Feeling exhausted, no matter how much you rest? You’re not alone. In this episode of Chapter Two: Reclaim. Rebuild. Rewrite., we explore what burnout really looks like for professional women — beyond the clichés of overwork and stress.

Host Amy Smart breaks down the emotional and physical realities of burnout through research-based insights and gentle reflection. Learn why women are disproportionately affected, how systemic pressures contribute to burnout, and how to recognize the early warning signs before they turn into full-blown exhaustion.

This episode blends statistics, compassion, and healing-centred reflection to help you reconnect with yourself and take the first steps toward recovery — without guilt or shame.

✨ You’ll learn:

• The difference between burnout and ordinary tiredness
• Why professional women are at higher risk (including invisible labour and cultural expectations)
• Signs you may be in burnout — even if you’re still “functioning”
• How to begin reclaiming your energy with small, sustainable changes
• Reflective questions to help you check in with your body, mind, and heart

🪞 Reflective Moment: “What have I been calling ‘just a busy season,’ even though it’s been going on for months — or years?”

📘Free Resource: Download the Mini-Guide to Self-Reflection at www.chaptertwopodcast.com— your gentle starting point for reconnecting with yourself.

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to an end, the world starts to move forward — but for those who’ve lived it, the healing continues quietly, long after the pink ribbons fade.

In this deeply personal solo episode, Amy shares her reflections on what it feels like when awareness month ends, when the noise dies down, and when you’re left to rediscover yourself in the silence that follows. She also reads her poem “Straighten Your Crown” — originally published in CURE Magazine — written during her own breast cancer journey after losing her hair, a moment that felt like losing herself.

This episode is for anyone navigating life after awareness, learning to find beauty, strength, and self-compassion in the in-between.

✨ In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• How October’s awareness spotlight can stir both gratitude and grief
• The deeper emotional truth behind losing your hair — and what it symbolizes
• Amy’s award-winning poem, “Straighten Your Crown”
• What healing looks like after the pink fades
• Gentle reflections to help you release, reclaim, and rebuild

💌 Mentioned in This Episode:

✨ Free Mini-Guide to Self-Reflection Download your free guide at www.chaptertwopodcast.com — a gentle journaling resource to help you slow down, reconnect, and write your next chapter.

🪷 A Few of My Favourite Things

These are some of the tools and comforts that helped me through my own healing and rebuilding journey. (affiliate links where applicable)

• 📔 Journals & Notebooks: Lined journal notebook, perfect for quiet mornings and late-night thoughts
• ☕ Cozy Comfort: I LOVE this leopard print sweater – I am living in it this fall.
• 📚 Books that Healed Me: The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins

💫 Connect With Me

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What happens when the treatments end and life is supposed to go “back to normal”? In this deeply personal episode, Amy Smart explores the often-overlooked season of life after cancer — when the world celebrates your survival, but inside you’re asking, Who am I now?

Through honest storytelling and reflection, Amy shares what it really means to reclaim your identity after cancer: rebuilding self-trust, learning to love your body again, and finding the courage to redefine who you are on your own terms.

Listen in for gentle reminders that:

• Healing doesn’t end when treatment does
• You don’t owe anyone your old self
• Reclaiming identity is an act of grace, not speed
• You are allowed to rebuild slowly, beautifully, and wholly

This is your invitation to meet yourself again — and to embrace your second chapter with strength and softness.