What does burnout actually look like from the inside... when you're still showing up, still performing, still getting it done?

Today's guest, Jolene Smith, knows exactly what that feels like. Jolene is an LPN with nearly two decades of experience across long-term care, corrections, and occupational health. She is still working bedside. And she wrote STILL STANDING: One Burnt-out Nurse's Story — not from the other side of burnout... but from inside it.

Post-it notes covering her bedroom walls. Notebooks full of thoughts that had nowhere else to go. A body sending signals she couldn't ignore anymore.

In this episode, Jolene shares:

• What burnout actually felt like from the inside — and why she thought something was wrong with her
• The moment her body finally said "I don't want to do this anymore" — and what she did next
• Why switching facilities didn't fix it... because it wasn't the job
• What "phantom shifts" are doing to your nervous system on your days off
• Why she wrote the book from inside burnout — and what she wants the nurse who is still standing to hear

If you have ever sat in your car before a shift and already felt like crying... if you have ever started caring less — not about your patients, but about everything — and wondered what that meant about you...

This episode is going to feel like someone finally said it out loud.

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