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Hello everyone and welcome to the season 1 finale of Talk Burnout! At this point I've talked to 11 guests and learned many different ways to avoid or overcome burnout. Thank you so much for joining me along the way.

For this episode, I’m doing a recap to cover some of the most important tips we learned in this first season. Check out the tips in this episode and read the notes at talkburnout.com/podcast/12.

I would love to hear your feedback on the first season! I set up a quick survey at talkburnout.com/survey. This was my first podcast so your feedback will be very helpful to let me know what to improve.

What is Justin's definition of burnout?

Burnout is when you say "UUUGGGGHH". It's when sometimes that normally takes 10 minutes takes 30 minutes.

You’ll learn:

• What living your life On 10 means

• How to find the behaviors that help you live your best life

• Why it's so important to live with consistency

About Justin:

Justin Jones-Fosu, MBA, CSP is a full-time husband and daddy who also happens to be a highly sought after business speaker, social entrepreneur, and meaningful work researcher. He is the founder and CEO of Work. Meaningful. where he speaks 60-70 times per year to companies, organizations, and associations in the US and internationally on meaningful work and workplace engagement. He is passionate about helping organizations and individuals take action to achieve amazing meaningful results. His latest book “Your WHY Matters NOW: How Some Achieve More and Others Don’t” challenges the reader to merge their purpose and productivity to get more out of work and life. He is all about turning events into memorable experiences with his humorous and engaging delivery as well as with his research-based content!

You can find show notes and resources for this episode at talkburnout.com/podcast/11

What is Chelsea's definition of burnout?

Burnout is when you feel like you're on a hamster wheel and you're never able to get off. You're working too much and you're not feeling fulfilled.

You’ll learn:

• How Chelsea helps people handle burnout

• How to set up routines based on your energy

• Why Chelsea started her Burnout-Proof Your Biz podcast

About Chelsea:

It’s Chelsea's mission to empower creatives, bloggers, and coaches break the cycle of overwhelm and burnout, and scale beyond their dreams so they can step into that lifestyle of freedom they actually want and truly deserve--and they can do it right now.

You can find show notes and resources for this episode at talkburnout.com/podcast/10

What is Anese's definition of burnout?

Burnout is when we've reached the point in our life when we're no longer excited or energized by what we're up to.

You'll learn:

• Why working long hours doesn't necessarily mean you'll burn out

• How to find purpose no matter what job you're in

• A quick way to feel less isolated

About Anese:

Anese Cavanaugh is devoted to helping people show up and bring their best selves to the table in order to create significant positive impact in their lives. She is the creator of the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®), an advisor and thinking partner to leaders and organizations around the world, and author of CONTAGIOUS CULTURE: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives (McGraw Hill, 11/15). As a leading voice on intention, energy, and presence in leadership and culture, she helps people unlock greater leadership potential, collaborate more inspiringly, create more openly, intuit more bravely, and lead more joyfully and effectively. Top innovators and executives in companies like IDEO, Zingerman’s, Cooper, GM Financial, Vistaprint, 15Five, Fitbit, Nike, Vivayic, Kaiser Permanente, and others have engaged with Anese to strengthen team health, maximize leadership impact, and optimize company culture. In addition to appearing in publications like Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, CEO.com, and the NY Times, Anese writes for Inc.com in her column “Showing Up”. She has just published her most recent book THE LEADER YOU WILL BE: An Invitation (a leadership storybook), and is currently working on her next book, CONTAGIOUS YOU: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want (McGraw-Hill, November 2019).

You can find show notes and resources for this episode at talkburnout.com/podcast/9

What is Charlotte's definition of burnout?

Burnout is when you've become a short-circuited machine. You're trying to use the same hard work that has led to results and it instead leads to exhaustion.

