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Balance Is B.S.: How to Ditch Expectations, Uphold Your Values and Embrace a Work-Life Blend
Combine the best parts of your personal and professional life to live the life you really want
Balance is BS is an unflinching and honest look at the challenges that today's working woman faces in balancing her professional and personal lives. In the United States, women comprise over 40% of household income. Increased gender diversity in the modern business landscape continues to have a positive impact on bottom lines and revenue reports across the economy and offers significant benefits for ambitious women in the workplace. This increase of women in the workforce does present a serious problem--women are working longer and harder outside of the home, but their workload has not lessened inside of the home. While their career prospects rise, expectations of our family and personal lives remain flat. Women pursue the mythical "work-life" balance and feel guilty for not reaching it. There is a better way.
This insightful book provides working women with real-world advice, enabling them to blend your personal and professional life, avoid burning out, and raise expectations of themselves and those around them. Every chapter presents practical exercises to identify values and focus on what matters most. Following the path laid out by this essential guide allows you to:
Blend business and personal lives together without compromising your values
Adjust expectations of yourself and others around you
Use practical exercises and effective techniques to combine work, social, family, and parenting lives
Stop feeling guilty about your work-life balance and embrace the best parts of both
Balance is BS is an invaluable resource for working women regardless of profession, experience, and status. Author Tamara Loehr draws on her years of entrepreneurial success to share her proven methods of merging work, play, and family to map out and reach the life you actually want to live.
Balance is BS is an unflinching and honest look at the challenges that today's working woman faces in balancing her professional and personal lives. In the United States, women comprise over 40% of household income. Increased gender diversity in the modern business landscape continues to have a positive impact on bottom lines and revenue reports across the economy and offers significant benefits for ambitious women in the workplace. This increase of women in the workforce does present a serious problem--women are working longer and harder outside of the home, but their workload has not lessened inside of the home. While their career prospects rise, expectations of our family and personal lives remain flat. Women pursue the mythical "work-life" balance and feel guilty for not reaching it. There is a better way.
This insightful book provides working women with real-world advice, enabling them to blend your personal and professional life, avoid burning out, and raise expectations of themselves and those around them. Every chapter presents practical exercises to identify values and focus on what matters most. Following the path laid out by this essential guide allows you to:
Blend business and personal lives together without compromising your values
Adjust expectations of yourself and others around you
Use practical exercises and effective techniques to combine work, social, family, and parenting lives
Stop feeling guilty about your work-life balance and embrace the best parts of both
Balance is BS is an invaluable resource for working women regardless of profession, experience, and status. Author Tamara Loehr draws on her years of entrepreneurial success to share her proven methods of merging work, play, and family to map out and reach the life you actually want to live.
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240 pages, Hardcover
Published April 9, 2019
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About the author
Tamara Loehr
1 book1 followerTamara Loehr is an Australian native, wife, and mother of two, who started her first business at the age of 19 after graduating college with a Bachelor of Visual Arts. Her 'sweat equity' model led her to winning a range of global awards. In 2018, she served as president of the Queensland Chapter of The Entrepreneurs' Organization (a 15,000 strong global network from America), and is now a member in the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization, representing 22% of the female membership and inspiring women to increase this number.
Loehr has also delved into the world of investment with a current focus on her online beauty-disrupter 'Dollar Beauty Tribe,' designed to promote cruelty-free, vegan indie brands. Loehr has become globally known as a leading wellness entrepreneur, and is the first Australian investor to commit 'Buy1Give1' to all her assets. She is proud to use her platform to share how women can have 'blended' lives without compromises.
Loehr has also delved into the world of investment with a current focus on her online beauty-disrupter 'Dollar Beauty Tribe,' designed to promote cruelty-free, vegan indie brands. Loehr has become globally known as a leading wellness entrepreneur, and is the first Australian investor to commit 'Buy1Give1' to all her assets. She is proud to use her platform to share how women can have 'blended' lives without compromises.
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June 3, 2019
It's a nope from me
DNF at 21%
I was excited to read Balance is BS because I am currently writing my masters thesis, and enormous tasks like this tend to consume me whole. I was hoping that Balance is BS would give me encouragement and much needed tips on how to juggle multiple things at once. However, this book turned out to be such a disappointment. The moment I started it, I knew. It was poorly written and I didn't like the author's style at all. As a whole it came across privilidged, annoying and quite unresearched.
