438 - Grace Bonney: Here's the Deal About Work Life Balance

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

So often women beat themselves up, thinking that they’re doing something wrong because they haven’t found a perfect work life balance. Marie and Grace dive deep into what it means to be real and vulnerable without getting sucked down into a place of negativity, the transformational power of mistakes, and the real deal with work life balance.

It’s not about the mistake, it’s about how you recover from it.

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0:00.0	Has your to-do list got you trapped in gridlock?
0:04.4	Like you've got a million and one things bogging you down and you can't even move an inch forward.
0:09.7	Look, you don't have to go through life stuck in mental traffic jams.
0:13.8	That's why I created a simple free tool that will help you stop overthinking and let go of toxic stress in just five minutes.
0:20.7	To get this gift, go to
0:22.5	Marie lovesyou.com slash stress log. Stop letting stress sabotage your peace and happiness. Get this
0:29.8	easy-to-use tool at Marie lovesyou.com slash stress log.
0:37.3	Grace Bonnie is the founder of Design Sponge, a daily website founded in 2004 that's dedicated
0:43.3	to the creative community and reaches nearly 2 million readers per day.
0:48.2	She runs an annual scholarship contest for up-and-coming designers and is the host of a weekly
0:52.7	radio show after the jump. After 12 years
0:55.6	in Brooklyn, Grace now lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife, Julia, and their three pets. Her new
1:01.2	book, In The Company of Women, inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
1:07.4	is available now. Grace, thank you so much for coming back on the show.
1:11.7	I'm so happy to be here.
1:12.9	Thank you for having me.
1:13.9	So you've been through a lot since our last conversation.
1:17.5	Do you want to tell us about your journey and all the things that have happened since then?
1:22.4	It's been a long – the last year has been a particularly long year.
1:25.8	So in January of this year, in 2016, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which I didn't
1:31.6	even know adults could get.
1:33.5	So that was a big shocker.
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