Hello, friends. Welcome to Level Up with Debbie Neal. I am your host. There is nowhere. I would rather be

than right here, right now with you. This podcast is all about leveling up in all aspects of our lives.

Thank you for being here. I am so grateful. I'm excited to be on this journey with you.

Together, we are leveling up. You ready?

Hey friends, welcome back. I'm so happy you're here. It's the first time you're here.

Welcome to level up with Debbie Neal. This is a podcast and an episode for leaders and not like someday leaders because someday is just not a day of the week, but right now leaders. And this, the conversation we're going to have today is not about quitting. I actually despise the word quitting. It's not about pulling back and it's definitely not about lowering the bar. But I want to talk about

having ambition after burnout, which I don't really love burnout, but what it really means to you

when you are one of the people that people look up to. And so why do we feel burnout from time to time, really? Why do we feel exhausted? And because burnout

doesn't mean that you stop wanting more. It just means you're no longer leading the way you know

that you should. And leaders don't walk away when things get heavy. Leaders, they adapt,

they evolve, and they elevate. So if you've been thinking like, I'm tired, I feel like I'm

carrying this alone, I don't know if it's worth it, I can't keep doing it at this pace. Something has to change,

but I know that I'm not done because I really want to build this. I know I'm ready for this.

So when you have those thoughts sometimes, it's not weakness. I want you to like shift perception.

That's leadership awareness. It's being aware that it's time to grow more as a

leader. So today what I want to talk about is how burnout is often the moment that a leader is being

called higher, not out. They're not being called out. They're being called higher. So what is burnout?

I've been building my business for 20 years. I don't ever know if I've used the term burnout,

but I have felt tired. I have felt exhausted. But burnout is often misunderstood.

Burnout is not laziness. Burnout is not a lack of discipline. And it's not that

you suddenly lost your work ethic. So burnout usually comes from a pattern that goes something like

this. You go all in. You push really hard. You're carrying the weight. You're driving the results.

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