Criticism number 1: The intended audience
The author writes for an overly specific audience, and it does not seem at all necessary nor effective. Balance is BS was written for women who have a hard time keeping up with both their work and home life, but for the most part this specific directing to women seems clumsy. This book would have been a whole lot more effective if it was recommended for anyone. Men have a tough time balancing between life and work too, and they also should be made aware of the statistics about how women especially struggle to face the demands of both work and home life. It seems to me like this book was never meant to reduce the societal bias on women, when it could have.
The author says in the beginning that (whereas you should be a woman) to read this book you don't need to have children or be in the same work situation as she is, she simply uses these things as examples from her own life.
But the author also repeatedly says offensive things like 'What woman wouldn't know the feeling of leaving her babies behind to go to work'. As a happily childless woman, I'm not sure if the author is trying to say that I'm not a woman for not having kids or something else. The book is filled with these kid-stances.
Also, the author uses her entrepreneur business as an example, all the fricking time. She talks about assets and investments, her business colleagues and clients, almost like anyone should know exactly how her work stuff goes. I was bored to death when she started talking about investing to A but ending up with assets of B.
You can't take out the specified audience from a book by just stating in the beginning that 'ah, this is for absolutely all women out there' if you are basically directing the book towards 'women who have children, are straight, highly privilidged and also run their own (preferably investment-based) business'.
Criticism number 2: Priviledge
The author is extremely priviledged.
I love confidence, and I'm not here to bring down a person who has done well in their life and rightfully should be happy about it. But Balance is BS is supposed to be a self-help book that you can relate to, and it is absolutely impossible to do that as the author puts herself so much higher than the reader. She talks about being an entrepreneur so many times that I think I would be under-the-table- kind of drunk if I took a shot every time she mentions it.
She talks about how she was totally managing a large company with very prestigious clients in her twenties, while at the same time being a very famous singer with a different name, performing in important football games' halftime. Super relatable, right.
She doesn't clean or cook, and keeps saying that why should she do these things if she could be spending time with her family. Why should you do these things either, she asks. Well, because I am not excessively rich and, I know - this will be highly shocking, I need to go to the grocery store myself and cook food. I need to clean up after myself. No one will come to my tiny flat to do these things for me, and if I instead of cooking or cleaning decide to spend all that time with my family, I will most definitely first run out of money and then starve surrounded by a hideous mess.
The author isn't at all relatable. I feel like I'm reading a book that she has written on her penthouse building while maidens serve her grapes and servants in silk suits vacuum her sofa.
She comes across obnoxious off the page. Whenever she is not using quotes from other people or listing workbook activities, she is talking about herself. I own a business, I have a fancy life. I don't have to work with dickheads. Well, she probably doesn't have to work with dickheads because she doesn't have to go to a shitty retail, hospitality or transport job where she would have to clean toilets and serve food for customers who scream at waiters. That's because she is priviledged and it seems like she is also completely, absolutely ignorant of everyone else in the world who have to work their arse off to be able to go to the grocery store, a thing that she gives herself 'the luxury of not doing'.
Criticism number 3: The writing style
Her writing style needs a lot of work. Whenever I came across a nice part, I later noticed that it was simply a massive quote from someone else. In fact, about 85% of the beginning is simply quotes. If this was a university assignment, the plagiarism tool TurnitIn would go crazy. Her style of writing is edgy which is very clumsy on the page. It reads like an edgy podcast in which the caster swears a lot (unnecessarily) and constantly repeats the last thing she said. I feel like most of these paragraphs could be summed up in two sentences if you took out the swearing, and the repetition. The points she makes are always very similar, and she is usually giving multiple, very similar, examples for each.
A lot of editing is needed. I'm sorry, but she is simply not a great writer. Which is understandable. It sounds like she has been pretty busy with her company and kids and penthouses and singing career. Becoming an author requires a lot of work.
Criticism number 4: Potentially anti-feminist.
