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Amazon VP Work-Life Balance Hacks

Hosted by Ethan Evans

Wed, Nov 19, 2025

8:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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Work-Life Balance: How to Have Both
Ethan Evans and Chaitali Narla
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What you'll learn

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Flow, the secret tool of high performance

Playing all day for pay

No Cold Plunges Required

Live audience Q&A

Why this topic matters

Top performers don't achieve "perfect balance" between their work and life commitments – they master strategic integration (and themselves).

You'll learn from

Ethan Evans

Former Amazon VP (15+ years); 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+

In Ethan's 15+ years at Amazon, he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.


  • Hold 70+ patents.
  • Reviewed 10,000+ resumes and conducted 2,500+ interviews.
  • Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.
  • Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's.


Ethan has promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.


Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to focus on paying forward his good fortune to others.


Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years at 3 startups.


>> Our next course Work-Life Balance: How to Have Both starts December 7th.

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