Work Hard, Life Hard

Happy September, gang!

Can you believe there are only 4 months left of 2023? To kick off September, we’re going to chat today about what these next 4 months will look like FOR YOU. Remember – what you need to better your work/life balance will look different than other people, and that’s okay! So, let’s set some intentions on what “success” will look like for you over the next 4 months.

Then, we talk about a topic that I often get asked A LOT – “How do I leave work at work and not take the stress/worry/overload home with me?!” This is a good question, and honestly, kind of a hard one to answer! But, I created 4 tips that are tried and true that I think will help you be able to separate your work bucket from your life bucket.

Key Takeaways:

• September is here!
• End of 2023 Intentions
• Do you take work home with you?
• 4 tips for separating work + home!

To view the full post from @amylea.co, see here!

Here are my 4 Tips for Separating Work from Home:

1. Set boundaries on your phone - stop checking your emails, turn off notifications
2. Work in certain locations only
3. Create “end of work habits”
4. Rely on your support system

The one-year anniversary of the show is coming up in November, and I’m already starting to plan something BIG! As a result, I need your help to answer this one question for me: what is one thing you are really struggling with in your work/life balance? DM me on IG to share your answer! See y’all next week!

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If you’re in sales, then this episode is a must-listen for you!

Today, I have my friend and sales leader extraordinaire Phillip Dantas on the show. Phil and I met working together years ago at a tech company in Toronto, and we’ve been connected ever since.

Phil is someone who leads by example, and within the last 2 years, has significantly changed his approach to his work/life balance. In this episode, he walks us through this journey, and shares how he’s trying to change the hustle sales culture by focusing on individual impact.

Key Takeaways:

• Being proactive vs. reactive
• Five buckets of life
• If you want time, you must make it
• The concept of discipline
• It’s not hustle–it’s impact

Phil - thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to share your thought processes with this gang!

If you want to connect with Phil, find him here:

• Instagram: @Built2work
• Tiktok: MrBuilt2Work
• Email: [email protected]

Thank you to Skillshare for sponsoring this episode! Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. On Skillshare, members come together to find inspiration and take the next step in their creative journey. Anyone can join the millions of members in our community to learn cutting-edge skills, network with peers and discover new opportunities. Listeners of the Work Hard, Life Hard podcast can find the link in the show notes to get one FREE MONTH of Skillshare today!

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About Phillip Dantas:
Phillip Dantas has spent the last 12 years helping scale companies to achieve growth and revenue targets. He's a business enthusiast and girl dad chasing the good life and six-pack all at the same time. Phil currently is the Director of Sales at Clio, a legal tech company in Toronto and leads a team of 85 sales professionals. He's been recognized for sales acceleration, business development and has a collaborative leadership style with the ability to manage, mentor, motivate, and grow high-performing teams. From owning his own company, being an individual contributor and now leading an organization, he stands firm on a daily mantra: "Nothing changes, if nothing changes."

First things first: I NEED YOUR HELP!

The one-year anniversary of the show is coming up in November, and I’m already starting to plan something BIG! As a result, I need your help to answer this one question for me: what is one thing you are really struggling with in your work/life balance? DM me on IG to share your answer!

Now - into today’s episode! I’m here this week with a Tee Talk as we reach the end of August and bring on September. For a lot of people, the month of September typically brings about a lot of change, whether in your career, your schedule, with kids going back to school, and the seasons changing.

That’s why I’m bringing forward some unfiltered honesty and advice–when it comes to change, it’s better to ride the wave down than to swim upstream. Then, we talk about anxiety vs. change based on a quote I saw recently on Instagram by @wordsarevibrations.

Key Takeaways:

• I need your help!
• Change is Constant
• Swimming Upstream
• Perspective is Everything
• Anxiety vs. Trust

As promised, here’s a list of 4 previous episodes that I think go hand-in-hand with this change, anxiety and trust conversation:

• EPI 003 [TEE TALK] One Word: Boundaries
• EPI 019 [GUEST TALK] Featuring Jennifer Deane: Reflection, Decision-Making, and Values
• EPI 023 [GUEST TALK] Featuring Mike White: Gratitude, Positivity, and Living Life Awake
• EPI 025 [TEE TALK] Being in Autopilot + Learning to Pivot

Catch you all next week - same time, same place!