While Balance is BS was written for women by a woman, it is still surprisingly condescending. The writer seems to pretty much reduce all other women into a stereotype and she makes patronising statements like: "Women love plans. Don't we?". I mean, I love plans. But if someone said something like that to my face I would tell them to go f themselves.
The funniest thing is that while she makes statements like 'Women usually… Women often… Women tend to…' she also continues on by saying that she herself doesn't do things like that because she is different. You know, she is successful. I'm keeping my eye out to when she will state that she is basically a man.
This is harmful anti-feminism; she embraces the patriarchial culture that reduces women and forces successful women to take on the characteristics of a man to survive in a men's world. This is harmful because it conforms to the abuse instead of trying to change it. Women are not similar in the same way people are not similar, we sometimes conform to stereotypes and sometimes don't. We don't have to become men to survive in this world, or adopt any of their stereotypical charactersitics. We have to fight the culture that is abusing us in the first place. I want this author to go on a feminist course asap.
Clearly this book was not at all for me.
DNF at 21%
I was excited to read Balance is BS because I am currently writing my masters thesis, and enormous tasks like this tend to consume me whole. I was hoping that Balance is BS would give me encouragement and much needed tips on how to juggle multiple things at once. However, this book turned out to be such a disappointment. The moment I started it, I knew. It was poorly written and I didn't like the author's style at all. As a whole it came across privilidged, annoying and quite unresearched.
Criticism number 1: The intended audience
The author writes for an overly specific audience, and it does not seem at all necessary nor effective. Balance is BS was written for women who have a hard time keeping up with both their work and home life, but for the most part this specific directing to women seems clumsy. This book would have been a whole lot more effective if it was recommended for anyone. Men have a tough time balancing between life and work too, and they also should be made aware of the statistics about how women especially struggle to face the demands of both work and home life. It seems to me like this book was never meant to reduce the societal bias on women, when it could have.
The author says in the beginning that (whereas you should be a woman) to read this book you don't need to have children or be in the same work situation as she is, she simply uses these things as examples from her own life.
But the author also repeatedly says offensive things like 'What woman wouldn't know the feeling of leaving her babies behind to go to work'. As a happily childless woman, I'm not sure if the author is trying to say that I'm not a woman for not having kids or something else. The book is filled with these kid-stances.
Also, the author uses her entrepreneur business as an example, all the fricking time. She talks about assets and investments, her business colleagues and clients, almost like anyone should know exactly how her work stuff goes. I was bored to death when she started talking about investing to A but ending up with assets of B.
You can't take out the specified audience from a book by just stating in the beginning that 'ah, this is for absolutely all women out there' if you are basically directing the book towards 'women who have children, are straight, highly privilidged and also run their own (preferably investment-based) business'.
Criticism number 2: Priviledge
The author is extremely priviledged.
I love confidence, and I'm not here to bring down a person who has done well in their life and rightfully should be happy about it. But Balance is BS is supposed to be a self-help book that you can relate to, and it is absolutely impossible to do that as the author puts herself so much higher than the reader. She talks about being an entrepreneur so many times that I think I would be under-the-table- kind of drunk if I took a shot every time she mentions it.
She talks about how she was totally managing a large company with very prestigious clients in her twenties, while at the same time being a very famous singer with a different name, performing in important football games' halftime. Super relatable, right.
She doesn't clean or cook, and keeps saying that why should she do these things if she could be spending time with her family. Why should you do these things either, she asks. Well, because I am not excessively rich and, I know - this will be highly shocking, I need to go to the grocery store myself and cook food. I need to clean up after myself. No one will come to my tiny flat to do these things for me, and if I instead of cooking or cleaning decide to spend all that time with my family, I will most definitely first run out of money and then starve surrounded by a hideous mess.
The author isn't at all relatable. I feel like I'm reading a book that she has written on her penthouse building while maidens serve her grapes and servants in silk suits vacuum her sofa.
She comes across obnoxious off the page. Whenever she is not using quotes from other people or listing workbook activities, she is talking about herself. I own a business, I have a fancy life. I don't have to work with dickheads. Well, she probably doesn't have to work with dickheads because she doesn't have to go to a shitty retail, hospitality or transport job where she would have to clean toilets and serve food for customers who scream at waiters. That's because she is priviledged and it seems like she is also completely, absolutely ignorant of everyone else in the world who have to work their arse off to be able to go to the grocery store, a thing that she gives herself 'the luxury of not doing'.
