Self-Love isn't soft-it's the missing infrastructure for sustainable success in every area of your life, including your career. This essential blueprint explores how to build self-worth & career resilience while navigating professional exhaustion, preventing burnout and self-depletion.

This raw conversation with Deb Boulanger when I was interviewed on her Life After Corporate Podcast explores the WHOLE and LOVE Frameworks, navigating mental health while building a business, and why treating self-love as essential infrastructure changes everything.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, climbing the corporate ladder, or figuring out your next move in your career or your life in general -this is for you.

What you'll discover:

· Why Self-Love is the foundation, not the reward for success

· The WHOLE Framework: Your non-negotiable anchor for resilience during corporate or professional transition

· The LOVE Framework: Listen, Own, Value, Embrace

· How to navigate entrepreneurship with mental health challenges

· Why consistency beats perfection in Self-Love practice

· How faith and trust are greater than hustle and grind

Powerful Quotes:

"Self-love isn't soft. It's the missing infrastructure for every success in your life, including your career."
"My mental health journey doesn't disqualify me from building a business. It informs it."
"Your success will fluctuate. Your worth does not."
"Legacy is about impact, not achievements. It's about how we leave people feeling."
"Self-love isn't the reward for success. It's the foundation."

Timestamps:
00:00 - Opening: Self-love as infrastructure
02:46 - Why self-love belongs in your career
07:14 - Corporate to entrepreneurship during mental health crisis
09:52 - The missing infrastructure: discovering self-love
15:03 - The WHOLE Framework
21:58 - Legacy vs. achievements
23:43 - The LOVE Framework
27:32 - Faith, trust, and emotional resilience
31:02 - Mental health and entrepreneurship: There's a way through
37:07 - Self-love as sustainable success foundation

This episode is for you if:

· You've felt you must choose between success & Self-Love.

· You wonder if Self-Love has a place in professional or business life.

· You're exhausted from treating yourself as least important person.

· You're navigating mental health while building a career.

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For information Deb Boulanger and her Life After Corporate Podcast:
YouTube: https://www.Youtube.com/@DebraBoulanger
Podcast Episodes: https://pod.link/1500631278
Website: https://lifeaftercorporate.com

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