Nobody's Coming to Save You: A Conversation About Burnout at 42 and Learning to Save Yourself

My friend is a CFO . At 42, she realized she was burnt out. Not just tired from being a mother, working, living away from home, actually burnt out. And when she sat with herself to ask why, she realized: she'd spent her whole life trying to meet expectations. Proving "them" wrong. Whoever "them" is. Growing up as the child of a single teenage parent, she was conditioned to prove she could make it, but they never gave her the tools. They never told her she was worthy enough to actually do it. So she had to go find the tools herself. And then came the realization that changed everything: Nobody is coming to save you. The same grit and grace that got her here? She's using it to save herself now. She's reclaiming her energy. Taking accountability. Looking in the mirror and asking: What do I need? Forget them and their expectations and their lack of guidance, what do I actually need? And once she figured that out, she started checking: A. Who's in my orbit? B. What energies am I allowing in? Because those things can make or break you. She doesn't know exactly what the next steps are yet. But she has this strong inner knowing that she's on the right path. It's not going to be easy. It's 42 years of conditioning to release. But she has good people around her. And she's giving herself rest, ease, and a trip back to Trinidad for Carnival to reclaim her joy.This one's for you if:1. You've been running on "prove them wrong" fuel and it's finally catching up to you2. You're high-functioning, burnt out, and realizing nobody's coming to save you3. You're ready to take accountability and ask yourself: What do I actually need?4. You're in your 40s and learning that the same grit that got you here can also save youThis is a conversation between two women doing the work.This podcast is for women who are done performing. If you want more of this energy the kind of conversation that reminds you who you actually arevisit wwdaglobal.com and step into the room.You'll get weekly insights, frameworks I don't share anywhere else, and a community of women who've stopped asking for permission.About Women Who Don't Apologise:Over 150 episodes exploring power, boundaries, capacity, and what it means to live on your own terms. Hosted by Patricia Haywood, lawyer, The Queen of Construction Contracts, Top 100 Woman in Construction, GC, and chief unapologetic mistress. For women 40+ who are exhausted from following everyone else's blueprint.