The Unhustle Podcast

Is burnout the end of a productive work streak? Or is it the starting point for growth? Dealing with burnout entails more than its discovery. Milena Regos sits down with Jen Fisher , the Chief WellBeing Officer at Deloitte , to talk about how she turned her burnout into an opportunity. Jen takes us through her personal detox experience and how she managed to distinguish her purpose from her job. L...

Hustle is canceled in 2022. Unhustle is the way forward.  Most people think the only way to succeed is to hustle. You catch up on work on Sundays, fill your schedule with meetings, work 12-hour days, eat lunch at your desk, skip vacations, and put work before your health and family - AGAIN. You feel guilt and shame when taking time off, your mind still at back in the office. We glorify being...

What: A day to pause, rethink and begin a new way of living. When: Dec 29, 2020 Where: The world – share how you #unhustle online. Why: The current way of working and work addiction is costing our humanity. It’s time for a reset. Who: World Unhustle Day Dec 29, 2020 is for everyone who needs to bring more balance in their lives. Entrepreneurs, start up founders, executives, and leaders from around...

How do you get unstuck and shift your situation from a negative into a positive? By reframing. 

Today on the Unhustle podcast I connect with Isabel VonZastrow, a professional kiter and surfer who challenged society’s norms of what she “should” be doing, redefined modern millennial life and moved to Baja California Sur so she can surf, live her life and tap into her creative flow. Website: https://www.vzcoaching.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isabelvonzastrow/

In this episode on the Unhustle podcast, I talk with Bryan Smith, the Co-Founder of Leon. We discuss burnout especially as it relates to start-up founders and employees. We get into specific strategies to prevent and treat stress and burnout so you can achieve peak performance, a similar approach to achieving top performance among athletes. Why burnout is an important topic? 75% of Americans are b...

Lockdown helps us focus on the work that really matters. We are spending 12% less time drawn into large meetings and 9% more time interacting with customers and external partners. Lockdown helps us take responsibility for our own schedules. We do 50% more activities through personal choice — because we see them as important — and half as many because someone else asked us to. During lockdown, we v...

Did you know recent polling has shown only 5% of women occupy the highest positions with the top 500 companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange? Even though women make up nearly half the workforce in the United States and hold over half of the country’s middle management positions, female CEO’s are still extremely rare. As an African-American woman who has served as VP for a Fortune 500 compa...

Bryan Kramer is a renowned business strategist, global keynote speaker, executive trainer and coach, two-time bestselling author and Forbes contributor. As former President and Co-Owner of PureMatter, a Silicon Valley global marketing agency since 2001, he sparked the Human-to-Human H2H movement that set out to humanize business through simpler communication, empathy, and celebrating our imperfect...

Hailey niched down so she can scale her business with ease and flow.  Hailey works with health coaches and helps them with mindset, marketing and growing their business. And here are some of the ways she's realized that less is more.  https://www.haileyrowe.com/

Women in Data is an empowering community of doers all striving to be trailblazers in the field of data science. We learn and grow together feeding off of each other's expertise in our given fields. When women band together and support one another, not only can we uplevel the workforce, but we increase the potential for data to change the world. Listen to the conversation with Sadie Lawrence, found...

In this Unhustle episode, I talk with Alex Pang on the philosophy of integrating rest and play into your work to achieve higher performance.  Alex Soojung-Kim Pang studies people, technologies, and the worlds they make. His latest book SHORTER explains how companies all over the world, in a variety of industries, are shortening their working hours while improving productivity and profitabilit...

Stephan Aarstol decided to put his entire team from TowerPaddleboards on a five-hour workday yet paying his team the same. Crazy right? But the results are showing that it was an incredible success.  Do you live to work or work to live?  Do you live your brand values?  Listen to this podcast and find out the positives and negatives from this experiment and see if it will help you ga...

