Jermaine Sharpe joins me again to co-facilitate a roundtable discussion on workplace burnout. As we enjoy summer, we know that a school year which will be challenging in a new way will be here soon, and it will be as important as ever to protect ourselves as a workforce and communicate to employers what is needed to protect employees from burning out.

On the next two episodes, you will meet:

• Jermaine Sharpe (from last week's episode), senior manager in marketing with over 20 years in the industry,

• Debbi Miceli, a newly retired public school elementary school teacher of 40 years,

• Justin Esgar, Founder and CEO of Virtua Consulting Group, a New York City-based company in its second decade of operation,

• Kristen Wayss, a paraprofessional of 15. years in therapeutic and public early childhood education and

• Jonathan Naumowicz, a secondary special education teacher of 16 years in therapeutic settings and a secondary charter school.

Our guests discuss:

1. How burnout has shown up for them

2. How they recognized it

3. What they've done and continue to do to combat it (for some, it involved leaving their position; for others it involves creating strict boundaries and routines such as walks and creative ways to set time limits on the workday)

and give an honest analysis of how we have come to equate burnout with success and why it needs to change.

They are all relatable, honest and forward-thinking about this topic. Our goal is for listeners to be able to use this and next week's discussion to identify the role burnout has played in their lives or in their employees' lives and take action to alter its course.

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