What if the burnout slowly stealing your energy, your creativity, and your sense of self has nothing to do with not working hard enough --- and everything to do with the fact that you have been ignoring what your body has been trying to tell you for years? In this episode, Shannon sits down with Chiara Chianese, scientist, MBA, author, and coach, to talk about what burnout really looks like for high-performing women, why it is so easy to miss until it is too late, and what it actually takes to reclaim your energy and reconnect with yourself before your career or your health forces you to stop.
Chiara shares:
- Her own shocking burnout story --- how she spent over 15 years as one of the highest performers in every room she walked into, said yes to everything, never stopped pushing, and still ended up laid off, depleted, and completely disconnected from herself
- Why burnout rarely looks like a dramatic breakdown and almost always shows up as a slow, quiet accumulation of numbness, low energy, loss of creativity, and a creeping sense that nothing you are doing actually matters
- The guilt that silently eats high-performing women alive --- the feeling of, why am I unhappy when I have everything --- and why that guilt is one of the most dangerous signs of burnout that almost nobody talks about
- What somatic work actually means in plain language, how your body is constantly sending you signals about what is and is not aligned, and why learning to read those signals can completely change the decisions you make in your career and your life
- The simple 10 to 20 second pause practice that Chiara teaches her clients to use in real time when something feels off, and how this one small habit can shift the entire way you show up at work and in your relationships
- The powerful ARC tracking tool from psychology --- antecedent, response, consequence --- and how using it as a daily journaling practice helps you understand your triggers, rewire your reactions, and stop repeating the patterns that are keeping you stuck
- Why the power of silence, a lesson Chiara learned living in Denmark, is one of the most underrated tools a high-performing woman can use to regulate her nervous system, gain clarity, and stop performing competence she does not actually feel in that moment
Tune in for a grounded, science-meets-soul conversation about what it really means to succeed without abandoning yourself, and why the most powerful thing a high-performing woman can do is finally stop long enough to listen to her own body.
Connect with Chiara Chianese
Website: https://chiarac.com/
https://rebuildwithchiara.com/
LinkedIn: Chiara Chianese
Instagram: @itsthechiaragram
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