High performers are often the worst at resting, and it is not because they do not know how. It is because rest has to be earned first.

Simone Arlits spent more than fifteen years in corporate leadership before her body told her what her calendar never had. She talks with Chris Wilson about why rest gets treated as a reward rather than a strategy, about the giver pattern that keeps people available past the point of usefulness, and about the practical changes that make slowing down possible without guilt attached.

They also get into hustle culture, and what she found helped her own recovery.

• Why rest gets framed as something you earn, and who that serves
• The giver pattern, and how it outlives the job that created it
• Small practical changes that make slowing down survivable

Season 2, Episode 7

Find Simone Arlits on LinkedIn, and on Instagram at for.rest.mentoring

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