Here are a few of the things you'll learn in this episode:

• How to use self-compassion as an antidote to self-criticism

• How to improve yourself through self-acceptance

• The problem with most wellness programs today

About Charlotte:

Charlotte is a New York-based journalist who writes about evolutionary and behavioral psychology, mental health, and the confusing journey of self-acceptance. Her articles have been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Guernica, Elle.com, and BOMB among other publications, and Her poems have appeared in The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, The Harvard Advocate, Free Verse, Nat.Brut, and The Denver Quarterly. She received my bachelor's degree from Harvard, where she majored in English and lived in a vegetarian co-op. She now calls Brooklyn her home.

You can find show notes and resources for this episode at talkburnout.com/podcast/8.

What is Diana's definition of burnout?

Burnout really just means you're not happy anymore. You've become disengaged, exhausted, and just can't do it anymore.

Here are a few of the things you'll learn in this episode:

• How to get off the treadmill of self-sacrifice

• A tip that finally got me to start journaling

• How to design your personal user's manual

About Diana:

Diana Wu David is a board director, strategist and storyteller with a focus on helping companies and executives to be more entrepreneurial, resilient and successful in the face of constant change. She's the author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration, a book about how to adopt more agile mindsets and practices to prepare yourself for success in a fast-changing world, across a 100-year life. Diana is an adjunct professor of leadership at Columbia Business School's EMBA Global Asia and for the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma. A former Financial Times executive, Diana now works with CEOs and board directors to enhance their leadership agility, influence, collaboration and resilience. Her clients have included the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, the World Bank, Expedia, Asia Development Bank and Credit Suisse.

You can find show notes and resources for this episode at talkburnout.com/podcast/7.

What is Shola's definition of burnout?

Burnout is when you get to the point where stress and emotional exhaustion become unmanageable and it's overwhelming to even get out of bed in the morning.

Here are a few of the things you'll learn in this episode:

• How Shola started his positivity movement

• The difference between being kind vs being nice

• Why it's so important to handle complainers at work

About Shola:

Shola Richards is a dynamic keynote speaker, the best-selling author of Making Work Work, the author of the newly-released book—Go Together, he’s an in-demand workplace civility expert, and he is a positivity writer with a passionate worldwide following. His articles and wildly-popular Monday morning “Positivity Solution” email series have been read by readers in over 160 countries, and his work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Complete Wellbeing India, Business Insider Australia, and in numerous other publications all over the world who recognize him as an authority on workplace happiness and engagement.

As a speaker, Shola has shared his transformative message with top universities, Silicon Valley, leading healthcare organizations, the motion picture industry, and in his greatest honor to date, as a keynote speaker for the Department of Homeland Security three days before the 15th Anniversary of 9/11, under the Obama Administration.

Last, but certainly not least, Shola is a father, husband, identical twin, and a self-professed “kindness extremist” who will not rest until bullying and incivility is extinct from the American workplace.

You can find show notes and resources for this episode at talkburnout.com/podcast/6

What is Monique's definition of burnout?

Burnout is an occupational stress syndrome comprised of exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced personal efficacy.

Here are a few of the things you'll learn in this episode:

• How Monique handled her own personal burnout

• Why it's so important to handle burnout among leaders

• How connections at work can reduce burnout

About Monique:

Monique Valcour, PhD is an executive coach and management professor. A faculty affiliate of the United Nations System Staff College, Monique helps leaders deepen their self-awareness and agility, engage and energize their teams, and increase their capacity to learn and perform at work while thriving in all domains of life. She also works with people at risk of or recovering from burnout, and with organizations to create healthy, engaging workplaces. She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review.

You can find show notes and resources for this episode at talkburnout.com/podcast/5

What is Elizabeth's definition of burnout?

Burnout is about being depleted, feeling negative about your job, and feeling like you don't have choices.

Here are a few of the things you'll learn in this episode:

• Ways to manage two forms of time management overload - working too much or working too little.

• Why there's no one time management system that works for everyone.

• The six areas in the work-life model of burnout

About Elizabeth:

Elizabeth Grace Saunders is the founder and CEO of Real Life E® a time coaching company that empowers individuals who feel guilty, overwhelmed and frustrated to feel peaceful, confident and accomplished. She was named one of the World's Top 30 Time Management Professionals. The Christian division of her company focuses on a God-centered approach to time management through Divine Time Management Group Coaching.

