From Girlbossing too Close to the Sun to Soft Girl-ing too Close to the Moon
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this solo, I tell the real story behind my burnout and the pendulum swing that followed… girlbossing too close to the sun, soft-girling too close to the moon, and the grounded way I came back. I walk through the exact moments that broke me open (ADHD meds, record revenue paired with a personal low point, getting blindsided in business), why the spiritual detour didn't actually make my life better, and the simple, non-sexy habits that rebuilt my fire, my voice, and my results.
You'll hear about my DRC formula (Drive, Recovery, Clarity) for managing energy, how I'm integrating softness without losing ambition, and the 14-day return-to-drive protocol you can start today. If you're a high-performer who lost her spark, or you're scared success = burnout, this episode is your bridge back.
Topics:
- The 2022 scale-up that led to record revenue…and a deeper personal crash
- Why I define burnout as misallocated energy (and how to rebalance with DRC)
- The spiritual season I had to question, detach from, and redefine
- Returning to intensity through fitness and focused work
- Boundaries that actually protect your ambition (Slack hours, one day offline)
- The 14-day protocol: training, protein/fiber, sleep, focus blocks, spiritual stillness
- Narrowing my message to increase impact and income
• • Rebuilding with A-players at work and at home
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you are a person with a really heart and soul-centered mission that is here to help other people live a better life, it is your responsibility to make as much money as you possibly can because money in the hands of good people does good things for the world. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to Embody Radio, the premiere podcast for ambitious women ready to elevate |
| 0:22.9 | their body, mind, and life to the next level. |
| 0:25.6 | On this show, we've used high performance, wellness and aesthetics, and self-mastery into a |
| 0:30.1 | real-world blueprint for personal excellence. |
| 0:32.6 | Each week, you'll get real, grounded strategies and unfiltered conversations with high |
| 0:36.7 | performers who walk the talk, |
| 0:38.2 | no fluff and no fake hype because excellence isn't an accident. It's embodiment. And this is Mbody |
| 0:45.0 | Radio. Girl, what's up? Welcome back to Mbody Radio where excellence isn't an accident. It's something |
| 0:50.9 | you live. Oh, today. Today we are talking about such a special topic. |
| 0:57.6 | Today we're talking about girl bossing too close to the sun and soft girling too close to the |
| 1:03.5 | moon, which is basically my story of burnout, pendulum swinging, entirely losing myself, |
| 1:10.3 | and building my way back to a woman that |
| 1:12.8 | I recognize and love deeply. So if you have pendulum swung from burning yourself out, |
| 1:19.4 | trying to, whether it's build your empire or grow in your career or whatever the pursuit is |
| 1:24.9 | to numbing out in your little soft girl cocoon, this episode is your |
| 1:29.3 | bridge back. This episode has been highly requested by several people several times. |
| 1:35.0 | So consider this your kind of lived guidebook for how to recover from the girl boss to soft girl |
| 1:40.8 | pipeline so that you can get back to a place where drive, growth, and intensity feel good and exciting again. So buckle up. We're going to break this into three parts. So part one is obviously girl bossing too close to the sun. So there's going to be a lot of storytelling in this episode because this is obviously kind of my journey through this, how it happened for me, what it looked like in my life. |
| 2:04.6 | So this all, the seeds were planted in like 2021, but 2022 is where it really started |
| 2:11.5 | popping off in the worst way possible. |
| 2:14.9 | So end of 2020 is when I started going from solopreneur to hiring out |
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