Our community is filled with hard-working, high achieving entrepreneurs and creatives and so work-life balance is a complicated, but highly relevant topic. We’ve shared some responses from the community about work life balance and how their views have evolved over time below.

Aaron Pate | Producer, Local Takes

People who set their own schedules talk about this a lot. There’s an endless stream of excellent advice, bad advice, and platitudes on the subject, and I consumed a lot of them especially after becoming self-employed. The problem was, it didn’t make sense in my context. I think the idea itself is suspiciously binary. It probably begins with how we define “work,” how we define it personally and how our culture defines it. A lot of people seem to think work is, exclusively, unpleasant tasks done for compensation. I disagree. Making art is work. Read more>>

Francis Ford Jr. | Male Model: But he’s in Tech

My work life balance has been extremely dynamic. Since college, I have been used to traveling to NY and Los Angeles frequently for runway shows and castings, but now that I work in tech it’s a lot more convenient. Aside from waking up 3 hours early, I actually just celebrated my promotion to Senior Management in Mexico, and LA. Read more>>

Mikal Yemane | College Student & Entrepreneur

The way I balance my work life is through calendar planning and having my whole day planned out from start to finish has been really helpful to help me stay accountable to my goals and to also get things done. My work life balance has changed completely especially within the last couple of years. I used to work 2 to 3 jobs since high school, so its always been important to plan things out so that I didn’t miss deadlines for my school assignments, to also make sure that I made it to work on time, I was spending time with my family/friends, and that I also found time for myself to do things that I enjoyed. Read more>>