480: High-Functioning Burnout Exposed: When Sleep isn't Really the Solution
the bossbabe podcast
Natalie Ellis
4.9 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to day two of our five-part series. Red flags every boss babe needs to know. If you haven't |
| 0:05.1 | already listened to episode one, pause here and go back because we unpacked one of the most common |
| 0:10.1 | and misunderstood patterns living in a constant state of urgency and mistaking anxiety for productivity. |
| 0:16.3 | Today we're diving into a red flag that's so many high achieving women right off as just being tired or busy, |
| 0:22.5 | but it's so much deeper than that. This episode is for the woman who's doing everything right, |
| 0:26.7 | the sleep, the supplements, the morning routine, and still feels bone deep exhausted. This kind of |
| 0:32.6 | exhaustion isn't about how many hours you slept last night. It is about how long your body has been running |
| 0:38.6 | in overdrive. And when it finally stops, it doesn't feel like rest. It feels like collapse, numbness, |
| 0:45.5 | freeze, like no amount of hustle hacks are working anymore. We are calling this episode tired |
| 0:50.5 | to the bone when sleep isn't a solution because what you're feeling is not laziness. |
| 0:55.5 | It is a body that has been in survival mode for too long and does not trust rest to be safe. |
| 1:01.5 | This is the episode where we really start to unravel what burnout actually is and why it might |
| 1:07.5 | be the gateway to a completely different relationship with success, energy and |
| 1:12.5 | worth. So let's start the conversation. I'm excited about this episode specifically talking about |
| 1:19.6 | energy and the reason why, I mean, I can remember for myself times where I have been doing |
| 1:25.7 | all the things. And I'm talking about all the things. Listen, I'm an |
| 1:28.2 | overachiever. So I'm like getting all the sleep, even with kids. I'm taking all the supplements. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm doing extensive blood work. There's hydrogen in my water. I'm getting sunlight in my eyes, |
| 1:38.4 | strength training, da, da, da, da, da, like doing all the things. And I've still done all of the things and felt like there is nothing in the tank. |
| 1:47.0 | I remember specifically, it was a couple years ago, Naomi was still really young. |
| 1:52.9 | And I just had this full moment of unraveling and sobbing to Stephen of there is nothing left in the tank. |
| 2:00.0 | I have nothing left to give everyone. |
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