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How To Ask For Help At Work and Reduce Burnout with Leanne Maskell

How To Ask For Help At Work and Reduce Burnout with Leanne Maskell

Released Saturday, 18th May 2024
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How To Ask For Help At Work and Reduce Burnout with Leanne Maskell

Saturday, 18th May 2024
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So I'm just interrupting today's episode to let you know

0:02

about a brand new live workshop that I've got

0:04

coming up on the 24th of May at 1pm. And

0:09

this workshop is all about reducing

0:11

your ADHD overwhelm in family life

0:13

and discovering and welcoming in more

0:15

calm and regulation. Now I

0:17

want to let you know that I don't

0:20

have all the answers, but it's something that

0:22

I deal with on a daily basis. And

0:24

I've discovered over the years of understanding my

0:26

own ADHD and coupled with all my coaching

0:29

and talking to my experts on the

0:31

podcast, as well as all my hundreds of

0:33

coaching clients, that there is a

0:35

way of living without feeling in this sort

0:37

of default state of feeling like you're drowning,

0:40

that you're stressed all the time. And

0:43

juggling family life alongside an ADHD

0:45

brain can feel overwhelming at best

0:48

and debilitating at worst. And

0:50

life is happening at the moment at

0:52

breakneck speed. We are all struggling to

0:55

feel balanced, like we're keeping up. And

0:57

so I wanted to share with you six steps

1:00

that I know have worked for me and

1:02

six steps I often talk about to many

1:04

of my private coaching clients. I wanted to

1:06

share this in a

1:08

group live workshop. So

1:11

if this is something that you are dealing

1:13

with right now and you would love some

1:15

more support, some new ideas, different

1:17

perspectives, I would love it if

1:19

you could join me. All the

1:22

details are on the today's show

1:24

notes, but also on my website,

1:26

which is adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk. If

1:28

you head to the show notes or my website, you'll

1:31

find all the information and it's in

1:33

one hour, you'll learn some

1:35

new ways of coping and feeling

1:37

more resilient and looking at

1:39

life differently and feeling like you don't have

1:42

to be at the mercy of everything that's

1:44

piling up on top of you, that you

1:46

do have control and choice

1:48

over what you choose to bring into

1:50

your family life. So I really

1:52

look forward to seeing you there. So 24th of

1:54

May, one o'clock And

1:56

it's all. The details are on my website.

1:58

Now Back to today's. And

2:03

while can achieve another episode of

2:05

A D H D Women's Well

2:07

Wisdoms little short bite size pieces

2:09

of wisdom that I've curated from

2:11

all the many many episodes have

2:13

been recorded as it is time

2:15

and I really hate that the

2:17

short inside will help you from

2:19

the week ahead. So

2:21

welcome box in other side of the

2:23

a tasty with his wealthy wisdom it's

2:25

the shows as besides on a Sunday

2:27

just to keep these beasts the week

2:29

and day we have a some sister

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guess you're less speaking to am always

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engaging in sexual media at us as

2:35

obscene that watching what the and moscow

2:37

is doing in the same. Supporting of

2:39

the cases of your a divergence. Me

2:41

to say. Now the on

2:44

his shoes Powerhouse Source Nature and

2:46

she has really helped and so

2:48

many people access more accommodations and

2:50

systems and Compassion supports with in

2:53

the workplace. And she's previously worked

2:55

in mental health and disability dogs

2:57

and she's now sets up a

2:59

D H D Works empowers many

3:01

people to learn how to make.

3:04

A D H D works for them.

3:06

She does so many different things with

3:08

regards to sort. Of advocates in seats

3:10

and people to courses and talks and

3:12

take Chang and she's also written a

3:14

some plastic go with a tasty and

3:16

eight to that. So let's listen to

3:18

what's beyond that said to me on

3:20

the podcast way back then think it was

3:23

about a year ago. And

3:26

it kind of male site. The tide is

3:28

shifting, the moods changing, people are becoming more

3:30

open. But then you

3:32

realize obsolete. In. A much

3:34

bigger corporate, you know, especially. When

3:37

it's deems it if you work in

3:40

law or accounts and say oh you

3:42

know, like really stayed corporate places. That.

