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FRIED. The Burnout Podcast is dedicated to burnout awareness and burnout recovery. FRIED is the place to start, or continue, your burnout recovery journey. Cait Donovan, host of FRIED, believes in your ability to heal and lead a more fulfilling, more engaged life and that storytelling is one way to spark a healing journey. This podcast is designed to change lives and is committed to maintaining a standard that is deserving of its listeners. Together, we can #endburnout.
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Dr. Sharon Grossman: Success Coach
Decode Your Burnout is a podcast for high achievers who are burned out, want to get to the root of the issue, and customize their recovery strategy. This podcast is hosted by Dr. Sharon Grossman who is a burnout expert, best selling author, and speaker. If you are burned out and want to crack the code on your burnout so it doesn't happen again, this is the place for you.
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Making It: How to Be a Successful Online Entrepreneur
For most aspiring online entrepreneurs, “making it” means achieving success in your business. But what exactly is business success anyway? And how do outwardly successful online entrepreneurs define "making it"? Here at Mirasee FM, we wanted to find out, so we asked a group of diverse online business owners what success means to them. Their answers and insights surprised, moved, and inspired us. In this podcast, accomplished online entrepreneurs discuss what making it means to them, provide ...
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Cait Donovan: 3 Steps to Recover from Resentment
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Are you someone who tries to take care of everyone else and ends up overly annoyed that others don’t appreciate your efforts? Or perhaps when they ask for something from you, you think, “Haven’t I given you enough?” This, my friend, is resentment. On this week’s episode of Decode Your Burnout, we are joined by Cait Donovan – herself a burnout and r…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Melissa Guller is the founder of Wit & Wire, a company that helps creators earn money online doing work they love. “There's an element of challenge that comes when we try somethin…
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Belinda Ellsworth: The Effects of the COVID Hustle - Part 2
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Last week, Belinda Ellsworth, host of the “Work from Your Happy Place” podcast, shared about the struggle she faced as an entrepreneur during COVID and how the hustle to reinvent her business led her to burn out. This week, we talk about what allowed her to bounce back rather than stay stuck. We talk about grief, the fact that “there is no normal” …
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#straightfromcait: How to Deal with Guilt Associated with Burnout
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No one likes to feel guilty. Most often people will choose resentment over guilt, because it feels easier to blame someone else than it does to process their guilt. Resentment takes a large toll on relationships and overall mental health and can worsen burnout. In today’s #straightfromcait episode, Cait explains how to skip over the resentment stag…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Samantha Riley is an author, speaker and podcast host. Her company, SamanthaRiley.global, helps coaches and practitioners position themselves as an authority in their industry. “I…
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Belinda Ellsworth: The Effects of the COVID Hustle - Part 1
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We often talk about the effects of COVID on physical and mental health, but the pandemic also affected how we do business. If you are an entrepreneur, you may have found yourself scrambling to stay afloat as your way of operation was no longer viable. In fact, many business owners had to pivot during the past couple of years to stay afloat, somethi…
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Rebecca Kase: EMDR for Healing Trauma, Self-Care Cakes, and Hope for the Future
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Rebecca Kase is a licensed clinical social worker and expert in EMDR. She experienced her worst burnout when working with a nonprofit organization in community mental health. A combination of toxic authoritarian leadership, unsafe work environment, and clinically challenging patients was the perfect recipe for burnout. Rebecca started to fall into …
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Fred Diamond runs a business called The Institute for Excellence in Sales. He is devoted to growing the careers of B2B sales executives and their teams. “You can't just accept the…
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#straightfromsarah: What “Healing Isn't Linear” Means for Your Burnout Recovery
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Are you having a hard time recognizing whether you’re recovering from burnout due to the ebbs and flows of the healing process? Healing is not linear and at times you may feel worse before you feel better. In this week’s #straightfromsarah episode, FRIED Burnout Coach Sarah Vosen talks about how to recognize the signs that you are in fact recoverin…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Jill Lublin is the founder of Promising Promotion, a company that helps clients get more visibility using publicity as a marketing tool. Click on the "FREE GIFT" link below for a …
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Atherton Drenth: 3 Simple Things to Heal from Burnout and Reduce Your Stress and Anxiety By Up to 50 Percent
