, a feminist historian and Professional Organizer and brain-hacking entrepreneur, Regina speaks to the topic of Emotional labor as the unseen, unnoticed, unwaged, unwritten, unanticipated work women do. To help understand the overwhelm, Lark describes the historical journey of so-called “women’s work,” examining the connection between women, emotional labor in the home and the hard-wiring of our brain. She will talk about how emotional labor slams into executive function at home causing disorganization, clutter and other issues we as organizers commonly see. Lark offers solutions for creating a more equitable distribution of labor at home with dialogue and delegation.
She is a Professional Member of the National Speakers’ Association and speaks and trains on emotional labor, women's lives and history, women’s leadership, ADHD, and the power of positive thinking.
Regina is the author of 3 books: Emotional Labor: Why A Woman’s Work is Never Done and What to Do About It (2021); Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets: The Relationship between the Stuff in your Head and What's Under your Bed (2017); and Before the Big O: Professional Organizers Talk about Life Before Organizing (2013). And a recent article, “Interracial Marriage in Occupied Japan” in Women’s Experiences of the Second World War: Exile, Occupation, and Everyday Life (London: Boydell and Brewer, 2021),
Based in Los Angeles, Regina is the founder of A Clear Path and Speaking of Clutter. She is the author of two books: Emotional Labor: Why Women’s Work is Never Done and What to do About It -- and -- Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets: The Relationship Between the Stuff in Your Head and What’s Under Your Bed.
She speaks to domestic and international audiences at conferences, in boardrooms and via various media.
