EP310: Minda Zetlin - Creating A Healthy Work-Life Balance

Ad Read: If you work for yourself, which goodness knows I've done most of my life, one way to look at it is the customer is always right. Therefore, you are always at the beck and call of anyone who needs or wants your assistance. Another way to look at it is you are the boss, right? You are your own boss, and it's up to you to say, okay, I will do this on this day. I won't do this on that day. If you don't get the materials to me by X date, then they won't get filed by the deadline they're supposed to be filed. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com. The proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a good one. Our guest is the author of Career Self-Care and writes the highly popular Laid-Back Leader column for Inc.com. Her articles and workshops offer research-backed advice to help ambitious people get the most out of their careers and their lives. Minda Zetlin, welcome to the show. Well, thank you so much for having me. It's great to have you. And what a great topic to be talking about. Self-care for our listeners, I'd say, is probably pretty high up on the list. Take care of yourself first and lots of good things can happen next. But before we get into all of that, Minda, please tell us about you and your career journey leading up to this point.

Uh, sure. Well, I started writing for Inc., oh goodness, more than a decade ago. And I began as, uh, with a lot of publications, things went online. I began writing this column and I was writing quite a lot of columns, uh, pretty much one every day. So I covered a whole lot of different topics. And what I discovered was that as I wrote about this topic of how to be more effective but also more mindful and happier at work. Our readers were really interested in that because, you know, the nice thing about writing online is that you can see what people are clicking on pretty quickly, so you can tell what people are interested in pretty quickly. So as I got more and more towards writing about this topic, I got more and more interested in it myself because A lot of this applied to me. I'm a self-employed solopreneur person who