By Kathleen Fair
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Whether you’re staying in the cubicle because you want to, or whether you’re in the transition to an entrepreneur, cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset is important for both entrepreneurs and corporate employees. An entrepreneurial mindset is one that takes control of their own destiny and finds how you can be a leader in your own life instead of whatever external circumstances that come in your life.
However, entrepreneurs can be some of the most passionate and driven people. But this can cause them to also be too obsessive with work and become out of balance which causes stress and burnout.
Last episode, we spoke with Lydia Lee, founder of Screw the Cubicle on her experience with burnout as a corporate employee. This episode, she shares with us how she experienced burnout a second time. This time, it was during her entrepreneurial journey. Her second burnout happened during her 2nd year of entrepreneurship.
Join us as Lydia shares the lessons she has learned from going through stress and burnout twice in her career journey.
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Lydia Lee the Work Reinvention Coach at Screw The Cubicle. Since 2013, she's helped people transition out of their golden corporate handcuffs to building a meaningful business that’s intentionally designed from their strengths, values, and personality.
Currently based in the tropical island of Bali, Lydia’s jam is all about reinventing how we want to work so that we can live the lifestyles we want to have.
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You have the right to have work that inspires and brings you joy. But knowing yourself and knowing what it is you truly want isn’t something that can be done overnight.
For many, living on autopilot on someone else’s dream and not knowing what they truly want is a surefire way to burnout. Burnout doesn’t just exhaust your mind and body, but it affects your passion as well.
Join me as I speak with Lydia Lee, founder of Screw the Cubicle, as she recounts her struggle with burnout not once, but twice. In this episode, Lydia shares her experience with burnout while working in corporate and what steps she took to overcome it.
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Lydia Lee's the Work Reinvention Coach at Screw The Cubicle. Since 2013, she's helped people transition out of their golden corporate handcuffs to building a meaningful business that’s intentionally designed from their strengths, values, and personality.
Currently based in the tropical island of Bali, Lydia’s jam is all about reinventing how we want to work so that we can live the lifestyles we want to have
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COVID has been a blessing in disguise in emphasizing the issue of burnout in the workplace. It has been a good wake-up call and a good push in showing people the importance of self-care and prioritizing mental health to avoid burnout.
Creating boundaries at work and prioritizing mental health and wellbeing is a combination of the contribution of everyone in the workplace. It’s on the corporation to create the right structure to promote well being, it’s on the leader to make sure that they enforce those policies, and it’s on the individual to set their own strong boundaries.
In this episode, we speak with Michelle Yu who shares with us her experience with burnout as she aggressively climbed the corporate ladder. After dealing with her burnout experience, she now sees mental health, self-care, rest, and asking for help as important aspects to living a fulfilling life.
Work can be meaningful, fulfilling and enjoyable and doesn’t have to lead to burnout.
Life is short. So live it with purpose and know that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Michelle Yu is a former HR executive turned Human Capital Consultant and Coach. She's worked for technology and venture capital/private equity firms, start-ups and Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley. She transitioned from the corporate world and now coaches ambitious
Juggling the responsibilities of a job and being a new mom may seem impossible. It is no easy feat to be able to find the balance between work and family responsibilities.
In this episode, we chat with Jessica McClain who shares her experiences of having a child and how she kept up with the demands of a newborn while juggling a full-time job. After feeling being pulled in different directions, she decided to quit her job and focus on her family. She could not survive when her job couldn’t provide the flexibility that she needed as a new mother.
After spending 6 months to focus on her new child and using those 6 months for self-reflection, self-thought, and self-care, she was able to find what she truly wanted in life. Finding and making peace with your purpose as a working mom is essential to truly enjoy life.
Career progression isn’t one single track as we go through life. That progression can take different forms depending on what happens in our own internal world. But one thing that we should remember is that in order to be our best selves in every stage of our career and life, we must prioritize self-care.
