"I'll rest once this is done."

"I just need to push through a little longer."

"I'll slow down once things calm down."

If that's the conversation running through your head most days, this episode is for you.

This week I hit a wall I genuinely could not push past: I was dealing with constant intense pain that made it hard to even stand. Then my oldest child dropped my laptop and broke it. My toddler also decided this was the week to fight sleep and wake up throughout the night, every night!

And underneath all of it, months of go-go-go, trying to get my business systems and content into alignment — with no childcare support, so I had been working only after the kids were finally down for bed (which ended up being around 11 pm the last week)!

By Monday night, my body and mind had simply run out.

I talk through exactly what that burnout looked like for me, and the mindset shift this past week reminded me I know:

Rest isn't the reward you earn after everything is done. It might actually be the thing that makes good work possible in the first place.

I get into why I believe rest is more productive than pushing through on no sleep, why the traditional 9-to-5 model doesn't serve everyone the same way, and how I'm trying to build rest into my daily operation instead of treating it as an ‘occasional reward’.

I also talk about why this hits differently as a single parent with little built-in support — and why I don't believe continuing to push yourself harder is rarely ever the answer.

If you've been telling yourself you'll rest later, this episode might change how you think about that promise entirely!

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