CNLP 807 | How to Make Your Life Burnout-Proof: Burnout 20 Years Later, Part 2
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Twenty years after burnout almost took him out, Carey is back with Part 2—the recovery playbook.
You don't need to get back to normal. Normal is what burned you out.
In this solo episode, Carey shares seven strategies to burnout-proof your life: stop managing time and start managing energy, move to a fixed calendar, guard your green zone, and stop letting the wrong people hijack your best hours.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.9 | Blank space in your calendar is a trap. |
| 0:05.4 | It looks like freedom, but it's jail disguised as liberty. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm so glad you joined us. |
| 0:16.9 | I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 0:20.2 | Actually, you know, I say that all the time. That is a mantra I embraced about 20 years ago. Why? Because 20 years ago, |
| 0:26.5 | this month, I burned out. And it was the deepest, darkest period in my life. This is actually |
| 0:32.3 | part two of my little mini burnout series. So in the last episode, episode 806, I talked about how I got |
| 0:40.5 | burned out, what happened, and some of the symptoms of burnout. So if you haven't listened to that, |
| 0:46.3 | when you can go back and listen to it. But today, in this episode, I want to focus on how to |
| 0:50.7 | recover from burnout because, thank God, it's been two decades and I have not burned |
| 0:56.0 | out. I rebuilt my life from scratch with all new rhythms, all new patterns, and have had the |
| 1:01.3 | real privilege of being able to help leaders around the world figure out how to get out and |
| 1:05.8 | stay out of burnout. So this is part two. If what I'm sharing with you in this episode resonates with you, |
| 1:13.5 | here's what I'd love to do. I wrote a book about this. It's called At Your Best, and I'm giving |
| 1:17.7 | away a free copy to 20 listeners. So to enter the giveaway, here's what you can do. Visit |
| 1:23.0 | Careynewhoff.com slash giveaway by June 7th. Just click the link in the bio to get you there really quick. It's carrynewhoff.com slash giveaway by June 7th. Just click the link in the bio to get you there really quick. |
| 1:29.2 | It's Carrienewhoff.com slash giveaway. Love to give away 20 copies of my book at your best. |
| 1:37.1 | So just go to Kerrynewhoff.com slash giveaway. Welcome to all of you who are watching, listening for the first time. |
| 1:42.4 | You know what I love about this show? And I'm running this all the time when I'm on the road? So many of you are younger leaders. |
| 1:48.5 | You are me or younger when I burned out. And if I can save you, if I can give you the cheat code, |
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