Why Everything Starts Feeling Hard & Heavy: The Play Solution w/ Co-Founder of Refinery29 & Author Piera Gelardi
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Tiffany Carter
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Feeling exhausted, mentally blocked, emotionally disconnected, uninspired, or burned out from constantly being "on"?
In this deeply powerful episode, Tiffany sits down with Piera Gelardi, co-founder of Refinery29, author of The Playful Way, and creator of the NoomaLooma app, to explore why so many ambitious adults lose touch with play, creativity, joy, imagination, and emotional freedom — and how that disconnect impacts everything from mental health and nervous system regulation to abundance, relationships, creativity, business success, and overall fulfillment.
This conversation dives into the psychology of burnout, high-functioning anxiety, over-productivity, entrepreneurship pressure, and the emotional cost of constantly operating in survival mode.
If you've been searching for how to feel inspired again, how to reconnect with yourself, how to stop feeling emotionally numb, how to get out of burnout, or why success still feels heavy even after accomplishing so much… this episode is going to hit deeply.
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Inside this episode:
• Why ambitious adults disconnect from joy, creativity, and play
• The connection between nervous system health, emotional wellbeing, and abundance
• How burnout culture impacts entrepreneurs, creators, and high-achievers
• Why overworking can actually block creativity, intuition, innovation, and new ideas
• The hidden emotional cost of constantly operating from pressure and performance
• How play improves creativity, emotional regulation, inspiration, and fulfillment
• The role curiosity and imagination play in personal growth and business success
• Why some of your best ideas happen when you stop forcing outcomes
• How to create a more aligned, fulfilling, abundant life without abandoning ambition
• Relearning joy, creativity, emotional connection, and self-expression as an adult
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What if the reason you feel exhausted, disconnected, angry, mentally blocked, or just off lately, |
| 0:06.0 | maybe even this entire year, has nothing to do with needing another vacation, another morning |
| 0:12.0 | routine, or forcing yourself to push through harder or exercise more? |
| 0:18.0 | What if it's because you forgot how to play? Or maybe you never really learned because |
| 0:24.3 | you never were really allowed to. You never felt even fully safe to. And now I know that can |
| 0:30.2 | sound almost irresponsible and even unrealistic in a world that glorifies pressure, productivity, |
| 0:36.8 | and adulting yourself to the max every single |
| 0:39.8 | day. But this conversation completely reframed the way that I look at abundance, creativity, |
| 0:48.2 | magnetism, and success, and you know I'm all about the more fun you have, the more money you make, |
| 0:53.9 | and this took it to a whole other level. |
| 0:56.5 | Today, I have the pleasure of bringing on the show, Piero Jalardi. |
| 1:02.2 | And she's the co-founder. |
| 1:03.7 | You probably are familiar with Refinery 29 and the author of the new book, The Playful Way. |
| 1:09.8 | And what I love about this conversation is that it's not just about having more fun in |
| 1:15.5 | your life, you know, giving yourself more me time. |
| 1:19.0 | It's about reconnecting to the part of yourself that creates your best ideas, your deepest |
| 1:23.4 | fulfillment, your natural creativity, your intuition, and honestly, your |
| 1:29.4 | aliveness, because so many high-achieving people have unknowingly built their entire lives around |
| 1:35.2 | pressure, pressure to produce, pressure to perform, pressure for profits, pressure to prove. |
| 1:40.9 | And somewhere along the way, they got disconnected from joy curiosity imagination which is actually |
| 1:47.8 | where all the abundance comes from that's our quickest access point to abundance this episode |
| 1:54.8 | will feel like a permission slip to breathe again and honestly this conversation ties so perfectly |
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