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.

Neha Rathi | 9-to-5er, Content Creator, and a Learner!

Work-life balance is a highly subjective concept that depends on a person’s values, goals, and circumstances. For some, this might involve prioritizing career advancement, while others may prioritize their family, personal well-being, or the pursuit of new hobbies. That being said, it’s important to recognize that this isn’t a one-size-fits-all concept, and it’s essential to normalize the idea that it varies for everyone. Read more>>

Ashley Zazzarino | Event Producer

I’ve always yearned for a good work-life balance, and actually, I think the pandemic really gave me the push I needed to make the changes I needed to make in order for that to become a reality. I was always extremely career-driven, meaning I would push myself beyond the limits and ignore my basic personal needs in order to prove myself and move up. It drove me to so much unhappiness, and not much success. Read more>>

Lauren Alicia | Herbalist & Birth/Postpartum Doula

It can be energetically taxing working closely with people starting a family, probably one the most intense times in a persons life. Even though so much of my work as an doula has given back to me 10 fold, it’s very easy to get burned out quickly in this business. After almost 10 years I have learned so much about how I can make my business more sustainable by creating work life balance. Being a business owner can mean being on the clock 24/7, especially being on call for birth. Read more>>

Michael Haight | Artist & Art Handler

My work life balance is something I am constantly engaged with. I’m at the end of the exhibition cycle right now, where I have finished the paintings for my solo show and the artworks are at the gallery and the opening is two days away, and I am slowly trying to pull my head out of this stress to breathe and situate myself outside of it in order to stay on top of it. My studio can be both a sanctuary and a swamp, that my wife, bless her heart, reminds me I have to take time away from now and then. Read more>>

Dava Giustizia | Composer, Pianist, and Keyboardist

My journey in Berklee had helped me to be more mature, both as a musician and as a human being in general. I’d like to think that my work-life balance had evolved for the better ever since I’ve been faced to situations that demanded me to manage and acknowledge my priorities throughout the journey. The talks with my mentors and family members that have faced these struggles before had also definitely helped me, and still are. Read more>>

Nicole Rose Gelormino | Teaching Artist & Painter

I have always been an artist and a teacher. For the last 7 years (including gestation) I have been a parent as well. As a young adult, I always organized my time using a triage model: What’s the thing that needs my attention before it becomes a crisis? What is most urgent? What is a need? What is a want…etc. My day job was the loudest baby I had, so I often prioritized that above all else, leaving studio at the bottom of the barrel. Read more>>

Maria Brasero | Writer, Producer, Reporter

I honestly don’t think I will ever find the perfect balance between work, personal projects and family; trying to find it has given more anxiety than just accepting that somedays, I put more energy into my work and others into my family and that’s ok. For instance, I’m a mom of a toddler, expecting again, and I know for a while, my work life will be on the rear seat because I’ll have other priorities and I shouldn’t work as if I didn’t have kids and raise kids as if I didn’t have to work. Read more>>