The Green Body Podcast

Kelly talks through her choice to make a big life change and leave her career as a veterinarian after working hard for 10 years.

Whilst the question has come up many times, particularly from colleagues who are also finding themselves burnt out in the veterinary industry, the answer to how to leave your job or make any major life change is not really a question of logistics.

It’s a question of being ok with who you are – minus the label or status of your current professional title.

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Building your capacity (with yoga or anything in life) is about doing the tough stuff that makes us more capable and more resilient for what is to come.

It also readies us for greater opportunities by giving us the confidence that we can in fact do what it takes to be successful.

But why do we shy away from hard things?

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The endless pursuit of energy is pretty pointless if all your effort is going into filling up a leaking bucket.

In this episode Kelly explains the other (less spoken of) side to the advice of ‘filling up your cup first’.

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(Regardless of the question…)

This episode is based on a conversation between Kelly and a yoga student who commented that they were never going to be able to do the pose she was teaching. Kelly reflects back just 3 years prior, to being in a room full of more experienced practitioners, looking around and desperately trying to practice that very same pose.

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In this episode Kelly talks about time and life management with a baby and a business and the major shifts she had to make to assume her new role as a ‘mumpreneur’.

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Kelly talks about the problems with hormonal birth control and getting pregnant, and the fatigue and depletion that can occur during and after pregnancy.

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In the very first episode of The Green Body Podcast, Kelly shares the 3 steps she takes to activate “Self Care Mode” and avoid burnout.

Discussed in this episode:

Burnout Bootcamp

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