Jimmy Burroughs was promoted to a GM role in his mid-thirties, ten to fifteen years younger than everyone around him. The business was restructuring. The executive team was falling apart. People were taking their own lives. And then the government changed immigration rules overnight, costing the business twenty million dollars. He was told to fix it.

He worked twenty-hour days. Travelled offshore ten days out of thirty. Drank wine to calm his nerves. Took paracetamol and Coke Zero to get going in the morning. Skipped the gym. Ate takeaways. And told himself it would slow down eventually.

One morning in 2017, he sat on the edge of the bed and thought, if I do not do something different, I am going to kill myself or kill somebody. That was the day he resigned.

In this conversation, Jimmy talks about the signs he missed, why he calls the early stage of burnout "justifying," and the difference between a high-performance leader and one who is simply trying to do everything. He also shares the rubber ducky analogy that explains why burnout gets harder to escape the longer you leave it.

This one is for any leader, manager, or founder who is rowing through treacle and telling themselves it will ease up. It will not.

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