Letting & Estate Agent Podcast Mental resilience, mental health, menopause and more... - Ep. 2405
Dec 2, 2025
Sharon Carter, an East Anglian estate agent, shares her journey through personal setbacks, burnout, and menopause while emphasizing the importance of mental resilience. She discusses the critical distinction between mental resilience and mental health and explains how resilience is cultivated from childhood. Sharon candidly reveals the impact of menopausal symptoms on her confidence and daily decisions, encouraging women to advocate for themselves in healthcare and be proactive from their early 40s.
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Resilience Is Not The Same As Mental Health
- Mental resilience is different from mental health and focuses on tools to survive life’s inevitable hardships.
- Sharon warns against labelling normal emotions as clinical problems and urges emotional permission.
Practice Getting Back Up
- Learn to accept that life will hit you and focus on how you get back up.
- Build practical coping tools and practise bouncing back from setbacks.
From Bulletproof To Needing A Kick
- Sharon was always resilient but the last few years knocked her harder than before and she felt she let herself down.
- She describes having to kick herself into focus and rebuild who she ordinarily would be.