Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women Leaders
Your Mindset Unlimited is a podcast for socially conscious women leaders who are on a journey to release learned limitations and live a more present, intentional, and enjoyable life.
In this podcast you'll find tips, tools, and inspiration to help you shift the patterns that create imbalances in the world starting with the internalized patterns that limit us in our own lives. Engaging these limiting mindsets and habits not only expands the impact of our work in the world but also creates more joyful relationships in all areas of our life.
Some of the topics you'll find here are: finding fulfillment, habit shifting, motivation, time management, money mindset, stress management, impostor syndrome, productivity, work/life balance, communication, boundaries, leadership, social activism, burnout, building a business, motherhood, and more.
Your Host, Valerie Friedlander, is an ICF certified coach, sociologist, intersectional feminist, artist, business owner, and mom. Based in Chicago and supporting clients world-wide, she helps high-achieving, multi-passionate women leaders create success on their own terms, honoring all aspects of their life.
You can find out about Valerie and her work at www.valeriefriedlander.com
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Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women Leaders
Why Work Life Balance Is a Myth
WHY work life balance is a myth is as important to understand as knowing that it is one. It’s important because the way a topic is framed has a large impact on how we think about it. It directs our focus and influences the options we perceive. Most people I speak with consciously know there is no real balance between work and life. Yet work/life balance is still used to describe a primary challenge facing people. The fundamental issue with the term work/life balance isn’t just that such a thing doesn’t exist. The issue is also the framing of our struggle being one of work/life balance and the assumptions on which that framing is based. One assumption is that working has equal priority to living. Another is that they oppose each other. Thus, the challenge of work/life balance is a fictious one based on inhumane assumptions that prevent creating healthy and sustainable ways of being in the world.
In this episode of Unlimited, I explore the roots of the work/life balance myth and how the myth perpetuates itself as a problem.
Some of what I talk about in this episode includes:
- What is work/life balance
- The history of work/life balance
- The deep problem with the term work/life balance
- A starting place to create what you want in life
- What to expect in Season 3 of Unlimited
LINKS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:
Truly Experiences - The History of Work Life Balance
Oxford Bibliographies – Work/Life Balance
Positive Psychology – What Is Work Life Balance
Forbes – The Evolving Definition of Work/Life Balance
Book – The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Book – Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
Book – How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
Book – Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
Unlimited Episode – Dealing With Impostor Syndrome
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