What if "work-life balance" is actually the problem — not the solution? Most of us have been sold a story: work hard, earn your weekends, repeat. But what if that mindset is quietly draining the joy out of both? In this episode, Jason and Marit take on one of the most widely accepted myths in modern life — and flip it completely upside down.

This is a real conversation about vision, purpose, and what it actually looks like to build a life we don't need to escape from. Not another productivity hack. A genuine reframe of how we relate to our work, our families, and ourselves.

When we see our work as something separate from our "real life," we spend one third of every single day just surviving until the weekend. But when work becomes an expression of vision and love — everything shifts.

What We Explore Together:

00:00 – Why the work-life balance conversation is worth questioning

03:17 – The 8-8-8 principle: how our hours are really being spent

05:37 – What it means to "squander" one third of our life

07:33 – Finding vision and love in whatever we're doing

09:50 – The difference between feeling trapped and choosing our life

12:12 – Why becoming the person, not taking the thing, is the real path

14:14 – Living and working from the inside out — from vision to action

16:35 – How the same work can renew or deplete us depending on how we see it

19:01 – "I don't crack backs for money" — a perspective that changes everything

21:14 – Chunking and simplification: what our brain does when we lose our why

23:38 – Awareness as the first skill — and why coming back is everything

26:38 – When work IS love, and how that transforms our relationships too

28:58 – Designing life by choice, not by default

This episode is for anyone who's been searching for balance — and wondering why it never quite feels like enough.

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