Burnt Out

47 | CUPCAKE

EP 46 | HARMONY

  Who is Kiné? Kiné is a best selling author, international speaker, and psychotherapy specializing in financial therapy because money is the number one reason couples get divorced. Kiné started out in the financial services industry almost 20 years ago, working with companies like Ameriprise Financial, New York Life, and Morgan Stanley. Before entering the financial world she became the spokesperson for ABCs Extreme Makeover show. Kiné was in magazines like Elle, Marie Claire, TV guid...

45 | GOOD

What does it really mean to have a GOOD job? Andie Daisley, Child Life Specialist, vocalist, and blog writer had a massive, miserable experience with getting Burnt Out because a "good" job, wasn't what she thought it would be. Who is Andie? Andie Daisley was born and raised in Washington and is a major PNW enthusiast. As a Certified Child Life Specialist, she marvels at the strength, brilliance and pure hearts of children on a daily basis. Andie is an anxious introvert who loves people, ...

44 | INTRO

Burnt Out has some incredibly exciting new this week and every week moving forward. Listen now!! Who is Danielle? Hey, what's up! I'm Danielle Deike, 22 years old, straight out of Pleasanton, California...which despite the name isn't the most pleasant! I recently grabbed a degree in business with a focus in the area of non-profits and I currently work for two nonprofits that focus on building local communities in economic, sustainable, and social regards.  I just also happen to be THE ...

43 | CARE

Just don't care anymore? Filmmaker Stephanie Cullen has been there before!! In this episode CARE with Stephanie, we explore her experience with not being able to care, what caused it, and how she got through it. Listen now!  Who is Stephanie? Stephanie is a filmmaker both professionally and personally, really in every aspect of her life. She creates corporate videos by day and short films, documentaries, and music videos by nights and weekends. Stephanie also volunteers her time and skil...

42 | ROUTINE

Your only routine shouldn't JUST be skin care, but that's definitely part of it! Cheryl Pierce is the founder and CEO of Skinworx and is not only driving you toward a good skin care routine, but also toward healthy routines in all areas of life to proactively avoid getting burnt out.  Who is Cheryl? All of us seem to understand the connection between beauty and confidence intuitively. However did you know that in today’s fast paced society only 2% of women rate themselves as naturally go...

41 | LISTEN

Meredith is a leader who genuinely listens. You can tell when she talks about all her adventures with FX makeup and how she listens to her interns, business partners, and friends who all help point her in the right direction. Who is Meredith? Meredith Johns is an Emmy nominated makeup and FX makeup artist as well as owner of Hawgfly Productions, Inc. She grew up in a family of artists who shaped her to be the creative individual she is today. In 2003 she began her professional film car...

40 | FORWARD

The ability and desire to consistently be moving forward in life is both a blessing and a curse.  Listen now to here successful filmmaker, Giovanna Sarquis, tell both sides of her story moving forward. Who is Giovanna? Giovanna Sarquis is a filmmaker, who is eager to inspire people and touch people emotionally through her films – much in the way her favorite films have impacted her in her youth. Born in Mexico and educated in the U.S., her cultural background impacts how she looks at fi...

39 | GO

Nikki Woods is always on the go and admitted to being burnt out for the majority of her career!! She doesn't necessarily see that as a bad thing... listen to find out why.   Who is Nikki? Nikki Woods is a published author, speaker, 20 year media strategist, 5 year entrepreneur, and blogger. She is well-known for her work as the senior producer on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.   Now, Nikki works to empower experts and authors who have the desire to build a sustainable brand to establi...

38 | SHOULD

The "Should Spiral" is what causes Becky Berry's burnt out experience. Let's find out what the heck that is! Who is Becky? Becky helps women stage their career comebacks. She has been everything from the owner of a software company, to social entrepreneur, to magazine publisher, to special education teacher, plus she did a 12-year stint as a stay-at-home mom.  Becky bring all of her experience to bear as she coaches women through the terror of figuring out what's next. What is feelin...

37 | SURROUNDINGS

Karen Marie Jenkins believe her surroundings play a big part in getting burnt out, but also in contentment! Shall we find out why? Who is Karen? Karen Marie Jenkins is a visual brand artist, writer and personal brand/editorial photographer. She is the owner of Karen Marie Images & Branding, a personal brand/editorial photography business primarily serving women and girls. Her mission is to empower entrepreneurs, in particular business women by producing creative, and unique 'stand out' ...

36 | PLAN

Let's get the Burnt Out experience from Regina Robinson! Who is Regina? Regina Robinson is an Award Winning Global Speaker, Best Selling Author, and Inner Confidence Strategist who is widely known for engaging, motivating, and equipping women with the tools to unlock their inner confidence and become unstoppable women. She is widely known for engaging, motivating, an inspiring her audiences as she combines genuine inspiration, laughter, and practical principles to empower women to take i...

