Preventing Burnout w/ Kaitlyn Lyons

Kaitlyn Lyons is the founder and CEO of Delightful Movement Coaching. She helps stressed, overworked, burned-out professionals restore energy, enthusiasm, and joy. After 10 years in Fortune 300 organizations as a strategic advisor, internal consultant, and project manager, Kaitlyn excelled at challenging, high-visibility, high-pressure projects. She also burned out. Now she helps hard-charging individuals, leaders, and teams learn professional self-care and redesign the way they work so they can sustain healthy high-performance.  Mentioned in this Episode: The Truth About Burnout by Christina Maslach Adam Grant article on LanguishingThe Art of Learning by Josh WaitzkinBurnout: The High Cost of Achievement by Herbert FreudenbergerDrive by Daniel PinkDying for a Paycheck by Jeffrey PfefferThe Agility Shift by Pamela MeyerTime Codes:(3:30) - What’s a burnout coach? How does someone become a burnout coach?(4:20) - Can you define ‘burnout’?(5:34) - Is burnout the end-point of stress?(6:38) - What are the symptoms of burnout?(8:36) - Languishing.(11:11) -  What does the final stage of burnout look like?(13:52) - The stigma of mental health issues and how people can work through them.(19:24) - You’re totally burned out. What do you do?(21:40) - Real, practical ways to cut back and lessen your burnout.(30:36) - Disconnection & Recharging vs. Disconnection & Numbing.(35:22) - The impact of being in nature.(36:22) - How do you help guide people to disconnect?(40:28) - How did you reframe the story you told yourself to get out of the burnout?(42:50) - How do leaders build an environment that catches burnout before it happens and lead in a way that prevents it?(48:03) - What’s an opinion you have about people or business that would be contrarian to the rest of the world?(56:50) - What are you sick of talking about?(58:58) - What is the purpose of business?(59:40) - How can people get in touch with you? (1:02:00) - Play and Flow