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.

Terry Benton-Walker

Work life balance has recently become incredibly important to me. I just experienced a period in my life where everything got turned upside down, and I had to figure out how to pivot and quickly. As a result, it became apparent how many balls I was juggling once I ended up dropping nearly all of them. And after some reflection, I realized that I shouldn’t have had that many in the air at the same time in the first place. Read More>>

Candice Morgan

Autonomy exposes our weaknesses.

I never had autonomy over my work schedule until I started in corporate sales.

Autonomy exposed my people pleaser weakness. I was agreeing to meet with anyone who wanted to meet with me. Read More>>

Lizzie Daiss

When I first started working for myself I didnt have as many kids as I do now. I kept thinking “one day it will get easier when xyz..” and the truth is it just never does. I try to think of it in seasons rather than years. There are times when I can devote more of myself to my work and growth and other times that my family needs it more. Thats the beauty of this type of work I have the flexibility to focus my attention where its needed at the time. Read More>>