Realistic Work-Life Balancing

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Amidst 2021's frenetic pace, curating a life that satisfies your professional, financial, and familial obligations and also leaves space for fun may seem unattainable. What's work-life balance, and is achieving such balance even possible? Today I speak with author, chef, and farm CEO Shannon Hayes. Despite her many professional endeavors, Shannon makes sure to find time for coffee dates with her husband, afternoon naps, and martini dance parties in the kitchen. Shannon believes that even though we're busy we can *make* space in our schedules to prioritize our own happiness. Indeed, Shannon's on the show to argue that finding—and maintaining!—a work-life balance starts by first dreaming about what you want your life to look like and then putting your finances on autopilot. Here's a preview: [3:30] True wealth versus salaries: Why everyone needs a Quality of Life Statement [11:00] How to incorporate 4 unconventional income streams to achieve a work-life balance [21:30] Using chef-specific wisdom in your daily life [26:30] The Yes-No-Yes formula for setting—and maintaining—essential boundaries This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0	Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are listening to episode
0:06.4	211 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.
0:16.2	On today's show, we are discussing the work-life balance, what it is, whether it's possible to achieve it, and if so.
0:25.0	Wow.
0:26.0	Today I'm speaking with Shannon Hayes.
0:28.3	Shannon wears an awful lot of hats, and I'm going to let her describe all those hats, but I will say that she is the author of a new book called Redefining Rich,
0:38.0	Achieving True Wealth with Small Business Side Hustles and smart living.
0:43.3	Shannon, I do think you are the perfect person
0:45.8	to discuss the work life balance with.
0:48.9	How are you?
0:50.5	Stephanie, I am so excited to be joining you today and it's funny that you describe it's the sustainable minimalist podcast and yet I come with this cloud of activity around me. So I'm so thankful to be here.
1:05.0	Oh, well, you're so welcome. You have a crazy story, you wear a lot of hats, and yet you've somehow
1:11.2	managed to achieve that elusive work-life balance.
1:14.7	So why don't we start there?
1:16.0	Tell us who you are and what are all the things that you do?
1:20.7	Sure, sure.
1:22.4	Well, I don't know where to start except to tell you that I work with three generations of my family on Sap Bush Hollow Farm where I grew up and while I grew up here it's a farm in the Catskill Mountains
1:37.6	the northern foothills of the Appalachian Mountain Chain in upstate New York I
1:41.5	went to school down in the valley and was prepared to have a full-time
1:46.1	career with being in academia so I do have a PhD in sustainable agriculture and community
1:51.9	development.
1:53.7	At some point, maybe we'll get into it today, maybe we won't, but I started to realize that if I really
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