The Hidden Link Between High Achievement, Burnout, and Hormone Imbalance | Ep 358

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a high-achieving woman who's ever felt like your ambition was leading you straight into burnout, you’re not alone. In this episode, Erin dives deep into the relationship between ambition, burnout, and hormone health.

Guess what? It’s not ambition itself that's the problem, but ambition without rest, support, and self-awareness. She unpacks the hidden patterns of perfectionism, codependency, and over-functioning that so often drive depletion and hormonal dysfunction in high performers, and shares how your mindset and relational patterns may be silently impacting your body’s ability to thrive.

You'll learn why common signs like weight loss resistance, thyroid sluggishness, low cortisol, and persistent fatigue aren’t just “part of the hustle” but major signals from your body that it’s time to make a change. Erin also shares her own story of reaching a tipping point and how she transformed both her business and her well-being.

In This Episode:

Ambition alone ISN’T what leads to burnout - what actually is causing high performers to crash?
How perfectionism and perceived lack sabotage hormone health without you even realizing it
The majorly overlooked signs in hormone labs that reveal your body is running on empty
Erin’s realization about over-functioning and codependency that completely shifted her personal and professional life
The critical role of community and support systems for ambitious women
Why isolation may be your biggest hidden stressor

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https://www.thefunktionalnutritionist.com/podc ast/358-burnout

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's not ambition alone that causes you to burnout. That leads to a depletion state.
0:07.8	That leads to hormone imbalance. It's ambition without rest. It's perfectionism disguised as
0:16.4	ambition. It's ambition while viewing yourself in perceived lack. It's ambition without allowing yourself
0:24.7	to receive support. It's ambition with overfunctioning. It's ambition with isolation. That is what's
0:33.4	causing us to burn out. I'm Erin Holt, and this is the functional nutrition podcast where we
0:38.2	lean into intuitive functional medicine. We look at how diet, our environment, our emotions, and
0:44.4	our beliefs all affect our physical health. I've got over a decade of clinical experience,
0:49.7	and because of that, I've got a major bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional
0:53.7	health care model.
0:55.1	This show is for you if you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health and you're ready to be an active participant in your own healing.
1:02.2	I would love for you to follow the show, rate, review, and share because you never know whose life you might change.
1:08.7	Hi, friends. Are you a highly ambitious person? Great. This one is for you.
1:14.3	Before we get into it, I want to remind you that your hormone revival is currently open for
1:19.0	enrollment. This is our three-month hormone program. We haven't run it live in two years almost,
1:25.4	and we're probably not going to do it again. So if you want in, get in now,
1:28.9	seats are filling up fast as they do. This is the last week that you have the opportunity to join.
1:34.5	So I wanted to remind you right at the top of the episode. Okay, ambition. Last March,
1:41.0	2024, I released an episode, episode 302 on ambition and adrenals.
1:46.6	Why highly ambitious people burn out and what we can do about it.
1:51.2	Little did I know that episode would become an even deeper invitation for me to sit with
1:57.4	some of the things that I discussed.
1:59.6	Isn't that fun when that happens? The thing with
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