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How I Fell Out of HR, with Charli Gamber

Burnout Made Me Do It

06/02/22 • 30 min

Charli Gamber joins us in this episode to share her experiences with burnout, as well as insight from an HR perspective. As professionals who are trained to identify and handle burnout in organizations, Charli emphasizes the important role they have in creating a workplace environment that is conducive to employee well-being. She also gives us insight as to why burnout is so challenging to overcome and the catch-22 situation that many experience. She also discusses why certain professions are prone to burning out, and what we can do at an organizational level to address this from an HR standpoint. Finally, Charli shares with us her journey toward recovery, tells her wildest burnout story, and offers solid advice for people who are facing burnout.

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Why I'm Here

Burnout Made Me Do It

05/19/22 • 12 min

The premiere episode of “Burnout Made Me Do It” introduces us to our host, Dr. Kim Hollingdale, a psychotherapist and coach who has experienced burnout firsthand. She recalls her personal story, and how this experience led to her obtaining a PhD as well as becoming a licensed therapist.

The pandemic caused a major shift in not only how we worked, but also how we thought about the relationship between our working environment and mental health. In her practice, Dr. Kim noticed that the topic of burnout kept reemerging, and decided this was the perfect opportunity to open up further dialogue. And that's why she's here.

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Discovering Fulfilment in the Extremes, with Katie Perez

Burnout Made Me Do It

06/23/22 • 32 min

This episode features special guest Katie Perez, LMFT.

Katie is a brave one! In this episode she shares her very authentic and vulnerable personal life experiences, including encountering burnout in her professional life, and tells us about finding fulfilment through an unlikely avenue - an extreme experience in the outdoors.

Katie discusses the pressure she felt of trying to check all of the boxes of having a career, a family, a marriage - the whole lot - and also the unexpected feeling of freedom she experienced after failure.

Katie moved to a small town in Washington. After struggling with alcoholism and the end of her marriage, she started learning about boats and how to repair them. This cultivated an interest in boating which began the start of a fisherman’s life on a crab boat. Yes, you read that right! Not only was this radically different from her previous career as a therapist, but it was also a big cultural shift for her as well. She describes the exhilarating experience she had in a world that was completely different from her own and the feeling of empowerment she gained from doing a difficult job in an extreme environment with some grumpy old ‘sea dogs’ who didn't know what to make of her!

In this episode, we discuss the importance of self-knowledge and how realizing what makes you function at your best can prevent burnout. Finally, we look at having the courage to follow a dream and to listen to what your experience is telling you.

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Young and Burnt Out

Burnout Made Me Do It

08/04/22 • 38 min

Burnout can happen at any age, and today’s special guest joins us to talk about burnout in the mid-twenties and having a quarter-life crisis.

Sonora Plumb is a playfulness coach and artist who helps people reconnect with their relationship with playfulness to counteract, burnout. She helps people learn to rest and not feel guilty about it, which is something that is very difficult for overachievers to accomplish.

Sonora was an overachiever who started to have issues with her physical and mental health until she got so burned out that she couldn’t function. This experience made her realize how much healing she had backlogged. Burnout made her confront deeper issues that were going on within herself.

Her experiences with burnout inspired her to start coaching others, and she shares with us some of her concepts and philosophies. One of the most exciting is the concept of the “and” possibility: instead of choosing either or, you can choose ‘and’ You can have multiple things at once without choosing between your health and your success.

Sonora offers a fresh perspective, both as someone who has experienced burnout and as a coach helping others work through the same experiences that she has had. She describes her personal journey

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Leaving your agency job, with Helen Kartika

Burnout Made Me Do It

07/07/22 • 35 min

Helen is a Business Consultant and Certified Coach, passionate about working with business owners and ambitious professionals to cultivate greater inner confidence, overcome overwhelm, and face the limitations that are holding them back from taking action and achieving their goals. Before starting my career as a coach I worked in marketing and advertising for nearly a decade in Sydney, London, and Berlin. On paper, it seemed like I had a dream job, yet I was hugely unfulfilled and found myself constantly wondering, “Is this all life has to offer!?” After deciding to leave the corporate world behind to start my own marketing agency and my very first business, I dove head first into complete burnout. I thought starting my own business would give me more flexibility, freedom, and purpose, but guess what? It did the exact opposite. Suddenly, I found myself chained to my desk more than ever and now faced with a whole bunch of uncertainty, mindset blocks, and challenges. That I’d never experienced before in my secure corporate life. That’s when I embarked on my own journey to more balance and soon found a passion for wanting to help other business owners and ambitious professionals who might be facing the same challenges.