Criticism number 3: The writing style
Her writing style needs a lot of work. Whenever I came across a nice part, I later noticed that it was simply a massive quote from someone else. In fact, about 85% of the beginning is simply quotes. If this was a university assignment, the plagiarism tool TurnitIn would go crazy. Her style of writing is edgy which is very clumsy on the page. It reads like an edgy podcast in which the caster swears a lot (unnecessarily) and constantly repeats the last thing she said. I feel like most of these paragraphs could be summed up in two sentences if you took out the swearing, and the repetition. The points she makes are always very similar, and she is usually giving multiple, very similar, examples for each.
A lot of editing is needed. I'm sorry, but she is simply not a great writer. Which is understandable. It sounds like she has been pretty busy with her company and kids and penthouses and singing career. Becoming an author requires a lot of work.
Criticism number 4: Potentially anti-feminist.
While Balance is BS was written for women by a woman, it is still surprisingly condescending. The writer seems to pretty much reduce all other women into a stereotype and she makes patronising statements like: "Women love plans. Don't we?". I mean, I love plans. But if someone said something like that to my face I would tell them to go f themselves.
The funniest thing is that while she makes statements like 'Women usually… Women often… Women tend to…' she also continues on by saying that she herself doesn't do things like that because she is different. You know, she is successful. I'm keeping my eye out to when she will state that she is basically a man.
This is harmful anti-feminism; she embraces the patriarchial culture that reduces women and forces successful women to take on the characteristics of a man to survive in a men's world. This is harmful because it conforms to the abuse instead of trying to change it. Women are not similar in the same way people are not similar, we sometimes conform to stereotypes and sometimes don't. We don't have to become men to survive in this world, or adopt any of their stereotypical charactersitics. We have to fight the culture that is abusing us in the first place. I want this author to go on a feminist course asap.
Clearly this book was not at all for me.
February 11, 2019
This book is an absolute must-read for anyone struggling with juggling a career, family and wanting more, or in fact everything. Look no further, here are the answers you've been looking for. It is possible. And no it's not wrong to want or aspire to fulfilling your dreams.
For those of your not familiar with Tamara, she is a down to earth country girl, who has risen to become a powerhouse global entrepreneur, and really a true leader in the design and development of conscious companies. She has challenged herself and the modern industry with an incredible vision for companies. Tamara prides herself on not only providing amazing products and services but also to set the benchmark for flexible "blended " work/life and giving back with her buy one give one efforts.
Not only does Tamara give first-hand insight into how she manages this life, but she's also provided many invaluable exercises to give the reader the tools to implement and make real changes in their own lives.
I say "Their" because although this book at first glance is tailored to women, there is as much to be gained from reading for men. This book gives men an opportunity to see how a solid loving couple are navigating the entrepreneurial journey together. It's also a great example of how men are assuming different roles in the household and not only loving doing so but also thriving and "kicking it out of the park."
Guys, if you have an ambitious woman in your life, then here is some excellent advice for how to support and thrive with her.
I have thoroughly loved every page of this book and I couldn't recommend it highly enough for today's driven, women, men, and couples.
Here is a woman that lives by what she preaches and "drinks her own champagne." Cheers to you Tamara!
Great job on your debut book. I look forward to reading many more in the future.
For those of your not familiar with Tamara, she is a down to earth country girl, who has risen to become a powerhouse global entrepreneur, and really a true leader in the design and development of conscious companies. She has challenged herself and the modern industry with an incredible vision for companies. Tamara prides herself on not only providing amazing products and services but also to set the benchmark for flexible "blended " work/life and giving back with her buy one give one efforts.
Not only does Tamara give first-hand insight into how she manages this life, but she's also provided many invaluable exercises to give the reader the tools to implement and make real changes in their own lives.
I say "Their" because although this book at first glance is tailored to women, there is as much to be gained from reading for men. This book gives men an opportunity to see how a solid loving couple are navigating the entrepreneurial journey together. It's also a great example of how men are assuming different roles in the household and not only loving doing so but also thriving and "kicking it out of the park."