3:45

Are interested in your a diverse you

3:47

not interested in support of making combinations

3:49

but what would you love to see

3:51

and your office in your work especially

3:53

because in the grumps you things you

3:55

not to during this along so what

3:58

have you seen our guests already. Changing

4:00

and what would you love to see the

4:02

next five years? And.

4:05

He has a big questions

4:07

and my everything that has.

4:11

Yeah. Because. Living There are so

4:13

many different elements. Of that. But.

4:16

Sick or Aca refocus on the black player

4:18

psych. Like my general

4:20

life and let the walk a day.

4:23

I just love like giving people choose

4:25

to empower themselves, examined against exploitation and

4:27

like that's a big part of will

4:29

have the advocacy with Eight it's the

4:31

and the me working as a ditch,

4:33

the coyotes and previously. Having worked

4:35

in law. Let. Meant a half

4:37

and disability law actually. And

4:40

makes think so angry on be was past

4:42

when i see them that like asking for

4:44

basic support and being told that now he

4:46

conti lot like ny know that was that

4:48

bad example to have a people. And stuff

4:50

like oh My. God this. One's.

4:53

A bang my head against the wall

4:55

because it's the law may and that

4:57

site. they don't have a choice like

4:59

and at st Empowering people to understand

5:01

that rights. And I think with Eight

5:03

it's in general. Like and

5:05

the Uk adults couldn't be diagnosed until

5:08

two thousand and eight. Say there are

5:10

so many adults. Now being diagnosed is

5:12

and. The. As huge number of

5:14

reasons for that but for. The.

5:17

Purposes of like. At. See

5:19

what that means For you know, like

5:21

the whole Johnny last very long been.

5:24

Like complex. second. The whole topic in

5:26

itself. But then once he actually do get

5:28

this much go diagnosis. or even if you

5:30

don't get that like once you understand the

5:32

canvas something that affects. Me and I'm experiencing

5:34

these challenges like what do you do

5:36

next to have that information like. What

5:39

does that mean? see A and I think

5:42

the people to understand the basic rights of

5:44

like. Paid. The shouldn't be happening

5:46

like you know, he shouldn't be being

5:48

discriminated against that walk or for me,

5:50

It was like hey, you shouldn't have to pay for

5:52

and Japan's months to. Access medication like that's

5:54

not normal Because I'm I'm looking.

5:57

for that and thinking but how and asked of

5:59

other people like How does everyone else

6:01

do this because like free in trans month is so

6:03

much money like that's not that can't

6:05

be like everybody's Experiences so that's kind of

6:07

what led me to write all the books

6:09

that I've written Because

6:11

there's no rule book rule

6:14

book. There's no experience out there of what

6:16

should be happening and

6:18

I think in terms of like companies and reasonable

6:21

adjustments and things I

6:23

think if they're in really tricky

6:25

places the companies because for example

6:27

in the UK the Equality Act

6:29

applies whether someone has got a diagnosis

6:31

of ADHD or anything else or not

6:33

like, you know You're not allowed to

6:35

be discriminated against Then

6:37

you've got people that are on huge

6:40

massive waiting lists and wanting help or

6:42

people that are being diagnosed ADHD

6:44

etc, but they again that no

6:46

one tells you like congratulations You've

6:49

been diagnosed with ADHD. Here's an entire

6:52

Analysis of your personality and all of the things

6:54

that could help you and now you're going to

6:56

be perfect Have a wonderful life.

