#91: Shannon Miles—9 Ways to Create a Life Where Both Work and Family Can Thrive

Business Made Simple Podcast

StoryBrand.ai

Marketing, Story, Bmsu, Businessmadesimple, Brand, Business, Bms, Storybrand, Entrepreneurship, 474622, Storytelling

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

You’re driven to lead your business well. But you want quality time with your family, too.

It’s a constant balancing act, and for women especially, it can seem like you have to choose one or the other.

But Shannon Miles, today’s guest on the StoryBrand podcast, believes it doesn’t have to be that way. She shares nine creative and practical ideas that will help you succeed both at home and at work instead of feeling like you have to choose between them.

If you want to design a life where both work and family can thrive, don’t miss this episode!

http://buildingastorybrand.com/91

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Building a Story Brand podcast where we believe if you confuse
0:10.5	you'll lose. Noise is the enemy and creating a clear message is the best way to
0:14.5	grow your business. I'm your host Donald Miller. I'm joined by my co-host J.J.
0:18.0	Peterson, hi J.J. Today on the podcast we have Shannon Miles who wrote a book called The Third Option.
0:25.0	Yes. And it is really specifically for women who feel like they have to choose
0:30.0	between their career or their families. Yeah.
0:32.8	And they don't.
0:33.8	Yeah. There's a... Well, she did for a minute.
0:35.6	She thought she had to.
0:36.6	And then...
0:37.6	Experience deep pain.
0:38.6	Yeah.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:40.6	And decided that she didn't want to and created her own third option.
0:43.2	I don't have kids.
0:44.2	Betsy and I hope to start a family but right now we don't.
0:46.7	But we have hired people who've come in and left their kids for the first time and it's painful.
0:52.2	Tim recently,
0:53.0	Tim, the most adorable child on our staff.
0:57.0	Sorry, Kyle.
0:58.0	And he, well, you know, it's the newest, it's the newest.
1:02.0	He's a baby. And you know, it's the newest it's the size of a football and you know it's hard
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