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No boundaries equals burnout, with Sarah Falk

Burnout Made Me Do It

08/18/22 • 21 min

In this episode I’m joined by Sarah Falk. Sarah is a therapist, anxiety coach, consultant, and author with over 30 years of personal experience in the process of healing anxiety. With 20 years of professional work, she has consolidated all of her wisdom and knowledge to help as many people as possible to heal their relationships with anxiety too.

Sarah discusses her relationship with writing and how she uses and recommends the writing process for the people she works with. She shares with us the strategies she uses to help the people who don’t consider themselves writers or who may face other barriers like perfectionism.

We also discuss setting boundaries in the workplace to help prevent burnout and we discuss some of the best ways to take an inner look at some of our behaviours in the workplace. Sarah recommends self-reflection and taking a look at some people-pleasing behaviours to determine their cause. Are these behaviours because we place our value and identity on our job and productivity, or are we trying to be liked? She discusses how to find a healthy balance.

Sarah talks about the mind, body, and spirit approach she uses when helping her clients. She explains how she shows her clients what overwhelm, anxiety, and burnout look like in a posture and teaches us another posture to counterbalance this.

Finally, Sarah shares with us her personal tips for managing a busy work and home life.

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Managing Up: How to Handle Your Difficult Manager

Burnout Made Me Do It

01/23/23 • 19 min

In this episode of the Burnout Made Me Do It podcast, Dr. Kim Hollingdale talks with talent consultant and bestselling author of 'Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around', Roberta Matuson, about how to 'manage up' and handle some classic 'difficult' manager behavior.

Managing up is a skill that we are NOT taught in college but one that's absolutely critical for survival and success in the workplace- understanding what drives your manager, and managing them to make your life easier at work . Listen in and learn how you can take more control over your working life.

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For more than 25 years, Roberta Matuson has been helping organizations find, hire, grow, and keep top talent, saving them millions of dollars that would otherwise be lost in the recruiting process, and achieve dramatic growth because they have the best people.

As a former executive, Roberta has the vantage point of understanding what it’s like to work at all levels of an organization. At the age of 24, she found herself in the executive suite, where she was responsible for building a world-class HR department for a commercial real estate firm. Shortly thereafter, Roberta was involved in taking the company through a public offering.

She understands the frustrations of employee turnover that many employees and leaders experience, and has coached and consulted with many Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to help them become a place where employees want to stay. You can learn more about Roberta's vast experience here: https://matusonconsulting.com/

And of course, please visit https://www.burnoutmademedoit.com, for more info about how your host, Dr. Kim, works with individuals and companies, to reduce workplace burnout and improve human well-being by rethinking the workplace. You can also connect with Dr. Kim on IG: Instagram.com/burnoutmademedoit

Finding Happiness In Something You Aren't Good At, with Megan Tobin

Burnout Made Me Do It

06/09/22 • 27 min

In this weeks episode Megan Tobin, the principal coach of TMT coaching shares her story of burnout and how she found a way out through something she didn’t feel she was good at.
Megan is an endurance athlete, a Triathlon Coach, and a recovering corporate marketer. Despite having a successful career, Megan was left feeling unfulfilled and burnt out even though everyone told her she was crushing it. It was actually through trying an activity she was not good at that she finally found her greatest joy.
After experiencing burnout and hitting walls, Megan was advised to start self-care. She described seeing other triathletes and feeling like that was something she could never do. Not one to step away from a challenge, Megan hired a trainer and ran a 5K three weeks later. The following month she completed her first triathlon!
In this episode, we explore what we have been taught about success, and how we are taught to seek things we are good at. However, it was only when Megan pursued something that she wasn’t good at that she experienced the greatest joy. Not only did she learn to believe in herself, but she learned the value of doing an activity because she loves it and just how important meaningful self-care is.

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