Callum Borchers
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1,301 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard Jan 2025
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So there's this disconnect between what we admire in others and what we actually practice for ourselves.
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It is.
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It's much easier to say that you're going to have work-life balance than to actually do it.
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The poster person for this, who I spoke with in the course of my reporting, was a woman named Catherine Smith-Lacari, who literally carries around a card with the words work-life balance in her wallet because she says it's one of her core values.
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And yet she's working around the clock, she tells me.
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Now, she's an entrepreneur.
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She has a consultancy for small businesses, and she feels like she owes it to her clients and to her small team to really be on call at all times.
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So for her, actually, work-life balance is really more something she tries to protect for her team.
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She wants to be respectful of their time.
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But for herself, it's almost non-existent.
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Yeah, they're doing it for the gram, so to speak, JR, right?
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Like they're posting these heavily curated images that show robust personal lives, and then they're going right back to the grind in some cases.
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So it can appear as though they have tremendous work-life balance, and it's not the reality.
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I'm thinking of a conversation I had with a young man named Daniel Zotterer, who is the executive director of a nonprofit that addresses food scarcity.
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And he says he works basically the equivalent of two full-time jobs every weekend, lots of nights.
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Finally took a few days off to go hiking in the Catskills recently.
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And he told me he was thinking mid-hike about the LinkedIn post he was going to write with a picture of himself hiking about the importance of taking breaks.
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So it really sort of permeates a lot of people's thinking.
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I'd say the role models fall into a couple of buckets, JR.
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I mean, there's one bucket of the type of person who seems to totally break free of societal expectations.
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