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If you’re looking for your passion in life, you NEED to listen to this episode. This week’s guest is Kristine Munro, and she is a force to be reckoned with. After building a 7-figure, award-winning real estate and finance business, Kristine left it all to start over and find her true calling. We talk about all of this and more, including energy and intention during this episode.

Key Takeaways:

• Overwhelm = Abundance
• Don’t label your days
• The importance of adapting
• Know your intention
• You have your answers
• Do the inner work

Thank you, Kristine, for coming on the show + sharing your wisdom with all of the Work Hard, Life Hard gang!

If you want to connect with Kristine, find her here:

• Instagram: @kristinekmunro
• Pivot to Passion Podcast: @pivottopassion.podcast
• Illume Collective: @illumecollective.co
• Illume Collective Website: https://illume-collective.mykajabi.com/illume-collective

Listen to Gabby Bernstein Meditation here: https://youtu.be/Kh7DxmiylQU

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About Kristine Munro:
Kristine Munro is the Founder and Intuitive Community Builder of The Illume Collective and the host of the Pivot to Passion podcast. Her journey started 15 years ago in Finance & Real Estate. She built a 7-Figure, award-winning business and though she had outward success and recognition, she felt unaligned, knowing deep down she was meant for more. Despite her fear, she left it all to start from scratch following her own heart and purpose. On her path of self-discovery, Kristine leaned into mind, body, and soul practices to tap into her own intuition which led her to find her passion for building a community for female entrepreneurs to connect on a deeper level, easy access to mentors and all the support they need to pursue their big dreams. Kristine is a certified Reiki Practitioner, and Life/Business Coach, mentoring women entrepreneurs to illuminate the fire within themselves and live out what they were meant to do. Kristine is a proud wife and mom of two. Her top priority is being a role model for them to show them that there are no limits to what they can achieve.

If you wish to solve all of your problems all at once, this episode is for you. This conversation has really come up often in my conversations with guests, loved ones, and friends recently, so I thought it was time to address it!

I wish I could snap my fingers and everything would be resolved and I would be “happy.” But, unfortunately, it just doesn’t work that way. Instead, maybe the REAL solution is shifting our perspectives to listen to the inner wisdom trying to guide us one step at a time–and we discuss what this looks like in this episode.

Key Takeaways:

• August Intentions
• Solving problems all at once
• Listen to your inner wisdom
• One step at a time
• Staying in the present

If you want a copy of Brianna Wiest’s The Pivot Year, buy it here!
The passage from today’s episode is on Day 97 and it says:

• Your inner wisdom isn’t supposed to give you every answer to your entire life, but to show you to the next right step. You are not supposed to be able to intuit every turn the road may take, because that would defeat the entire purpose of being here; that would defeat the entire purpose of being alive. Nobody–not one of us–knows everything that might unfold. Our job is not to get better at predicting, projecting, or becoming attached to uncertain possibilities, but having sincere faith that what we know needs to happen next is the key that eventually unlocks everything we’ve been waiting for, everything we’ve ever wanted to be. - Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year

Thank you to the sponsor of today’s episode, Consiglio’s Kitchenware. Since 1975, Consiglio's Kitchenware has specialized in premium European kitchenware, food processing equipment, cookware and coffee machines. They carry top-named brands like Breville, DeLonghi, Le Creuset, Zwilling, Jura, and more! Their shop is Eco-Friendly, Socially Conscious, Sustainable, and Woman-Owned. What are you waiting for?! All listeners of the show can shop at Consiglio's Kitchenware and use code TKOMS for 5% off any order!

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If you’re looking to start transforming your life, this episode is for you! This week, I have marketing guru Tony Wang as the guest on my show where he shares his journey of building 8-figure marketing businesses and not loving what he was doing.
Instead of staying in the hustle culture, Tony dove into a spiritual transformation and he shares it all with us in the episode! Then, he talks about how that’s changed his life, including his work/life balance!