6:59

You're kind of just dumped with this diagnosis

7:01

Yeah, no one tells you what that means then

7:03

you're left down a new rabbit hole trying to figure out

7:06

And along the way there are a lot of

7:09

people that will exploit you like and

7:11

it's really awful And that's why like I've

7:13

made courses and things for people but the

7:15

first one I needed to make was like

7:17

ADHD and understanding what that means for you

7:19

and like how to take

7:21

responsibility for it and like what

7:24

you can do in the way of like I

7:28

know being happier person or managing some

7:30

of the challenges before you go and

7:32

rush into your work and say hello

7:34

Who are my adjustments I would like

7:36

because guess what if they don't if

7:38

the support isn't there or they don't They

7:41

don't have the training which I think it's something like

7:43

77 percent of companies haven't given

7:45

their employees neurodiversity training

7:48

So chances are they probably have him like

7:51

you can actually really go down this

7:53

very stressful and unnecessary hole Of

7:56

like fighting for rights and not understanding

7:58

it and. Anyway,

8:01

Yeah, from the hundred number I

8:03

think that's. The. Biggest thing

8:05

that employs to do is have a

8:07

reasonable just Mints policy in place like

8:09

training. Say that at least because it's

8:11

impossible to expect them to train manager

8:14

for example, on every single. Possible.

8:16

Condition Outlier. Know how to handle up at

8:18

least if they've got a policy that explains like. This.

8:21

Is what I'm to do you if you

8:23

do experience like any kind of challenges to

8:26

do a powerful anything out like Tonka. This.

8:29

Is what you can do this as I

8:31

can talk this about law and the says

8:33

the kind of things that happen next and

8:35

these were the questions that we may I

8:37

ask. I'm and it will be an ongoing

8:39

supportive processes not here to like terrify you

8:42

make you think that we're going to fi

8:44

a like but given that reassurance being a

8:46

bit more human am training up the managers

8:48

and that process and an offering them support

8:50

when that happens. Because yeah and I think

8:53

say it's like education and both sides and

8:55

to springing a bit more like humanity and.

8:57

I think the vulnerability and to them

8:59

and general a proper my papa like.

9:01

Do that. Everyone's goodness. These things are both

9:04

the reader. Oh my god we the weather

9:06

conditions everybody business as the being a bit

9:08

more like. Supportive. And.

9:11

Listening to people Now I think you're

9:13

right a hundred percent and what I'm

9:15

kind of feeling is that when we

9:17

get a diagnosis and we have to

9:19

go into into a workplace that's going

9:21

to cause friction am because districts and

9:23

is going in and ask him to

9:25

the accommodations and asking for and changes

9:27

to be made on if we are

9:29

a people pleaser A we had we

9:31

know we suffer from Rs day as

9:33

gonna be a really big thing is

9:35

it must have into taking and if

9:37

wages process me a D C and

9:39

just understanding how is. Up and up

9:42

to date meant as to go in explain. Need

9:44

validation and not be questioned what you said.

9:47

This is written mean judgmental space. We want

9:49

to go in there and neither that person's

9:51

not gonna be like are you sure you

9:53

did not let you quite each day We'd

9:55

never slice it up before or date seems

9:57

have a problem sitting and you never fidgety.

10:00

You know these questions which made to

10:02

seem a little bit trivial or just

10:04

the basic questions are feeding directly back

10:06

in? see that? kind of like well

10:09

atleast or anything wrong with me or

10:11

should already be here and or the

10:13

impostor syndrome so we need. I think

10:16

if they're all going to be diverse

10:18

see expert specialists in I will anyone

10:20

that that representing that. Roles that.

10:22

Place in in the business they really

10:24

need to understand it from quite a

10:27

personal level I think and know from

10:29

the vulnerable level have up person's gonna

10:31

feel when they come in and asking

10:33

for those accommodations and is not set.

