The author started a conversation with friends that led to a conference program. They surveyed women faculty, department heads, and senior administrators and asked them how they would advise young professionals struggling with personal and professional balance. The author, along with Tony Cawthon, incorporated the work on balance into several career and life-planning workshops for student affairs professionals. The author asserts that achieving balance is a journey, rather than a destination, and that strategies must change as people's lives change. The personal perspective that she can add to the conversation is that of a single woman, a perspective that is sometimes difficult to find in the literature. In this article, she offers a few of her own observations in the hope that these comments will inspire some more thoughts and conversations among others.