3693: Don’t Be an Overachiever by Renata Leo of Buffalo Sauce Everywhere on Pursuing Goal and Personal Development

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3693: Renata Leo shares her journey from chronic overachiever to balanced achiever, revealing the hidden costs of always striving to do and be the most. With sharp humor and raw honesty, she unpacks how hustle culture leads to burnout, guilt, and the loss of simple joy, offering permission to pursue goals without losing yourself along the way. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://buffalosauceeverywhere.com/2022/08/24/dont-be-an-overachiever/ Quotes to ponder: "I have a valedictorian speech and anxiety to show for it." "Overachieving forces you to work with so much concentration and blind perseverance that self-awareness goes out the window." "Week after week, I’ve gone back to axe league because I enjoyed it, even though I was terrible at it." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we start, I want to share a super powerful practice I use called NSDR or non-sleep deep rest.
0:06.6	In just about 10 minutes or so, this yoga-needra practice leaves you feeling as refreshed as after a nap without actually sleeping.
0:15.0	Experience it for yourself on our guided podcast.
0:18.2	Search NSDR and look for the one from Optimal Living Daily.
0:24.0	This is Optimal Living Daily. Don't be an overachiever by Renata Leo of buffalo sauce
0:30.7	everywhere.com. And I'm Justin Mollock, your personal narrator. We're going to get right to it today
0:35.8	and start optimizing your life.
0:41.7	Don't be an overachiever by Renato Leo of buffalo sauce everywhere.com.
0:48.1	For the sake of over-delivering, my boss started. Okay, I'm going to have to stop you right there.
0:54.1	I interrupted her while shaking my head emph Okay, I'm not have to stop you right there. I interrupted her while
0:55.2	shaking my head emphatically. I'm allergic to over delivering. My name is Renata Leo, and I am a
1:02.0	reformed overachiever. In my young life, I was constantly overachieving. I couldn't settle for bees.
1:09.2	If I didn't think I could win something, I didn't play.
1:12.0	If I didn't give 110%, I might as well have not done it at all. I have a valedictorian speech
1:17.7	and anxiety to show for it. In college, after working myself way too hard and forcing
1:23.8	myself to be the president of a club solely for my resume, I realized that it simply
1:28.9	wasn't worth it to live life as an overachiever. I wanted to learn how to work a reasonable amount
1:35.5	without pushing myself. Unfortunately, after a lifetime of overachieving, this wasn't easy.
1:42.9	While I typically have a penchant for over-correcting,
1:46.3	I couldn't quite over-correct here considering the fact that the exact opposite of over-achieving
1:51.1	was doing nothing, and I couldn't simply stop all work and still pass college. I had to find a way
1:57.6	to not over-achieve without completely dropping all obligations.
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