Decode Your Burnout (formerly Optimize Your Life)

Sometimes we find ourselves in highly challenging situations at work and at home that take a toll on us. We stay in these situations when we don’t perceive we have a choice. We try to power through, …

How do you know if you’re just tired or if you’re burned out? You know you’re in burnout if you just can’t bounce back. That’s what happened to Stephanie Melodia who, as a super achiever, kept gettin…

Flo Nicolas, AKA the non-boring lawyer, is a former lawyer, who after burning out, left the legal profession to go after her dreams. Flo is a legal technologist who simplifies technology for professi…

Have you lost the connection to your work? If so, erotic intelligence may be just what you need. 

This week on Decode Your Burnout, my guest is Dr. Amy O'Hana who helps burned-out people fall in lo…

What’s the one thing that can help with your ability to perform on the job, allow you to better manage your emotions, improve your health, and perhaps save your marriage? Sleep!

“When life gets bus…

Sometimes, a feeling of scarcity and a need to be hyper-independent can lead us to drive ourselves too hard and burn out. That’s exactly what happened to Bridget Mimari, a former lawyer and mother of…

Are you a super competitive person in business and in life who’s burned out chasing success when what you really want is fulfillment?

That’s what my guest this week, Darrell Evans, shares about his…

Did you just realize that you’re burned out? Or maybe you just recovered from burnout and although you’ve never considered doing something else for work, you’re starting to wonder about your options.…

Are you spending your nights and weekends organizing your reports for work? Do you constantly have to edit what you write because you’re not getting the responsiveness that you want? Are you feeling …

Gary Collins was a “kid from nowhere who wanted to do better than his parents to escape “poorville.” He “did everything right” but got caught up in chasing the carrot. His burnout was a “blessing in …

Do you feel like no matter how much you sleep, you can’t get enough rest? If you’re a busy professional, it might feel like you can’t press pause. You want to get off the treadmill but you don’t know…

Are you late to the game when it comes to setting boundaries? Did you miss the memo that you are supposed to have your own ideas about what you need and what’s good for you? 

In this week’s episode…

Just when the people closest to you don’t believe in you, your mission in life gets defined. You become determined, even hooked on proving yourself. The trouble is, this compulsion can lead to burnou…

“Parenting is the hardest thing we’ve never been trained for.” Ain’t that the truth? Raising kids can turn you into a ball of stress where you’re screaming and yelling but still not getting the resul…

Sometimes our programming lends itself to burnout. We have beliefs that lead us to seek out professions, such as medicine, where we push ourselves to the point of exhaustion and that behavior is expe…

Do you tell yourself you’re “doing just fine” when really you’re just going through the motions, experiencing death by a thousand cuts? That’s how Dr. Harry Karydes described his experience as an eme…

If you regularly feel stressed out, humor can be your secret weapon for burnout prevention. This week on Decode Your Burnout, I interviewed Heather Tolley-Bauer, a stand-up comedian who shares her wi…

Are you a self-published author who’s struggling to get your book in front of more eyeballs? This week’s guest on Decode Your Burnout is Alex Strathdee, an Amazon ads expert who debunks the myths of …

Sometimes, getting a pink slip can be your ticket out. This week on Decode Your Burnout, we hear the story from a former single mom to three kids who burned out working in a high stress  nine to five…

Are you someone with ADHD who feels burned out? Does it feel like no matter how hard you try, you can never get through the thousands of items on your to do list? Do you tend to take on more than you…