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.

Sabrina MacLean | Interior Designer

Work life balance has been something I have been working for a long time. My husband really help me with that. I was someone that would be more of a workaholic most of my 20s. My mother started the company and I started working with her 15 years ago. I think when you work and live with a parent work never stops. Read more>>

Rob Amato | Fashion Designer/ Creative Director, Entrepreneur, Consultant

The way I approach work life balance is to make sure that work I am doing is always fun, because then I am not looking at getting it done just to complete the task, I want to finish it until it is where I want it. When it comes to Designing for brand or Clients I enjoy it and there are also some days where I am not in the mood to design but just want to meet up with friends for lunch or a Cigar. Read more>>

Lina Collazos | General Manager & Communication Specialist

Balance is essential for me to be my best self. I think about my life much like Doctors of Oriental Medicine think about health, holistically. If one area of my life does not feel balanced such as work then health, wealth and happiness are teetering like a 3-legged stool. Read more>>

Melton Mustafa Jr. | Executive Director of the Melton Mustafa Jazz Festival, CEO of Zaki Publishing, Media and Entertainment Group, Program Director for MSM Arts United, Inc. Artist Mustafa on Sax, 3 time GRAMMY Nominated Music Educator, Recording Artist

As you know, balancing work, school, family, projects, social time, etc. can be be extremely stressful. I used to worry alot about work life balance, but now I try to look at it from a different perspective. Before I explain I’d like to share with you that I still think that there are not enough hours in the day, so because of this I decided to focus on what was important to me. Read more>>