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Christina Hawthorne Takes on the World

By: Natalie MacNeil
Thu, Jun 24 2010 | Published in Her Life


One of the issues we talk about A LOT on She Takes on the World is work-life balance, something many women struggle with.

The issue of work-life balance is very prevalent in TNT’s hit series, HawthoRNe. Juggling both family and career, recently-widowed nursing director and mother of a teenage girl, Christina Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith) struggles to hold the middle ground in a battle between bureaucratic administrators, heartless doctors, and apathetic colleagues who are caught up in a system that’s forgotten whom it’s there to serve. How do women do it all?!

HawthoRNe came out on DVD this week and we have a special giveaway from Sony Pictures. One reader will win the official three-disc DVD set of HawthoRNe: The Complete First Season.

To enter, leave a comment letting us know how you maintain your hectic life and balance work, friends, family, and “you” time. What advice do you have for other women?

CONTEST DETAILS:

  • Winner must be in the US and have a non PO box shipping address
  • Winner must claim the prize within 14 days of contest end date

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Natalie MacNeil is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of She Takes on the World. She is also the Co-founder of award-winning digital media firm, Imaginarius. For more information about Natalie, visit NatalieMacNeil.com.
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  • http://www.womanzworld.com Natalie Sisson

    I read a great article the other day titled `The Entrepreneur’s Quest for balance’ by Lauren Bacon, who wrote `Boss of You’ and you can find it here http://bit.ly/9dZoww

    What she wrote really resonated with me as there is no such thing as work-life balance, balance is an ideal that is unachievable and as Lauren states “Work-life balance” implies that work and life are mutually exclusive, which is ludicrous – especially for entrepreneurs.”

    If we define our own definition of sanity and enjoying our lives when working and playing I think we’ll be better off than trying to achieve this perfect state of equilibrium that gets bandied about too much.

    If you know someone who has got it right then please let me know. Otherwise enjoy the ride and recognise when you need to take some time off and recharge.
    .-= Natalie Sisson´s last blog ..Five Ways to Attract Integrity In Business And Banish Flakiness =-.

  • Natalie MacNeil

    Natalie, thanks for the link to The Entrepreneur’s Quest for Balance. Lauren is great! You may also like Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham. He talks a lot about “strategic imbalance” which is a principle that really resonates with me.

    By the way, looks like you’ll be receiving the Hawthorne DVD collection :) Thanks for your comment!