When are apparent thoughts of suicide not really about killing ourselves? When is changing jobs/environment not the answer to burnout? What is the burnout paradox? What’s the awful truth about burnout prevention? Get ready for a rich conversation about these questions and a whole lot more with burnout recovery strategist Christine O'Neill.

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Christine O’Neill, MMSc, PA-C, PCC is a former clinician, former hospital executive, and burnout survivor who now helps others as a burnout recovery strategist, Dare To Lead™ Certified executive leadership coach, and yoga teacher. She is passionate about helping overwhelmed professionals learn how to make a difference while having a life using values-based prioritization and neuroscience-informed self-management techniques. She specializes in professional burnout prevention/recovery, and executive coaching for people-centered leaders.

Christine worked in healthcare for 30 years, gaining deep experience in direct patient care, hospital leadership, nonprofit board leadership, and grassroots political advocacy. 

When not working, you’ll find Christine exploring new places in her campervan, developing plant-based recipes, petting all the dogs, and connecting with friends and family.

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What is Delusional Altruism? And what does it mean to seal a watertight door behind you? How does a scarcity mindset look on the funder side? What’s going to happen with the changes that have occurred in grant making—especially giving more, more flexibly, and for longer periods—once the pandemic ends? All these answers and more in this week's episode with Kris Putnam Walkerly!

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Kris Putnam-Walkerly is a trusted advisor to the world’s leading philanthropists. For over 20 years, ultra-high-net-worth donors, foundations, Fortune 500 companies, celebrity activists, and wealth advisors have sought and benefited from her advice to transform their giving and catapult their impact. Her clients include the J.M. Smucker Company, Cleveland Foundation, Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, Ohio State Bar Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation.

Kris was named Philanthropy Advisor of the Year in 2020 by LUXlife Magazine and one of America’s Top 25 Philanthropy Speakers for the past three years. She is a Forbes.com contributor on philanthropy and has provided expert commentary about philanthropy to the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Wealth, Entrepreneur, NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Financial Advisor Magazine, Wealth Management, CEOWORLD, and Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, and more.

And if that’s not enough, she is the award-winning author of Delusional Altruism: Why Philanthropists Fail To Achieve Change And What They Can Do To Transform Giving.

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How did WHO stop short of providing a truly solid definition of burnout? What’s the burnout paradox? And what are employees really looking for? (Hint: it's not better pay.) Join me for answers to this and more in a free-range conversation with burnout prevention and recovery coach Rachelle Stone!

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Rachelle Stone is a recovering serial entrepreneur and an ICF accredited coach who specializes in Burnout prevention and recovery. After being a senior leader and entrepreneur in Miami's incredibly exciting meeting and convention space for over 25 years, she spectacularly burned out herself before transitioning in 2014 to executive coaching.

While Rachelle survived her professional burnout, she realized there were few resources available to those at risk of burnout. She also recognized there was a huge stigma attached to Burnout.

Since ‘coming out’ and owning her burnout, she has made it her mission to support others in finding the right balance in both their personal and professional lives for greater job satisfaction and life enjoyment. She believes no one should ever have to leave a career they are in love with!

Rachelle is an ICF-accredited coach, ReciproCoach and ICF Mentor coach, Dare to Lead trained, an Expert writer for YourTango, and a Certified Mental Fitness coach.

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When did getting (and staying) healthy get so complicated? Who decided that anything worth having requires the shedding of blood, sweat, and tears?

In this episode, I talk about how getting (and staying) healthy could feel more like water flowing around the boulders instead of like pushing a boulder up a hill.

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Just as we might be putting on a few pounds of winter weight and sliding into the doldrums of inactivity during the cold weather, here come the holidays! This year, approach them with a plan, some strategies, and some tactics as well as a lot of joy—you really can stay healthy and fit over the winter.

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What's even more fundamental to our health than our nutrition? How do we make self-care sustainable? How are the majority of us not breathing properly? What can we do when we wake up in the middle of the night, unable to go back to sleep? Join me and Dwania Kyles, breathwork coach and civil rights activist, as we dive into these topics and more.

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Dwania Kyles, aka Breathing Beauty, is a Breath Coach and Certified Wellness Consultant who, simply put, teaches people how to Breathe correctly by providing tips, tools, and activities for those suffering with challenges such as high blood pressure, asthma, sleep deprivation, anxiety, and trauma, which aids them in creating an internal environment for Healing.   

She’s also a Founding Distributor with the Advanced Medicine Exchange, powered by CrowdPoint Technology via the Blockchain, where the focus is on eradicating disease in the world by providing medical advances to change lives for the better based on scientific research and reproducible observation, to create highly efficacious treatment modalities and wellness technologies that benefit all. 

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How does our tendency to nurture others play out when we plan travel? How are taking a solo trip as a woman and getting a health coach related? How does travel help us to live in the present? And what are the latest trends in health and wellness travel? Join travel wizard Janine Queenin and me as we discuss travel as a form of SOUL care, even in these times of plague and chaos!

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Five years ago, Janine Queenin combined her love of travel with her gift for planning and created Storied Adventures to help busy people plan trips of a lifetime to celebrate life’s greatest milestone. Janine always takes a personalized approach to meticulously arranging vacations. Whether her clients are celebrating a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or are simply tired of waiting for “someday,” she makes sure their trip is exceptional and exceeds their expectations every single time.

Mom to a brand-new college student and a high school junior, Janine loves to travel with her family, and has visited 29 countries so far.

Janine would love to help you get back out into the world because she believes that every great story starts with an adventure.

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What happens when we overidentify with a certain way of being, whether it's an eating style or a type of workout we do? What's wrong with coaches going over time with clients? And what does it mean to have your mind and body act as allies? Mindfulness coach Abby Carter and I dig into all these topics an more in this week's episode!

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Abby is a published author, mindfulness coach, yoga instructor, and single mom in Kansas City. She holds a graduate degree in mind-body medicine and has completed professional and advanced mind-body medicine trainings from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.

She has a body-positive approach that celebrates body diversity and emphasizes radical self-care and unconditional acceptance through trauma-informed mindfulness, coaching, and body-based practices.

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Join emergency medicine physician and serial entrepreneur Dr. Charmaine Gregory and me as we talk about how compartmentalizing can be vital—and also damaging, the importance of staying active—and when to listen to the wisdom of age rather than taking "the foolishness of youth route," facing down our fears, what the extreme of catastrophic thinking looks like, and why promoting resilience ignores the systemic issues in medical field burnout.

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Dr. Charmaine Gregory (Dr. G) is a wife, mom to 3 cherubs, and a burnout survivor. She’s an Emergency Medicine Physician and a serial entrepreneur with a weekly podcast, a course on starting a podcast, done for you services for podcasters, as well as a speaker and author of several books. As a physician, Dr. Gregory has exclusively worked the night shifts, both in Michigan and now in Guam.

To face her visceral fear of public speaking, Dr. G started a podcast, Fearless Freedom with Dr. G, which focuses on facing fear and emerging victorious. To expand further into her appreciation for podcasting and the positive impact podcasts can have in the lives of listeners, she began teaching others how to get started with their shows through her podcasting course. She has also developed done-for-you podcasting services.

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Do you feel like getting a good night's sleep is a nightly battle? Join sleep coach Lana Tomkinson and me as we cover "the other pandemic" plaguing the world, how to stop warring with insomnia, whether blue light is really the problem, and how to learn to say “no”—and “yes!”

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Lana Tomkinson used to live with insomnia, anxiety, and depression. She learned to beat them ALL. And now she helps other women to do the same. She is trained in sleep and health and is the owner of The Sleep Well Clinic for Women.

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