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Have you ever had a notion that something terrible would happen to you? Did you believe it so much that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy? That’s what happened to Atherton Drenth. At age 8, Artherton had a vision that told her she would die when she reached her 45th year. As she approached that time, her health started to decline. But just as a …
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Danielle Cobo: Transforming Self Doubt and Using Resilience as a Resource
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Danielle Cobo is a fascinating and inspiring force of a woman. She works as a career leadership and sales performance coach, hosts The Dream Job with Danielle Cobo podcast, and is a devoted military wife and mother. Her challenging life experiences helped her to become resilient and lead her down the path to entrepreneurship after a career in sales…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Brenden Kumarasamy is the founder and creator of the YouTube channel Master Talk. He loves to help business leaders accelerate their success through mastering communication. “I do…
Sometimes life throws us curve balls and forces us into situations that are novel. We all experienced that with COVID. What if instead of sticking to your comfort zone, you seized these opportunities to reinvent yourself? Certainly, this may help you prevent burnout if you are easily bored at work and crave stimulation. Saleema Vellani is no strang…
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#straightfromcait: How Do I Know if I’m Recovering From Burnout or Stuck on the Burnout Cycle
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During your burnout recovery, it may feel difficult to tell whether you are truly on the right path to recovery or still trapped in the burnout cycle. You will have ups and downs that may cause you to feel that your recovery is slipping back toward burnout again. In today’s #straightfromcait episode, Cait explains five signs to watch for that will …
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Rennie Gabriel is the author of the best-selling book Wealth on Any Income, which is also the name of his business. Rennie is also a speaker, instructor and philanthropist who hel…
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Annie Meehan: The 3 Principles to Lead an Exceptional Life
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Sometimes life’s hardships can lead us to burn out. But what’s also true is that we can learn what doesn’t work and use these experiences to better ourselves and the world. That’s the message Annie Meehan shares and how she lives her life. She reminds us that going on fumes is futile, that where you come from doesn’t have to define where you’re goi…
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Merel Kriegsman: Success on Your Own Terms, Suicidal Ideations, Erotica, and All
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Merel Kriegsman is the CEO and founder of her own company which helps women achieve their full wealth potential by marketing their most valuable gifts. She has helped countless women become successful entrepreneurs by assisting them with selling premium offers and programs. Merel began her career as an opera singer and then started her own business…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Michael Roderick is the founder of Small Pond Enterprises, LLC, a company that helps service-based professionals become thought leaders. “So if you are able to tap into people's e…
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Dr. Laura Berenstain: When You Don’t Perceive You Have A Choice
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Sometimes we find ourselves in highly challenging situations at work and at home that take a toll on us. We stay in these situations when we don’t perceive we have a choice. We try to power through, but find over time that we run out of steam. Dr. Laura Berenstain shares her challenges as a physician, mothers, and wife that led her to burnout, how …
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#straightfromsarah: Honoring Cycles to Boost Burnout Recovery
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Have you been trying to live a linear lifestyle in a cyclical world? The truth is, Western society tends to look at life through a linear lens with a big focus on getting from point A to point B. In reality, life is cyclical and when we live out of sync with those cycles, we can be more susceptible to burnout. In this week’s #straightfromsarah epis…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Cait Donovan is the host of Fried – The Burnout Podcast, and author of the book The Bouncebackability Factor: End Burnout, Gain Resilience, and Change the World. Since recovering …
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Stephanie Melodia: When FOMO Leads to Burnout, Turn on the Fun Factor
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How do you know if you’re just tired or if you’re burned out? You know you’re in burnout if you just can’t bounce back. That’s what happened to Stephanie Melodia who, as a super achiever, kept getting signs from her body but could not slow down. She needed to keep going. What happened to her is what happens to many high achievers who burn out. Alth…
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Vanessa Zamy - Toxic Work Environments, Building a Side Hustle, and Being the Core of Your Life