10:35

They're not coming in to make a

10:37

sauce and not coming in said to

10:39

be difference or to make a the

10:41

people sale like united gas five what

10:43

they're doing but outside need more say

10:45

is quite nuance. On to believe that

10:47

as taught hopefully as more awareness crazy

10:49

that people like you we reduce it's

10:51

great work it specially linked. Sense because

10:53

i do feel Instagram sick talk

10:55

and is already space as as

10:57

a level of understanding there is

11:00

spot get enough corporate ceiling where

11:02

it just still still. Clerics and if.

11:05

You're in a box on the he got com. For my

11:07

nipples got to be professional and when

11:09

all else talk about mental health or

11:11

so vulnerability and can't be successful and

11:13

have mental health problems because things asphalt

11:15

and shelves or vulnerabilities and pets didn't

11:18

We got sprayed bracer all down and

11:20

stuff rebuild it a little bit and

11:22

I guess you know what you're doing.

11:24

Still me a little to about the

11:26

a tasty works what that is and

11:28

how people can access are and what

11:30

you do with that support people Yeah

11:33

so when I was in my job

11:35

so I basically got tiger's. Rated state

11:37

Twenty five, managed to been calm

11:39

down, Nasa got a job and

11:42

long and. But. Still was

11:44

struggling with different aspects of they did

11:46

like with a bomb as not of

11:48

I owe magical Worry Open for human

11:50

tissue on Youtube. Have a wonderful life.

11:54

And sounds like scraping together money for

11:56

therapy. and then I found out that

11:58

am those government. Then could actually work

12:00

that could pay for people to have a D

12:03

H D coaching. Watch

12:05

for my. Are you kidding? Oh, I've

12:07

been spending like so much money on private

12:10

I admire says medication all of these things

12:12

like and I think I'd written yeah, had

12:14

already written the half of the book. On.

12:17

This book before even finding the south

12:19

of like because. That was purely me

12:21

trying to figure out what this idiot steeping

12:23

was because when I was diagnosed I didn't

12:25

believe it was real am and the definitely

12:27

didn't think he does and was were all

12:30

like a wasn't for me. That affects me

12:32

because my symptoms are so. On.

12:34

Like. And most know like more

12:36

than I'm like. I got way as month arms

12:39

and stuff like. Exams Not

12:41

problem because I could just memorize something

12:43

for. The day since I was and afterwards

12:45

but like I could remember every day during

12:48

examiner and them forgot. Yet.

12:50

Say I just was in fact find out

12:52

about accessed what played for it and then

12:54

that was at Ces. Mean the first time

12:56

I met someone that had also been diagnosed

12:59

a D H D M C thriller if

13:01

out of sight it's to advocate like as

13:03

really amazing pitching and it just help me

13:05

say much because I think it was that

13:07

validation and like what we just discussed and

13:10

I'm sure some people fulfilled like listening to

13:12

a podcast as well but like five years

13:14

ago these didn't exist. It's amazing because of

13:16

crisis of faith the time but like no

13:18

one was talking about idiot. Stain of know

13:21

his family's then it will. I do most

13:23

of the like when I actually took my

13:25

book up on linked them. Sovereignty

13:27

Of The. Game. I was mortified.

13:29

I like since he weakened by cry

13:31

of them. A spotless fighter with a hate

13:34

stay with her and be realized after posting

13:36

about was a delete That and I'm like

13:38

oh my god let why am I just

13:40

steroid this trail I've finally managed to get

13:43

like why and after the need to tell

13:45

anyone I've got like mental health ah. I'm.