Key Takeaways:

• Enjoying the journey
• The comparison game
• Money flows to value
• External productivity vs. internal state
• Be proactive vs. reactive

Thank you, Tony, for sharing your story in today’s episode. It was amazing to connect with you, and I can’t wait to keep learning from you as I follow along your journey.

If you want to connect with Tony, find him here:

• Instagram: @tonywangcc
• Website: www.tonywang.com
• Enlightenment Therapy App: www.enlightenmenttherapy.co

Thank you to today’s sponsor, Level Up Desks. Level Up Desks is your place to go for office desks, chairs, gaming desks, chairs, and accessories like keyboards, mice, mousepads, standing pads, and more! They are a Toronto-based, Canadian business that's changing the game because they are promoting the importance of having a functional and ergonomic. All listeners of the show can use the coupon code "WORKHARDLIFEHARD" for a special discount on select items. Their Mid-Summer Sale is happening THIS WEEKEND with up to 25% off!

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About Tony Wang:
Tony Wang helps spiritual teachers and experts grow their online businesses. He’s been building online businesses ever since he was a college student studying chemistry. Afterwards, he became a full-time entrepreneur and ended up building multiple 8-figure digital advertising businesses, working with brands like Uber, Lyft, King, HBO and more. His success was largely the result of discovering and practicing personal transformation and healing methods rooted in ancient spiritual traditions. Now, he works with spirituality experts to scale their online businesses by helping them with marketing, sales and operations. This allows their business to excel while they focus on what they love(teaching and serving others). He’s the founder of Conscious Coaching - a business that is dedicated to helping humanity reach its greatest potential by spreading breakthrough methods for accelerated spiritual development.

I have another Guest Talk lined up for you all with my friend and co-worker, Rebeka Swayne! We’ve been working together for almost a year now, and when Rebeka reached out to me asking to be on the show—I knew I had to say yes.

But, probably for a different reason than you think. Rebeka has experienced an extremely significant, emotional, and devastating life event recently, and she wanted to come on to talk about her story, share her experience, and of course, chat work/life balance.

Key Takeaways:

• A wellness check-in!
• Perspective = opportunity
• Accept the facts
• Show appreciation
• Be proactive
• Change your formula

For me, this episode was a game-changer, and I have a feeling it will be for you, too! Rebeka–thank you for openly sharing your story and showing just how resilient you and your family are.

If you want to connect with Rebeka, find her here:

• Instagram: @rbkristina01

Thank you, Level Up Desks who is our sponsor for today’s episode. Level Up Desks is your place to go for office desks, chairs, gaming desks, chairs, and accessories like keyboards, mouse, mousepads, standing pads, and more! They are a Toronto-based, Canadian business that's changing the game because they are promoting the importance of having a functional and ergonomic setup. All listeners of the show can use the coupon code "WORKHARDLIFEHARD" for a special discount on select items. Check them out! I purchased a standing desk from them and I'm obsessed with it!

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About Rebeka Swayne:
Fueled by the reward of connecting people to practical solutions, Rebeka is a solution-centric problem solver. An optimistic and enthusiastic professional with over 10 years of experience in the financial and hospitality industries, she attributes her success to her ability to listen to customers and put their needs first. She now is a Sales Development Representative for the Learning + Development company Vivo Team. Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Rebeka is a wife, a mother, and an avid volunteer supporting community organizations working with vulnerable populations. A natural creative, in her free time Rebeka can be found in her studio painting and creating multi-medium art.

Welcome to the show Brittany Nicholson-Park! Britt, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, is the guest on this week’s episode and she’s READY to share all the details about nutritional health. When Britt first reached out to me, I was pumped to have the first nutritionist on the show because how you fuel your body is directly + seamlessly linked to our work/life balance!

We talk about how every day is different - nutritionally AND in terms of your work/life balance - and that’s A-okay! Then, we talk about prioritization, stress management, and the mind-gut connection. I love and appreciate Britt’s realistic, simple, and non-restrictive approach to nutrition that really welcomes everyone and anyone to enhance their health journey.

