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12: Developmental Psychologist Turned Coach with Dr. Sasha Heinz

Release Date: 05/21/2021

Burntout to Badass

After years and years of work, I can finally say that I’ve reached the pinnacle of my recovery from burnout. Would I say that I’m fully recovered from burnout? Not quite… Recovery is a continuous process, not a one-time event. We will never be fully recovered because recovery has no endpoint. This applies in a big way to people who are recovering from addiction, and for those of us recovering from burnout - it translates perfectly. The urge may come to slip back into old ways. To work, grind, push and handle the job, house, and kids while staying up late, getting up early, skipping...

8: Nurses Get Burntout Too with Jeanelle Classen, RN

Burntout to Badass

Many of my interviews speak from the perspective of doctors and the challenges we face in our professions. Another, very different, type of experience that happens right alongside us as doctors, is that of our nurses. I chat with Jeanelle Classen about her journey as a nurse and the emotional roller coaster it took her on. After facing burnout in her grad year of nursing and the overwhelming feelings of guilt and angst that the career brought her, she needed to make a change and find a way to rid herself of burnout and help others nurses like her. For those of you in the medical field,...

7: Write Your Own Story with Rebecca Fleetwood Hession

Burntout to Badass

Oftentimes, while we’re trudging through our lives with our heads down, crushing our goals at all costs, and maintaining the title of “Top Performer,” it takes a crippling illness or injury to realize that we can’t sustain the patterns we’ve created for ourselves. In this episode, I chat with Rebecca Fleetwood Hession who shares her story about overcoming burnout. After years of avoiding any type of illness, Rebecca was crippled for months with a very scary case of pneumonia. During her time of recovery, she had the opportunity to reconnect with herself and identify that she...

6: Investing with Ronnie Shalev, MD

Burntout to Badass

When we escape the clutches of burnout and take the time to look back on what actually caused it, we are often shocked to see that we were surviving in burnout mode for several years. In this episode, I talk with Dr. Ronnie Shalev who shares her story about how burnout started to creep in on her just two short years after her residency. And in true physician, nose-to-the-grindstone fashion, she continued her career with the white coat for a decade afterward. Dr. Ronnie shares how she got her start in real estate while performing as an emergency physician and how it provided her with the...

5: Mindful Living with Dr. Sogol Pahlavan

Burntout to Badass

Realizing that you’re smack dab in the throws of burnout doesn’t always happen when things start to look like they’re going awry. For many of us, our lives look absolutely pristine from the outside while we’re floundering on the inside looking for an escape from the life we’re living. Dr. Sogol joins me on this episode and we talk about her experience with burnout that happened right at the height of her career as she had achieved everything on the list of the “American Dream.” Sometimes, reconciling with burnout is taking a step back from everything we think we should be...

4: Normalizing Burnout with Dr. Debbie Bradley

Burntout to Badass

You are not broken and you are not the only one experiencing burnout. I know I say this all the time but joining me is Dr. Debbie Bradley and she 100% agrees. Listen as she shares her burnout story and why she’s so passionate about helping other female physicians who don’t have it all figured out. For Debbie, burnout itself snuck up on her. She was practicing and realizing that she didn’t have the same time to get out and do the things that she loves and that recharge her batteries, but she didn’t realize she was truly burned out. Instead it took one particular patient. A young...

3: Options with Dr. Karen Wolowick

Burntout to Badass

You are not stuck. You have options. No matter what it feels like right now, you are not easily replaceable. Once Dr. Karen Wolowick realized the truth of these words, her entire life changed. Listen as she shares her burnout story and why she’s so happy she conquered her fears so she could do life and gynecology practice her way. When Dr. Wolowick started in practice after medical school, everything seemed fine. But it wasn’t too much later that she realized that was not the case. She loved what she did, but she hated the way in which she was doing it. She was working in...

2: Slow Burn to Burnout with Dr. Seema Desai

Burntout to Badass

Dr. Seema Desai finished dental school in 2008 and has been practicing off and on ever since. The problem was that no matter where she worked, who she worked with, or who her patients were, she never felt fulfilled. Why couldn’t she be happy “having it all”? Instead of digging deeper into the cause of her dissatisfaction, she shifted gears and checked another box. She became a mom. She took a few years off with her first child, but ended up deep in the pit of undiagnosed postpartum depression. Looking back she wishes she’d had the courage to seek professional help, but at...

1: Burntout to Badass Season 3 is HERE!

Burntout to Badass

I cannot believe we are in Season 3 of Burntout to Badass. I got to have some amazing conversations with men and women who have made it through their own burnout battles and are now happily living on the other side. If you feel like you’re on the brink of burnout or maybe, just maybe, you’re deep in the pit of it, then this is the podcast for you! This is the place where we’re normalizing the conversation around burnout, because you are not alone. Listen in as we get Season 3 started! Links and Resources 2 WAYS TO GET INCREDIBLE HELP AT LOW-COST!!! Buy my Kindle...

11: Season 2 - That’s a Wrap!

Burntout to Badass

I can’t believe season 2 is already over. I got to have some amazing conversations with brilliant women who struggled through the darkness of burnout and are now living amazing lives. It’s not going to stop here though! There will be a Season 3 and I’m so excited about it. We’re going to be testing out a new format and hearing the amazing stories of more brave and resilient female professionals. If you’ve been struggling with burnout, check out my Burntout to Badass course. I know that it can help you find the balance you’re looking for without the vision boards, journaling,...

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For some women the true struggle with burnout stems from the knowledge that they put themselves in that position. That’s how Dr. Sasha Heinz felt. She had pushed so hard for so long that when she realized she was completely depleted and had no one but herself to blame, it felt like a sticking point for moving forward.

Which is when she started to realize that her sticking point was an area of work that she needed to tackle. After finally reaching the pinnacle and receiving her doctorate but not feeling the joy that should have come with it, she started her burnout work.

Her goal was always to become a coach. Helping other people make impactful change in their lives was extremely important to her. So she began to do her own work and it has made her an even stronger coach.

Listen as she shares her story and how she continues to approach and battle burnout. There’s a reason we have to go through our struggles. Just remember to take a step back once you’re through and see what there was to learn.

“There is so much power in witnessing other people's experiences so that you recognize everyone has the same affliction and that is that we have a human brain and there is nothing wrong with you.” Dr. Sasha Heinz

In this episode:

[01:50] Welcome to the show, Dr. Sasha Heinz!

[02:00] Dr. Heinz shares what she brings to the world.

[03:06] People learn more from watching other people get coached than they do when they are being coached themselves.

[04:35] Her experience with burnout and what it felt like to her.

[07:15] You can stop at any point, but we tell ourselves there is no backing out.

[09:38] How she felt when she got her Ph.D.

[12:41] She always wanted to be a coach from day one.

[18:01] Going through the struggle forces you to come face to face with the fact that you need to recognize your work is the relationship you have with yourself.

[20:08] “The burnout isn’t from taking action it’s from our mental messiness.”

[22.06] Thank you for being on the show!