35 | NORM

Let’s get Burnt Out with Andrea Hall! Who is Andrea? Andrea Hall is a wife, mom, transformational health coach, and recovering job juggler! Andrea holds a Masters of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling; is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Family Life Educator, and professional Communication Coach! She has a passion for seeing potential in uncommon faces. What is feeling Successful? Feeling successful is sort of like a mirage.. it's a good one though! It's like goal setting,...

34 | OVERWHELM

Let's get Burnt Out with Maddie Callander! Who is Maddie? Maddie Callander is Director of Operations at Boost VC!  Maddie is on a mission to help women and underrepresented founders get a seat at the table in frontier tech. She is a Coalition Member for The Women in XR Fund, which is focused on funding female founders in the virtual and augmented reality space; and Chair of the Women in VR Showcase for the US National Committee for UN Women (SF Chapter). What is feeling Burnt Out? ...

34 | HH Courage Quotes

It’s extremely beneficial to remind ourselves now and again to live courageously. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage,” (Anaïs Nin) Your ability to do something that is right or good, even if it’s hard, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable, even if it scares you, will bring more to your life. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” (John Wayne) But saddling up, that courage within, is not always, in fact it’s very rarely an action movie sequ...

33 | CHARGE

  Let's get into the Burnt Out experience with Kelly Cooper. Kelly is the Founder and President of the Centre for Social Intelligence. Kelly's company helps organizations achieve the triple bottom line of sustainable development by investing in the people of an organization through things such as improving gender diversity, mental health and optimizing the performance of millennials. Kelly believes that by investing in these three areas, an organization is able achieve a greater return ...

32 | HH Myths of Successful People

3 Myths of Successful People They are more motivated than you No way.  Have you even been listening to the podcast?!  One of my favorite books explains that "motivation is a frail and fickle friend." It only comes around once-in-awhile and if you're waiting for it, you're not going anywhere.  Successful people aren't more motivated, they pursue commitment instead! In other words, successful people act independently of their thoughts that are saying "It would be more fun to watch tv...

31 | TALK

After working in startups for 6 years, Briana Okyere now runs a global community of 600+ tech founders: Tech Founders. Her passion for helping emerging technologies and ideas was born out of her love and respect for the underdog. As the daughter of an African immigrant, and now on track to a C-level position at Founders Network, Briana is used to the fight, and her mission is to propel others who are currently in it. The Burnt Out Experience Just four months ago, Briana hit the end o...

30 | HH Building Support

What is Success? To laugh often and much;  To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;  To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;  To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived;  This is to have succeeded. -Emerson

29 | QUIET

Anna Foat loves the power of possibility and the passion of entrepreneurs. She’s worked at a start up, grown with one of the most famous Canadian scale ups (and subsequent crashes) and now works for a major financial services firm in Canada advising the chief transformation officer on digital transformation. The Burnt Out Experience About a year ago, Anna was working with a startup up. They circled and circled around how they could get the business model to work and to scale. She spent...

28 | HH Seeing the Signs

Looking for sign from the universe?  TRY MAKING YOUR OWN.  You don't need to wait for some random occurrence that you then read into as your sign. Sometimes they may be signs, sometimes they may be things your mind is locking onto in order to do, or not do, something.  Try taking an object, a phrase, or a color, anything really, and making it your sign. A friend of mine uses Hummers (the car) to represent a sign that today is going to be an amazing day.  Just like that, whenever he s...

Episode 27 | ALIGNMENT

Nadine Wathen, PhD (nadinewathen.ca; @NadineWathen) is Full Professor at The University of Western Ontario, a Research Scholar at Western’s Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children (www.learningtoendabuse.ca), and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research examines the health and social service sector response to violence against women and children, interventions to reduce health inequities, and the science of knowledge mobilizati...

26 | POSSIBLE

Anita Kothari is faculty member at Western University. In addition to work, she's a mom, runner and general extrovert. Her life motto at the moment is: everything is possible. The Burnt Out Experience Anita feels that there are two distinct types of burnout; mini and major. We all work hard each week, in our parenting roles, paid roles, or our personal roles. The hard work we put in each week causes us to have these mini or micro burnouts. Within her first six years at university (...

25 | SMART

Regina Mtonga is one of three founding members of Asikana Network. Asikana is an organization that engages females in STEM, with a particular interest in Technology. The main focus is training capable women in the tech space and creating a safe environment where women are free to explore this world of STEM without judgement and fear. Currently Regina's official title is PR & Fundraising Director. She has a background in Computer Science and continues to do programming and practices softw...

