Summary:

What happens when your drive to “do it all” pushes you past the point of depletion? In this episode, Yasmeen Duncan shares how survival-mode leadership nearly broke her and how she rebuilt her career, her health, and her life through grace, boundaries, and systems of support. From 16-hour days in hospitality HR to creating her own executive coaching practice, Yasmeen reveals what it takes to move from surviving to thriving.

Chapters:

00:00 – Taking off the Superwoman cape

03:00 – Yasmeen’s HR career in hospitality

06:00 – Long hours, union battles, and survival mode

09:00 – The executive meeting misstep and lessons learned

13:00 – From disappointment to self-grace

17:00 – Checklists, burnout, and shifting to systems

20:00 – Building rituals and a self-care team

26:00 – Resilience through rest, boundaries, and balance

30:00 – Emotional intelligence and political fluency in leadership

35:00 – From survive to thrive: Yasmeen’s system for living well

Host Alexa Beavers: linkedin.com/in/alexabeaverspmp

Guest Yasmeen Duncan: linkedin.com/in/yasmeenduncan

Executive Producer Jim Kanichirayil: linkedin.com/in/drjimk

Music Credit: "Lost in Dreams" by Kulakovka