Guys, if you have an ambitious woman in your life, then here is some excellent advice for how to support and thrive with her.
I have thoroughly loved every page of this book and I couldn't recommend it highly enough for today's driven, women, men, and couples.
Here is a woman that lives by what she preaches and "drinks her own champagne." Cheers to you Tamara!
Great job on your debut book. I look forward to reading many more in the future.
March 28, 2020
** Books 34 - 2020 **
This books to accomplish Tsundoku Books Challenge 2020
3,4 of 5 stars!
This books is really makes me thinking about a whole thing about what i want in future career and also what is my goals actually. It is also giving us some worksheet to help us knowing more what does we want actually. she also said we can blending our working time and personal time actually. But i think it is kinda difficult one if you working in financial industries.
The chapter about breadwinner is also intriguing me. In my country especially still man is the breadwinner in the family and women not really does much. But thankfully i'm grew up with working parents (yeah both of them is working) so i think who is became the breadwinner it is not a problem.
If you feel to explore more about yourself i think this books will be suitable for you
#StayAtHome #SelfQuarantine
Thankyou Periplus!
This books to accomplish Tsundoku Books Challenge 2020
3,4 of 5 stars!
This books is really makes me thinking about a whole thing about what i want in future career and also what is my goals actually. It is also giving us some worksheet to help us knowing more what does we want actually. she also said we can blending our working time and personal time actually. But i think it is kinda difficult one if you working in financial industries.
The chapter about breadwinner is also intriguing me. In my country especially still man is the breadwinner in the family and women not really does much. But thankfully i'm grew up with working parents (yeah both of them is working) so i think who is became the breadwinner it is not a problem.
If you feel to explore more about yourself i think this books will be suitable for you
#StayAtHome #SelfQuarantine
Thankyou Periplus!
April 26, 2019
I love this, brutally honest, funny and inspiring, this shouldn’t be a read for women. It should be a read for everyone. We can’t have it all, we can’t have work life balance , it doesn’t exist, we just beat ourselves up ! Honest ideas to re-educate ourselves to reality and making a change for ourselves. Inspiring and uplifting
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion
May 5, 2020
i rented this book from the Nyc library and was super excited to read it and i got through it pretty quickly but i got midway through and got the vibe that the author was super entitled and has a superiority complex.. i was definitely not a fan.
April 10, 2019
I found this work to be remarkably fresh and honest read.
It takes guts to talk openly about yourself, your career and home life. In her story, Tamara takes us on her life’s journey sharing her thoughts, struggles and internal conflicts as a self-driven serial entrepreneur, mother and wife. Yes, there is a little self-praise in recognition of her many achievements (as you would expect from a successful businesswoman), but her setbacks and learning pains well moderate the upside.
The message for career business women is that you can make it work and lead a full life, but not through compartmentalising your life into separate areas but rather by living an “integrated life”. The valuable aspect of this book is that she shows you how she has learned to achieve this, and shares the tools and processes she identified or acquired to help the reader navigate their own path.
Tamara delivers faithfully to the promise in the book’s description. Importantly, she challenges prevailing wisdom and attitudes and addresses her subject from the spiritual, values-based and emotional perspectives in addition to the organisational and time management ones. In this sense, she boldly breaks new ground.
A brave, open and compelling read for career women looking to lead a full and rich family life. I confess that I also found the lessons and learnings equally applicable to career men.
It takes guts to talk openly about yourself, your career and home life. In her story, Tamara takes us on her life’s journey sharing her thoughts, struggles and internal conflicts as a self-driven serial entrepreneur, mother and wife. Yes, there is a little self-praise in recognition of her many achievements (as you would expect from a successful businesswoman), but her setbacks and learning pains well moderate the upside.
The message for career business women is that you can make it work and lead a full life, but not through compartmentalising your life into separate areas but rather by living an “integrated life”. The valuable aspect of this book is that she shows you how she has learned to achieve this, and shares the tools and processes she identified or acquired to help the reader navigate their own path.
Tamara delivers faithfully to the promise in the book’s description. Importantly, she challenges prevailing wisdom and attitudes and addresses her subject from the spiritual, values-based and emotional perspectives in addition to the organisational and time management ones. In this sense, she boldly breaks new ground.
