Welcome to ABG, Asian Boss Girl, a podcast for the modern-day Asian-American woman.

My name is Mel, and I'm Janet.

Welcome back to another episode. Today, we're going to be talking about burnout.

This is a topic that we've been seeing everywhere. I personally haven't seen

people post about it on social media. I've been hearing about it and seeing it in my friends

and my family, reading about it in articles, and I personally felt it pretty heavily at the end

of and the beginning of this year, and probably still feeling the residual effects of it.

So we want to take some time today to talk about burnout, and more importantly, what we can do about

burnout. So let's start with what it is. Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental

exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed,

emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. Ooh, this description sounds oddly

familiar. So let's just go into kind of some personal experiences. Mel, thinking about burnout,

is there a time that you can share the listeners specifically that you felt burnout and how did

you deal with it? Burnout's interesting where I feel like you have a prolonged, I want to say

phase of it, and then moments of like distinct, like distinguished moments, you're like, oh,

shit, I was totally burned out during that time. And when I want to think about a situation,

this one moment pops into my head, and just I'll share with you all. So I was really burned out,

burnout, burned out. I was burned as F when I was planning my childhood best friend's

bachelor party around April and May of last year. And let me explain why. So there was so much

going around during that time, it was around May, which honestly turned out to be the busiest

month for ABG that we've ever had in history last year. We were still figuring out COVID guidelines,

like, can we travel? Like, how does that even plan to like a bachelor party? You know, this is also

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