24 | HH Mindful Breathing

23 | RESILIENCE

Since 2006, Allison Graham has shown professionals how to grow their business and build profitable relationships. She is a master at helping others overcome obstacles in business. Her bestselling book, From Business Cards to Business Relationships: Profitable Networking & Personal Branding Made Easy (John Wiley and Sons Ltd.) is the foundation for her original work. She’s been featured as an authority on business development and networking in the media and her clients include Fortune 500 co...

22 | HH Pomodoro Technique

Have you ever realized, nearing the end of a work day, that you didn't get done nearly as much as you set out to do??  As someone who highly values efficiency and productivity, experience makes me feel bad. Burnt out bad. Sometimes I feel like I'm just not a highly productive person or that I expect too much of myself and I need to lower the bar, which can feel bad too.  Still, I wasn't ready to accept those thoughts. When a friend of mine suggested we try a productivity technique, I w...

21 | PERMISSION

  Stefanie Diaz is a successful marketing strategist, radio host, and brand guru who specializes in empowering entrepreneurs. With over a decade of experience providing marketing strategy to companies spanning pre-launch to over $100 million in annual revenue, Stefanie’s insights have been sought out by serial entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Today, her passion is working with emerging female founders and leaders as they claim their unique voice in the marketplace. Inspired to deliv...

20 | HH Forming Habits

Three tips of forming habits! Habits are a three step process If you have read or researched habits at all, you know the name Charles Duhigg. He wrote the fantastic and widely referenced book, "The Power of Habit" which I suggest you read (or listen to!). Click the picture of the book to head to amazon to check it out.   The most important point of this book is that habits aren't just made up of the action. There's a before piece and and a after piece that make habits just that: a ha...

19 | TEN

Allison Lawrence is an Account Manager at Healthwise. She strives to empower people to live healthy lifestyles and make good health decisions. Her current focus is to promote patient engagement through innovative technology, clinical workflow integration and world-class patient educational content. She is mission-driven and has a natural "bias for action." The Burnt Out Experience Allison defines being burnt out as "being out of balance." She says that you might really enjoy the work...

18 | HH Eating Healthy

Eating healthy isn't just good for your body, it's good for your brain... but you already knew that. Didn't you?  Sometimes it just takes a reminder for us to get on the healthy eating track or have fallen off it for a bit. I know I need a reminder at least once a week to make sure I am at least TRYING to make the right food choices for my brain and my stress levels.  It's hard because I love ice cream. A lot. I have been tempted for years to become an ice cream connoisseur!  But the t...

17 | TRY

Lauren Rogers is a freelance event planner and marketing guru based out of Brooklyn, NY. Her talents have led to her work for purpose organizations such as The Trevor Project and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Other corporate clients include Jack Morton Worldwide and David Tutera Studios. She is currently the Events Director for Womanly Mag, a publication and platform that circulates updated health information to women around the world through the lens of art. You can find her...

16 | CAN

  Li Lin is the founder of Immigrant CEO School. She came to the USA from China in 2000 and has helped 200+ skilled immigrant professionals and international students with getting their job search to land their H-1B and OPT jobs. She has been featured on TEDx, Inc Magazine, Huffington Post, and lives in Southern California. Basically, she's a total badass of the coaching world.  The Burnt Out Experience The lowest point of Li Lin's life was in 2013. She was fired from multiple jobs, ...

15 | RECOGNIZE

  Laura Jantz is a seasoned professional with experience ranging from environmental work with a large multinational corporation. She has a strong background in research and writing abilities and is a "soon-to-be author" – She's currently looking for an illustrator to finish off the children's book she wrote. Laura could also be described as a perpetual student of life which is something you can tell about her from hearing her speak.  Check out one article written by Laura here: bit.ly/H...

14 | WHIM

Kristina Olson is a musician and composer. Her current project, le destroy whose debut release "Knives" was released just a few days ago on February 23, 2018! She wrote, performed, produced, and engineered it herself in her studio in Austin, TX. You can check it out on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Google Play, and Amazon.   Kristina was also recently hired to sing on a trailer for the Wonder Woman film. She worked with Lakeshore Records and she has written and performed songs for film...

13 | SUPPORT

Goldie Chan is a top LinkedIn Video Creator and a global social media strategy and branding expert. She is the Founder and Head of Creative at social media agency, Warm Robots, where they run strategy and content creation for large B2B and B2C startups and corporations. She serves on the PGA's New Media Council and has been featured as a fresh voice on strategy, branding and pop culture in Inc. Magazine, Huffpost, Fast Company and Buzzfeed. Check out Goldie's LinkedIn: http://www.linked...

