Give Yourself Some Leeway: Burnout Recovery for High Achievers

Updated: 27 May 2024 • 123 episodes
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Welcome to Give Yourself Some Leeway, the podcast dedicated to helping high achievers on the verge of burnout reclaim a healthier work-life balance without sacrificing their growth or success. On this podcast, you'll hear from a diverse range of industry leaders, entrepreneurs, authors, coaches, and business owners from all walks of life and ways of working. They'll share their personal experiences with burnout and how they managed to bounce back. We'll break the stigma around mental health in the workplace and put an end to the toxic burnout culture that plagues so many high achievers.

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Blanca E Rodriguez was working three jobs, raising kids, in an abusive relationship, before burning out. The subsequent panic attacks, laying in bed for one week. That was the turning point - make a decision to either change her ways or something much worse would happen. What does it take to prevent our rock bottom fro

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Our bodies are amazing. We have spent decades in this vessel and still have little understanding of its full potential. Burnout is often your body and mind's way of signaling that something is out of balance in your life. Discover the self sabotaging behaviors that may be holding you back, and the 3 steps you can take

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Have you watched Baby Reindeer on Netflix? Right now, people have been deep-diving to reveal the identities of the show's characters, as it is based on true events. Taking the show at face value - obsessive stalker story - is completely missing the point, in my opinion. Richard Gadd stated that the show depicts 'an emo

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When I started my first business, I was told it was a pipe dream. When I created my first podcast to talk about my mental health, I was told it was "committing career suicide" because no one will want to employ someone if they consider them to be "mentally unfit". I was advised that I would be much better off to keep m

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Side Hustle Culture has exploded in recent years, but not all aspects of having your own side gig give you the financial freedom you would expect. How do you avoid building a business that requires non-stop sacrifice, leaving you more exhausted than your 9-5? How do you build a business with an exit strategy if it requ

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I get it - sometimes when you feel stuck in a rut, you'll do anything to start making progress again. Trust me, I've been there many times. But not everything you do for the sake of personal growth is necessarily helping your personal growth. So.. how do you know the difference? Today, let's break it down and set you o

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