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Burnout to Balance: Breaking Free from Hustle Culture
Kat is joined by Damien Baxter, a former teacher and now Head of Marketing for LiveLink Ai. They explore the often overwhelming busyness we all struggle with and how to achieve sustainable well-being through creating positive habits. Kat and Damien highlight the vital connection between mental, emotional, and physical health and talk about the importance of creating unscheduled moments to simply exist. The conversation also addresses why success doesn't always mean happiness, why you are always the priority and offers advice for creating a more balanced, fulfilling life beyond hustle culture.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Our brains only have so much capacity and the hectic modern world we are all living in currently makes things difficult for us, particularly around memory.
- Being busy is a habit in itself. Damien creates what he called ‘interim time’ to just exist and be, rather than always being scheduled to do something.
- Kat’s burnout in 2016 was in part because she did not give herself the space or time to understand what was happening in her life and the challenges she was facing, particularly in regard to relationships.
- Looking after yourself properly, including eating well and exercising is proven time and time again to impact both your professional and personal performance, but this is easily ignored at the expense of 'working hard'.
- Your number one priority in life isn’t your work or other people it is your own wellbeing. You have to look after yourself to be able to help others.
- Your mental health and your emotional health are intertwined with your physical health and performance. Damien experienced first hand what this meant during covid.
- If you can learn how to give yourself energy and increase performance regularly, you won’t need to always feel like you are waiting for your next ‘break from life’ to relax, like annual leave or Christmas.
- Just because someone has everything society tells us we need to be successful, it doesn’t mean they are happy. Even the likes of Steve Jobs is rumoured to have regrets on his deathbed of not spending enough time with family and friends.
- Even small changes to your habits can completely transform your life and your happiness levels.
BEST MOMENTS
“Having that free time to just do ‘stuff’ is important”
“One of the reasons my life completely exploded in my face is because I never gave myself the space to truly know what was going on”
“Life’s too short, enjoy it and embrace the people around you and make time for strangers, everybody has a story, just listen”
“Prioritise what you have to do and make time for yourself.”
“Without you, everything falls apart, so you’ve got to look after yourself”
“People will die for their children, but they won’t live for them”
“Men do cry, men can have these moments of weaknesses emotionally”
ABOUT THE GUEST
Damien Baxter, a former teacher and now Head of Marketing for LiveLink Ai.
ABOUT THE HOST
Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.
She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.
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By Kat ThorneKat is joined by Damien Baxter, a former teacher and now Head of Marketing for LiveLink Ai. They explore the often overwhelming busyness we all struggle with and how to achieve sustainable well-being through creating positive habits. Kat and Damien highlight the vital connection between mental, emotional, and physical health and talk about the importance of creating unscheduled moments to simply exist. The conversation also addresses why success doesn't always mean happiness, why you are always the priority and offers advice for creating a more balanced, fulfilling life beyond hustle culture.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Our brains only have so much capacity and the hectic modern world we are all living in currently makes things difficult for us, particularly around memory.
- Being busy is a habit in itself. Damien creates what he called ‘interim time’ to just exist and be, rather than always being scheduled to do something.
- Kat’s burnout in 2016 was in part because she did not give herself the space or time to understand what was happening in her life and the challenges she was facing, particularly in regard to relationships.
- Looking after yourself properly, including eating well and exercising is proven time and time again to impact both your professional and personal performance, but this is easily ignored at the expense of 'working hard'.
- Your number one priority in life isn’t your work or other people it is your own wellbeing. You have to look after yourself to be able to help others.
- Your mental health and your emotional health are intertwined with your physical health and performance. Damien experienced first hand what this meant during covid.
- If you can learn how to give yourself energy and increase performance regularly, you won’t need to always feel like you are waiting for your next ‘break from life’ to relax, like annual leave or Christmas.
- Just because someone has everything society tells us we need to be successful, it doesn’t mean they are happy. Even the likes of Steve Jobs is rumoured to have regrets on his deathbed of not spending enough time with family and friends.
- Even small changes to your habits can completely transform your life and your happiness levels.
BEST MOMENTS
“Having that free time to just do ‘stuff’ is important”
“One of the reasons my life completely exploded in my face is because I never gave myself the space to truly know what was going on”
“Life’s too short, enjoy it and embrace the people around you and make time for strangers, everybody has a story, just listen”
“Prioritise what you have to do and make time for yourself.”
“Without you, everything falls apart, so you’ve got to look after yourself”
“People will die for their children, but they won’t live for them”
“Men do cry, men can have these moments of weaknesses emotionally”
ABOUT THE GUEST
Damien Baxter, a former teacher and now Head of Marketing for LiveLink Ai.
ABOUT THE HOST
Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.
She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.