A brave, open and compelling read for career women looking to lead a full and rich family life. I confess that I also found the lessons and learnings equally applicable to career men.
August 6, 2019
This is so brutally honest and refreshing. I loved this book as it’s a mix between funny stories, life design strategies and frameworks from Emily who is Tamara’s professional coach. I also enjoy the writing style as if she’s sitting right beside you or as if you’re sneakily reading her private journal! You can really start to understand what it's like when you level up in business.
I've always wondered how successful female founders think, and this book delivers exceptionally on that. I found it extremely interesting to peer under the hood of one of Australia’s leading female entrepreneurs and 8 figure earners. What makes it even more fascinating is that she was raised in a regional Queensland town in a working family with no entrepreneurial influences. Nothing she has created has come from a ‘privileged’ upbringing. She created it. Step-by-step from the ground up.
For ambitious women raised in working-class families, this book gives you a path forward and a framework for setting yourself up for success.
For single parents, like myself, I especially loved the chapters on blending as we are constantly blending and feeling guilty for it. I also like the way she runs her life by values and reinforcing the importance to live by your own set of values.
Ambitious Mothers This Book is For You!
I've always wondered how successful female founders think, and this book delivers exceptionally on that. I found it extremely interesting to peer under the hood of one of Australia’s leading female entrepreneurs and 8 figure earners. What makes it even more fascinating is that she was raised in a regional Queensland town in a working family with no entrepreneurial influences. Nothing she has created has come from a ‘privileged’ upbringing. She created it. Step-by-step from the ground up.
For ambitious women raised in working-class families, this book gives you a path forward and a framework for setting yourself up for success.
For single parents, like myself, I especially loved the chapters on blending as we are constantly blending and feeling guilty for it. I also like the way she runs her life by values and reinforcing the importance to live by your own set of values.
Ambitious Mothers This Book is For You!
April 13, 2019
Tamara is brutally honest in her deconstruction of the mythical “Work Life Balance”, boldly announcing that Work and Life are not opposite competing components of Life.
For breadwinning women, this myth has culminated in persistent, self-generated guilt from a sense of consistently falling short “on both sides of the ledger.”
Yes, some may see Tamara as a “Tall Poppy” but Tamara’s openly shared journey of successes, self-doubt and failures, affords her the perspective and courage to “say it like it is”, not only for entrepreneurial women, but for all women and all men who struggle with the competing expectations of our current society.
She states the obvious, that Work is part of Life and “it’s actually one of my favourite things”. Tamara illustrates that to attempt to “balance everything” only leads to burnout and anxiety.
Tamara provides tools to enable you to step confidently into a blended life – starting with a vital, soul searching “values audit” that forms the foundational touchstone. From here you live a blended fulfilling life that contains work, friendship, family and community.
A bold useful guide for all.
For breadwinning women, this myth has culminated in persistent, self-generated guilt from a sense of consistently falling short “on both sides of the ledger.”
Yes, some may see Tamara as a “Tall Poppy” but Tamara’s openly shared journey of successes, self-doubt and failures, affords her the perspective and courage to “say it like it is”, not only for entrepreneurial women, but for all women and all men who struggle with the competing expectations of our current society.
She states the obvious, that Work is part of Life and “it’s actually one of my favourite things”. Tamara illustrates that to attempt to “balance everything” only leads to burnout and anxiety.
Tamara provides tools to enable you to step confidently into a blended life – starting with a vital, soul searching “values audit” that forms the foundational touchstone. From here you live a blended fulfilling life that contains work, friendship, family and community.
A bold useful guide for all.
March 4, 2019
This is NOT a "womens only" book! It applies to ALL business people - even men! I know Tamara, her husband (spoken about in the book) and her two lovely daughters. Tamara is the real deal. This book accurately reflects the way she lives her life, day to day, as I have witnessed it.
We do business on the beach. Her daughters have been to my office and shared our working together. I get calls from America at 2:00 am! I have seen her contributions as a mentor, an B1G1 supporter and a "blended" mother, wife, parent and multiple business owner.
This is more than a "what you should do book". It includes specific and helpful exercises to assist in your goal of achieving a "blended" life. It is no longer either/or BUT this AND that - Blend.
