Asked what high achievers in mission-driven work most need to hear about burnout, the guest says she left the nonprofit sector partly because it reinforced the belief that success requires sacrifice.
…changes to make things better. Because if you burn out and you let the exhaustion win, you're no good for anyone. Ask for help. And if you don't know how, lean on your community. You'll find out that you'll find that you're surrounded by other caretakers and they'll help you figure it out.
…and leave workplaces that are not serving them and helping them to rebuild. So what do high achievers in mission-driven work most need to hear right now about recognizing burnout? And what does it actually take to leave and rebuild? I mean, kind of big questions there, but would love your take.
I have to say, Neon, your whole perspective is exactly why we founded the organization, the Institute for Generational Healing. So much of what I recognized in high-achieving leaders, especially high-achieving women of color, high-achieving first-gen first daughters, which you were talking about, Neon, is that we inherit ways of being. We inherit ways of thinking about success. We inherit ways of thinking about. How we achieve and also what it takes to achieve. And so, coming from New York, I grew up in Brooklyn in the projects, and I was deemed the one who was going to make it out. And essentially, what happened was that that burden and that and that burden and also that celebration of really being able to bring my whole community on the journey of being the first to graduate high school, the first to go to college, the first to get a degree from an Ivy League institution. That was 110% an achievement, but also a tremendous burden. And essentially, what I learned about success was that hustle and grind is what actually creates it. And that was a narrative that was propagated not only in my family, but also in my community.…
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I mean, how incredible that you are channeling this forward. And I think you're grappling with something that I think every nonprofit needs to grapple with. You're actually walking in the really complex path of practicing what you preach and building systems and practices that support all of that.…
It's really hard. We're talking about decades of ways of being. We're talking about decades of programming. But what we study at the Institute for Generational Healing is it isn't just what we experience, it's also what the generations before us experience. So we're not just talking about our lived…