EP 14: Understanding Workplace Burnout and How to Shift It

When Amina's own career came to a grinding halt due to burnout and autoimmune diseases, she had to reimagine what ambition, purpose, and career meant to her—and soon, to those around her. Through her innovative approach to tackling burnout, Amina has discovered that true success lies in embracing the natural cycles of life. In this episode, you will be able to:  1. Discover the key factors behind burnout and how to successfully manage them.  2. Learn the art of balancing visible and invisible labor to enhance overall well-being.  3. Uncover the significance of emotional labor in workplace fatigue and its potential impact.  4. Grasp the fundamentals of the Healthy Mind Platter framework, a tool for nurturing mental health.  5. Implement powerful grounding exercises for sustaining a well-balanced nervous system. Join host Amina AlTai in a captivating conversation around burnout and how to address the challenges faced by Millennials and Gen Z professionals.  The key moments in this episode are: 00:00:05 - Linear Trajectories vs. Cycles 00:01:13 - Burnout Epidemic 00:05:01 - Burnout Phenomenon 00:06:10 - Visible and Invisible Labor 00:08:58 - Framework on Burnout 00:11:55 - The Problem With Excessive Emotional Labor 00:12:25 - The Healthy Mind Platter 00:17:41 - The Importance of a Healthy Nervous System 00:19:03 - Taking Agency Over Burnout Quotes "Even taking one to 2 hours a week to sit and do nothing, not even meditate, will actually make space in our brains for greater creativity and for us to really live into our highest contribution."   "52% of the US. Workforce is burned out, compared to 43% pre pandemic. And I would actually say that the numbers are probably higher than that because I have a front row seat to this with my coaching, both my one on one practice as well as inside of corporate." "I think a lot of what we're socialized to believe is that our careers are linear trajectories upward, that we're always moving skyward that couldn't be further from the truth and that couldn't be more disconnected from our humanity."   Connect with Amina AlTai Website: aminaaltai.com Instagram: @aminaaltai TikTok: @theaminaaltai Linkedin:   linkedin/in/aminaaltai   Resources My worksheet on mitigating burnout leveraging my framework Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation  

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