Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok. You come across a video of a teenage girl and then a photo of the person suspected of killing her.

It was shocking. It was very shocking. Like that could have been my daughter. Like you never know.

I'm Jen Swan. I'm the host of a new podcast called My Friend Daisy. It's the story of how and why a group of teenagers turn to social media to help track down their friend's killer.

Listen to my friend Daisy on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to figure out what responsibilities everyone in your household can own.

Let go of the assumption that everything is your responsibility,

and other people should help. Instead, divvy up responsibility so everyone takes ownership

of areas they will manage. Today's tip comes from Catherine Solman, author of the book The Four Jobs Club.

I interviewed Catherine for one of the longer before breakfast episodes earlier this year.

She offered lots of helpful insights.

One tip was that we don't want our partners and kids to ask,

how can I help?

I mean, sure, help is nice, and it is better that they ask than that they do

nothing. But asking, how can I help, implies that everything is somebody else's responsibility.

Instead, we want everyone in the household to be thinking, what can I own? That is, what can I take responsibility for,

from start to finish? I've heard some people refer to this as vertical ownership. In other words,

you own a task stream, top to bottom. There are a lot of benefits to this approach. For one thing,

it's clear that no one is responsible for everything. You are responsible for some things,

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