This content was created by Angela Mondor. This content was uploaded by Angela Mondor. This is a YouTube Shorts clip titled "Freedom Fridays: My Secret to Work-Life Balance! #shorts #shortsvideo" (created 2025-06-15). A single speaker (labelled SPEAKER A) gives personal/professional advice on setting boundaries and managing time — discussing Google Calendar and Acuity for bookings, differentiating client work vs. business/personal work, enforcing start/stop times, and a seasonal "Freedom Fridays" practice when the speaker's spouse (a teacher) is off in summer.
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Who you work with, why you're working with them, when you're willing to work, all those kinds of things. When you have clear work hours and you understand the difference between this kind of work, that kind of work, and personal time. Okay, so the work that I do when I'm with clients versus the work I do when I'm not with clients, the work that I do for my clients versus the work I do for my own business, all of those pieces have different energy levels and they have different needs. And so it's important for me to make sure that those are blocked into my calendar. in a way that is going to support my needs and my clients. So we use Google Calendars here, that Google Calendar is my boss. We use Acuity for all our bookings because then I can specify, here's the times when I'm gonna let people book into my calendar and for why, right? What's the reason they're booking and how does that fit into my calendar? That's really important for us. I have had times where I've said, I will stop work at this time of day regardless of what's going on. I won't start till this time. And those things fluctuate. In the summertime, my husband's a teacher, so he's off all summer, but we take what we call Freedom Fridays. So every Friday in the summertime, I'm not here, I'm not working. My husband and I are probably on a beach somewhere.