Sense of Soul - Preventing Burnout Step by Step

Episode Date: October 16, 2020

If you feel stressed right now... this is your episode! Liz Garrett joined us to help us step-by-step on how to keep that inner flame going! We met Liz through the breaking the glass ceiling and felt her passion and loved her ideas. She brings such wonderful energy,  just what the world needs RIGHT NOW! She believes like we do that we came to earth at this time with a specific unique gift the world needs now. Your journey is to uncover your gift and offer it. Gain objective awareness of where you are on the burnout scale… Liz specializes in Whole-being Well-being. Her coaching and course offers leverage emotional intelligence, neuroscience and wellness strategies to help you enjoy productive, creative and meaningful work. She is the author of two books: Intentionology: 365 Days of Living on Purpose  Opposite of Burnout: 5 Career Strategies to Feel Valued, Be Heard, and Make a Difference Guard your flame! Burnout is sneaky. Find out if Burnout sneaking up on you with this free, confidential assessment at https://trueyouadvantage.com/oob-assessment-landing-page.  Available now!! “Crisis 2020” Update to “The Opposite of Burnout” is being released on Kindle Oct 9. Preorder now for $4.99. It will be $7.99 on Oct 9. www.amazon.com/dp/B08JD14MK3   Check out mysenseofsoul.com        

Welcome to the Sense of Soul podcast. We are your hosts, Shanna and Mandy. Grab your coffee, open your mind, heart and soul. It's time to awaken. Today on Sense of Soul, we are super excited to have Liz Garrett. She was part of a summit that we did called Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling. I watched her video interview that she did with the host, Shelly, and I was drawn to her wisdom. She articulated words beautifully and that helped bring clarity and simplicity to hard topics that I deal with. And she gave me some great tools. I appreciated that she kept it simple because I need that kind of stuff broken down because my brain always likes to complex things and make things more difficult than they really

are. Liz Garrett is the author of two books, Intentionology, 365 Days of Living on Purpose, Opposite of Burnout, Five Career Strategies to Feel Valued, Be be heard, and make a difference. Liz specializes in whole being well-being. Her coaching and course offerings leverage emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and wellness strategies to help you enjoy productive, creative, and meaningful work. She believes that you came to earth at this time with a specific, unique gift that the world needs now. Your journey is to uncover that gift and offer it.

So today, we're going to be talking to her about guarding your flame. Welcome, Liz. We're so excited to have you. Thank you, Mandy. That was beautiful. You have a wonderful way of just resonating truth when you speak. I really appreciate that. Yes, welcome.

You really talk about a lot of the same things that we align with. We were, at the beginning of our journey, very curious how science and spirituality meet each other. It's just exciting. And so I was going to ask you, how do you feel that neuroscience, how can it be used in wellness? That is so awesome. Oh, I love it. My upbringing, my path in life took me through a science education. And before that, I have to say that my family, the family I grew up in, did not value education. There wasn't anybody in my family who

had ever gone to college. And there was a lot of open space in my childhood where there was no, nobody watching me, nobody guiding me. And that got filled in for me by books, by nature. And my curiosity led me to want to know more. And my ability to read and write allowed me to test in with the smart kids who were going to college. I got this idea I was going to go to school. My parents did not approve that. And I had to move out and support myself in order to make it happen. So I got a degree in biology, environmental biology, so science, and I really dug in deep. I was working hard. I was paying everything, my tuition, my rent, my car, working two, three jobs all the time and trying to make grades, which I barely did, honestly.

But I loved science. And I got an image of myself as a scientist. And I went out into the working world as a thinking scientist. I used skills that I learned as a waitress, my extra, you know, what looks like extroversion is really just the ability to talk to people that I learned by dealing with difficult people at my six talks. And that allowed me to get sort of a career edge. And so I was talking, doing science and really narrowing my own awareness to output and not paying attention to that flame inside of me, not paying attention to what really brought me joy, not paying attention to what my needs were or what it took to get grounded or to open myself to love, putting blinders on, putting my head down and focused

on getting through the day. And you can see where this is going. I burned out. I ended up with medical conditions. My marriage failed my job. I couldn't even go in and do my work after a while. It was very humbling. It brought me crashing down. I thought that I was hot shit. I thought I was the thing. And all of a sudden, I could barely get up in the morning. I was depressed for a year. And then I was alone. So I had to start over. And so I thought maybe education would help again. It helped before. And I looked at some more science or engineering and I couldn't feel it. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't click it. I thought then was woo woo. And I ended up just following it, just giving myself over to it because it called so loudly. And I ended up working on a master's degree from Atlantic University, which is in Virginia Beach, and was founded by Edgar Cayce. Yeah. That's amazing.

