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.

Kiara Madrigal | Lifestyle Photographer

OMG! Where to begin, my work life balance has changed incredibly over the last two years but in a good way. Besides being a photographer I work a full time job at an elementary school as well as being a college student earning my bachelors degree in communications. When I decided I was serious about taking on photography as more than just a hobby, my husband and I talked it over and he asked me if I was ready to give up my weekends lol! Read more>>

Marian Wood | Production Designer & Art Director

I think it is so easy to idolize our work–how many jobs we have back-to-back and how much of ourselves we can put into them– and forget that we are actually capitalizing on our own creativity, a thing that necessitates being nourished outside our work-life. Yes, a large part of the being a Production Designer is problem solving sometimes not solely through design but logistics. In the end though, we are in the role to work creatively, artistically, and many times philosophically. Read more>>

Kennedy Johnson | Freelance Photographer

My work balance life has changed over the last three years of owning my business. In the beginning I was giving my work, all of my attention which led me to neglect my body, mind and soul, and I realize how important that is for my business. My routine now is set up to get up in the morning around 5 AM and from 5 AM till about 10 AM. I focus on myself I go worked out, meditate and journal and then at 10 AM. I start work and I’ll work until about 6 PM. I do usually work a little bit afterwards but I make sure that it doesn’t exhaust me. Because I do think the work/personal life has to be balanced an order for your business to be successful. Read more>>