McGraw Hill published her first book The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success with Less Stress. Harvard Business Review published her second book How to Invest Your Time Like Money. FaithWords published her third book Divine Time Management. Elizabeth contributes to blogs like Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company and has appeared on CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox.

You can find the full show notes with links to resources mentioned at talkburnout.com/podcast/3.

What is Rich's definition of burnout?

Burnout is where you're there, but you're not there. You're at work in body but not in mind.

Here are a few of the things you'll hear about in this episode:

• How a company that focuses on joy works

• How to avoid the cycle of overwork that leads to burnout

• Why you should look at systems rather than people when things go wrong

About Rich:

Menlo Innovations CEO Richard Sheridan became disillusioned in the middle of his career in the chaotic technology industry. He had an all-consuming thought: things can be better. Much better. He had to find a way. Why couldn't a workplace be filled with camaraderie, human energy, creativity, and productivity?

Ultimately, Rich co-founded Menlo Innovations in 2001 to end human suffering in the workplace. Menlo's unique approach to custom software creation is so surprisingly different that 3,000 people a year travel from around the world just to see how they do it.

You can find the full show notes with links to resources mentioned at talkburnout.com/podcast/3.

What is Dan's definition of burnout?

Burnout means someone has got to the point where they are so tired or intellectually disengaged that they can't work.

Here are a few of the things you'll hear about in this episode:

• What dehumanization is and how it leads to burnout

• Why some start-ups are happy to have high turnover

• What "closing-the-gap" is and how it boosts employee happiness

About Dan:

Dan Lyons is a humorist, journalist, and screenwriter. He has been called “the Mark Twain of Silicon Valley,” and “Jonathan Swift for our own digital age.” He’s a sharp-eyed, cynical humorist in the spirit of Dave Barry, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher. But instead of politics, Dan aims his laser-sharp wit at the world of business, and especially Silicon Valley. Over the past decade Dan has given dozens of keynotes, entertaining audiences with his smart-funny takes on tech and the modern workplace. Dan is “the expert on the culture of work, and how it’s changing business and lives,” says Dave Ramsay, who runs the “Ramsay Talks” series in Toronto.

Dan’s career as a satirist began when he created the Fake Steve Jobs blog where he spoofed the persona of Apple’s legendary founder and established his reputation as a gifted humorist and savvy critic of how technology shapes our culture. He wrote for HBO’s hit series Silicon Valley, and published Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble, a rollicking New York Times best-selling memoir about his time working inside a cult-like tech startup run by Millennials. Dan has written for the New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, and many others. He’s quick on his feet, loves doing Q&A, and will have your audience in stitches with his laugh-out-loud stories and self-deprecating wit. He aims to entertain but also to inform, leaving your audience with new ideas and a fresh perspective.

You can find the full show notes with links to resources mentioned at talkburnout.com/podcast/2.

What is burnout according to Jenny? Burnout is always feeling tapped out.

Here are a few of the things you'll learn about in this episode:

• The philosophy of "Let it be easy, let it be fun."

• The importance of taking time to recharge.

• How to use small experiments to set boundaries

About Jenny:

Jenny Blake is an author, career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people move beyond burnout to build sustainable, dynamic careers they love. She is the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One, which won the Axiom Best Business Books award in the careers category. Jenny also hosts the popular Pivot Podcast, which CNBC listed among 6 podcasts to make you smarter about your career, and Entrepreneur selected as one of the top 20 female-hosted business podcasts.

After two years at a technology start-up in Silicon Valley followed by five years at Google in Training and Career Development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 where she has been running her own consulting business in the years since, helping clients like Google, Microsoft, and Chanel incorporate the Pivot Method into their career development programs. Her motto: if change is the only constant, let's get better at it.

Today you can find her at PivotMethod.com and on her Pivot Podcast.

You can find the full show notes with links to resources mentioned at talkburnout.com/podcast/1.

Welcome to the Talk Burnout podcast! In this short intro episode, I wanted to give you all some background on myself and why I'm creating this podcast.