Realistic Optimism through Burnout with Sally Clarke
Sally Clarke is an author, speaker, researcher and burnout expert and Co-Director at Human Leaders. A former finance lawyer, she works with leaders and organizations around the globe to embed wellbeing at work so people and business thrive. Sally's latest book, ‘Relight Your Spark’ guides individuals on how to heal and evolve after burnout. Her book Relight Your Spark, is a practical guide to all things burnout, affordably priced, and also details her personal journey with burnout. Like so many of us, she bought into the belief that if you make it to a prestigious workplace and you just grind hard enough long enough you’ll somehow make it to the other side a fulfilled and joy-filled person. It’s amazing how often we hear the accounts of how this illusion doesn’t turn out the way we believe it will, but we continually and repeatedly keep living it out, almost as if we just don’t know what else or how else to live what we think of as a successful life.
Time Stamps:
4:13--Sally's answer to what Big Self means to her
10:00--How burnout is complex but it's not just about taking the fish out of the water for a little while and then putting the fish back in
14:25--Evaluating what "being successful" really means
18:33--The Four Steps of moving through burnout according to Sally's framework from her book
20:57--The myth of we have to do it ourselves
27:19--There is a lot we can do in spite of how burnout is actually continuing to grow right now
Show Notes:
Global State of Burnout Report 2023
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