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Real conversations about burnout, leadership, and what it actually takes to build something that lasts. No toxic positivity. No quick fixes. Just honest thinking you can use.

Podcast Episodes
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When God Is Your Provider, Not Just Your Backup Plan
A conversation about the idol of self-sufficiency, the gift of Sabbath, and what it means to lead from a place of trust instead of striving.
Carolon Donnally
6 min read


Boundaries, Identity, and God-Aligned Leadership
Sometimes burnout looks like loving your job while slowly losing yourself in it. Sometimes it shows up in your body before you even recognize it in your mind. Here's what high-capacity women leaders need to know.
Sometimes it looks like loving your job… but slowly losing yourself in it. Sometimes it looks like saying “I’m fine”… while quietly falling apart. And sometimes it shows up in your body before you even recognise it in your mind.
Carolon Donnally
5 min read


You're Burned Out Because Nobody Taught You to Stop.
When everyone around you is burned out too, exhaustion starts to look like the baseline. You stop being able to see it — because it's in the water you're swimming in. Here are the ideas from my conversation with Sarah Noll Wilson that I keep coming back to: the signs we miss, our broken relationship with rest, and the conversations that actually change things.
Carolon Donnally
5 min read


Don't Let It Burn Out
Don't Let It Burn Out: The Emotional Cost Nobody Talks About Burnout isn't just a career problem. It's a relationship problem. An identity problem. A life problem. Here's what happens when we finally get honest about all of it.
Carolon Donnally
1 min read


How To Know If You Are Burned Out From Work
Burnout is something we all can experience, especially leaders. Leaders tend to bear the weight of the organization on their shoulders. Burnout significantly impacts organization’s productivity, turnover, employee engagement, and absenteeism while increasing costs. Today, I have invited, Carolon Donnally, a leading expert on the topic of Burnout.
Carolon Donnally
1 min read


Creating a Coaching Culture in Organizations
You know that coaching has gone mainstream; but did you know that it’s part of the team culture at the IRS? Today, we have a front-row seat in exploring this decade-long, and growing, movement within the IRS.
Carolon Donnally
1 min read
Videos & Media
Recent curated content


Burnout as a Gift for Organizations
Burnout and the Great Resignation is giving organizations 3 gifts. Watch this week's video to see what those gifts are.
Carolon Donnally
1 min read


Burnout as a Gift for Leaders
It's not the metaphor leaders expect to hear. But underneath the exhaustion, the stress, and the cost, burnout is handing you three things you can't get any other way. Here's how to unwrap them.
Carolon Donnally
1 min read


Burnout as a gift for Individuals
So what if burnout was giving you as an individual some gifts. Watch this video to see what gifts your emotional, physical, mental exhaustion and stress might be giving to you.
Carolon Donnally
1 min read
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