Exploring what we mean by work life balance and considering if there might be a better way.

Cindy Koehler is a transformational business and life coach, and founder of Mind Garage.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Cindy explains to host Michael Millward that we are wrong to view success in life as the achievement of a good work life balance.

Instead, Cindy proposes that we should aim to live a life in which our work activities and our non-work activities are aligned.

Cindy and Michael discuss how

• Many people work to pay their bills with a hope of eventually living a long and happy retirement.
• Work should instead think about how work enables people to live their best lives in the present.
• Forced unemployment is when people explore what they want out of life
• We define and find happiness in work and life
• We define the value we derive from work
• Asking better questionscan improve how we enjoy life

This conversation will made you reconsider your own relationship between work and life.

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Karen Rudolf introduces the tool she has developed to help people live their authentic life.

Karen Rudolf is the founder of the Tranquil Soulution and creator of the Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool.

The Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool helps people to understand how they can avoid the pressures to just follow the crowd and instead live their authentic life.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Karen explains to host Michael Millward the consequences of not living authentically and the benefits of having the courage to live your authentic life.

They discuss

• The importance of celebrating your uniqueness
• Why it is easier to follow the crowd instead of living your own life.
• The joy of collaboration
• How our conscious and unconscious minds work, and impact our decision making
• The power of intuitive questions
• Why it is important to learn how to press your pause button on the pressures of modern life
• Why we should aim to create harmony in our lives instead of balance.

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A.I. could be the secret to you having more successful dates and finding your ideal partner.

Rakesh Naidu is the founder of Fate, a connection app that uses Agentic AI to bring empathy and authenticity back into how people meet.

Fate users don’t have to engage in endless swiping. Instead, Fate users engage in voice-first interactions and adaptive matching guided by AI that learns from human tone, intent, and energy.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Rakesh explains to host Michael Millward how Fate uses AI to improve how people can meet their ideal partner.

They discuss how Fate

• identifies the right person to suggest as a match,
• provides feedback to daters
• facilitates voice only blind dates,
• incorporates gamification into the dating process.

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The way we work impacts how much leisure time we have and how well we can enjoy that leisure time.

Jessper Maquindang is the founder of Familead Consulting a specialist in improving employee productivity and engagement.

The expression is, work life balance, but many people believe that the order should be reversed, life work balance. This they argue is because life is more important than work.

They may be correct, but Jessper Maquindang argues that without a strong work life it is very difficult to have a good life.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Jessper Maquindang explains to host Michael Millward how anyone, but especially managers can be more effective and efficient at work so they can create more opportunities for leisure.

Their conversation covers:

• Easy ways to be more efficient and effective at work.
• Living workplace values
• The importance of delegation
• Communicating with colleagues
• Ensuring competence
• Having a hobby

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Successful entrepreneur Aaron Christy describes how he spends his leisure time

Aaron Christy is the founder and CEO of the Indianapolis based roofing company Indy Roof and Restoration.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Aaron describes to host Michael Millward how he likes to spend his leisure time and the how his leisure time decisions impacted the way in which he leads his team.

Aaron describes his philosophy for business and life, and how this has helped him to grow his business.

He explains that to really relax you must switch your brain off, and then enthusiastically describes how he likes to do this.

Aaron then explains how he makes himself unavailable to his team whilst he is not working, and how this enhances their performance.

The principles he applies to his leisure time are also applied to team building within Indy Roof and Restoration, and what the team does when they have their annual strategy and training meeting at Gatlinburg TN.

Aaron is also host of the Work Hard Play Harder podcast, where he is often joined by co-host and Indy Roof and Restoration COO Adam Kaminski.

Michael and Aaron discuss how they both learn from every guest, and Aaron explains that he frequently finds himself learning from his team.

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Myla is a Ukrainian American DJ and producer of rave music.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Myla and host Michael Millward discuss Myla’s career and how she likes to relax.

Myla has an international profile on the dance scene. She has played on specialist rave Caribbean cruises, in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the Netherlands, as well as the United States of America.

Myla explains how she plans her DJ shows and how she tries out new music with audiences and uses their reaction to improve her music.

You can find out more about Myla on her website and social media profiles:

• You Tube
• Instagram
• TikTok

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When something unexpected happens, it is amazingly useful to have the key information in one place.

As Suke Ridler lay in hospital listening to a doctor saying that they could not do anymore to help her, her first thoughts were not about herself. Suke was worried about the mess that she would be leaving behind for her family to sort out.

Administering modern life is complex. Just like Suke very few people have everything organised in one place. This realisation led Suke to create MyLifeJars.com.

My Life Jars can be the place where you store your multi media life story, with all the information your family will need to act on your behalf if you are not able to act for yourself.

In this episode of the Abecederwork life balance podcast Rest And Recreation Suke explains to host Michael Millward the My Life Jars story, and how she planned that it would work and how people are using the platform in practice.

You can find more information about Suke Ridler and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

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Why do high achievers find it so difficult to adjust to life in retirement?

Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons was a high achieving lawyer in a big firm, until the day she decided that she didn’t want to be. Moving into retirement was hard work. Once settled into a new lifestyle Elizabeth wrote the guide for transitioning from work to retirement.

That book is Encore A High Achievers Guide to Retirement.

In their conversation Elizabeth and host Michael Millward discuss

• Why high achievers at work find it difficult to adjust to life in retirement
• How life changes more dramatically for high achievers when they no longer have the structure of work
• Adjusting from using quantitative measures to qualitative assessments
• Moving from a team-based environment to flying solo
• Defining the who, what, why, when and how of retirement activities
• Transitioning from reacting to a work-related event to being the creator of your own events
• The difference between retirement planning and preparing for retirement

You can find more information about Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

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