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048: Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Feeling Stuck in Your Career with Joli Fytczyk

May 19, 2022

In this podcast, Joli Fytczyk shares her personal journey of overcoming burnout, depression, and feeling stuck in her engineering career. She discusses the challenges she faced, the importance of addressing mental health issues, and the impact it had on her mental and physical health. Joli emphasizes the importance of building a supportive network, taking decisive leadership action to overcome burnout, and seeking help from coaches or therapists. The hosts also discuss the power of engagement on platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram and offer encouragement for engineering leaders.

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Introduction

00:00 • 5min

Starting a Gluten-Free Food Page and Career Transition

04:51 • 2min

Navigating Job Reorganizations and Building a Supportive Network

07:18 • 14min

Battling Anxiety and Depression in the Workplace

21:29 • 16min

Engagement on LinkedIn and Instagram, Sharing Crafts, and Encouragement for Engineering Leaders

37:05 • 2min

Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, and Feeling Stuck in Your Career

38:38 • 4min

Taking Action to Overcome Burnout

43:05 • 8min

Burnout. Feeling stuck. Depression. Anxiety. Not eating. Not sleeping.

Internalizing anything and everything that goes wrong, until you feel like you’re just a bad person.

In this episode, be prepared to hear from the heart and soul of a leader who experienced a really dark place in her career and life, Joli Fytczyk. You may find yourself in her story.

I’m so happy and grateful that today she is thriving after taking courageous action, reaching out for the help she needed, and creating change where it counted the most. Her story pulled me in from start to finish, and Joli shares powerful insights from her journey at the end of the conversation.

Even if you are not feeling burned out yourself, you know someone who is. And the sad part is that you may not be aware of it.

So press play and let’s chat…because we can all be encouraged from this important and vulnerable message!

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