Episode 188: You vs. Burnout
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Two years into a pandemic many of us are overwhelmed at work, feeling we have little control, and dealing with a lack of support from our organizations. Burnout rates are up all over the world. But they were bad even before Covid-19 came along. So what can we do about it?
In this episode we meet three women who know burnout first-hand. Danielle Fried works for a small business that exploded during Covid. It took a health crisis for her to realize she was a frazzle of her former self. Jennifer Moss is the author of The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It and a longtime expert on happiness and unhappiness at work. She says it's up to leaders to solve this problem, and there is plenty they can do about it. Jamie Hand is one such leader, managing her own stress levels while tackling burnout one team member at a time.
Jennifer's pandemic dog Maple made her presence felt during our interview. For an outtake, go to the episode 188 page at TheBroadExperience.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Better Help Online Therapy bought this 30 second ad to remind you right now, wherever you are, to unclench your jaw. |
| 0:10.8 | Relax your shoulders. Take a deep breath in and out. |
| 0:20.3 | Feels better, right? |
| 0:21.9 | That's 15 seconds of self-care. |
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| 0:30.5 | for 10% off your first month of therapy. |
| 0:33.8 | No pressure. |
| 0:35.0 | Just help. |
| 0:35.9 | But for now, just relax. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Ashley Milne Tite. |
| 1:01.3 | This time, burnout has become a universal problem in the pandemic. |
| 1:05.0 | I've never been a work-at-home person before, and I know why. |
| 1:06.7 | I cannot turn it off. |
| 1:08.6 | But maybe it's not your fault? |
| 1:13.4 | How we still talk about burnout is that it's an individual problem to solve. |
| 1:19.5 | You know, if you just do more yoga or you should listen to the sounds of rain on your app and you'll solve for systemic discrimination or 70-hour work weeks. |
| 1:24.8 | But some managers are trying to stop it happening in the first place. It's very regular that something comes up like, well, I'm supposed to be off tomorrow, but I have to log in and take a couple calls, or I was supposed to take time off over Christmas, but I'm going to have to work through it because I've got this big thing coming up. And I just try to be the person who's like, I don't know, you probably could take the |
| 1:44.2 | time off. Sometimes you do better work if you take a break. Taking action against burnout. Coming up |
| 1:51.6 | on the broad experience. I will be honest, I was not entirely sure I wanted to take on the topic of burnout again |
| 2:08.5 | for the broad experience, because it seems wherever you look, somebody else is covering this. |
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