This bite-sized episode is about burnout and listening to the intelligence and the messages that we get from our body, which are so easy for people to overlook in this day and age.

And I'm speaking somewhat from experience because I recently felt a bit

burnt out juggling two kids and a baby with being self-employed and some early broadcasting shifts.

And it's so easy to push past signs that the body is saying slow down, take a break and stop.

So that's something I eventually did. I stop.

I took a break. I had a bit of a reassess and I feel all the better for it. And it reminded me of one of

my guests who spoke about this really powerfully. And her name is Fran Horton. She is a five-time Olympian. She competed at five Olympic games.

She won three silver medals. Now, after her first Olympic games, she enjoyed the experience

so much that she set herself two goals. She wanted to win gold and she wanted to compete in five

games. She managed to compete in five games, but when it came to winning gold and she wanted to compete in five games.

She managed to compete in five games.

But when it came to winning gold, she was desperate and chasing this goal.

And it started to become a real burden.

And it was causing her stress and injury.

And she was pushing herself so hard until eventually she crashed.

And that forced her to stop and reappraise her situation and her priorities, her values, her goals. And when she did that, it was incredible

the difference she felt in terms of her injury, her mental health and her well-being. So this is

Fran Horton talking about burnout and listening to

the signs and the messages coming from the body, which I think so many people could really benefit

from doing. What led you to this point of being burnt out and what came from that?

Yeah, so I was obviously really conscious that I still hadn't won and I felt

like it was one of my goals was to win the Olympics and I had had a standpoint of whatever crew I was in

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