Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout Podcast, Kelly here.

And this week's guest is Amanda Miller Littlejohn.

Amanda is a nationally recognized executive coach, journalist, and mental health advocate,

and thought leader in personal branding and leadership development. As the founder of Package

Your Genius Academy, Amanda has spent over a decade helping high achievers uncover their purpose

and amplify their visibility.

Amanda's newest book, The Rest Revolution, offers timely insights into the importance of rest,

renewal, and resilience in today's fast-paced world.

This episode and this week's material is really timely and on brand and on theme with what we're working towards this month, which is all about rest as a way to heal.

Our conversation with Amanda starts with her talking a little bit about modern day burnout and where it's coming from that we've learned to not rest.

How do we start buying into the lie that we need to keep going all the time?

She explores the concepts of machine mindset this week, and we talk a little bit about how we go from overworking and being overproductive to understanding the power of rest as a tool to better ourselves. Let's jump into the conversation.

All right. Hello, Amanda. So glad to have you with us today. How are you doing? I'm doing great and I'm so happy to be here. Yeah, it's good to have you. I wanted to jump right in because the theme of our month is all about rest. You know, our theme of the year for us at Black Girl burnout is all about New Year healed me being the most healed version of ourselves. And we know, our theme of the year for us at Black Girl Burnout is all about New Year healed me being the most healed version of ourselves.

And we know when we're in the midst of healing, the most important aspect of that is rest.

And so that's why I wanted to have this conversation with you today to talk about your book, The Rest Revolution, and to get into some of the concepts and how we as black women

can prioritize rest more in our lives. And to that point, I want to talk a little bit about in the

book, you cover this concept of the machine mindset, right, where you explore the idea of like

how we as people, we lose our humanity when we try to fit into

this box of what it means to be productive and what it means to go, go.

And so how can we, first of all, can you describe a little bit more about what that is

and how we can begin to deep program from that. So we can shift into thriving and shift into rest.

So machine mindset is really a concept that came to me after studying how work evolved,

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