Secrets can be heavy, especially when you’re carrying others’ secrets as well as your own. The unwritten job description of a people leader is the need to listen and safeguard everyone’s worries and struggles, but it can be a really lonely place.

Jen Paxton is very familiar with the feeling. As a people leader, entrepreneur, and mother of two, she’s had to find ways to cope and stay motivated. In this episode she shares how secrets can impact a person’s mental health and also shares practical ways to dig yourself out of that isolation.

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