Overcoming Working Mom Burnout

Karin Tischler is a job sharing expert and podcast host who helps companies understand the benefits of flexible workplace arrangements. More than location flexibility, employees want flexibility when they work. Karin shares the many advantages to having two brains in a single role, and how it opens up the talent pool to increase expertise and diversity at work. Download your free burnout guide on...

Christine Anastasia is a coach and mom of 3. She joined me shortly after the birth of her third child, which sounds crazy, but she had changed the script for #3. She was prioritizing herself as much as her child. She was focusing on her healing and realized that she was modeling this not only for her daughter but also for her mother who was a strong woman, but an over-giver. Christine was learning...

Farah Harris is the author of The Color of Emotional Intelligence. She draws upon her experience as a therapist to guide organizations through cultural change around understanding what emotional intelligence is and how it is applied by different groups in organizations. Some groups have to apply emotional intelligence just to survive and others to thrive. In her practice Farah challenges organizat...

Katherine Goldstein is a journalist and social activist. Her podcast the Double Shift challenged the status quo of motherhood in America. In this episode, she shares the challenges of being in the newsroom as a mother, but also what she has learned from interviewing successful change advocates. One key message is: don’t do it alone. Download your free burnout guide on my website www. DrJacquelineK...

Dr Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell wrote the Parental Leave Playbook and provide support through the Center for Parental Leave Leadership. Maternity leave has such an important connection to burnout because it creates a trajectory for moms returning to work depending on how long and how much support they have had during leave. Moms can also be going into maternity leave with high levels of stress, or...

Laura Knights is trained as a therapist, social worker, and in leadership development. She brings so much lived experience and wisdom to this episode. As the creator of the Black Woman Leading program and podcast she has seen the struggles of burnout and workplace trauma that Black women have faced. In her own work, she creates safe spaces for leaders to share their experiences and she teaches lea...

Jennifer Moss is the author of The Burnout Epidemic. Her book focuses on the role organizations play in burnout. Written during the pandemic, Jennifer presents case studies of how vulnerable and flexible leadership allowed companies to better adapt. Leaders have to role model healthy work habits but also if we recognize how much we have learned about resilience during the pandemic we can have the...

Dr Whitney Casares wears many hats but she sees them fundamentally as leadership roles. She leads in her pediatrician practice, in her mom support business and in her home. This leadership stance allows her to have a higher vision for life based on her core values. And she isn’t the one doing all the work. She is directing it. And this approach as well as a physiological understanding of stress, h...

Dr Kerr summarizes what she has learned in the last 6 months from Season 2 guests and what she is looking forward to sharing next from Season 3 guests. Watch my TEDx talk ‘How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts here’ https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ And download your free guide 4 ways to spot burnout in your employee on my website www. DrJacquelineKerr.com

Allison Venditti is based in Canada, but is a global expert in HR. She supports working moms through her organization Moms at Work. She posts and speaks regularly about pay transparency and pay equity at work. Lack of reward is a cause of burnout so preventing pay inequality can prevent burnout. Of course when I first reached out to Allison she was way too busy to be on the podcast, but as the pan...

Toyosi Babalola is a talented app developer who has created the Abule app to support families with a village of service providers. Based on a bartering system and a tribe of users, families can get support or provide support through ride shares, meals, classes, tutoring, summer activities etc. One of the most important tools for reducing burnout is leveraging resources. The Abule app makes this ea...

This week, I'm going to introduce to you the science of burnout. Last week, I interviewed Isabel Torres, who was the leader of Mothers in Science. In honor of her work in science, I would like to share some of the science behind burnout as an occupational phenomenon and how to use science to solve burnout. Watch my TEDx talk ‘How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts here’ https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ...

Dr Isabel Torres leads the advocacy organization Mothers in Science. She had been collecting data and providing solutions through science, stories, networking, toolkits and polices. I wanted to speak with Isabel because as a mom in STEMM, which includes medicine, I wasn’t aware of the gender barriers and bias I faced. I assumed I was somehow failing. But Isabelle and others have shown that mothers...

Last week Allison Tsao, an organization development specialist and I spoke about leading with more humanity in the workplace and a large part of that leadership is being a role model. Often we think about role models as aspirational, larger than life characters. But everyday role models, people like you, are an essential part of individual behavior change and culture change. Please watch my TEDx t...

Allison Tsao is an organization development specialist. She is the founder of Humans Who Lead. She has a series of blog posts about transformational change and systems change. Allison is based in Australia, and as you probably know, I love to hear international perspectives. We haven’t talked about change burnout much on this podcast. So I appreciated Allison’s expertise on this topic. Please watc...

This mini episode, based on my conversation with Dr Kate Murray, will focus on what you can do personally when you are in an environment that doesn’t value your contributions and is leading to your burnout. Many women spend a lot of time in their careers doing non-essential tasks that are not valued, yet we value our role in contributing to the greater good. How can start to unpack that messaging,...

Dr Kate Murray is an associate professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is a clinical psychologist who now focuses on systems change. Yet she brings that perspective from being a therapist, what can I do now from where I stand, what can I control, what small changes can I make that will make a difference? When many people are feeling overwhelmed by how much needs to cha...

Last week author, podcaster and coach Selina Barker and I spoke in some detail about our inner critics during the episode on a step by step guide to burnout recovery. In particular, Selina, who wrote the book Burnt Out calls her inner critics her shitty committee. I wanted to focus this week’s mini episode on this topic of befriending your inner critic and finding your inner mentor because it has...

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Selina Barker wrote the book Burnt Out which stood out to me because it used the English spelling. So of course I got the audible version so I could hear her English voice giving me all this wise and compassionate advice. I loved this interview with Selina because it brought more of her back story to her book as well as included the first most important steps you need to take in burnout recovery....

Mary Beth Ferrante is an organizational specialist who provides individual coaching for employees, particularly moms, but who quickly learned that individual change is not enough, we also need to address organizational and social barriers. In particular, we need to have cultural change around the ideal worker as available 24/7 to being someone who is resourceful and whole and creative and engages...

This week’s mini episode based on freedom coach Stephanie Chick’s advice, provides a guide to being rather than doing. What does that mean? Doing has an end point or limitations such as only doing it when you feel comfortable. Being is when in every situation you commit to using one of Stephanie’s 7 behaviors truthful, courageous, detached, loving, faithful, still and happy. Please watch my TEDx t...

Stephanie Chick is a Freedom Coach and Master Teacher. She experienced burnout in corporate America but also started to create her role as a coach in that space. Her approach focuses on 7 behaviors: be truthful, be courageous, be detached, be loving, be faithful, be still and be happy. She also explains the difference between being and doing, which I have struggled with. Stephanie provides her cli...

This week is a hybrid bonus episode. I am interviewing coach, keynote speaker and mom of 4 Jennifer Whitmer. But we’re not talking about burnout or even being a mom, we are talking about our experiences of being a TEDx speaker. In March 2022, Jenn and I both were speakers at TEDx McMaster U. When we recorded this episode our talks had been aired for the virtual event but they were not yet out on t...

Professor Rebecca Pope-Ruark is a burnout coach and author of an upcoming book on faculty burnout in women. When she asked for submissions on burnout, only women faculty responded! Rebecca describes how her love of teaching evolved into burnout and how she now supports faculty in their careers. We talk about why higher education is a particularly challenging environment to address burnout culture,...