26. Kate Byars: Why Highly-Successful Women Burnout And How to Change That

Is your success quietly killing you? In this episode, Kate Byars, founder of The Good Life Institute, reveals why today’s definition of success is literally designed to burn you out — and how you can break free from this exhausting cycle. She shares powerful insights on how we’ve been conditioned since childhood to prioritize work over well-being, leading countless high-achievers down a path of burnout and dissatisfaction. What version of success are you chasing, and at what cost? How might your life transform if you designed success on your own terms?

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

02:55 Wisdom from Kate Byars

03:37 What is “Career Burnout?”

05:22 Quiet Quitting vs. Career Burnout

08:55 The Good Life Institute

13:10 For Busy Women: How to Take Control of Busy Schedules

18:00 Women Are Playing Not to Lose

20:21 It’s Okay for Women in the Workplace to Bend

22:17 Effective Ways to Rest for Women

27:14 Over-Engineering Our Lives in the Aim of Efficiency and Productivity

29:51 The Phenomena of Catch-Up Friendship

33:17 How to Live the Good Life

36:26 Different Success Styles

41:15 “What Got Us Here Isn’t Going to Get Us to Where We Want to Go”

49:13 Stepping Away from What Culture Has Taught Us

50:47 Last Piece of Advice from Kate

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