Chaotic Life Update: I’m Burnt Out & Something Needs to Change

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4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Victoria sits down for the kind of life update you’d give your best friend when everything feels like… a lot. She opens up about the burnout she’s been pushing through, a major (and expensive) business mistake, team changes, and what it’s been like to juggle a nonprofit, a podcast, and a full creator career without losing herself in the process. She talks about the fear of stepping back, the pressure to constantly show up online, and the nagging feeling that something in her life needs to shift. Vic also shares the mindset breakthroughs she had at a recent Peter Crone event, why she’s craving more freedom and adventure, and how she’s trying to slow down enough to hear her own voice again. If you’ve ever felt stretched thin, stuck in a season of “figuring it out,” or unsure how to reset, this episode will feel like a deep breath. Tune in for a candid, comforting catch-up that just might make you feel understood.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.4	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.3	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:44.4	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to RealPod. I had a different episode planned for today that I was supposed to do or going to record.
0:56.8	It was like a topic-based solo episode.
0:59.6	And honestly, I just, like, could not bring myself to giddy up and talk about a topic that I think will make for a good episode, but like wasn't something I felt
1:14.3	pepped up to talk about today. And I just, I didn't want to force myself. And I have just
1:21.7	been feeling, I'm already going to cry. I know I was going to cry this episode. I have just been feeling so burnt out and exhausted and just like not my best self.
1:36.4	Obviously, everybody can relate to being in a funk and it just sucks because you just like don't want to be in it.
1:44.9	But I felt like the most real thing I could do was instead of just not recording or forcing
1:53.2	myself to record the other episode, I could just come on and be really candid about how I'm
1:58.2	feeling.
1:58.9	And I think I like, it's not that I don't want to be candid about how I'm feeling. And I think I like, it's not that I don't want to be
2:02.7	candid about how I'm feeling. It's that I don't want to create a podcast episode where I'm
2:08.3	complaining, or it sounds like I'm complaining for an hour, or I'm just like spewing negativity
2:13.6	because I want to bring you guys positivity. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm not,
2:21.7	that's just not how I feel. And I'm just exhausted. And I want to kind of talk about like why I feel
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