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Hi, Michael Hyatt, and this is Lead to Win, our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.

Megan Hyatt Miller is still on parental leave. She's home with her adopted daughter Naomi, so I have asked Susie Barber our director of operations to join me today.

Hey Susie.

Hey Michael, good to be here.

In this episode, we're going to talk about a feeling that lots of high capacity leaders know all too well, overwhelmed, and we're going to show you how to end it.

Susie, can you relate to this topic? Have you ever felt overwhelmed and why do people feel overwhelmed today? It seems like more than usual.

Yeah, I feel like we have a busy crisis on our hands, right?

We just hear from our coaching clients all the time executives and leaders that we're mentoring.

That's their biggest pain point is that they're just overwhelmed and I've certainly felt that myself as a leader.

I think it comes down to we're kind of working in this virtual world that's still a little bit new for everybody if you think about it on the grand timeline.

And we're kind of just plugged in all the time with our smartphones.

It can start to feel like you don't have business hours like the first thing you do at 5 a.m. when you get up if you get up at 5 or whenever is hit your email, right?

Like sometimes from bed and you're doing that at night before you go to sleep.

And so it's like the problems of work can just invade your life all day long and on the weekends and our jobs are higher pressure maybe.

And that is in combination with parenting and your personal life and trying to take care of your health.

And it just it does it just becomes overwhelming and you start to hear people say when you ask them, how are you doing?

If you get beyond the fine good surface level answers, you can start to hear leaders almost always say, you know, I'm really tired.

I'm really busy. I've been really busy.

And what's the worst is that people start saying that like it's a badge of honor now.

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