Transform Your Work Life: Expert Guide to Thriving Beyond Burnout

What would it feel like to transform your work life so you're thriving beyond burnout? This episode features an eye-opening conversation with Jesseca Tighe, a career and leadership coach who's seen firsthand the devastating impact of stress and overwork on employees. As a former healthcare executive, Jesseca brings a unique perspective on how to protect against burnout and create meaningful connections in our lives. Show Notes | Transcript "Stress is really a low-grade fear response. It's telling your body and it's telling you, that something's not right. You can't live like this, you can't do this anymore." - Jesseca Tighe Drawing from her personal experience of burnout and subsequent healing journey, Jesseca shares invaluable insights on recognizing the early warning signs of stress and taking proactive steps to maintain our well-being. We explore the surprising truth about stress as a gift and how it can actually help us heal if we learn to listen to its messages. Discover how to: Recognize the three types of burnout and their unique characteristics Implement micro-skills throughout your day to manage stress effectively Create a personalized self-care routine that actually works for you Key insights include: Why conventional advice about managing stress might not work for everyone The importance of treating employees as people first in leadership roles How journaling can be a powerful tool for processing thoughts and emotions Jesseca also challenges common misconceptions about stress management and offers a fresh perspective on creating a work-life balance that honors both our professional ambitions and personal well-being. Whether you're a busy professional feeling overwhelmed, an entrepreneur building your dream business, or someone caring for loved ones, this conversation offers practical strategies to help you thrive without sacrificing your health. Tune in to start your journey towards a more balanced, fulfilling life! Resources: Join the Soulful Women's Network Get Daily Messages of Love and Light at bit.ly/LoveLightNotes Connect with Jesseca Tighe: Website: soulutionsforhealth.com Social Media: @JessecaTighe Connect with Live Love Engage: Send Gloria Grace a message ☕ Support the podcast ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating LinkedIn: Gloria Grace Rand Facebook: Gloria Grace Rand YouTube: Gloria Grace Rand TRANSCRIPT It's this constant hyper vigilance, which is that, you know, huge nervous system response that's, it's really not good for us to stay at that level all the time. So it's about figuring out these little moments throughout the day where people can actually rest and recharge. I am Gloria Grace Rand, founder of the L.O.V.E. Method and author of the number one amazon best seller Live. Love. Engage. - how to stop doubting yourself and start being yourself. In this podcast, we share practical advice from a spiritual perspective on how to live fully, love deeply, and engage authentically so you can create a life and business with more impact, influence and income. Welcome to Live. Love. Engage. Have you ever felt like you were drowning in success only to realize that your soul was gasping for air? Well, today you're going to meet a former healthcare executive who has seen the devastating impact that stress and overwork can have on employees. And that's why she's passionate about helping individuals, leaders and teams protect against further stress and create meaningful connections, actions in their lives. But first, I do want to welcome you to Live Love Engage. Especially if this is your first time tuning in. I am Gloria Grace, founder of Align to Shine Academy, and I work with spiritually minded women entrepreneurs to break free from self doubt and step into their highest potential. And I, I know that this lovely guest we've got coming up here in just a moment is going to help help all of you to do that as well. Her name is Jesseca Tighe. She's a career and leadership coach and she provides leaders and professionals with strategies to get through tough transitions, overcome burnout, rediscover vitality and find true purpose in their lives. So I'm going to welcome her now officially to Live Love Engage. I'm so glad you're here, Jesseca. Thanks for having me. Good to be here. Well, I loved reading up on you and all the different things that you're involved in. But also one of the things that struck me because I want to really just kind of dive right in here is you said that stress is actually a gift that can help us heal. So that may sound counterintuitive to a lot of people. So I wonder if you could explain what you mean by that. Yeah. Yeah. So stress, stress is really a low grade fear response. It's a low grade survival response. So when we talk about or when we think about our ancient ancestors, cavemen running from the saber toothed tiger and they had this fear response because that told them, hey, this saber tooth tiger is after you. This is affecting your life. You need to fight or flee or freeze. That's a good one. But you need to do something in order to save your life. Stress is actually a low grade fear response. So it's really a, it's telling your body and it's telling you that something's not right, that there's some something's not right. You can't live like this, you can't do this anymore, you're way too stressed out. But we ignore it and instead of thinking, okay, something doesn't feel right, something is wrong here, I'm really under too much stress. We think of it as something to overcome, we think of it as something to just ignore. And it's something that's annoying and it's this existential threat out there, but really stress, it causes a toll on the body, on your health, on your mental health. And we really need to take it seriously. And so that's what I help people do. So it's really sort of a, I guess a wake up call to start paying attention. It sounds like it is. It is, yeah, it's, it's, you know, the, you know, the annoying cousin in your basement that comes up every once in a while and knocks on your door going, hey, I'm still here. This isn't good for us. This isn't good for you. You have to do something different. We say, no, whatever, I can get over it, it's fine. And then years down the road, we end up with stress related conditions and we end up with mental health conditions, we end up with substance abuse conditions. It wreaks havoc on our, on our body internally, which is completely invisible and we don't see it. And because it's not the saber toothed tiger right there in front of our face, it's this existential threat out there. It's like it's really coming up and saying, hey, in 15 to 25 years you may or may not have a heart related condition. And we're like, whatever, I got work to do. We need to take these things seriously because we have a lot of research now on what stress is, what it does to the body and why it's so important that we manage it. And we are still stuck, most of us are still stuck in a work culture that doesn't provide those resources or even worse, actively tries to destroy our health and well being. Yeah. Now I know that your background is in healthcare. So were you. Because it sounded like. I'm trying to remember now from reading your bio, you certainly were seeing how other employees were affected by stress. But was that something you were going through as well? Is that kind of what led you to make this transition? Yeah, yeah, it was. So I. So my, my path, my story is it's not a linear path like most people. So I have a PhD in psychology. I practiced as a mental health therapist for 10, about 10 years and then got an opportunity to work in administrative positions in health care and, and mostly in senior living, which was great. I really loved it at first. But living through COVID, living through just the industry changing into more of a corporate structure, it really, really affected me and I got burnt out. You know, when, especially in health care, it's always do more with less. It's always work harder, faster, longer. There are no holidays. There are no 24, 7, 365. You're getting calls on vacation. And I just, I was not doing well. I really worked myself into illness where I, I got COVID and E. Coli poisoning at the same time and I could not get well. It was really terrible. And I just, I knew that I had to make a change and I had to do something. So while I was laid up on the couch for two months, I decided, well, I might as well use this time productively. And so I'd always wanted to work with people again individually. I always knew I was going to go back to that. So I thought, well, why not now? So I decided to hang out of shingle, as my dad would say, and start my own business. And here I am, and I'm loving it and I'm so glad that I made the switch. But while I was working in healthcare, I did have some tips and tricks and techniques that I did with my team to reduce turnover, reduce stress, to build resilience, build a cohesive team so that we all had time back in our day so we could manage it as best we could in the environment that we had. Well, that's a perfect segue then for perhaps for you to share, share a little bit, you know, because especially I assume you, you also maybe used some of that yourself besides taking the two months of, of rest, which you certainly needed. I'm sure your body and your mind and soul all needed that rest. But what were, maybe, maybe what are like one or two that you found have been really helpful for folks? You mean modalities of healing? Yeah. Oh, gosh. Well, I personally, I, I, you know, I couldn't work, I couldn't talk, I, I couldn't get up. It was, it was really bad. So I really, I tried to heal my body like it was my job. Like I would, I did meditation, I did yoga, I got a naturopath, I got a functional medicine doctor. I had a western doctor. I had,...