How To Bounce Back From Burnout
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
When Betsy joined her last workplace, she thought it was a perfect fit. It was on a list of Best Places to Work and she got to be creative while helping people. But as the startup rapidly grew, the company culture changed and Betsy started to lose herself amid the stress. Then she got laid off. Honestly, Betsy was relieved, but now she's gotta figure out what's next. On this episode of How To!, we bring on James Altucher, author, podcaster, and all-around interesting person. He's both created successful companies and failed a number of times. He has some funny, frank advice for taking the sting out of rejection, reviving your passions, and making sure your next move is right for you.
If you liked this episode, check out "How To Advance Your Career by Quitting Your Job."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast, a slight change of plans, |
| 0:07.0 | a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. |
| 0:11.0 | I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. |
| 0:16.0 | We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes. You can have opinions. You can have |
| 0:23.8 | like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program. Listen to a slight |
| 0:32.5 | change of plans wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello, it's Mike Peska, host of how to, but not this week. |
| 0:45.8 | This week we bring you one from the vault, a best of, and it really is a best of. |
| 0:46.9 | Listen to this best of. |
| 0:50.0 | Best of how to, how to bounce back from burnout. |
| 0:51.8 | A lot of bees there, so many bees. |
| 1:11.2 | I need a little bit of rest, and that's why I took the week off. I might be suffering burnout. So I listened to this old show and I learned how not to suffer burnout. Amanda Ripley was hosting back in 2022. What a great host. You're going to hear Amanda give a number, maybe an address. Those are defunct the way to get in touch with us because we do want your questions. |
| 1:12.2 | We're working on them. |
| 1:14.9 | We have a slew of how to to bring to you. |
| 1:17.4 | It's how to at mike pesca.com. But now the pre-mic pesca error, he said, speaking of himself in the third person, |
| 1:22.5 | that could maybe induce some burnout from your end. |
| 1:26.1 | If so, listen to this, how to bounce back from burnout. |
| 1:29.7 | Burnout is not just about, oh, I hated this job, |
| 1:33.2 | or I didn't like these people. |
| 1:35.1 | Burnout is about you. |
| 1:36.6 | There was something that your brain and body want to do differently. |
| 1:41.5 | And if you kind of go back into the fire, you're still going to be burned. |
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