910: LEADERSHIP TIPS: 3 Tips to Improve Your Life/Work Integration

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ahhh, the elusive chase of work-life balance - increasingly referred to as life-work integration. Almost every time I am interviewed I am asked how women leaders can attain a better balance between their personal and professional lives. The struggle to achieve life-work integration impacts most women in leadership. Today, I’m going to invite you to forget about striving for the perfect balance. It’s time to rethink how you can blend your personal and professional life in a way that feels fulfilling, manageable, and aligned with your values. I’m going to share with you three mindset shifts that will help you see life-work integration through a bit of a different lens. Many of the women I coach tell me, “I’m completely failing when it comes to work-life balance”. What if the reason so many of us feel this way is because we have been socialized to be self-sacrificial at almost every turn to prioritize other people’s happiness and comfort over our own; we have to out-hustle our male counterparts to get half as far as them; and many of us have to work full-time hours (or more) while also being full-time caregivers. By the time we get done over-producing, over-giving, and over-proving ourselves each day, we have given the best parts of ourselves to everyone else and all we have left for ourselves is what feels like moldy leftovers. When we take a critical look at why women leaders feel so “out of balance” when it comes to our personal and professional lives, we can see how a shift in perspective can also lead to a shift in behaviors. In this episode, I offer actionable tips around calendar management, saying, “No”, modeling boundaries, and establishing personal accountability to help you practice reclaiming your time and energy while creating healthier personal and professional boundaries. Your leadership doesn’t have to be self-sacrificial at every turn. In fact, you will be a better leader if you learn to navigate life-work integration in a way that consistently acknowledges and prioritizes your needs and wants. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessleadership.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Welcome to Shameless Leadership. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. This show is for women, transgender people, non-binary folks, as well as allies, who are committed to advancing their leadership while also advancing the leadership of those around them. In each episode, we will offer practical tips, leadership strategies, and inspiring stories to help you become a more
0:38.6	confident, compassionate, and inclusive leader. The truth is, you were born to lead. What might happen
0:44.8	for you if you were to wholeheartedly embrace that part of yourself? So let's start now,
0:49.5	together. Hello, shameless leaders. Today we're talking about life, work integration, which is probably
0:56.4	one of the most, if not the most common question I get. So this is really tricky for women
1:03.2	and especially for moms. And so in all my years of running the Shameless Mom Academy and all
1:08.4	of our many, many previous Shameless Mom Academy
1:10.9	podcast episodes on this podcast feed. We talked about work life integration as it relates to moms
1:16.3	because it's really, really complicated and layered and challenging to work full time and
1:21.7	parent full time and be the default parent and all those kinds of things. But this isn't just
1:25.2	limited to moms. It's also about gender,
1:34.4	and it's about how women are conditioned to think about their work experiences and how that makes it tricky for us to disengage from work and disengage from being achievement oriented when we
1:40.6	are wanting to spend more time having personal pursuits. So we're going to dig into all of
1:45.1	this today. It's going to be good. It's going to be juicy. I'm going to talk about three different
1:49.5	tips to improve your mindset around life work integration. And then I'm also going to talk about
1:55.9	three ways to take back your time in different ways. I love this conversation because I think that it's nuanced.
2:02.1	I think it's very layered. I don't think you can have like this perfect ideal 50-50 balance of like
2:07.7	50% of my time I'm working and 50% of the time I'm doing other things in my life that fill my cup.
2:13.5	I think that it's very different than that. but I think there are ways that we can find satisfaction
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