How to Balance Work and Family (ft. Matt Ragland)
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[0:00] If you were having fun all day,
[0:01] now it's my turn to have fun and go
[0:03] work. I could create a piece of work
[0:06] that totally changes the trajectory of
[0:08] my career.
[0:10] Or I could, you know, wash the dishes
[0:11] and pick up the living room. What do you
[0:12] mean I can't go talk to dad? He's just
[0:14] in that like he's just over there. Dad
[0:17] tells me I have to limit my screen time.
[0:18] Dad looks at the screen all day. What
[0:21] are we modeling? [laughter]
[0:27] I am here today with one of the creators
[0:29] that I most admire recently for his work
[0:32] about how to be productive and creative
[0:35] while also being a dad. I am speaking of
[0:37] course of Matt Ragland. You had a long
[0:40] history of being a creator but then you
[0:43] worked for a couple companies and then
[0:44] you came back. Tell me a little bit
[0:46] about that sequence and how did your
[0:49] like family schedule and routines have
[0:51] to change as you went through all those
[0:53] phases.
[0:54] Yeah, so I started working as a
[0:57] creator/f freelancer in 2013.
[1:01] In 2015, that's when I started working
[1:03] at ConvertKit. I was employee number
[1:05] five. I've been working remotely in a
[1:08] non-traditional setting. Well, for for a
[1:09] really long time, but since I joined
[1:11] ConvertKit in 2015, I've worked
[1:13] remotely. I've haven't had to go into
[1:16] any kind of an office since 2012.
[1:20] And when you can work, you know,
[1:24] anywhere
[1:25] or anytime,
[1:26] anytime, the risk that you have to guard
[1:28] against is that you don't end up working
[1:30] everywhere all the time.
[1:31] Seriously. And so those really that
[1:34] first year in retrospect ended up being
[1:37] quite a challenge from a time management
[1:40] pers