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_Published 2015-12-08. Financial blogger Catherine Alford discusses how parents can effectively balance work and home life._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] Instead of trying for a work- life balance, everyone always discusses like it should be compartmentalized. To me I think work- life balance is what you make of it, it's not as strict as work nine to five, have your family in the evenings. If you really want something, you wanna start a business, You can balance it and you know go back and forth throughout the day and still be able to pay attention to both things. The biggest thing is that you have to ask for help when you need it. For the longest time I insisted that I clean my house. I wanted to be like the good mom and have everything clean, and until I realized I could hire someone and I could make Double the amount I paid her to help me clean my house in the time she was cleaning it.

And so I think learning to be smart about your decisions, outsource when you need it. I think is the best thing that any parent can do, who's trying to balance their work and their life. If a parent is at work and they want more flexibility, or they feel like they aren't seeing their families, they really need to seek out the jobs that will allow for that flexibility. You see them all the time in different In newspapers and different reports online of companies that are know for their work life balance, so. And you have to be bold enough to ask. I think there's always been this stigma that if you're a working parent you ask for time off, or you ask to get off early that you're seen as a lesser worker.

But really when it comes to a workplace environment, as long as you're Superior and your boss is happy with what you're doing. They know you're working hard. And it doesn't really matter what anybody else thinks, as long as the people above you who are responsible for your job think that you're doing a great job. [ MUSIC ]

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