All Kinds of Burned Out

Curt and Katie talk about the different types of burnout. We look at the differences between employee and entrepreneur burnout, including how to prevent it and how to treat it.

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

In this episode we talk about:

• The difference between burnout for employees and entrepreneurs
• How the different nature of how we work impacts how/why we burn out
• Employee burnout: cog in the machine, dehumanization, lack of agency
• Entrepreneur burnout: hustling for income, decision fatigue, facing change with rigidity
• How to prevent the different types of burnout
• The importance for putting systems in place to decrease the tendency for entrepreneurial burnout
• When passion and obsessive efforts can also cause burnout
• The danger of having a lack of balance between passion and rest or personal life
• Types of burnout – overload, underchallenged, neglect
• Moral Injury, locus of control, and the impact of unhealthy work environments
• The challenges of having to work outside of our “zone of genius” in starting a private practice
• Different types of shame related to impostor syndrome, “hobby practice,” charging too much
• How excuses can get in the way
• Ideas on how to address burnout