The Coronavirus has given many us an opportunity to pause and think about life, our purpose, and even the right work life balance. What’s your perspective and has it changed over time?

M. S. Spencer | Author of Mystery & Romantic Suspense

For writers, balancing social life and your vocation usually engenders guilt trips. During Covid many jokes focused on authors either rejoicing in a legitimate excuse to stay holed up in front of their laptops—or not noticing any difference in life style. Read more>> 

Jiaqing Ge | Film Producer

In my line of work, (Film Production) it is very hard to have a consistency or a routine when you’re starting out and even when you’re established in this business, a film can take you anywhere. Read more>> 

Pernille Kjeldsen | pk@pkpublicity.com

When I was younger and deeply in advertising world, I very much bought into the lie we are all taught – that grinding hard is the only measure of success. Eventually I looked around at people doing what I eventually wanted to be doing and realized they weren’t doing everything, just the stuff that made them happy to be there. Read more>> 

Joandrea Reynolds | Founder and CEO of JTainment, LLC

What I consider work-life balance recently changed, bringing me to focus on self-care and self-help for needed balance. Self-care for me centers around prioritizing personal, emotional, mental, and physical needs. I’ve learned to guard my space and use better discernment when giving energy, time, and effort to a person or thing. Read more>>  

Kate Szekely | Actor, Producer & Teacher

I used to be completely terrible at work life balance. Like, I’d be out the door at 6AM and back in at 11PM and that was my schedule for almost a decade. Mostly, I was in survival mode, needing to scrape together a living from all of the odd jobs I had, to attempt to build a career in acting and producing. Read more>> 

Steve Jackson | Portrait Photographer

When I first started in my career I had the most time to do things like go to the gym, movies, cook dinner, and binge Netflix. Now time has passed I have bigger clients and the amount of work has increased to where I only get to choose maybe one or two things to do that’s not work related. Read more>> 

Clara Bach | Actor and Model

Finding a balance between my job and personal life has been difficult for me initially. Indeed, I spend most of my time working from home, therefore at some point, I will start to suffocate a little bit. Going to a café occasionally to sit down and work has proven to be a successful option for me. Read more>>

Daniel Weidlein | Music Maker

Woof. This is a hard one! I’ve spent most of my life not giving a care in the world about work/life balance. I would work non-stop, 7 days a week, often ’til 3 or 4 in the morning. And then my “balance” was taking a couple weeks off to go on some kind of grand adventure. Read more>>

Nahyr Galaz Ruiz | Actress/Writer/Director/Producer

Uff… We’re diving right in with a really layered question. As a mother of three and a woman forging a career in film; a Latina no less, I have struggled with this for a long time. Read more>>

Cole Maslansky | Photographer & Director/Writer

That’s a tricky one, and a topic that I talk about amongst my peers with super often. I feel as if I am definitely trying to still find the balance between work and life and how the two can mesh together in a healthy way. Read more>> 

Spencer Paez | Actor, Writer

I no longer separate work from life. The idea that part of our time is for living life, while another part is for working, creates an illusion that we have more than this one life to live. That illusion compartmentalized my behaviors, my values, my time, the very person I am. Read more>> 

Newton Pathak | Indie film director/Fantasy writer

I mean the more you find out about yourself the more you will be able to manager your life better and as a result create more balance. The only way is by knowing what you want, what your limits are, what works for you and what doesn’t work for you and how to act on it.  Read more>>

cristiane bachmann | Owner & Buyer

it’s been a real journey for me as an entrepreneur. Picture me at the start, doing everything on my own, from the crack of dawn to way past midnight. But, as you can guess, keeping up that intensity just wasn’t sustainable. I ended up burning out and even getting sick. Read more>> 

Sara Robinson | Candlemaker

Life has definitely moved to the front of my balancing act when managing work and life. I thrive on staying busy – but due to some unexpected health issues I realize that I need to throw a bit of self care into my daily routine. Read more>> 

Andreea Lazar | Actress

Growing up in the industry taught me how to prioritize my career despite life distractions. I do consider myself to be a workaholic, especially when I get excited about a project, and that comes at a cost- usually, socially or at my own expense. Read more>>

Simy Eurydice | Dancer, Actor, & Rapper

Balance in my career has not come without the price of stress. I find myself fully indulging in new mediums on top of the things I already have on my plate for the sake of artistic exploration and inspiration. I want to do things and connect them in ways that one may not immediately think of. Read more>>

Raina Jia | Illustrator & Designer

I have had lots of thoughts on this subject lately. I am a known workaholic, my record was working three part-time design jobs/internships while juggling coursework and freelance projects at the same time. Project after project day and night is how I would describe my college years. Read more>>