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Vanessa Zamy, The Business Defibrillator, is a keynote speaker, business expert, and bestselling author with her own consulting company. Her burnout occurred when she was working in a corporate job for a toxic, narcissistic boss while also trying to support and grow her new business on the side. She tried for months to make things work with her bos…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Erik Luhrs is a peak-performance business coach. He helps people master themselves in order to harness their potential and master their business. He credits his success with clien…
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Flo Nicolas: Debunking The 3 Biggest Myths that Keep Business Owners From Leveraging Technology (that Could Save Them From Burning Out)
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Flo Nicolas, AKA the non-boring lawyer, is a former lawyer, who after burning out, left the legal profession to go after her dreams. Flo is a legal technologist who simplifies technology for professionals and small business owners so they can increase their productivity. She’s been described as a “firecracker of knowledge and expertise when it come…
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#straightfromcait: How To Tell People About Your Burnout
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There comes a time when you may need to tell the people in your life about your burnout. Certain people like your HR department or your spouse will need to know in explicit detail in order to support your recovery to the best of their abilities. Others like co-workers or clients may not need to know as many details, but still need to know how it wi…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Craig Handley is a marketing expert, adventurer, author and public speaker. He is the CEO of Listen Trust, a call center company and Social Close, a brand management and marketing…
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Dr. Amy O’Hana: Can Being Passionate About Your Work Prevent Burnout?
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Have you lost the connection to your work? If so, erotic intelligence may be just what you need. This week on Decode Your Burnout, my guest is Dr. Amy O'Hana who helps burned-out people fall in love with work again. In a sense, erotic intelligence, she assures us, is not necessarily about sexuality. Instead, it’s about feeling reconnected to our se…
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The Truth Behind Empathy As A Tool For Healing From Burnout
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Dr. Kristen Donnelly, one of The Good Doctors of Abbey Research, is an international empathy educator. She has two decades of experience and an educational background in social work. Dr. Donnelly uses her PhD in social sciences to help people all over the world learn about empathy through her Ted Talks and hybrid, in-person, and virtual coaching. S…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Ana Melikian is a life coach who is dedicated to helping people tap into their highest potential while enjoying the process. Her advice to entrepreneurs includes finding their uni…
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Dr. Shane Creado: Go on a Mini-Vacation Every Night to Prevent Burnout
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What’s the one thing that can help with your ability to perform on the job, allow you to better manage your emotions, improve your health, and perhaps save your marriage? Sleep! “When life gets busy and we’re pulled in different directions, the first thing we let go of is sleep and that’s the thing we need to preserve the most.” This is according t…
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#straightfromsarah: Knowing and Accepting Yourself Makes Burnout Recovery Faster
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Do you feel like you’re not actually suited for the role you are trying to fill in your life? That role might not be the ideal one for you! In this week’s #straightfromsarah episode, FRIED Burnout Coach Sarah Vosen talks about ways to get to know yourself better and how to apply what you learn to help lead a more fulfilling and more burnout-proof l…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. John Livesay, aka The Pitch Whisperer, is a sales keynote speaker. He shows sales teams how to turn mundane case studies into compelling stories to win more new business. From pap…
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Bridget Mimari: 3 Signs You’re Living In Your Masculine Energy
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Sometimes, a feeling of scarcity and a need to be hyper-independent can lead us to drive ourselves too hard and burn out. That’s exactly what happened to Bridget Mimari, a former lawyer and mother of four who was living in functional burnout until she developed a fatal liver condition at the end of one of her pregnancies. Bridget has since retired …
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Helena Lucia: Money, Burnout, and Interrupting Old Patterns After Leaving a Cult
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Helena Lucia, founder and CEO of SISU Journey, is a speaker, podcast host and trauma-informed money coach. Her experiences growing up in an extreme fundamentalist religious cult led her down a path where she became passionate about helping others heal from childhood trauma through gaining a better relationship with money. She shares her tips for in…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Nancy Juetten is the founder of Get Known Get Paid, an agency that helps service-based professionals book themselves on podcasts. She knew at a young age that she was destined to …
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Darrell Evans: How Trying to Be All Things to All People Can Burn You Out