Self-care is never selfish. Once we take care of ourselves, we can do a lot of things for others. When we fill our own cup, we can then give freely from the overflow.
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Jessica is the Controller for Brand USA. Before that, Jessica spent 11 years in public accounting as an auditor. Jessica serves on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Women's Initiatives Executive Committee, the AICPA Foundation Board of Trustees, and the AICPA Student Recruitment Committee. Jessica serves on the Board of Maryland 529. She is a member of the community service sorority Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Jessica has a bachelor's degree from Towson University and a master's degree from George Washington University. Jessica is a CPA, CISA, PMP, and CGFM.
Menopause is one of the most unspoken, and neglected contributors of burnout.
Menopausal women are more prone to depression, anxiety, and stress. This affects their professional and personal lives which results in a poor quality of life.
In this episode, we unpack the ways that women can mitigate the effects menopause, and what women in the C-Suite leadership positions can do to help ensure that they stay healthy.
Through mindfulness practices and cultivating compassionate self-awareness, women can not only beat menopausal burnout but thrive through it.
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Burnout is still very much stigmatised and seen as not being able to cope. It can be confronting and scary. It is more about finding the courage to remove ourselves from that environment which is not always easy. But once you’ve taken that first step, you become closer to living a more fulfilling life. Life is short and the last thing you want is to be resentful because you did not take a risk.
In this episode, Mara shares with us how she was living her days just waiting for 5 PM and how she found the courage to follow her passion with the help of her strong support system.
If you are finding your way out of burnout, particularly if you are leaving a job. Remember that at the end of the day, your job does not define who you are. You are worth so much more than a pay check. What’s important is to pursue vocations that align with your soul.
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Burnout is one of the rock bottom consequences of our overly busy lives.
Physician burnout not only harms the individual but harms their patients as well. Just like any other professional who experiences burnout, their personal relationships are usually the first to be affected. The negative effects of burnout spill over every aspect of your life - your personal relationship, your home, health, and work. The burnout of an individual affects not just themselves but everyone around them.
In this episode, Dr. Charmaine discusses the three-part strategy that Stanford has adopted to address burnout, namely: creating a culture of wellness, establishing efficiency of practice, and promoting personal resilience. The Stanford Model looks at burnout as not just the physician or individual’s problem, but the whole organization’s problem.
While there is no one-size-fits-all solution for burnout, listening without judgment is a great place to start.
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One-third of the average person’s life is spent working and building a career. Work is a major part of our lives. In fact, so many of us make work the primary aspect of our lives and it’s safe to say that our job makes a huge impact on the quality of our lives.
In this episode, we unpack how to blaze your new path and build a lifestyle that you love. Monique shares her tips on how to work more effectively with your mind and make progress on things that matter the most.
As we spend most of our adult life working, we all have the right to work and live with joy. Your work should be something that makes you bigger and stronger and should be a source of fulfilment; you have a role in achieving that.
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Burnout sometimes happens to the people who love their jobs so passionately that they lose sight of everything else. Nurses and healthcare professionals are some of the professionals who fit this description.
It is innate for healthcare professionals and nurses to care for other people, sometimes putting the health, safety, and wellness of their patients before their own. When nurses are given support to be healthy, they are able to perform better and give patient-care at the highest level.
In this episode, Tracy Churchill shares how leaders in the healthcare profession can have a healthy work environment - physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Through the Homebound Huddle Practice - an end-of-day routine for teams at work, you can create an inviting and healthier work environment and increase your resilience.
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The day-to-day choices you make determine whether you maintain vitality and optimal health or develop unhealthy habits.
Positive change does not happen overnight.
The older we get, the more difficult it is to break our habits, and the key is to acknowledge that change takes time and is a long-term commitment.
In this episode, Cathy Carr shares her insights on the everyday changes we can make towards a happier, healthier body that is functioning optimally to improve our lives.
These simple changes can create a huge impact in our health and happiness overall.
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The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.