So to my surprise, then now it makes perfect sense. And y'all probably already know this because, you know, I have to learn things the hard way sometimes. Science and spirituality really are the same thing. It is one continuum. And it is just language. It's like speaking French or speaking Spanish. It's just the language we use to say the same thing. So once I understood that, that the evolution of consciousness is the same as the evolution of,

you know, of man, of animals, it's all the same. It's all driven to wholeness. It's all driven to healing. Every cell in our body is driven to healing the way that the plants are driven to grow towards the sun. It's all the same. And once I started to see that big picture, I started to be able to heal my life and change my path toward helping others do the same. Wow. I have to say at first I was kind of sad. I pictured you as this

little girl alone, but then I realized that you were offered this space. You took that and dug into figuring out things with curiosity. I mean, that's beautiful. I wonder where that came from because a lot of people don't do that. They don't know where to go when they're just left home alone. Like where did that come from? Oh, I really do think it came from other lives. I do think I brought in this drive. When I was very young, I could ride my bike to the library. And I did like getting books on saints and on religion, just because it felt so familiar to me. So definitely something that I brought in that helped me know how to get traction when there was no guidance. There weren't adults who were looking into my wellness, my well-being.

Well, and usually we hear the opposite. Like amazing to have a different perspective on this because it's one that we aren't used to hearing. We're always talking about this younger generation and how it's too much maybe that the parents are putting on their children. So it just goes to show you that you have to have a healthy balance. It really does. And I think that whatever our healing path is, you know, so these are beliefs. I think that we choose our life. We chose this experience for the growth that we needed at some level. And I don't mean it so linearly.

I think it's very complex. I'm just bringing it down for the conversation. There was something here that I needed to learn and to heal. And that was the way I came about it. It wasn't a straight path. You know, I made a lot of mistakes. I made a lot of wrong turns. I had a lot of do-overs and they were expensive. They were expensive in terms of time, in terms of money, in terms of relationships that I had to crash and burn and leave. There was a lot of cost in doing that, but it was also towards healing. It was towards wholeness. And it has led me to a place now that I appreciate my path. I

appreciate my journey. I appreciate that it's led me here. And it's not just me, it's the path everyone takes. And it's the path that our planet is taking. It's the path that mankind takes. It's mirrored on every level. It looks different, but it is still the same. It's still the same push to wholeness. Well, let's talk about that fire you have inside. What is this fire inside? It's called so many things.

It's a compass. It's a light. it can be our chakra centers it can be our tantian it can be our heart i think we all know it i think we all have felt when something burns inside of us and drives us and compels us toward action or brings up strong emotions or the opposite when it flickers and when it fades and when it's barely there and darkness creeps in so it's that fire and it I it seems through many traditions religious and traditions, that we each have that. Perhaps it's part of a larger communal fire that we're all bearing into the world at this time. But that inward look is where our compass is. It's where our direction can be found. And it

is individual. So even though we all have it, what lights your fire, Shanna, what lights your fire, Mandy, what lights our listeners' fire is unique. And the work that we have to do is to find out what it is. At this time, so here we are, we're in the middle of the 2020, we're in the middle of an election, we're in the middle of a pandemic, we're in the middle of a lot of individual suffering on every level. That fire inside is flickering for a lot of people. In this week alone, and I know that time is infinite in podcasts, who knows when people are listening to this, but the same events will be true just in different form. But

in this week alone, we've had a presidential debate, the first, maybe the only, between Biden and Trump. And then this morning, we awoke to the news that the President of the United States has tested positive for COVID. There's so much information coming in at us all the time that if we're not tending to our flame, it can blow out. I'm looking out my window right now. I'm in Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay, and it's a windy day, and there's some oak trees standing near the water, and they're blowing around. They're just going crazy in this wind that's coming in off the water today, but they're rooted. They're 50 years old. Their roots are deep and broad, and they're just going crazy in this wind that's coming in off the water today. But they're rooted.