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Are you a super competitive person in business and in life who’s burned out chasing success when what you really want is fulfillment? That’s what my guest this week, Darrell Evans, shares about his entrepreneurial journey. Darrell was wired for competition from a young age when he played sports. As an adult, his environment perpetuated the competit…
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#straightfromcait: The Articles Against Self-Care for Burnout Recovery Are Missing This Major Point
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Many articles that talk about burnout make the mistake of devaluing self-care as a burnout prevention or recovery tool. But self care isn’t all just pedicures and massages, and it can be a huge factor in burnout recovery. When you take away self-care, it puts the entire focus on the systems in place that cause burnout, which may lead people to beli…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Chris Badgett is the co-founder and CEO of LifterLMS, a learning management system for WordPress. As a kid, he was often bored, preferring outdoor adventure to indoor education. B…
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Judith Gaton: If You’ve Stopped Paying Attention to Yourself, Start with Your Panties
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Did you just realize that you’re burned out? Or maybe you just recovered from burnout and although you’ve never considered doing something else for work, you’re starting to wonder about your options. This week’s guest, Judith Gaton, shares her journey of going from being a lawyer to becoming a life coach. She encourages others who are feeling fed u…
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Nneka Roberts: Using Systems to Create More Time, Mental Space, Creativity, and Money
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Nneka Roberts, operations consultant at Sage Simple Solutions, has worked designing systems for 20 years. She now works with consulting clients teaching them how to implement systems to improve their businesses and lives. She shares her tips for using systems to help avoid burnout. Tune into this episode to learn more. “I think what ends up happeni…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. AJ Wilcox is the founder of B2Linked, an agency that teaches clients how to get the best ROI with LinkedIn ads strategies. As a young adult, he loved networking but didn’t think h…
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Davina Stanley: Debunking the Myths of What it Takes to Be an Amazing Business Communicator
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Are you spending your nights and weekends organizing your reports for work? Do you constantly have to edit what you write because you’re not getting the responsiveness that you want? Are you feeling frustrated, bitter, or are you starting to lose confidence in yourself because you’re not getting the decisions you want? Certainly, this is not only k…
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#straightfromsarah: Rebuilding Trust With Yourself During Burnout Recovery
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Do you struggle with trusting yourself? If you’re experiencing burnout it can be extremely difficult to trust yourself. You’ve been ignoring your body’s signals for a long time, not taking care of yourself properly, and you likely feel like a shell of yourself. To recover from burnout, you must rebuild that trust. In the first ever #straightfromsar…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Daniel Mangena is the founder and CEO of Dreamer HQ, a company that helps clients find abundance, meaning and joy in their lives. After losing everything (not once, but twice), he…
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Gary Collins: Regain Your Freedom and Minimize Burnout Through the Simple Life
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Gary Collins was a “kid from nowhere who wanted to do better than his parents to escape “poorville.” He “did everything right” but got caught up in chasing the carrot. His burnout was a “blessing in disguise.” Now he shares his 3-legged stool of living a simple life, the exact principles that allowed him to have a total reset and “get back to old G…
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Dan Sykes: The Somatic Fanatic Talks the Power of Curiosity For Nervous System Training
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“If you are no longer curious, the best of your life is behind you because the best of your life is being curious,” shares Dan Sykes, Founder of the Somatic Training Network and author of Somatic Fanatic. Dan’s burnout came as a result of a midlife crisis. He found relief in the somatic arts, the art of training the nervous system, and aims to shar…
Welcome to Making It! This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. Debbie Allen has been a professional speaker and business mentor for 25 years, despite the fact that she barely passed high school and skipped college altogether. That didn’t dete…
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Dr. Michelle Quirk: How to Get Off the Treadmill of Work When You’re Burning Out
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Do you feel like no matter how much you sleep, you can’t get enough rest? If you’re a busy professional, it might feel like you can’t press pause. You want to get off the treadmill but you don’t know how. In this week’s episode of Decode Your Burnout, pediatrician Michelle Quirk shares her burnout story that turned her on to running, a sport that h…
