Whether you’re staying in the cubicle because you want to, or whether you’re in the transition to an entrepreneur, cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset is important for both entrepreneurs and corporate employees. An entrepreneurial mindset is one that takes control of their own destiny and finds how you can be a leader in your own life instead of whatever external circumstances that come in your life. 

However, entrepreneurs can be some of the most passionate and driven people. But this can cause them to also be too obsessive with work and become out of balance which causes stress and burnout. 

Last episode, we spoke with Lydia Lee, founder of Screw the Cubicle on her experience with burnout as a corporate employee. This episode, she shares with us how she experienced burnout a second time. This time, it was during her entrepreneurial journey. Her second burnout happened during her 2nd year of entrepreneurship. 

Join us as Lydia shares the lessons she has learned from going through stress and burnout twice in her career journey.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THIS EPISODE:

• Hustling as an entrepreneur (6:15)
• Scarcity mentality (7:12)
• The difference between corporate and entrepreneurial burnout (7:58)
• Finding your zone of genius (11:50)
• Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone (13:20)
• Managing people is not an easy job (13:37)
• 90-Day Review (15:00)
• Simplifying our processes in business (16:29)
• Not everyone wants to leave the corporate world (18:22)
• Cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset (19:33)
• What is not aligned with your values (20:18)
• Values change over time (20:30)
• Turn our attention to what we can control (22:00)
• Having difficult and confrontational conversations (23:09)
• Importance of having someone in your corner (25:45)
• Working with a coach or mentor (27:00)
• What is your metric of success in your business? (28:50)
• Creating an aligned network of community (29:20)
• You don’t need to look at every transaction as a sale (30:10)
• The importance of questioning things (32:35)
• Don’t isolate your creativity (32:29)

RESOURCES:

• Essentialism 

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Lydia Lee the Work Reinvention Coach at Screw The Cubicle. Since 2013, she's helped people transition out of their golden corporate handcuffs to building a meaningful business that’s intentionally designed from their strengths, values, and personality.

Currently based in the tropical island of Bali, Lydia’s jam is all about reinventing how we want to work so that we can live the lifestyles we want to have.

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You have the right to have work that inspires and brings you joy. But knowing yourself  and knowing what it is you truly want isn’t something that can be done overnight. 

For many, living on autopilot on someone else’s dream and not knowing what they truly want is a surefire way to burnout. Burnout doesn’t just exhaust your mind and body, but it affects your passion as well. 

Join me as I speak with Lydia Lee, founder of Screw the Cubicle, as she recounts her struggle with burnout not once, but twice. In this episode, Lydia shares her experience with burnout while working in corporate and what steps she took to overcome it. 

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THIS EPISODE:

• Lydia’s burnout experience in corporate (4:41)
• Not taking vacation leaves  (7:06)
• Not caring for your well-being (8:04)
• Taking time off and asking for help (9:00)
• What are the self-imposed pressures you are putting on yourself? (10:00)
• Identity shift (11:00)
• Competition vs collaboration (13:11)
• Burnout vs depression (15:11)
• Knowing the factors that contribute to your unhappiness (16:54)
• You don’t need to share your dreams with everyone (20:30)
• The uncertainty of trying something new (22:00)
• Cultivating a community that lifts you up (22:50)
• Create a supportive community (23:15)
• The art of self-reflection (25:37)
• Creating mini-sabbaticals for yourself (28:20)
• Overcommitting and over scheduling leads to burnout (30:21)
• Fight or flight mode (31:40)
• Self-care, setting boundaries, and taking ownership (33:50)

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Lydia Lee's the Work Reinvention Coach at Screw The Cubicle. Since 2013, she's helped people transition out of their golden corporate handcuffs to building a meaningful business that’s intentionally designed from their strengths, values, and personality.

Currently based in the tropical island of Bali, Lydia’s jam is all about reinventing how we want to work so that we can live the lifestyles we want to have

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COVID has been a blessing in disguise in emphasizing the issue of burnout in the workplace. It has been a good wake-up call and a good push in showing people the importance of self-care and prioritizing mental health to avoid burnout. 

Creating boundaries at work and prioritizing mental health and wellbeing is a combination of the contribution of everyone in the workplace. It’s on the corporation to create the right structure to promote well being, it’s on the leader to make sure that they enforce those policies, and it’s on the individual to set their own strong boundaries. 

In this episode, we speak with Michelle Yu who shares with us her experience with burnout as she aggressively climbed the corporate ladder. After dealing with her burnout experience, she now sees mental health, self-care, rest, and asking for help as important aspects to living a fulfilling life.

Work can be meaningful, fulfilling and enjoyable and doesn’t have to lead to burnout. 

Life is short. So live it with purpose and know that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THIS EPISODE:

• Michelle’s burnout story (2:02)
• Busyness becoming a norm (2:48)
• Being productive vs being busy (3:20)
• Your performance can starts slipping without self-care (4:39)
• The moment of clarity (5:02)
• Listen to your body’s signs (5:25)
• Meditation (5:59)
• It’s okay to cry in the workplace (6:25)
• Having a strong support system (7:08)
• Being conscious of where burnout comes from (8:20)
• Mental health awareness in the workplace (8:48)
• See the giant signs but not following them (9:47)
• Not many employees fully utilise their employee assistance program (10:26)
• Setting your own boundaries (11:00)
• See the different angles of the situation to handle stress (12:52)
• Reframing how we see rest (13:07)
• Therapy is a helpful option (14:02)
• Breathe (15:14)
• You can’t help someone who isn’t ready to be helped (15:56)
• Two types of motivation (16:50)
• Everyone has imposter syndrome (17:51)
• Gain confidence by looking at how far you’ve come (19:27)

RESOURCES:

• Overcoming Burnout and Overwhelm
• Self Care Template
• Mindset: How You Can Fulfill Your Potential

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Michelle Yu is a former HR executive turned Human Capital Consultant and Coach. She's worked for technology and venture capital/private equity firms, start-ups and Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley. She transitioned from the corporate world and now coaches ambitious