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.

Danielle Spadinger | Brand and Web Designer

My work life balance has changed a lot over the last 10 years. When I first started with graphic design, I was going to school for it, coaching gymnastics, and doing freelance internship positions. I felt like I needed to constantly be busy with work and school because that is what we’ve all seen our parents do. I barely had a social life at the time but still tried to have one. I was in the ‘work hard, play hard’ mentality which gets old quickly and easy to get stuck in. Read more>>

Benjamin Hummel | Chalk Artist, Author, Illustrator

Balance as a whole makes us better human beings, give us proper perspective, helps maintain better health. Like all ambitious youth, when I was younger, I wanted to be full throttle all of the time. The interesting thing about me, however, is that I already was dealing with a compromised body, due to my highly aggressive auto-immune disorder that I have had since birth. Up until I was fifteen, though my mind wanted to do all the things a teenager normally does, I was extremely sick, sidelined, and often in the hospital. Read more>>

Benjamin Campbell | Owner and 3rd generation in the painting industry

To have a good work life balance in my opinion is one of the most crucial aspects about being a small business owner.. We tend to try to become Superman in every situation and wanting to fix and be apart of everything that is going on within the business. One, this really is not feasible and you will run yourself into the ground. You have to delegate and trust your employees to do what they are paid to do. Read more>>