Survival Kit: Avoiding Burnout During the Holidays with Kelley Bonner

Join us for part two of our mini series, Holiday Survival Kit, where we’re pausing to speak with Kelley Bonner about spotting the signs of burn out before you find yourself smack dab in the middle of a joyless, burnout-holiday-hoagie.

Kelley Bonner is a culture strategist, an award winning podcaster, and founder of Burn Bright Consulting. Kelley transforms workplaces by reducing burnout and bias, resulting in increased innovation and inclusion. She provides a framework for leaders and individuals to understand the symptoms of burnout and how to solve them at their core, using intuition as a primary guide.

Follow Kelley on IG & Twitter to keep up to date with the release of Season 2 of her podcast, Black Girl Burnout, launching January 23rd.

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“Burnout is actually a misalignment of who you want to be and what matters to you, and how you’re behaving every day. It’s the gap between who I want to be and who I am that facilitates burnout, what’s important to me. And in so many ways, I had betrayed a lot of my values by overworking, by not having maybe great communication or being moved to help people and then working myself into the ground where I couldn’t help people that I wanted to. It was when I understood that, that I was able to come out of the burnout.”
— Kelley Bonner
“Resentment is a sign of burnout. Exhaustion is a sign of burnout. Mismanaged energy. Those are the kinds of things and the ways that it shows up for everybody, no matter what the topic is.”
— Kelley Bonner
“Even the western science confirms that people with significant trauma histories are more likely to have autoimmune diseases.”
— Kelley Bonner

    • Kelly shares her strategy for staying in touch with people, particularly during busy times of the year

    • What are some mistakes we might make during the holiday season that could have an emotional and financial impact?

    • Kelly's personal burnout journey and how it shaped her into the person she is today

    • How come Kelly hasn't realized she's already exhausted?

    • The first step toward recovery from burnout

    • Betraying your own values

    • Kelly's motivation for starting her own business

    • The need to be the best version of yourself in order to serve others

    • What causes burnout in various areas of your life

    • Different symptoms of burnout include resentment, exhaustion, and mismanaged energy

    • Having a small and practical self-care routine to avoid burnout

    • Can too much alone time lead to burnout?

    • The distinction between emotional and physical exhaustion

    • Physical illness caused by emotional pain

    • Ways to find joy in difficult situations that are more systemic and will take longer to resolve

    • The absence of talking about joy

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