Your Work is Not Your Life

Allison Marie
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Your Work Is Not Your Life is the podcast for ambitious finance professionals who want career success without sacrificing the rest of their life. I'm Allison Marie, a life and leadership coach for finance professionals and former finance executive. Each week, I'll help you rethink how you're working and develop more sustainable ways of succeeding in finance so you have capacity for your finance career AND the rest of your life. We'll challenge assumptions about what your career actually requires, look at the habits and ways of working that may be taking more of your time and energy than they need to, and explore practical ways to work differently. Because you can have both the finance career you want – AND a life.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    Why Your Own Work Keeps Getting Pushed to Evenings and Weekends

    You’ve spent the day answering questions, reviewing your team’s work and dealing with your inbox. But the work you most needed to do is still waiting, and tonight or this weekend seems like the only time to finish it. What’s filling your workday? And how much of it actually needs your involvement? In this episode, I share two strategies that helped me work fewer evenings and weekends during my finance career: getting clear on what I was personally responsible for and deciding what deserved my time. I talk about how I reconsidered the way I reviewed my team’s work, got honest about why I sometimes welcomed interruptions, and started making deliberate plans for important work, including deciding when it was done. We explore: How to assess whether your review adds value.Why helping everyone else can become a way to put off your own difficult work.How to give important responsibilities time during your workday.How to recognize when another revision is worthwhile, and when the work already serves its purpose.How these decisions help create room for what matters outside work.Finance will have busy stretches and unexpected demands. But understanding what else contributes to your extra hours can help you find ways to change them. Start with one piece of work and ask: What does this actually need from me personally? Explore coaching and resources on my website Connect with me on LinkedIn Music credit: 'Brighter Plans - 3:29 (Long Edit)' by Iros Young on #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/c/iros-young === Want help finding one thing you could change? My free workbook, Your Career Shouldn’t Cost You This Much, helps you identify one thing you could stop doing, do differently or do less often to get some of your time and energy back - without lowering your standards or losing your edge. Get your free workbook.

  2. Oct 16

    Don’t Wait for Work to Settle Down to Make Plans for The Rest of Your Life

    Are you waiting to get through quarter-end, finish the budget or get your team fully staffed before making plans for the rest of your life? When one busy stretch keeps replacing another, that can mean waiting indefinitely. In this episode, I share how committing to three workouts a week helped me start changing my working habits - and test my assumption that work would suffer if I wasn’t always available. Having more time and energy for your life involves both changing how you work and getting clear about what you want work to leave room for. We explore how those two things support each other, including: Why evenings can become your automatic backup plan for work.How specific personal plans help you make more deliberate decisions during the workday.How to test one change, compare the results with what you feared and adjust.Your starting point: choose one thing you want to make room for next week and test one change in how you work that could support it. Explore coaching and resources on my website Connect with me on LinkedIn Music credit: 'Brighter Plans - 3:29 (Long Edit)' by Iros Young on #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/c/iros-young Want help finding one thing you could change? My free workbook, Your Career Shouldn’t Cost You This Much, helps you identify one thing you could stop doing, do differently or do less often to get some of your time and energy back - without lowering your standards or losing your edge. Get your free workbook.

  3. Oct 9

    Start Here: A Bit About Me & 'Your Work is Not Your Life'

    Does feeling overwhelmed, tired and stressed seem like the price of having the finance career you want? For a long time, that’s what I believed. No matter how much I prepared, how involved I was in my team’s work or how many hours I worked, I always felt like it wasn’t enough. And when I went home, work came with me – it’s all I could think about. In this introductory episode of Your Work Is Not Your Life, I share how finding podcasts helped me question what I thought success required and start seeing different possibilities for my work and my life. I talk about: The expectations that kept me overpreparing, checking email and staying involved in everything.Two early realizations about who I wanted to be and how I wanted to be remembered.How those realizations changed the way I worked.Finance still had its demands. But I discovered that I could change how I approached them and make more room for the rest of my life. That’s the possibility I hope this podcast opens up for you, too. Explore coaching and resources on my website Connect with me on LinkedIn Intro music credit: 'Brighter Plans - 3:29 (Long Edit)' by Iros Young on #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/c/iros-young Want help finding one thing you could change? My free workbook, Your Career Shouldn’t Cost You This Much, helps you identify one thing you could stop doing, do differently or do less often to get some of your time and energy back - without lowering your standards or losing your edge. Get your free workbook.

  4. Oct 4

    Your Work is Not Your Life - Trailer

    Is this really how it has to be to have a successful career in finance? If you love your career in finance but don't love how much of your life it's taking up, Your Work is Not Your Life is for you. In this short trailer, I’ll share why I created the podcast and what you can expect as we explore how to succeed in finance without sacrificing yourself or the rest of your life.  Follow the show now. The first few episodes are coming soon. Check out my website Connect with me on LinkedIn   Music credit: 'Brighter Plans - 3:29 (Long Edit)' by Iros Young on #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/c/iros-young

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Your Work Is Not Your Life is the podcast for ambitious finance professionals who want career success without sacrificing the rest of their life. I'm Allison Marie, a life and leadership coach for finance professionals and former finance executive. Each week, I'll help you rethink how you're working and develop more sustainable ways of succeeding in finance so you have capacity for your finance career AND the rest of your life. We'll challenge assumptions about what your career actually requires, look at the habits and ways of working that may be taking more of your time and energy than they need to, and explore practical ways to work differently. Because you can have both the finance career you want – AND a life.

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  • Creator
    Allison Marie
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Your Work is Not Your Life
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