Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Miltight.

This time, I think a lot of times what happens with my female clients is they will be on the edge of burnout and feel like they can't do anything about it because it's self-indulgent.

Or they get into a place where

they are burnt out, and they've already given away all their energy to everyone else.

I have gotten much more ruthless about proactively avoiding getting to burnout rather than dealing

with it once I notice it's happening.

You know, so I schedule my workouts in.

I make sure that I'm seeing people I care about a certain number of times a week or a certain number of times a month.

Coming up, anyone can burn out at work, but women seem to be doing it faster and younger.

Music seemed to be doing it faster and younger. Last year I did a show on women in their 20s,

and we talked about the world being so much more competitive than it was when I graduated

from college in the early 90s.

And from my perspective, one aspect of this incredibly competitive work world is that these young

women who are graduating from college in higher numbers than then, are coming into the workforce

with already packed resumes. They have multiple skills, incredible work ethics, and they're

burning out faster than my generation did. They're getting that don't care, can't do it anymore

feeling quite young. I began to talk about this with Dana Campbell. She's a career strategy

and burnout coach. And she came to the work honestly by burning out, twice.

The first time she was still in her 20s.

I was in management consulting at the time, and I had just come off a long string of traveling projects where I had been traveling five days a week, working, you know, management

consulting hours, so very long hours, often on weekends. I mean, at one point in that stint,

my then-boyfriend said, no way can you spend the night here anymore because you get received

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