How To Avoid Burnout and Prioritise Your Health As A Hyper-Achiever

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with Ailish Lucas, where we are talking all about why the old way of working through and hustling till you burnout doesn't work. In this episode, Ailish shares her personal experiences of burnout and the strategies she now uses to prioritise her health, whilst still building a successful business. Ailish is a Mindset + Business Coach who has extensive experience helping female entrepreneurs + high achievers train their brain to change their life, transform their business and make a life not just a living without getting burnout.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST How to identify the signs of burnout and prevent it from happening Using Positive Intelligence to reduce burnout and improve well-being How to manage personal and business challenges with a positive mindset If you enjoyed this episode then please feel free to go and share it on your social media or head over to iTunes and give me a review, I would be so very grateful.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Connect with Ailish on Instagram Check out Ailish's website Connect with Teresa on Instagram, LinkedIn or Facebook Transcript Teresa: Hello and welcome to your dream business podcast. How are you doing? I am good, except I've just messed up about four takes of this episode, which is funny because I'm normally pretty good. I mean, you would think after 330, I think this is going to be 335 that I would actually know how to start a podcast, but apparently not. We're all learning. Today. I have a lovely, lovely friend with me and I am so grateful that she's decided to join us on the podcast. Her name is Ailish Lucas. If you've been in my world, you'll know I talk about Ailish and she is a mindset and business coach who works with female entrepreneurs. She helps them to train their brain, change their life, transform their business and make a life not just for living, but without getting burnt out. So today we're going to be talking about the key things about burning out. What is it? How do we know we're doing it? And how more importantly, do we stop it? Because apparently, She's written, when we are happy, we perform 13 percent better and when we are coached, our productivity increased by 66%. Is that true? Amazing. Welcome to the podcast, Ailish. Ailish: Oh, thank you so much for having me. Teresa: Thanks for putting up with my terrible starts to the vodka. Uh, you know, we've been here for about five minutes trying to start this podcast, but we're here now. We're doing it. And I am really glad to have you here. Ailish: Oh, I'm so excited to be here. I love chatting with you. Teresa: And well, this was the problem because we got on this call about 20 minutes ago and we just started chatting and then we're like, Oh God, I've got a podcast to record. But yes, Ailish has been in my life for some time and I'm very, very blessed to have Ailish as a friend. Because, When you are a coach, and Ailish knows this because she's a coach too, you, I spend so much of my time being the coach and being the expert. And everybody needs not just a coach, but a peer group in which you can be honest. And Ailish is one of those for me, BizPaul's another one, Roseanna's another one. Like, I need that peer group that I can go, what am I doing? My life is falling apart. So that we don't do it when we're out in the world to the people we coach. So I'm so grateful that I get to do that with you, Ailish. So let's kick off by, I just want to go back just a little bit and talk about what you not used to do, cause you still kind of do it, but like you didn't start off life as a coach for female entrepreneurs. So let's go back and start when you started your business. Ailish: Yeah. So I have had quite a few iterations of my business. I would almost say I've looked multi passionate entrepreneur. I've had a theme throughout it, which has been the beauty industry. And I started off. Being a natural and organic beauty blogger, probably like 10 years ago, probably more than that actually. And then I moved into doing and running online summits. Before the world and his wife decided to run online summit and know how to do it. And then I moved into my business, which was helping indie beauty brands to learn marketing and social media so they could grow their e commerce businesses. And I've done that for like the past few years. And I've had some great successes with it, it was a successful business, it won loads of awards, some sponsored by Google, where they were the judge on it. And what I found throughout a lot of that was, I can give you all the marketing strategy in the world, but if your mindset isn't right, then you will never get the stuff done. And what transpired through that was that I loved coaching one on one with my clients. I could help them with the marketing strategy, but that was like 20 percent of it. The most amount of time that I would spend with them would be on the mindset work, in terms of working through those limiting beliefs, dealing with any burnout that they had, dealing with any issues that would come up for them. And I fell in love with that part of it because I think it was Tony Robbins or somebody very famously said, success is 80 percent mindset and 20 percent strategy. And I really fundamentally believe that. So what I did was then I went and retrained whilst I was still doing my business. So I could get the best skills that I could possibly find and then be able to coach really effectively. And what then transpired was my new business, which is coaching female entrepreneurs. It's not necessarily new, it's, it's definitely a few years old, but fully stepping into that role. now help incredible women to be able to break through those limiting beliefs and to be able to fulfill that true potential for success and happiness without burning out. And that's where I feel my true calling is. And I'm just really excited to do it now. The reason burnout is in that is because it's really common for female entrepreneurs to burn out. I had a very sustained period of burnout because I had lots of personal things going on, as well as like trying to run my business, as well as all of that through COVID. And it's, it's just really common for that to happen. I want to make sure that my clients can have this sustained success and that sustained growth without the burnout. It's really, really important to me and to them. Teresa: Yeah. Yeah. So let's just touch on the burnout thing, because I think, and obviously I've known you throughout that whole time. And I, like, I think in the early days, there was a few, few things that you were like, maybe I'm burning out, maybe this is happening, but I think lots of people don't realize, A, what burnout is and B, that they're in it when they're in it. So talk a bit about what is burnout, because it's a term that everyone uses, but, and I think people are, yeah, I'm burning, I think I'll burn out, I've got to be careful, but I don't think anybody knows what they actually mean by it. Ailish: Yeah, yeah, it's so true. And there's a, there's a very big difference between needing a bit of a rest where people are like, Oh, I'm burnt out. Going for a walk or having a couple of days off like mental health days or having a good sleep will cure so then you're back to your bright bubbly self the next day. Burnout is a lot deeper than that and it can be a physical type of burnout, it can be a mental type of burnout, it can be a spiritual type of burnout, it can be an emotional type of burnout, so there's four different types really. And what that means is you tend to be, depending on what area you feel most burnt out in, say for example it's physical, that means that you've got no energy in your body consistently over a period of time compared to what you previously did. Like if you think back to the time when you were happy, happiest with your most energy and then compare it to now and how long have you been feeling that for, then you can start to gauge a little bit where you're at. Say for example, with, uh, burnout from a mental perspective, if you've got your business and you've had lots of success with it in the past, and now you're looking at taking that next step up into a, a, another level to push it, but you don't have that excitement, you don't have that energy to go right, okay. Like this, these strategies worked in the past and I know if I just double down on them, I can go a bit further. But you're just like, oh, you're finding the negatives in it rather than remembering all the positives. But consistently, because we know that entrepreneurship is a complete roller coaster all the time. Teresa: This is what something I was going to say and thinking about, like, sometimes we just, I'm not going to say can't be bothered because it's deeper than that. But...