Burnt Out

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Synopsis

Successful women share their stories of getting burnt out and how they pushed through to achieve amazing things.

Episodes

  • 8 | COMPASSION

    15/01/2018 Duration: 27min

    Melissa Kargiannakis is the founder and CEO of a company called Skritswap. She helps people to understand difficult text by translating documents into different reading levels. So cool!  Melissa has a great sense of compassion that led her to become an entrepreneur as well as her passion in becoming an ally to underserved people in society.  Listen to her story of feeling burnt out, that she believes there are different types of burnout, and how she dealt with it all.    The Burnt Out Experience Melissa believes and has experienced multiple types of feeling burnt out and has felt many in her life thus far: First The first is general, stressed out, not-ready-for-it-all type of burnt out. Melissa says that, in this case, she was still performing in her work, but she didn't feel okay.  Second The next type is much different than general stress and is the kind of burnt out that Melissa really dives into in this episode of Burnt Out. Before she experienced anxiety for herself, Melissa didn't believe panic attacks

  • 7 | POTENTIAL

    08/01/2018 Duration: 30min

    Towanna Burrous is the President of the Coach Diversity Institute that teaches people to become amazing coaches. In this episode, Towanna points out the major issue that people of color and women face when they are trying to move up in the workplace. Supervisors and bosses looked for "demonstrated abilities" instead of their potential.  She used her experiences to become a trend-setter in the mentoring and coaching roles for women, people of color, high school students, and her community. She knows to look for POTENTIAL in people, not just their "demonstrated abilities." The Burnt Out Experience Towanna's experience with feeling burnt out involved a non-profit she created that mentored young girls to move forward, go to college, and to keep following their dreams. She was working SO hard and her mentality was that "if I didn't do it, then who would?" She didn't have enough rest, their was a lot of stress, and people were counting on her.  How did she deal?  Mentorship Towanna also describes her mentors as fri

  • 6 | PERSPECTIVE

    01/01/2018 Duration: 37min

    Darlene Brown is the CEO of Divine Empowerment, but she is also an author, certified personal development coach, inspirational speaker,  and training facilitator. Her company, found at divineempowerment.org, provides personal and business leadership coaching, inspirational speaking and leadership training to organizations across the world. In this episode of Burnt Out, Darlene talks about how she was exposed to extremely different points-of-view when she was very young. Moving from New York City to small town Germany, she experienced different perspectives on life and what was important to her and to others. 

  • 5 | VULNERABLE

    25/12/2017 Duration: 27min

    Kashonna Holland is an engaging keynote speaker, an inspiring coach, a motivational author. Kashonna is the President & CEO of Simply Kashonna, a business built to promote BOLD, FEARLESS and COURAGEOUS living. www.simplykashonna.com During this episode, we talk about how being vulnerable is a strength and so many other great topics that will leave you feeling good for the potential holiday stressors.   The Burnt Out Experience For Kashonna, feeling burnt out means that she wakes up in the morning and she's just not feeling it. She wakes up a little sad, and feels somewhat incomplete.. sometimes she feels inadequate and questions whether or not she can "really do this." There are times where Koshanna said she had to break down and cry. Once, she even felt like she was on the verge of depression, but she was able to gather herself.   So how did she deal?   Purpose Kashonna found her passion. She discovered that people are what drive her spirit for life and she started a business that allows her to connect

  • 4 | CHILL

    18/12/2017 Duration: 25min

    Whitney is a personal finance coach and entrepreneur at whitneyhansen.com. She teaches overwhelmed millennials how to pay off debt and be financially independent by giving them the tools to have more fun with money and she makes sure to sprinkle in a little silliness. In this podcast episode, Whitney explains how she came from a pretty rough background, was able to pay of $30,000 of student debt in just 10 months, and the work she does today with her business. Whitney also has an award winning podcast called The Money Nerds that I highly suggest listening to. Her advice to you for when you're feeling burnt out? Chill. Take a break. Take some time for you. The Burnt Out Experience Burnout is an extremely real thing for Whitney, but she does admit that her tolerance for feeling that way is very high. During her first few experiences with feeling burnt out, Whitney didn't realize that the effects of it were so severe. She mainly experienced these harsh feelings during her undergraduate studies when she had a f

  • 3 | YES

    11/12/2017 Duration: 25min

    Trina DasGupta is an award winning producer, director, and entrepreneur. http://www.trinadasgupta.com/ The company she founded, Single Palm Tree Productions, creates content that changes culture for the better. In this episode, Trina tells us about 3 times she's been burnt out in the past 10 years worth of hard work. Most of her burn outs, but also successes, have resulted in her saying, "Yes." "Yes" can sometimes mean taking a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but sometimes it can mean doing ALL the work yourself.   The Burnt Out Experience For Trina, entrepreneurship is simultaneously amazing and harrowing at the same time, but she wouldn't have it any other way. She can't imagine having a desk job. She does offer the advice though, that if you're the kind of person who values a steady paycheck, "don't become an entrepreneur just because it's sexy. You have to figure out what's right for you." Trina recalls three specific experiences of feeling burnt out in the last 10 years - one of which put her in the hosp

  • 2 | VALUES

    03/12/2017 Duration: 24min

    Serial entrepreneur Jessica Toth tell us her story from being a make up artist to homeless with two children and then back up on her feet as an entrepreneur. 

  • 1 | HUMOR

    03/12/2017 Duration: 36min

    Captain Gail Harris tells us how humor helped her to be the top ranked African-American female in the United States Navy when she retired in 2001, among other useful tips on how to push past feeling burnt out.

  • 0 | WHY

    02/12/2017 Duration: 05min

    An introduction to the Burnt Out podcast!  Who's the host? What will the podcast be about? Why did Burnt Out get started in the first place? Who is it for? 

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