#73 Manuel Astruc, MD | When did you stop having fun?

When did the work stop being fun? You’re still showing up, still delivering, still telling everyone you're fine, while something underneath has already gone. Ross sits down with Dr Manuel (Manny) Astruc, a board-certified psychiatrist, EO member, and the founder of Your Next Act, to talk about what burnout actually looks like before it looks like burnout. Manny has lived this. He crashed in 2008, at the end of a decade of twelve-hour days, in the month after his twin sister died of brain cancer. What he found on the other side changed how he thinks about performance and recovery. Ross and Manny spend the episode inside that gap: the distance between where you are and where you're capable of being.KEY TAKEAWAYS1. Fun is the first thing burnout takes, and the last thing you notice is gone.2. The “I'm fine entrepreneur” is not okay. They're just not broken yet.3. Scrolling, drinking, or binge-watching isn’t recovery. Recovery is active and it's small.4. Burnout steals your ability to see options. The tunnel vision is a symptom. 5. Three questions track where you are: energy, curiosity, patience. Check them weekly.More about Manuel Astruc, MDDr Manuel Astruc is a board-certified general adult psychiatrist with over 50,000 hours of clinical experience. He is the founder of Your Next Act, a coaching practice for entrepreneurs navigating burnout, and an EO Albany Capital Region member and Accelerator graduate. He is the author of Happiness Rules and a provider of TMS therapy for treatment-resistant depression.LINKSLinkedInInstagramWebsite