Welcome to ABG, Asian Boss Girl, a podcast for the modern day Asian-American woman.

My name is Helen, I'm Janet, and I'm Mal.

Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode.

So today, we decided to revisit a topic that we recorded ages ago, back in 2017.

This was episode nine.

So compared to episode nine, we were fetuses back then, and we are grandmothers now.

Times have clearly changed both in our external environments, and within our personal lives and priorities have definitely shifted.

So today, we wanted to give you an update on the topic of work, life, balance.

How do we do it? Are we able to? Is it existent in our lives?

It is definitely a topic that is very relevant for young working professionals.

From jobs to managing relationships in your life, to self-care,

we wanted to dig into the specific struggles and some strategies for balance.

So let's break this down into the categories of work, life, which includes relationships and dating, and friends and family, and side-passion projects.

On the topic of work, most of you out there know that myself, Helen and Janet, we're able to make ABG our full-time jobs.

We all left our corporate lives back in 2020 to pursue this passion project of ours,

which is really a side project that we were able to balance with our regular nine of fives.

So ladies, let's start with work.

So right now, obviously, ABG is our work. How do you think your schedule has changed?

And when you think about work now versus work before, what comes to mind of what it is you are seeking to balance?

Okay, so for me, I believe my answer to what I was balancing back in 2017 when we first recorded about this topic

was the fact that I literally had no time for myself.

I still remember sitting in the office at one in the morning in the middle of downtown LA looking out onto the empty streets below

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