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The Greg McKeown Podcast

53. What's Essential: Rachel Cooke on Navigating Leadership Through Burnout

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Leadership speaker and organizational consultant Rachel Cooke (Founder, Lead Above Noise) joins Greg to discuss the burnout being felt universally, both personally and professionally. They talk about the importance of acknowledgement and thoughtfulness from leadership, and explore specific steps leaders can take to navigate carefully as the world collectively transitions back to opening. For a limited time purchase Effortless and get the 21-Day Challenge (and download Chapter 1 of Effortless) FREE!: https://gregmckeown.com/books/effortless/ Share the What’s Essential podcast with your co-workers & friends and earn rewards: https://refer.fm/essential 1 Referral - Access the exclusive "Tim Ferris" episode 3 Referrals - 21-day Challenge PDF  15 Referrals - $10 digital gift card you can use at stores like Real Simple, Container Store, etc. What's Essential Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/essentialismpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/essentialismpodcast Greg McKeown Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregorymckeown LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregmckeown Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gregorymckeown/ Scratch Audiohouse Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wheelhousegroup/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wheelhouse-group-llc/ Credits: Hosted by Greg McKeown Produced by Greg McKeown and Scratch Audiohouse Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Avi Gandhi, Brent Montgomery, and Ed Simpson Co-Produced by Paul Dizon

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwen and I'm your host for the What's Essential Podcast.

0:09.5

There are lots of shows on how to improve, on how to become successful, but there is only

0:15.4

one on what to do once you are.

0:19.1

This is essential because success can be a catalyst for failure, especially if it leads to

0:25.3

the undisciplined pursuit of more.

0:28.5

This show is about how to become successful at success.

0:32.3

It's for high performers who are on the edge of exhaustion, solving problems completely

0:38.2

before they even arise.

0:39.7

It's about turning tedious tasks into joyful rituals.

0:44.9

It's about simplifying your processes and making your most essential activities the

0:49.8

easiest ones.

0:51.8

So if you're a driven, hardworking, productive person who is running out of space but still

0:56.8

wants to make a higher contribution effortlessly, the What's Essential Podcast is designed

1:03.5

especially for you.

1:07.5

So let's begin.

1:15.8

This is a real treat.

1:17.1

I'm here with Rachel Cook, the host of the Modern Mentor Podcast as well as many other things.

1:22.4

A top 100 speaker, according to Ink Magazine and they would know, founder of Lead Above

1:28.0

Noise really just unlocks results by helping people, companies to figure out how to get

1:34.8

thriving teams and it's just a pleasure to be with you today.

1:39.2

Well Greg, thanks so much for having me.

1:41.2

We were having an interesting conversation just before we went live and you asked me how

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