Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what

motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate

and inspire so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional

goals.

Hey everyone, it's Adrienne here. Welcome back to the podcast. So this week I thought I jump on the mic to talk about a challenge that I think many of us are facing right now with

our work, life situation. And that is the blurred lines around our time, work, life and other people's

expectation of our time. So I shared a post on Instagram last week where I was talking about this.

It was a Monday morning. And I shared the post saying, you know, we really need to have these clear lines because

working from home does not mean living at work. And then I went on to talk about white space,

which is something that I, a topic that I dive into in my book. And I got so many comments and so

many DMs about this. And then following on from that Instagram post, I've also had conversations

this week with friends working in different industries, everyone from friends that work in PR

to freelance journalists, to charity workers, to NHS therapists. Literally, so many of my friends

working in different spaces have kind of shared this same sentiment that at the moment

there is this feeling I guess that because we are working at home that our that we're constantly

available and actually people's free time being confused with their availability. I've seen that

online as well this week and I was like oh my gosh that is so true when people think if there is

a gap in your diary,

whatever time of a day that is, that means that you're available. So the concept of white

space, as I mentioned, I go into this in much more detail in my book. But essentially what it is,

is time in your schedule that is blocked out, that is blank, hence the term white space.

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