How to Overcome Parental and Workplace Burnout with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, you'll learn:

How to defining burnout and learning how to identify symptoms of burnout
Why the stereotypes of men and women in their family roles can be damaging
The importance of mothers giving themself permission to take breaks from their children
What leaders and organizations can do to avoid burnout in their workplaces
How change needs to happen on the individual, organization, and society levels to combat burnout

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0:00.0	It's the stories of people's struggles or people overcoming struggles that we really need to be able to share
0:07.0	because I think those stories are what motivates us to then have compassion and then want to make changes.
0:22.0	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:24.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like
0:29.4	garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts
0:36.2	don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we
0:43.9	don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:48.8	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative
0:55.4	effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving
1:00.8	in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:20.0	When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again, so I followed her
1:24.9	into the train yard. This is what it sounds like inside the box-top.
1:31.0	And into the city of the rails, there I found a surprising world so brutal and beautiful that it
1:36.8	changed me, but the rails do that to everyone. There is another world out there, and if you want to
1:43.2	play with the devil, you're going to find them there in the rail yard. Undenail Morton, come with
1:47.6	me to find out what waits for us in the city of the rails. Listen to city of the rails,
1:52.0	on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Or cityoftherails.com.
1:59.2	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Dr. Jacqueline Kerr, a behavior scientist and
2:05.2	burnout survivor. She is in the top 1% of most cited scientists worldwide. Jacqueline left her
2:11.9	position as a public health professor in 2018 and now hosts the podcast, Overcoming Working Mom
2:18.7	Burnout, where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches. On this
2:23.6	episode, Jacqueline and Eric discuss all types of burnout. Hi Jacqueline, welcome to the show.
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