The emPOWERed Half Hour
Most leadership training skips this part. Dysregulated people get dysregulated results. Regulated people get radiant lives.
I'm Becca Powers—strategic sales leader, nervous system leadership expert, and USA TODAY bestselling author. The emPOWERed Half Hour is the leadership conversation I needed while leading high-performance teams, raising 4 kids, and meeting impossible expectations. On the outside, I was crushing it. On the inside, I was crumbling.
What You'll Learn: This podcast explores what happens when life and leadership collide, and powering through stops working.
Through the lens of nervous system science and trauma-informed leadership, we tackle the hard stuff:
* Why high performers micromanage when they want to empower
* How constant pressure creates reactive leadership and burnout
* What sustainable high performance actually requires
* How to regulate your nervous system under pressure
* Building teams that perform without burning out
What to Expect: Solo episodes and conversations with leaders, experts, and authors bringing real insight and hard-earned wisdom. No generic advice. Real talk, practical strategies, and ideas that actually empower you to lead differently.
This Show Is For: Leaders, executives, individual contributors, and business owners who care about results AND people. If you want leadership conversations that change how you lead and live, you're in the right place.
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The emPOWERed Half Hour
Episode 3: How Self-Neglect Equates to Burnout and What to Do About It with Cait Donovan
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Here’s one of the world’s most ridiculous takes: Burnout is a myth.
Naysayers believe burnout is an excuse to laziness and inefficiency. Working long hours, replacing sleep with doing academic requirements, stretching yourself thin to accommodate the people in your life—apparently, these activities have been normalized that it doesn’t cause fatigue to humans.
But even machines need to rest too if it’s been utilized for too long.
Burnout is as true as it can be. Now, more than ever, it needs to be talked about.
Here we discuss how burnout can be rooted in different facets of someone’s life; it isn’t just overfatigued or tiredness from overworking. Burnout can be a manifestation of a much more dangerous issue; it can also be a factor that changes a person’s lifestyle, affecting relationships and the environment around you.
This is only a glimpse of what we have in store for you. There is more knowledge in store for you in this episode of The emPOWERed Half Hour.
Thoughts to Empower:
- “One of the basic things we need for burnout recovery is a sense of safety. One of the things that teaches our body that we are safe is continuously responding to its message.” – Cait Donovan
- I don't have to be a martyr and a savior in every situation. – Cait Donovan
- Burnout takes our presence away from ourselves and from the people we love. Self-neglect takes our presence away. – Becca Powers
- Recovery is a sense of safety. – Becca Powers
- If you can admit to your resentments, then look at them as places where you need to implement changes in your life. You will be immeasurably happier within a short time. – Cait Donovan
Key Points From This Episode:
- Self-neglect takes our presence away.
- Foods must be avoided in order to prevent burnout.
- Consistency and passion can help in preventing burnout
- How to heal from burnout
About Cait Donovan:
Cait Donovan is a Keynote speaker, one of New York City’s leading burnout experts, host of “Fried – The Burnout Podcast,” and author of the book "The Bouncebackability Factor". Her creative burnout recovery solutions have been featured on podcasts and online magazines such as “Forbes”, “NPR,” and “The New York Post” and in companie
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