13:48

Say. Yeah, like know, Missouri. Having

13:50

a conversation sets me. I had stretching and

13:52

it was just talking to someone like. That

13:55

had been for what. i've been for that could

13:57

understand my brain that could understand like the

13:59

problems me trying to get

14:02

certain goals done. The problem was

14:04

that I didn't know what to

14:06

even do in the first place and

14:08

had so many ideas that I couldn't

14:10

figure out which ones to do or this

14:13

or whatever, how to fit into the

14:15

world. So having the

14:17

coaching which also was amazingly paid for by

14:19

the government really really

14:21

helped me and also at the same time

14:23

working in law and seeing these

14:25

struggles that the company has had and supporting

14:27

people with disabilities because I worked with a

14:30

lot of law firms and

14:32

learning. The same thing that's why

14:34

I really am quite passionate about

14:36

giving people these resources especially for

14:38

free because knowledge

14:40

shouldn't cost people money especially in

14:43

the world of ADHD. We're already having to

14:45

pay so much for basic survival but

14:47

I feel very privileged to have been

14:50

able to understand all of that and

14:52

have experience in knowing the law and

14:54

what reasonable adjustments are for example. Never

14:56

would have ever known that

14:59

if I hadn't done that job in particular and it's

15:01

funny because at the time it felt so random and

15:03

I was looking back and like oh they're all linked

15:05

up. I

15:07

kind of had these different experiences through the coaching

15:09

also managed to publish

15:12

that book. I just mentioned ADHD and I

15:14

just self-published it because I'd started

15:16

getting people asking me about ADHD and I

15:18

would just send them the manuscript and they

15:21

were like that's so helpful please publish it.

15:24

Really I was so humiliated

15:27

in the past months and

15:29

I'm never going to mention that

15:31

ever again. Was that your

15:33

RSD kicking in? Was that

15:36

fear of being exposed the

15:38

vulnerability? What was the

15:41

bit if you kind of try and analyze

15:43

it now? What bit made you feel so

15:46

scared, anxious, worried about sharing the book?

15:49

I think it was that I'd finally managed

15:51

to like get a real job and be

15:53

happy and like you know as we've

15:55

been managing to live kind of quite well with

15:57

ADHD at that time so like... I

16:00

was just really scared like oh god now like

16:02

because I also worked with a lot of really

16:04

incredible mental health and disability lawyers and I was

16:06

like now we're all gonna be like what is

16:09

like how could she possibly have a job and

16:11

like oh my god and I was like I've

16:13

probably got things wrong in there because I just

16:15

wrote it by myself and it was like self-published

16:17

it wasn't like for a big publisher like now

16:19

it's been bought by a bigger publisher but like

16:21

I was like just felt

16:23

like such an import I made the cover

16:25

on Canva in like 10 minutes and obviously

16:27

misspelled which I could fix very easily but

16:30

also I had the kind of reference point

16:32

of I published a book before that called

16:34

the Model Manifesto and that book

16:36

like when it was launched it ended up on like the

16:38

cover of The Times and I was in the rain and

16:40

like and so the contrast

16:42

was and I put I

16:44

like wrote to a lot of the journalists

16:47

I worked with before and I was like

16:49

hello I've published the book and none of

16:51

them replied it was all these like rejection

16:54

things and being like oh my god and

16:56

yeah and so and that's just really

16:58

and like I remember someone that sent an email around to

17:00

my work being like look how amazing Leanna she accomplished this

17:02

book and I was like oh can we just not like

17:04

can no one know oh no

17:07

it's that it's a very bodice sort of

17:09

visceral feeling isn't it of that like oh

17:11

just make it go away like I remember

17:14

in a very similar vein when I launched

17:17

the podcast I was terrified

17:19

I was like what am I doing it's like

17:21

making me feel physically sick that I was like

17:23

putting myself out there and it

17:25

was it was all it was like this muscle

17:27

I had to keep flexing like every every week

17:29

I'd be like oh my god it's like podcast

17:31

week and then I realized the

17:33

people who were listening and the people

17:35

who were tuning in and listening every week

17:38

with the people that needed it and

17:40

I wasn't really guessing the feedback and the

17:42

judgment I thought I was gonna get so

17:45

that that kind of made me feel

17:47

okay that's okay because people who aren't

17:49

interested in ADHD and neurodiversity aren't going

17:51

to be listening and therefore not going

17:53

to be judging so It

17:56

did get easy but I totally get that. It

17:58

was like I almost. Wants to shut the

18:01

whole thing down and thrive a laptop in a

18:03

band, and run away? At least. Yes,

18:05

Yes and my how amazing of it that you

18:07

didn't do that but let my or coats of

18:10

the Times said. says. If not

18:12

about you it's about them like those all

18:14

the people that need the burke like that

18:16

remembering your why like wire during at and

18:18

now occurs with her lot on similar things

18:21

and light well known to have. To

18:23

say what I have found that was our.

