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.

Jenna Sezionale Basilicato | Rooted Expansion Co-Founder, Venture Beyond Founder, Intuitive Coach, Guide & Facilitator

I used to relate to this concept of work life balance in a more compartmentalized and polarized way. There was a work Jenna and a play Jenna. As I have stepped more and more into my calling and living an aligned life, I don’t feel the same tension and struggle I used to. I have started to experience more balance in the day to day and in every moment. The parts of my personality have become more integrated which means I am able to listen to my needs in a deeper way in every moment. Read more>>

Rocky Trifari | Digital Nomad & Travel Blogger on The Rocky Safari

As a digital nomad, work life balance is paramount. Keeping different parts of your life in compartments is one of the best pieces of advice I could give to anyone looking to work remotely while living a location-independent lifestyle. Work life balance is like playing a harmony where each aspect of your life needs to be carefully tended to while always keeping your wellbeing at the center of everything. Since it is so easy for work responsibilities to spill over into our personal lives and vice versa, I try to keep everything in an allotted space. Read more>>

Kristel Jelinek Brown | Theatre-Maker, Community-based Arts and Sexuality Educator

Is there such a thing as work life balance?! (Ha! I’m kidding… sort of.) I do think the idea of work life balance is sort of a farce for modern caregivers in our society – especially women. We still have such a long way to go to support working caregivers in terms of systemic change. I’m in the very privileged position of being able to approach my work with lots of flexibility, but I also think that my creative partner, Mimi Ferrie, and I both want to be part of the paradigm shift for working-artist caregivers (and working caregivers in general.) Read more>>