Episode 1: Balance & Boundaries with Ciji Townsend, founder of Balanced Not Busy

What’s This Episode About?

Ciji Townsend is genuine and authentic on her everyday journey to live balanced and not busy and provide practical solutions to find balance and ultimately shift from crazy busy to confident calm.

In this episode, Brittney chats with Ciji and gets the real story behind her community, Balanced Not Busy - a space for go-getters to find rest.

Ciji has been intrigued by the word “busy” since she was six years old. Surrounded by working parents and grandparents, everyone seemed to be really really busy… ALL the time. Ciji was initiated into her family’s secret society of busy people when she turned 13. Her over programmed social calendar, full schedule and ridiculous amount of commitments from school sports to the youth and government club was some official rites of passage.

Ciji remained in the secret society and commited to the condition of being busy in high school, college, and for many years post-graduation. Until one day a light bulb went off and she no longer wanted to respond to “how are you?” with the overused response, “I’m so busy.”

How does she do it all? In three words, Ciji lives an intentional life, rooted in prioritizing her time and doing the things that matter most, that she is passionate about and that fulfills her life. Rather than focusing on a work life balance, she lives life and avoids sacrificing her joy by glorifying “busyness.”