18:25

You any, but just as a thorough doesn't you

18:27

know the know about it fitted to block them

18:29

for bet? Yeah, I'm really privileged to. Be.

18:32

In a position because they have to go into office

18:34

Annual setting. See people in worry about that? Such me

18:36

and my oh and I think the idiots the some

18:38

of them really handed act as like. that

18:40

that book I just kind of do it and

18:43

then forget about the quite quickly or like I

18:45

did see things and then like the kind of

18:47

of my mind or as like of kids as

18:49

a man but. Yeah

18:52

but mm but like to the coaching this

18:54

a had off the publishing at my church

18:56

was trying to be rage to succeed to

18:59

celebrate and pull and as that quite stressful

19:01

some to cry like you're gonna want to

19:03

talk about i suppose exclusive moments not to

19:05

let. By entering

19:07

sailing through so bet that. Ironically, about

19:10

three months later, I got methods from someone

19:12

on like Chris. She. Was a

19:14

like director microsoft. Person so message

19:16

rent Instagram and said. I

19:18

loved your bucket! Really really helped me so much.

19:21

Can you come and train us? At

19:24

Microsoft. Or

19:26

guy and my dad was items that

19:28

not a hoax don't do it says.

19:30

The. Exact given your bank account beto of.

19:34

And air am I have my model agent. The

19:36

Times as a tub may be eager them. Feel.

19:38

Of them have. A five percent Todd some

19:40

some by don't know what I'm and

19:43

like of the time much. Of what

19:45

you want towards Millet, hundred pounds nearly know

19:47

Mrs. Hudson. ones are thousand pounds. They're like

19:49

our so if I know what. Are

19:51

you kidding me? Like I'm one of the length

19:53

of way they can. Maybe a good job.

19:57

and then yes i like left my job and then

19:59

set this up But again,

20:01

when I first started coaching, the first people I

20:03

spoke to were people that were really struggling at

20:06

work in the same way. And again, because they

20:08

didn't know their rights, things like

20:10

reasonable adjustments and the support they should

20:12

have been entitled to, they were blaming themselves.

20:14

They were like, it's all my fault. I'm never going

20:16

to get a job anywhere. I'm an awful person. And

20:19

I was like, actually, do you know that you can

20:21

ask, for example, the interview

20:23

questions in advance. And that

20:25

isn't like... I had

20:27

a girl she would faint when she

20:29

was having interviews because she got so stressed

20:31

out. And I was like saying to her, it's

20:34

not special treatment to give you the interview

20:36

questions in advance. Not everybody else is

20:38

fainting out of stress in the interview. It was

20:40

recorded, or they would have seen you

20:43

fainting being mortified. But we

20:45

don't tell them in advance. But again, if you

20:47

don't have that education. So that was pretty much

20:49

what ADHD was about. Set

20:51

it up, start coaching. And

20:54

now I've coached lots of people, but the demand for it

20:56

is so high. I've got like a list of

20:58

200 people. Really sorry

21:00

for listening to this. I've not got back to

21:03

you yet. I will next week. Because we're now

21:05

taking on like 25 new coaches next

21:07

week, actually. So training them up to help

21:10

with the demand because there's just so much

21:12

of it. And last year I tried to

21:14

manage it by creating courses and doing group

21:17

coaching, which again, was incredible. We had like

21:19

over 500 people doing the courses. But

21:22

for me personally, like by myself,

21:24

me and my poor, poor virtual

21:26

assistant Beth, they were just like,

21:28

podcast retreat. Cool, this course, this course.

