Overworking and hustle culture, with Lara Sheldrake

In this episode, I talk to Lara Sheldrake about how overworking and hustle culture has an negative impact on our success, and how accepting imperfection and being kinder to ourselves is more helpful in meeting our goals. Lara is a speaker, mentor and the founder of founder of Found & Flourish, an online membership, media and events platform for women in business. She has been listed as a top influential female founder and business leader in f.Entrepreneur and in Startups Magazine. We talk about: 3:00 Lara's journey from burnout to flourishing 9:00 Resistance to work from friends and family 12:39 Calibrating for perfectionism 13:01 Being forced to slow down by the pandemic 15:24 Blend, not balance 19:00 Learning from burnout and being kinder to self 21:00 Change the narrative around 'successful' 23:51 Workaholism and 'hustle culture' 25:50 Busy does not equal productive 33:07 Embracing perfectionism as an imperfection 34:59 Overcoming people-pleasing 39:48 Play - mindfulness by doing 46:36 Lara's take away for you Find out more about Lara www.larasheldrake.com and Found and Flourish www.foundflourish.co.uk Order my book, The Lasting Connection, here Find me at www.thethomasconnection.co.uk Instagram: @the_thomas_connection Facebook: www.facebook.com/thethomasconnection Pause Purpose Play Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/pausepurposeplay    This episode was edited by Emily Crosby Media