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Bad On Paper

Anne Helen Petersen on the Ins and Outs of Burnout

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This week, we got the chance to talk with Anne Helen Petersen, writer of the newsletter Culture Study, and author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation. 

We talk about how she got to where she is today, her personal definition of burnout, why millennials are more afflicted with burnout than other generations, how the pandemic sparked a new form of burnout, how social media impacts burnout, and so much more! She also shares her advice on how to tell if you're burning out and how to avoid falling into it!

In addition, Grace and Becca talk about Grace's epic food weekend, Becca's upcoming trip to Palm Beach, and our computer problems! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman.

0:22.0

And I'm Grace Atwood and today I almost did.

0:25.9

No, I'm, we'll talk about my low and poor Grace is sick. I've got Strap Throat.

0:30.5

I am the fever just set in. I'm starting to sweat through my clothes, but we're doing

0:35.2

this. And we just did a great interview with Anne Helen Peterson, who is somebody that

0:40.4

Becca and I both admire so much. We finished the interview. She explained to us why we

0:45.9

are all so fucking burnt out. Yes. So it's a great episode. But before we get into the episode,

0:52.0

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0:57.2

sharing some pretty major news from the brand. Just to give you a little hint, it's very

1:01.5

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1:12.7

high. I know you're sick, but we might be living your high. Your cat is so affectionate

1:19.6

right now. He's on your lap. He just jumped over there. He's been showing off the whole

1:23.7

time we've been recording. Like I don't know if that's your high, but it's like it's

1:27.4

up there. Okay. So it's not my high, but I will say that he's actually like a pretty good

1:32.1

cat when you're sick. Like he kind of picks up on the vibe. Maybe I'm like extra warm.

1:37.0

So I'm like more cozy to him, but he's being great. My high is that I was in LA over the

1:43.3

weekend, which is always a high, but we had the most epic food day of my whole life.

1:49.2

We started at Grand Central Market where you saw this. It was the lobster roll. I want

1:55.0

to know all about this lobster roll. So we went to this restaurant and we I keep forgetting

2:01.9

the name of the restaurant, but it's in my LA highlights. If you're in LA and you want

2:05.4

to refer to those on my Instagram page, but we had this lobster roll. And I was going

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