602: How to Go From Burnout to Balance with Chris Ducker

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever felt burned out, stretched too thin, or guilty for even thinking about taking time off—you’re not alone. I’ve been there too.

That’s why today’s conversation with my good friend Chris Ducker hit so hard. Chris is a wildly successful entrepreneur, best-selling author, and founder of Youpreneur. But despite building a thriving business, he ended up flatlined—literally. Diagnosed with acute anxiety, depression, and adrenal failure, Chris was forced to face the cost of nonstop hustle.

In his new book The Long Haul Leader, Chris shares the framework he created to move from burnout to balance: a simple Life OS built on four pillars—impactful work, loving relationships, personal mastery, and hobbies. We dig into why hustle should only ever be a season (not a lifestyle), how to protect your energy, and why self-care isn’t selfish—it’s strategy.

If you want to create lasting success without sacrificing your health, happiness, or relationships, this conversation will give you the permission and tools to finally make it happen.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Chris’s Journey of Success, Burnout, and Health Issues
The Life OS Framework: 4 Pillars for Sustainable Success
The 4 Areas of Life That Are Essential for Health and Joy
Hustle vs. Habits: Why Hustle Shouldn’t Be a Lifestyle
The “Stop, Stay, Start” Exercise for Clarity and Focus
The Power of Permission to Reclaim Your Time and Life
How to Connect with Chris and Find His Book

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level,
0:16.6	as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals
0:21.9	themselves and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what
0:26.3	you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go.
0:32.4	Hello friends. Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast. I am your host, Hal Elrod. And today we're talking with my good friend of 10 plus years, Mr. Chris Ducker. He's the author of the new book, The Long Hall Leader, although you'll tell you in a minute why I told him he should have called the book something else. But the subtitle, 10 strategies to work smarter, live better, and achieve lasting success.
0:56.0	I told him that he should have called the book, what we're calling the podcast episode today,
0:59.3	from burnout to balance. Because this book, I feel like is what I need in my life right now.
1:04.5	If you're feeling overwhelmed, overworked, stretched thin, this book will help you prioritize
1:10.3	your life and take action. I've already
1:12.7	changed my behavior just in the last week since I started reading this book to align my
1:18.5	priorities with what really matters most so that I don't head toward the path of burnout,
1:23.7	which I've been there before. Maybe you have to. Today, Chris is going to give you, not just talk
1:29.0	about the book and what you can read in the book, he's going to give you the meat today. He's going to
1:33.2	teach you the life operating system, four key areas of your life to go from burnout to balance. He's
1:40.1	going to teach you the start, stop, stay, exercise that you can walk through today.
1:45.9	And we're going to discuss it.
1:46.8	And I'll tell you how I applied it immediately so you can apply it to your life to go from burnout to balance.
1:52.9	So again, if you're feeling overwhelmed, overwork, stretch thin, today's episode will really be transformative for you.
2:00.0	My good friend, author of the long haul leader,
2:02.2	or what I would have called Burnout to Balance, Mr. Chris Tucker.
2:11.1	Chris Ducker, it is good to see you, man.
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