EP. 413: The Impossibility of Balance and Where to Play Instead
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What if we scrapped the whole thing? What if we stopped striving for something that doesn’t exist? What if we found a way to light ourselves up in an unbalanced way? Do we dare find harmony in a song we can write ourselves? Today I’m sharing some helpful tools to do just that. Take a deep, centering breath and decide what’s enough. Ready to begin?
Resources mentioned:
- Check out this episode of You're Wrong About featuring Anne Helen Petersen and host, Sarah Marshall
- Read An Ode to Being Late by James Parker
- Set a reminder for Grown-Up Gap Year Early Bird Access!
- Get Tiffany in your Inbox!
- Got a question? Ask Tiffany!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, hey, welcome to the Tiffany Hahn Show, a podcast that teaches highly ambitious people |
| 0:07.7 | how to have lives feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside. If you are ready to |
| 0:13.3 | dive into discovering delight in your life starting today, be sure to check out my free |
| 0:18.8 | five-day radical delight kickstart over at Tiffanyhan.com. And while |
| 0:22.8 | you're there, you can also find extended episode archives, show notes, and more. Thanks for being |
| 0:28.2 | here. Now on to the show. Hey, hey, everyone, it's Tiffany. Welcome back to the Tiffany Han |
| 0:37.4 | show. Thank you for being here. Today, we are going to be talking about balance. But more specifically, we're going to be talking about why trying to find balance, why seeking out balance, why putting so much pressure on yourself, myself, myself, ourselves to have that perfect work life balance, family, |
| 0:58.7 | outside of the home life balance, me and them balance, all the things that we've tried to |
| 1:04.1 | keep balance forever and ever. We're going to be talking about why putting the pressure |
| 1:08.3 | on ourselves to find that balance is a losing battle, |
| 1:14.0 | what I want you to think about instead of balance, something that I find so much more helpful |
| 1:20.2 | and expansive and open and possible than balance. And then how you can start tapping into that for yourself. So I've got a |
| 1:31.6 | whole little journey to take you on today around and through and to the other side of this |
| 1:37.8 | quest for balance. Before we dive in, speaking of a quest for balance, I wanted to let you know that early bird |
| 1:45.3 | applications for my year-long grown-up gap year program are opening up at the end of June, |
| 1:52.4 | June 22nd. I'm so excited to be putting this program back out into the world. We only start |
| 1:59.5 | once a year. The program starts in October, |
| 2:01.7 | but if you come in during the early bird period, you'll get a cash discount, you'll get |
| 2:06.9 | access to an extended payment plan. And there are a couple of bonuses that you will be able to |
| 2:11.6 | dive into right away if you so choose. So if you are interested in that, you can click on the link in the show notes |
| 2:20.5 | to find out a little bit more about grown-up gap year and also get on that early bird waitlist. |
| 2:25.5 | There is no obligation at all to get on the wait list. But if you are on my regular email list, |
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