21:31

And like, that's my ADHD. And I'm like, we can

21:33

do five things at once. And like, book lot. And

21:36

we redid the book last year as well. The public,

21:38

the public. So that was

21:40

quite, it was very intense going out time. And

21:42

now I'm trying to do a bit more organizably.

21:45

So like we do all different angles of it,

21:47

like training up companies. And

21:49

like I mentioned, we've got the

21:52

ADHD retreats, which are really, really amazing to do.

21:54

But hopefully now I'll be

21:56

able to do it in a bit more of a like organized way

21:58

of where it's not. like bootstrapping

22:00

and me taking it all on by myself and exploding

22:02

because by the end of last year I kind of

22:04

never wanted to hear about ADHD ever again. I

22:08

mean I'm listening to you and you're literally

22:10

mirroring back to me my life so thank

22:12

you for that because I

22:14

was exactly the same. Yeah literally exactly the

22:16

same and I wanted to do it all

22:18

and serve lots of people in different capacities

22:21

and at the end of last year

22:23

come mid-December I was just so burnt

22:25

out where I made this very intentional

22:28

decision that January was going to be

22:30

you know downtime for me and I

22:32

was really going to kind of be

22:35

more mindful about how I want to work and

22:38

the capacity that I'm going to work in with

22:40

a family needing space and

22:42

time for myself my own well-being because

22:44

how can I serve other people if

22:46

I am burnt out and exhausted and

22:48

resentful that I haven't got time and

22:50

space so I've tried to be sort of

22:53

reconfigure the way I work because burnout

22:55

for so many of us with ADHD is always

22:57

just there on the you know

22:59

just just in the near distance but we

23:01

can always sense it and taste it and

23:03

see it and the signs you know come

23:05

back to us all the time when we're

23:07

taking on too much but you know with

23:09

our ADHD brains we have ideas and sometimes

23:11

it feels really hard not to fulfill them

23:13

especially we go oh my god that'll be

23:15

amazing I'll do this and I'll do that

23:17

and I think our clients

23:19

are the same and the people listening to this are

23:22

the same so it's trying to be

23:24

mindful of all the energy and all the help

23:26

and all the activism and the sense of justice

23:28

that we have that we want to do it

23:30

all and be it all and help everybody but

23:33

we are only this one person even

23:35

training teams you know like you're doing that

23:38

for me is scary because

23:40

I know how exhausting that can

23:42

be so

23:44

it's this passion that we have this constant passion

23:46

but in a way we've always kind of kind

23:49

of keep it on earth so I always see

23:51

it as like a bonfire that can go out

23:53

you know out of control and we've kind of

23:55

got to keep that the embers the umber what's

23:57

the word burning

24:00

embers embers burning on

24:03

a low but

24:06

we can very easily throw you know

24:08

like fire fuel and it

24:10

all goes crazy and goes to

24:12

shit. My hair is flat set on fire last week.

24:16

Wrong analogy. I

24:18

was like a fire coming out of it. I

24:21

was like really? I had to call the

24:23

fire engine. Oh my god what's that? Yeah

24:27

but it's a very good analogy. Yeah

24:29

but sometimes those things that blow up literally

24:31

in our lives is a little bit of

24:33

a sign to us that

24:35

things are we're taking on too much and we're doing

24:38

too much. So

24:41

I hope you enjoyed listening to this

24:43

shorter episode of the ADHD

24:45

Women's Wellbeing Podcast. I called it the

24:48

ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom because I believe

24:50

there's so much wisdom in

24:52

the guests that I have on and their

24:54

insights. So sometimes we just need that little

24:57

bit of a reminder and I hope that

24:59

has helped you today and look forward to

25:01

seeing you back on the brand new episode

25:03

on Thursday. Have a good rest of your week.

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