Buy it, read it and then share it.
We do business on the beach. Her daughters have been to my office and shared our working together. I get calls from America at 2:00 am! I have seen her contributions as a mentor, an B1G1 supporter and a "blended" mother, wife, parent and multiple business owner.
This is more than a "what you should do book". It includes specific and helpful exercises to assist in your goal of achieving a "blended" life. It is no longer either/or BUT this AND that - Blend.
Buy it, read it and then share it.
February 8, 2021
As a single woman who is not and never wants to be married, does not have or ever want to have children, and prefers working jobs that involve going to work, doing my job and going home at the end of the day without thinking about what's going on at work any more, I wasn't sure how much this book was going to apply to me. Turned out, that didn't really matter, because everyone regardless of family or marital status suffers from feeling like their work and personal lives aren't balanced sometimes. I enjoyed the insights on various aspects of blending your work and personal life, and the writing style was entertaining and kept my interest. I definitely got more out of this than I expected to.
February 13, 2019
Work-life balance. What a lovely thing to say. Do half the people who preach it actually practice it? For people who think about it, your stereotypical workaholic, is it even possible?
Tamara Loehr, globally known wellness entrepreneur and author, boldly challenges the work-life balance philosophy in her upcoming book titled Balance is B.S: How to Have a Work. Life. Blend (Wiley).
Read the rest of the review here - https://booktrib.com/2019/02/balance-...
Tamara Loehr, globally known wellness entrepreneur and author, boldly challenges the work-life balance philosophy in her upcoming book titled Balance is B.S: How to Have a Work. Life. Blend (Wiley).
Read the rest of the review here - https://booktrib.com/2019/02/balance-...
March 26, 2019
Review & Feature: Balance is B.S.: How to Ditch Expectations, Uphold Your Values and Embrace a Work-Life Blend by Tamara Loehr
Look, here's my reality - I am frequently overcommitted. I balance a full time job as the CEO of a nonprofit, book influencing, my marriage, my 5 pets, my friendships, triathlon training, bodybuilding, teaching a fitness class, meal prep, and attempting sleep. I know, I do this to myself. But I also know I am most fulfilled when I am able to do all of the things I like doing. Right now, that includes everything listed above. Balancing it is....a joke. So when I received Balance is B.S. , I knew it was going to be a book that resonated with me because eventually something has to give. Check out my thoughts below!
Balance is B.S.: How to Ditch Expectations, Uphold Your Values and Embrace a Work-Life Blend by Tamara Loehr releases today so check it out!
How Balance is B.S. Applied to My Life
I like lists. I get a lot of satisfaction from making lists and checking them off. I feel accomplished when my lists get shorter! So the fact that this book is a compilation of discussion and list making speaks deeply to the list making side of me.
I decided to tackle the career bucket list for this post. For most of my adult life, my career bucket list has been about increasing my leadership roles and now I'm ready to think beyond that.
5 Career Bucket List Items
Lead a child development organization. My heart lies with early childhood education (especially infants and toddlers) but I stepped away from it so I could focus on learning how to be an Executive Director without my big passion being in the forefront. Combine passion for fitness with nonprofit work. Participate in a large conference as a thought leader. Work in another state, remotely or otherwise. Do system's level work vs direct service.
This is by no means an exhaustive list but it's a start to get me motivated. Some of these goals will shift and that's ok with me! Some are short term vs long term.
I definitely recommend Balance is B.S. for working women and I think everyone could take away valuable insight from it.
What are some ways you work to achieve your goals?
This review was originally posted on BookCrushin
April 10, 2019
It’s about time we were told that you can actually have it all and you shouldn’t feel guilty about it. Balance is BS shows you how, it's entertaining, real and surprisingly practical. You structure your ideals, make it work for you, with your values. It’s not a one size fits all instructional.
I think anyone trying to juggle family and career should read this, throw away the guilt that society has conditioned us all to feel, and get on board with this movement.
I think anyone trying to juggle family and career should read this, throw away the guilt that society has conditioned us all to feel, and get on board with this movement.
April 29, 2019
Balance is BS is funny and honest about the stress we give ourselves about having it all. No one can have it all. This is a interesting book.
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