Everybody works really hard.
Take your time off.
You deserve it.
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Is work-life balance possible?
Work-life balance is absolutely possible with anything in life like a habit.
The more you practice it, the more you're applying it,
then it'll become something that's more second nature to you
and it's going to evolve as you move throughout your career
as you get older because what's important to you is going to change.
Yes, but takes work.
Have you found in your own life
that your work-life balance has evolved over time?
Oh, absolutely.
The older I've gotten, how I've progressed through my career,
what my responsibilities are, what's going on in my life personally.
I think each chapter of where you are
in your life is going to affect what you're doing.
What are three boundaries that you have found to be important
to you over your career that you have enforced?
I really make an effort to have routines at work well for me.
What that means is I try to take my lunch away from the computer screen.
Not always successful, but I try.
I always try to have a little bit of a cutoff time at the end of the day.
The more you're moving up and you have global roles
and there's different time zones,
again, that adjusts but knowing what your personal limits are.
I also for myself have a really important routine that I do.
In the mornings I start out with some meditation,
I start off with breath work.
What are the things that I can do for myself to equip myself for the day?
Also, remember to have fun and do the things that just bring you joy.
I love to surf.
I love to prioritize that during the week or on the weekends.
Find your hobbies and your activities
that are going to make you happy at the end of the day.
We only have one life.
Now, do you see work-life balance as more of a trade-off?
That can happen.
It really depends on the culture of your work environment.
Are they practicing and preaching a work-life balance also?
If not, again, what are the principles that you want
so that you can proactively apply also?
As you're moving up in career,
of course, there's times where you're going to be working
some longer hours or putting in a little bit of extra work
because that's what's needed to start moving up the ladder.
If you've got a big launch coming up, that's totally normal.
Again, it's just during those times,
what are the things that are going to help you balance?
What are the things that bring you that stress relief too?
It's not always necessarily on the work environment or your company
or your boss to provide those,
it's definitely a 50-50 of communicating what you need but also applying things
that you know are going to de-stress you or fill your soul.
Some people find it difficult to set boundaries
because maybe their work environment or they want to be seen as a team player.
For people who are looking to get ahead, why are these boundaries important?
Are they?
You're only as an employee,
as an individual going to be the most efficient,
be the most productive, be the most strategic,
and the most happiest if you're having that balance.
What are the things that are most important to you?
Is it more of an emotional boundary?
Is it the way that you prefer to get feedback communicated to you?
Is it an interpersonal boundary
with the way you're interacting with your team members?
Is it your own personal boundary
where you're like,
"I need to work on myself and be more diligent about shutting the laptop
at six o'clock or making sure
I actually take a lunch away from the screen"?
For me, I think what I would recommend the most
is never be afraid to use your voice.
Always communicate.
If you're able to do that proactively, that always goes a really long way.
You began your career as an assistant
and now you're VP of global communications at Fender.
I'm sure you've learned just a ton about work-life balance along the way.
What do you know now that you wish you would've known maybe when you were 25?
Trust that things are going to get done.
At the end of the day, everything will be okay.
I definitely have times and memories where I would be on vacation
and I would sit there responding to emails,
and that wasn't healthy and I shouldn't have done that.
Trusting in my team and knowing that things were going to get done
and they had the trust in me that I set them up for the time
that I was going to be away.
You deserve your time off.
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Now we want to advance in our careers
but we also want to maintain a good and healthy work-life balance.
Are those two compatible?
Do you think they work together?
Oh, 100%.
It's not always an easy journey, but you figure things out along the way.
For example, if you have a big launch or event or big moment coming up at work,
probably not the best time to ask for a day off two days before.
Definitely, throughout the years you find what works, what doesn't, and I'm a big,
big believer in finding your own systems that work for you.
Now, have you ever had a season
in your life where maybe you didn't have any work-life balance,
or at least very little?
If so, how did you cope with that?
I definitely have.
I used to do a lot of red carpet events and we'd have event after event
after event per night or a big launch and just really working really late hours.
I really loved it and I thrive a little bit on those moments,
but I definitely was tired
and started to physically feel it in my body sometimes.
Those are the moments to stop, be healthy, practice healthy practices.
I harp a lot on these routines because that's going to help prevent you
from getting there, but also knowing what that boundary is personally
so that if you are starting to get there, that you can, again,
communicate that and say, "Hey, I'm feeling really stressed,"
or, "I need help,\
that help with prioritizing,
because it's making me feel overwhelmed,"
because you're not going to be the most efficient member of the team
or feeling your best self either.
Do you think that the shift that we've been having to remote
and hybrid work has attributed at all to work-life balance in any way?
Oh, absolutely.
I think it's tough.
We're right now primarily working from home.
There are days where I need to get out of the dining room table.
That human interaction is missed and important.
One thing that personally for me on the team that we started doing
in the middle of 2020,
because we were completely remote and virtual,
is what I like to call our weekly team activation.
Very fancy word for basically we go around the Zoom and we breathe
in what our mantra is or what our theme is for that week and we breathe out some
of the things that are making us feel stressed.
It adds a nice layer of transparency to the team.
It also just gives a little glimpse into sometimes
what people are going through.
Again, having that open interpersonal line of communication is really important,
but that's where again I feel
it's important to practice the things that make you feel good.
Do you love cooking?
Make sure you're cooking yourself your favorite dish at night.
Do you like take a bath at the end of the day?
I used to think that work-life balance
or practicing self-care habits had to be these big, grandiose gestures.
If I didn't do the 10 things on my list,
I wasn't doing it right, but small things go a really long way.
Work-life balance is just so connected to mental health
and we've been seeing this a lot, there's been a lot of burnout.
What are some things that you think are good to prioritize
your mental health throughout the work day?
Everybody works really hard.
Take your time off.
You deserve it.
Every company has your allocated paid time off.
Work with your team to take it at the right time.
Plan things that are going to make you feel happy and fill your soul.
Celebrate big wins at work.
We're not just here robots
sitting every day doing what we want to do.
Give your co-worker a shout-out if they did something really great.
Share some feedback and, of course, that energy is going to be reciprocated.
Come to work every day feeling positive and happy and trying to showcase that.
That'll be reflected around the team.
Happiness is contagious or that positive energy,
and you can bring that to your company.
Life-changing moments, they often make us reflect.
Are there any moments that have shifted your perspective on work-life balance?
About 8 to 10 years ago, my partner at the time passed away unexpectedly
and it really threw my life for a loop.
I was really grateful to work at a company
that completely supported me and guided me through that time,
but it really put everything into perspective.
I'm a hard worker.
I love my work ethic, I love what I do.
I love having teams and nurturing,
but I was like, right, at the end of the day I have one life,
and sometimes even to this day
I have these moments where I'll get really into it.
I'm like, whoa, hold on.
Everything's going to be fine.
Breathe.
Balance.
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