#454 Stress with Amelia Nagoski

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This is our second episode on Burnout as part of the Squiggly Careers Videobook Club series, running throughout January.

Each week, Helen and Sarah focus on a different Videobook and identify insights and ideas that everyone can put into action to support their career development.

In this episode, Sarah talks to one of the authors Amelia Nagoski about the stress cycle and why we need to find new ways to release the stress in our bodies to prevent burnout.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Today is one of our expert interviews with
0:08.8	Amelia Nagarski, who is the author of a book called Burnout alongside her co-author and twin sister,
0:14.7	Emily. And we're going to be talking about what burnout is, why it impacts all of us in some way.
0:22.5	I think we've all either got close to or experienced burnout or we know someone who has and we want to be in a position to support
0:27.6	people to be at their best and to prevent burnout. And I think the thing that I really appreciate
0:33.0	about Amelia and Emily's work is it's very research-based and also really practical. They are really
0:39.9	committed to supporting people with how do we just make sure that burnout is not something that we
0:45.9	experience, how can we spot the signs and what can we proactively do so that we don't get
0:51.5	to burn out, which is not good for us in so many different ways.
0:55.7	So I hope you find the conversation interesting and I'll be back at the end to say goodbye.
1:01.9	So Mia, welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast.
1:05.1	I'm really looking forward to our conversation today.
1:07.6	Thanks. Me too.
1:08.6	So we're going to dive straight in with this idea of a stress cycle.
1:13.1	That's the sort of really big idea and the concept that stuck with me from the book and from the
1:18.3	video book. I've kept coming back to it and thinking, am I completing the stress cycle?
1:23.7	And that is not a question that I asked myself three days ago. So share with our listeners, what is this stress cycle?
1:30.2	Why should we care about it?
1:31.8	And why do we need to complete it?
1:34.1	The stress cycle is a physiological response.
1:38.0	Stress is a cycle that happens in your body.
1:40.5	I, when I was under tremendous stress and not dealing with it well,
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