I invited Andrew to speak about the 4 day work week experiment he conducted in New Zealand. He put his company Perpetual Guardian on a 4 day work week while continued to pay his employees the same. This experiment turned out to be a huge success - stress went down, productivity went up. Andrew formed the 4-day week nonprofit global campaign and he wrote a book, The 4 Day Week about the experiment....

Garrett followed his passion to teach. But that passion ended shortly after he experienced burnout. Garrett was dealing with addictions. He was tired. Exhausted. Overweight. He had enough. One day, he decided to make a change. Garrett founded Dudefluencer.com , a men’s magazine that champions introspection and vulnerability in men. If you are feeling overwhelmed and burnt out, maybe it’s time to r...

Kathi Lipp, best-selling author of Clutter Free , is known for helping women discover that peace is possible in every area of their lives, even their out-of-control homes. Lipp hosts the popular podcast Clutter Free Academy and is often featured in Woman’s World as one of their “Ask the Experts”, as well as a number of other media outlets around the country.  In this episode we talk about liv...

Richard Leider is ranked by Forbes as one of the “Top 5” most respected executive coaches, and by the Conference Board as a “legend in coaching.” Widely viewed as a global thought leader of the purpose movement, his work is featured regularly in many media sources including PBS public television and NPR public radio. His PBS Special – The Power of Purpose – was viewed by millions of people across...

Hi,  In this solo podcast, I talk about how to get rid of our social media addiction and reclaim our time and mental health.  I used to be a social media addict.  This is what I did.  Connect with us at unhustle.com. 

Jeff Krasno is the founder of Wanderlust and now Commune.  We talk about how the idea for Wanderlust came to him and dive into various other topics from holistic way of living, to inspiration, happiness, capitalism, and business.  I went to the first Wanderlust event at Squaw Valley and fell in love with it.  Jeff attended The Hotchkiss School and received his BA in 1993 from Columb...

Kat Coroy experienced complete burnout, which put her in a hospital. When she came out, she was determined to create a sustainable life and business for herself. She quit her corporate job and became a thriving entrepreneur by listening to her body and taking naps when she needs to. Disagreeing with the whole notion of Hustle Culture, Kat has taken her life and income in her hands. “You can’t be i...

Named a 'Limit Breaking Founder' by Arianna Huffington, Jess Davis is a multi-platform storyteller at the crossroads of humans, real life and the modern world. Her company, Folk Rebellion, was named the 2018 Wellness Trend of the Year by Well+Good, and Jess's work as a creative brand strategist earned her a coveted '40 Under 40' award. Jess is a digital wellbeing thought leader, editor in chief of...

This episode was recorded before the coronavirus outbreak and is even more applicable right now. Christina Crook has been called the “The Marie Kondo of Digital” — Harper’s Bazaar Christina Crook is a pioneer and leading voice in the field of digital well-being. As the author of the best-selling book The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World and the leader of the global #JOMO moveme...

This interview was recorded before the coronavirus outbreak.  Sasha Shillcutt is a Physician, Gender Equity Researcher, Speaker, Author Between Grit and Grace ( Coming Feb 2020 Pre-Order on B&N Book) & Founder/CEO of Brave Enough. She's a mom to 4 amazing kids, wife to the love of her life, & a Cardiac Anesthesiologist. She's a lipstick & shoe addict, extrovert, & writer....

Are you driven or are you drawn? Bryan was a workaholic, chain-smoking, wild man working 24/7. He used to zoom on what had to be done, ignoring everything else.  Then, he learned how to #chill. In this episode, we talk about mindfulness. We talk about how we are driven my “musturbation”, the shoulds and should nots. When research actually shows that you move slow, you are going to be more pro...

Research says Finland is the happiest country in the world. Is it true and why? Today on the podcast, I invited Katja Presnal. A born Finn who lived abroad for 20 years and returned to Finland, Katja is an award-winning digital marketing strategist, an entrepreneur and a mom of 3. We talk about the Nordic way of life, the stress in America and in Finland, and what makes the Finns happy at the end...