The Real Reason You're Burnt Out (Hint: It's Not Doing Too Much) | Ep 370

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What if your burnout is not because you're doing too much, but because you're not doing enough of the stuff that lights you up and makes you feel alive?

In this energizing solo episode, Erin is reframing burnout through the lens of disconnection: from your creativity, your joy, and your unique voltage.

If you’re a high-achieving practitioner feeling the weight of 1:1 work and wondering how to scale your impact without losing the soul of what you do, this episode introduces the power of group programs. There’s no better way to give more people access to you and your inner genius.

And Erin is hosting a special 90 minute masterclass on August 14th to help you package up your protocols, insights, and client wins into your next creation, with no fluff. This is a jam-packed session for anyone ready to teach, lead, and create from a place of alignment. Sign up here!

In this episode:

Why traditional burnout advice misses the mark, and what your energy body has to do with healing
The critical difference between empathy and compassion (one quietly leads to emotional depletion!)
How Erin scaled her business by following her inner voltage rather than just tactics
The signs that you’re running on someone else’s power source instead of your own
Why group programs should NEVER be created using AI tools like ChatGPT, and how your energy impacts the experience
PLUS, thoughtful journal prompts to reconnect to yourself

Transcript

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0:00.0	When you align with your unique gifts, life responds to you. But when we're disconnected from that,
0:11.2	when we're saying yes to things out of obligation, when we're trying to fit into a mold or meet
0:17.8	someone else's expectations, when we're trying to do what we think we should be doing,
0:23.9	that's when everything starts to shut down.
0:27.1	Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K,
0:30.1	because we do things a little differently around here.
0:32.5	I'm your host, Aaron Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience as a functional nutritionist
0:36.9	and mindset coach,
0:38.2	creating a new model that I call intuitive functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine
0:43.0	with the innate intelligence of your body. This is where science meets self-trust. Your body
0:49.2	already knows how to heal and this show is going to show you how. If you're looking for new ways of
0:54.6	thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with a friend because you never know
0:58.5	whose life you might change. Hello, my friends. I hope you have enjoyed the bulk of your July.
1:06.7	Today's episode is one that I think many of us need to hear, whether you're on your own healing
1:12.1	journey or you're a practitioner helping people on theirs. And if you're anything like me,
1:17.0	it's probably a message that you have to be reminded of from time to time. I know I certainly do.
1:21.6	Today we're going to talk about burnout, but maybe not in the way you've heard it framed before or even here on the show,
1:29.5	because we've certainly addressed burnout a lot. Today, I'm going to float this idea out to you.
1:34.9	What if your burnout is not because you're doing too much, but because you're not doing enough
1:41.9	of the stuff that lights you up and makes you feel alive.
1:46.9	Like I said, this is a lesson or a message or medicine I've had to receive time and time and
1:53.6	time again. And this past year in particular, actually kind of starting last July.
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