12 | ADVERSITY

Valencia Griffin-Wallace is an international speaker, bestselling author, radio show host, and entrepreneur. She is passionate and committed to the lives of women overcoming adversity to become successful. She helps women overcome adversity to gain unapologetic confidence by teaching them how to focus on their strengths and be resourceful. Confidence, vision, and goals can help a person overcome anything. She has overcome many adversities such as growing up with two parents in addiction. S...

11 | PREPARE

Chelsea Fancis fell in love with photography because it was just another way to connect with people, which is all she has ever wanted to do. While she got her degree in Marketing and PR, the traditional job kept her away from what she loves most: people. Chelsea has been photographing professionally for over five years and every day she wakes up thankful for the people who allow her to stand in front of them with a camera in hand and her heart open. Find Chelsea here: @ohhhchelsea The B...

10 | CHANGE

Dr. Samantha Madhosingh is a Licensed Psychologist, Bestselling Author, & Speaker. She received her doctorate in professional psychology from The George Washington University and has dedicated more than 20 thousand hours to researching, understanding, & solving the infinite possibilities of human potential, behavior, & performance.   Dr. Samantha is the founder and CEO of ElevateHER, an organization serving women leaders (and interested men) in business and in life by providing key strat...

9 | CHALLENGE

Kate is a former Corporate Psychologist turned Life Coach. She studied and researched stress and burnout and knows all the technical elements, but came face to face with feeling it not when she was working, but when she was a stay-at-home-Mom. It wasn't until she had experienced burnout herself that she could really bring all the pieces together. Now she has her own business and helps people reconnect with themselves and create self-renewing fulfillment and joy in their lives.   Listen t...

8 | COMPASSION

Melissa Kargiannakis is the founder and CEO of a company called Skritswap. She helps people to understand difficult text by translating documents into different reading levels. So cool!  Melissa has a great sense of compassion that led her to become an entrepreneur as well as her passion in becoming an ally to underserved people in society.  Listen to her story of feeling burnt out, that she believes there are different types of burnout, and how she dealt with it all.    The Burnt Ou...

7 | POTENTIAL

Towanna Burrous is the President of the Coach Diversity Institute that teaches people to become amazing coaches. In this episode, Towanna points out the major issue that people of color and women face when they are trying to move up in the workplace. Supervisors and bosses looked for "demonstrated abilities" instead of their potential.  She used her experiences to become a trend-setter in the mentoring and coaching roles for women, people of color, high school students, and her community...

6 | PERSPECTIVE

Darlene Brown is the CEO of Divine Empowerment, but she is also an author, certified personal development coach, inspirational speaker,  and training facilitator. Her company, found at divineempowerment.org, provides personal and business leadership coaching, inspirational speaking and leadership training to organizations across the world. In this episode of Burnt Out, Darlene talks about how she was exposed to extremely different points-of-view when she was very young. Moving from New Y...

5 | VULNERABLE

Kashonna Holland is an engaging keynote speaker, an inspiring coach, a motivational author. Kashonna is the President & CEO of Simply Kashonna, a business built to promote BOLD, FEARLESS and COURAGEOUS living. www.simplykashonna.com During this episode, we talk about how being vulnerable is a strength and so many other great topics that will leave you feeling good for the potential holiday stressors.   The Burnt Out Experience For Kashonna, feeling burnt out means that she wakes u...

4 | CHILL

Whitney is a personal finance coach and entrepreneur at whitneyhansen.com. She teaches overwhelmed millennials how to pay off debt and be financially independent by giving them the tools to have more fun with money and she makes sure to sprinkle in a little silliness. In this podcast episode, Whitney explains how she came from a pretty rough background, was able to pay of $30,000 of student debt in just 10 months, and the work she does today with her business. Whitney also has an award...

3 | YES

Trina DasGupta is an award winning producer, director, and entrepreneur. http://www.trinadasgupta.com/ The company she founded, Single Palm Tree Productions, creates content that changes culture for the better. In this episode, Trina tells us about 3 times she's been burnt out in the past 10 years worth of hard work. Most of her burn outs, but also successes, have resulted in her saying, "Yes." "Yes" can sometimes mean taking a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but sometimes it can mean do...

2 | VALUES

Serial entrepreneur Jessica Toth tell us her story from being a make up artist to homeless with two children and then back up on her feet as an entrepreneur. 

1 | HUMOR

Captain Gail Harris tells us how humor helped her to be the top ranked African-American female in the United States Navy when she retired in 2001, among other useful tips on how to push past feeling burnt out.

0 | WHY

An introduction to the Burnt Out podcast!  Who's the host? What will the podcast be about? Why did Burnt Out get started in the first place? Who is it for?