Key Takeaways:

• Cancel the all-or-nothing mentality
• Be realistic
• Understand the mind/gut connection
• The importance of eating
• Stress resilience

*SPECIAL OFFER* Thank you, Britt, for sponsoring this episode with her business, Holistic Britt Nutrition! For Work Hard, Life Hard Listeners ONLY, Britt is offering her 6-Month Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Stress Busting meal plan! *chef’s kiss*RIGHT NOW, with the code “WHLH”, you can get this offer for only $30 which is 90% OFF! What are you waiting for?! GET THIS MEAL PLAN HERE!

Thank you, Britt, for coming on the show and sharing your expertise on holistic nutrition. I can’t wait to chat again, soon!

If you want to connect with Britt, find her here:

• @holisticbrittnutrition on Instagram
• @holisticbrittnutrition on Tiktok
• @holisticbrittnutrition on Facebook
• The Balance with Britt Podcast on Apple Podcasts & Spotify
• Website www.holisticbrittnutrition.com

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About Brittany Nicholson-Park:
Britt is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Kombucha Brew Master and Co-Founder ofBloom Kombucha Co., and Bachelor of Science degree holder located in Northern Ontario. She specializes in helping her clients get to the root of their digestive issues, beat burnout, eat to ease anxiety and build long-term healthy habits without restrictions. She loves helping her clients find joy in the kitchen, enjoy a loving relationship with food and finally feel like they can eat some of their favourite foods after years and years of restriction. Having been through all the digestive issues, anxiety and burnout herself, Britt is incredibly passionate about all things gut health-related and the connection that it has with the mind. Britt has worked with many 1:1 clients and has been able to help them uncover the missing pieces of their health picture, creating health plans that feel realistic, and aligned with her clients’ values and lifestyle. You can work one on one with Britt by visiting her website, snag some of her free offers, or listen to her podcast "The Balance with Britt Podcast" with new episodes weekly.

In today’s episode, let’s be present with one another to talk about a real work-from-home (WFH) problem–exhaustion.

But before we dig into that, I’m talking to you all about THREADS, Meta’s newest social media platform. If you’re on Threads, follow me at @tkoms!

But back to the topic at hand–what is work-from-home exhaustion?

Well, it’s something that all people who WFH experience at some point or another. And the reason why is that working from home means that you live/work/eat/play all in the exact same space. No matter HOW big your home is, it eventually can start to feel like a small box that you’re trapped into. This type of exhaustion can last for months if you don’t understand how to recognize that you’re in it and have tips to help you recover from it.

Key Takeaways:

• Thoughts on Threads?
• What is work-from-home exhaustion?
• My 8 tips to recover
• Remember your patience

I hope you can take one thing away from today’s episode that you can try to apply, ESPECIALLY if you’re someone who WFH! Also, I want to hear from you–what other tips help you when you’re feeling exhausted from working from home?

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Happy Hump Day, gang!

Today, I’m back with another Tee Talk where I’m focusing on two topics:

1. The idea of life/work balance (yes, you read that right)
2. The country ranked #1 for work/life balance

The idea of life-work balance means that, maybe, we should stop putting the “work” part of work/life balance FIRST, and instead, put the “life” first! Interestinggggg - I talk about how this perspective can be game-changing for us!

Then, I talk about a brand-new study that came out recently that ranked the best countries for work/life balance. I tell you the top 10 rated countries, why it’s important, and what we can do about it.

Key Takeaways:

• What is life/work balance?
• Global work/life balance
• Your perspective changes your experience
• Your controllables

You can’t control and change the world overnight, but you can control and change YOUR life/work. I end this episode with a new challenge for you that’s going to make difference in your life bucket–will you do it?!

If you want to read the article about Remote’s study on work/life balance, you can find it here.

The sponsor for today’s episode is Consiglio’s Kitchenware. Since 1975, Consiglio's Kitchenware has specialized in premium European kitchenware, food processing equipment, cookware and coffee machines. They carry top-named brands like Breville, DeLonghi, Le Creuset, Zwilling, Jura, and more! Their shop is Eco-Friendly, Socially Conscious, Sustainable, and Woman-Owned. What are you waiting for?! All listeners of the show can shop at Consiglio's Kitchenware and use code TKOMS for 5% off any order!

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