EP017 | Burnout Recovery, Finding Balance & Customising Your Life, with Sarah Allison
08/15/24 • 35 min
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In this episode:
Have you ever experienced burnout?
How did it look and feel like for you? Did you know that it can be experienced differently – person to person?
I have invited my old work colleague and friend, Sarah Allison, to come and share her burnout and recovery story, which saw her redefine what her life and work looked like in major ways.
Sarah has had a rich and varied career, working for global companies to charities and start-ups, mostly in the technology and environmental sectors.
But, after experiencing serious health burn out, she has customised the way she lives and works, and has forged her own incredible path – one that sees her living half the year in the UK, and the other half in India, and mixing corporate consultancy work with holistic healing work through shiatsu and qigong.
In this episode you will hear Sarah talk about what the burnout catalyst was for her, and what it taught her about what she needed and wanted. We chat about her portfolio career and how she manages it, and how she found the courage to follow her own path, despite the negative societal connotation that she’s living like a “hippy”.
Come join us. Sarah’s story is fascinating.
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GUEST BIO:
Sarah Allison is part corporate geek, part holistic health worker who has taken seemingly radical steps to find balance in her life - steps that she believes anyone can take.
She now lives between a sleepy village in southern England and the jungles of tropical Goa.
In 2019, she left a 15-year corporate PR career working with some of the world's largest technology companies, to pursue a new chapter that saw her recover from burnout, find her own rhythm and live through the global pause for 2.5 years in India.
During this time, her holistic Practitioner work flourished and she re-defined the ingredients for health and happiness, on her terms. She finds peace and fulfilment in nature, and now pursues work that nourishes her mind, energy and soul.
If you would like to know more about Sarah or would like to connect with her, please do go to her website at energymoves.one, find her on Facebook, or join her on Instagram.
ALISON O’LEARY BIO:
Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.
She’s the founder and designer of the Work WonderlandTM process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.
Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.
Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.
When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.
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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes, or on YouTube.
In this episode:
Have you ever experienced burnout?
How did it look and feel like for you? Did you know that it can be experienced differently – person to person?
I have invited my old work colleague and friend, Sarah Allison, to come and share her burnout and recovery story, which saw her redefine what her life and work looked like in major ways.
Sarah has had a rich and varied career, working for global companies to charities and start-ups, mostly in the technology and environmental sectors.
But, after experiencing serious health burn out, she has customised the way she lives and works, and has forged her own incredible path – one that sees her living half the year in the UK, and the other half in India, and mixing corporate consultancy work with holistic healing work through shiatsu and qigong.
In this episode you will hear Sarah talk about what the burnout catalyst was for her, and what it taught her about what she needed and wanted. We chat about her portfolio career and how she manages it, and how she found the courage to follow her own path, despite the negative societal connotation that she’s living like a “hippy”.
Come join us. Sarah’s story is fascinating.
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GUEST BIO:
Sarah Allison is part corporate geek, part holistic health worker who has taken seemingly radical steps to find balance in her life - steps that she believes anyone can take.
She now lives between a sleepy village in southern England and the jungles of tropical Goa.
In 2019, she left a 15-year corporate PR career working with some of the world's largest technology companies, to pursue a new chapter that saw her recover from burnout, find her own rhythm and live through the global pause for 2.5 years in India.
During this time, her holistic Practitioner work flourished and she re-defined the ingredients for health and happiness, on her terms. She finds peace and fulfilment in nature, and now pursues work that nourishes her mind, energy and soul.
If you would like to know more about Sarah or would like to connect with her, please do go to her website at energymoves.one, find her on Facebook, or join her on Instagram.
ALISON O’LEARY BIO:
Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.
She’s the founder and designer of the Work WonderlandTM process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.
Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.
Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.
When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.
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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes, or on YouTube.
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EP016 | Four key signs, warning of a disconnection from your happiness path, with Alison O’Leary
In this episode:
In this episode I’m coming at you solo to talk about the notion of HAPPINESS.
It’s something we are all seeking, but it’s a nebulous term, and for many, working out what it actually looks and feels like for us is really hard to pin down.
Personally, I spent a lot of years in the dark, with no idea what happiness genuinely looked like for me, and now I have a lot of clients who come to me because they’re in a similar position – feeling really disconnected from what makes them happy, either from a work or personal point of view, or both.
In this episode I talk you through what causes this disconnect; the signs to look out for that will indicate that you’re veering away from your own happiness path; and I share an idea for how to reconnect more deeply with your own intrinsic happiness drivers.
I hope you enjoy it!
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ALISON O’LEARY BIO:
Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.
She’s the founder and designer of the Work WonderlandTM process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.
Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.
Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.
When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.
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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes, or on YouTube.
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EP018 | How age is on my side. Starting a new career journey in my 50s, with Anna Perkins
In this episode:
I am joined by my fabulous former client, Anna Perkins, who (and she won’t mind me telling you) has started a new career journey in her early 50s.
Anna has been a marketeer for 25+ years, and while there’s a lot about this role she still really enjoys, she knew that if it’s all she continued to do until the end of her working days, it would kill her soul (her words, not mine!)
After some deep, introspective work to dig out her innate strengths, skills and passions, and identify what would deliver a true sense of meaning and purpose for her, Anna is now immersed in the world of mental health, and is training to become a counsellor.
In this episode, I chat to Anna about how she came to choose this new career path; the steps she’s taking towards it; how she’s found being back in the classroom and what she has learnt about herself through that process, and importantly for a lot of people, how age is actually on her side.
Come join us.
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GUEST BIO:
After a short spell as a secondary school teacher, Anna Perkins has spent 25 years in Marketing. She’s worked for some of the world’s biggest brands as well as small start-ups leading teams with a passion for brand development, messaging and clear communications.
Anna has always had an interest in knowing what makes people tick and, in more recent years she has got involved in mental health, both through formal training as well as being the champion and MH team leader in her current role. This started the journey she is now on, which includes working as a mediator, volunteering with Cruse Bereavement and Papyrus, and training to be a counsellor.
This has brought together her passions for psychology, helping people and supporting them in their toughest times.
ALISON O’LEARY BIO:
Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.
She’s the founder and designer of the Work WonderlandTM process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.
Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.
Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.
When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.
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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes, or on YouTube.
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