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.

Glory Warner | Farmer Florist

It’s been a long and ongoing process for me to establish a healthy work life balance. As the saying goes, “If we don’t take care of ourselves, how can we take care of others” In this sense, the “other” is not just other people but the business itself. As a farmer an floral designer, working in the field is me stepping out my back door, and working from the office is often from the kitchen table where I currently write this. Read more>>

Logan Brantley | Artist, Psychotherapist, Expressive Arts Facilitator

When I became a clinical social worker, I was told that burn-out and overworking were the standard in our field. That the more you worked = the more you cared. I get told this about being an artist too – all about the hustle! I now know this to be pretty toxic. I always come back to the airplane oxygen analogy – put your oxygen on first before you help those around you. It’s pretty impossible to help people if you don’t have the resources to take a deep breath on your own! Read more>>

Mensah Bey | Visual Artist

The most recent change in my work life balance has been moving to San Diego with my fiancé. Prior to this time, I was working on my Master’s of Fine Arts, living alone, and able to make many more singularly focused decisions.  Read more>>

Jason Piske | Realtor

When I was younger, I left the corporate life and pursued a dream of working in the music industry in Nashville, TN. I wasn’t married and I spent all my time working in the studio. Sessions became the most important thing to me and I would cancel plans with friends if someone called me for work. Read more>>

Rodney and Tyra Rich | Food Vendors- Catering Service

I think work life balance is a lot of work, but when your building for yourself and your family it feels less like work. Your 9-5 job is the hard part compared to running your own business. When you have a passion and love for serving great food and a smile it’s never viewed as work. Read more>>