The Rest Revolution: Amanda Miller Littlejohn on Fighting Burnout and Reclaiming Joy

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We’re taught that hard work, overachievement, and never needing a break are the keys to success. But what if this mindset only leads to burnout, rather than to fulfillment? In today’s episode of Hello Monday, Jessi Hempel and Amanda Miller Littlejohn explore the ways in which rest can be revolutionary. Amanda, an executive coach and author of The Rest Revolution, shares her personal journey from burnout to healing, and explains how we can all reclaim our health, our productivity, and our joy. Together, Jessi and Amanda dive into practical strategies for finding rest in our busy lives, even when it feels like there’s no time for it. They discuss: The toll of burnout on our mental and physical health How the pandemic helped Amanda confront her own dangerous work habits The importance of redefining success beyond productivity Simple ways to build rest into your daily rhythm Why true rest is essential to creating and sustaining new ideas How to reset your relationship with work and reclaim your health This episode is an essential listen for anyone ready to reimagine how to work, live, and rest. Continue the conversation with us at Hello Monday Office Hours! Join us on the LinkedIn News page this Wednesday at 3 PM EST.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News
0:03.0	The idea that we should show up and overwork, overproduce, produce perfectly, not need breaks, not need rest, that is a mindset that has been shaped over centuries.
0:19.0	But I think more and more people are finally getting to the point where they're recognizing
0:26.1	that they can't hold that definition of what it means to be a good worker and also simultaneously
0:35.3	hold their humanity.
0:39.4	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:44.5	It's our show about work on our own terms.
0:48.4	For centuries, we have been taught that hard work is everything.
0:52.5	Success comes from overproducing, overachieving. I mean, as a little
0:58.0	kid, I was called an overachiever and that was a compliment. It was something I should aspire to be.
1:04.0	I mean, where did that desire even start? I'll tell you what it leads to. And you know, it leads to
1:10.5	burnout. And it feels to me And you know, it leads to burnout.
1:17.2	And it feels to me like those cycles of burnout, they're coming faster and faster and faster as we try to work harder and harder and harder.
1:19.8	And somewhere we are losing the thread on what we're working for.
1:24.5	Something has got to change.
1:26.9	Today we're diving into rest. Revolutionary rest.
1:31.7	We're going to talk about how to make it part of our daily rhythm. And I just have this sense
1:35.9	that if we can figure out how to do that, well, it's more than revolutionary. It is the path
1:40.8	to how we truly create new ideas and make them stick.
1:45.3	My guest today is Amanda Miller Littlejohn.
1:48.6	She's an executive coach and she is a personal branding expert.
1:52.5	And most importantly for our conversation today, she's the author of a new book.
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