1. Work-Life Balance My two cents…
Martine Ceberio
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Anything about your own experiences, maintaining the work-life-balance as a professor and during the tenure process, and whatever else you think advanced graduate students would find valuable would be perfect.  

3. Why Work-Life Balance? Because we need / want (?) to attend to both
Because we feel time-conflicted
Why Work-Life Balance?

4. Certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day-to-day basis with a young family
It's up to us as individuals to take control and responsibility for the type of lives that we want to lead. If you don't design your life, someone else will design it for you, and you may just not like their idea of balance.
We have to be careful with the time frame that we choose upon which to judge our balance. A day is too short; "after I retire" is too long. There's got to be a middle way.
We need to approach balance in a balanced way.
The small things matter. Being more balanced doesn't mean dramatic upheaval in your life.
Some interesting points

5. Take Control Pick a career that will make you happy
You need to know what you want
Set your priorities and do your best to stick to them
There are all sorts of possible priorities
Take Control

6. Be Realistic There is no perfect day
There is no need to postpone hope of balance until retirement
Example:
When I travel, there is no balance
Just like on vacation, there is no balance either
But over time, you can achieve it
Be Realistic

7. How about an academic career?
As was said earlier, it depends on your career…
It depends on what you want
I am going to focus on what I know:
Being a professor at a university
With 2 children (almost 6, and 7)
How about an academic career?

8. Good things about this job
Flexible
Run by passion (of research, of teaching)
So that helps with “taking control”, doing what you like 
Good things about this job

9. Challenges for Work-Life Balance
On the tenure track (and possibly beyond  )
Pressure to produce scholarly work, to obtain funding
Challenge to balance Research / Teaching / Service
Trips away from home and family
Challenges for Work-Life Balance

10. What people say and some do
80-hour weeks
~ 11-hour days, 7 days a week…
80-hour weeks before children
Doable but consistently?
I did it before children but did not make me the most interesting person 
80-hour weeks with children
Has happened but was very exceptional
Impossible in the long run, for me
What people say and some do

11. How do I address that? I set my priorities
Family first: my children
Resist pressure: e.g., tenure-clock stop
I yearn to achieve balance over time
Weeks are my time-frame
Some days are harder than others
How do I address that?

12. It is possible! My experience My tips
Had my two children during tenure track
Tenure-track lasted 8 years (stopped the tenure clock twice)
Took a summer off for my first child, an FMLA for my second child, another FMLA for my mother’s illness
Had health issues
Stopped working 80-hrs 3 years in
My tips
Do what you like: resist pressure
Stand for your values
You do not want to get tenure on a job you do not like, at an institution and with colleagues who do not share your values
It is possible!

13. Questions?