2. Finding Balance
Episode 2 of the The Great Job! Podcast podcast, hosted by Dan Mall and Emily Mall, titled "2. Finding Balance" was published on November 22, 2023 and runs 26 minutes.
November 22, 2023 ·26m · The Great Job! Podcast
Episode Description
In this episode, Emily and Dan tackle the siren song of balance.
Balance can be a fleeting, slippery ideal to strive for. Just as you realize you’ve struck something of a balance, in a relationship or with work, it’s slipped away.
Emily and Dan share their varying definitions of balance and how those definitions ebb and flow within their own personal lives, as their children grow up, and as their goals evolve. The whole of their individual preferences as well as the needs of the family unit together build a more realistic picture of balance than a static concept.
Recognizing the impermanence of balance and its wide definition releases the pressure to achieve some utopian balance, a pressure we never mean to put on ourselves but are all guilty of falling into.
Emily shares that as an introvert, she finds a lot of balance in presence, but sometimes that presence has a more introverted nature to it. Learning to be more vulnerable in sharing her true needs and boundaries has deepened her connection with their children and helps her needs to be met.
They conclude that a healthy marker of balance for their family is enoughness, or in other words, when each family member receives enough time, space, togetherness, etc. to satisfy their individual and collective needs.
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Episode Outline:
(00:41) Balance is a feeling
(03:57) Working towards being better over being perfect
(09:37) Balance is seasonal
(14:54) Transitional balance during the pivotal ages
(16:35) Balance is presence
(20:33) Vulnerability brings connection, especially for introverts
(24:02) Balance is enoughness
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About Dan and Emily:
We’re Dan and Emily Mall, the parents behind Great Job! We’ve known each other since 5th grade, been together for over twenty years, and have spent the last 12 years raising our two daughters, Sidda and Charlie. We started this space after we noticed a lot of our friends and teachers (and our kids’ friends’ parents) coming to us for advice or to compliment the way our kids sometimes show up in the world. We wanted a way to share our stories of what’s worked and hasn’t for parents and caregivers, who, like us, struggle with raising amazing humans.
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