They're 50 years old. Their roots are deep and broad and they're not going anywhere. Okay, so it's us. We can be tossed by the winds of the news, of social media, of our own suffering and challenges. We can be tossed by those winds if we're not careful enough to do the internal work of rooting ourselves, creating a solid foundation for dealing with this. So there's work. There's work we have to be doing right now.

You said that so beautifully. And gathering those fruits and being able to be flexible to be able to move with the wind and the change and the transformation. But you're still steady and connected. And the best interpretation of those trees, for like a minute, if I kind of squint, they look like they're dancing. Yeah, that's true. How can we keep that flame steady? What can we do? What are some ideas that you have that we can kind of keep that lit? to it. I believe that every one of us who's come to earth at this time came here to do some soul work and that it's a big time. We're changing from the Piscean age, the Aquarian age. There's so much happening on our planet right now that we each have a role in it. But the first thing I

think that we have to do is we have to protect that flame. So everybody has a different ability to do that. But it does go inward and it does go downward. So that work, the literal, actual physical work of grounding, grounding, and to some people, that's easier than others. To me, it's not easy. I'm a Pisces, I want to just flow, but I've got to do that work to ground. And it takes time. It means I have to get up in the morning. I have to meditate. I have to do my yoga. I need to get outside, put my feet on the ground, whatever it takes.

And I think that having a list of grounding practices that work for you is really important. It starts with the physical work of putting those roots down and connecting to them, especially when the high winds are blowing. So allowing, you know, giving ourselves the time to do the grounding, the extra self-care time. It is an extra. We do need more sleep. We do need more. We need better nutrition. We do need less stress. With COVID, with the elections, with everything going on, these are facts. These are facts that we can't change. They're non-negotiables. We cannot out think them. We can't will it. We have these needs and we have

to give them to ourselves if we're going to ground and we're going to find meaning and keep that flame alive and then related to all of that so that internal work that grounding each of us has to allow what's happening outside to reveal what our passions are so the passion is what fuels our flame so when i'm upset when i feel myself reacting to something I'm hearing on the news or seeing on social media or discussion amongst people that I work with, when I feel that flame inside, you know, that reaction, it is indicating my passion. It is indicating what's coded into my DNA, what's coded into my soul, my psyche as important to me. And I have to turn that around. Well, what do I feel important about? What I value personally, so Liz, everybody's different, is I value truth. I value truth. I'm willing to be uncomfortable in

the face of truth, willing to allow the complexity of truth unfold before me. So when I hear that the president has COVID, I feel all sorts of information just sort of converge about that. You know, I feel compassion for a human being who's sick. I feel fear for our country that's now got an ill leader. I feel some sort of validation about the truth and danger of this illness. I also value humanity. All of the issues that have to do with gender equality, racial equality, class inequality, all of those issues spike me. So it's a reflection, it's a mirror holding up for me to see this is what I value, this is what my flame responds to, and it becomes a opportunity to take action according to my values and passions. So that's all kind of rounded into step one.

You know, you asked, how do we deal with this? In a roundabout way, that's all really the same thing. We have to look inside, ground ourselves in what we value and in what our passions are so that that can inform whatever action we're going to take. And what I heard also in that, you have to make sure that your intentions are aligned. People are out there fighting for stuff. And then if you actually had a conversation

with them, they're like, really? I didn't know that. Or I didn't get that. Or I've never heard that before. And it's like, yeah, it's interesting. Even though you feel passion, sometimes the passion is just kind of like contagious from other people too. So check your intentions, you know, to find that real truth, right? I'm so glad you said that, Shana. That's the wind blowing the leaves. That's the wind buffeting me, you know, making me react. I've got to go inward and find out what it means to me. When I look at the course of my life, where is there a pattern of things that I value? And how is this playing into that? So that intention piece, we can use intention. We can use intention in the big picture of what we're doing on this planet at this time. And we can use intention with how we want to deal with

the information about the president's illness. We can use intention when we go to the next debate. So we can use intention. So intention aligns our head and our heart. Intention is a tool that allows us to use the best of the two organs that dominate our being. Our brains right now snapping to attention. Oh, she's talking about me because our brains are so powerful. Our brains are these huge programs that are taking information from our five or more senses constantly and interpreting this large amount of data, 400 billion bits per second coming into our brain and it's interpreting it into information. And that's faster, far faster than any computer, any combination of computers we've yet to come across. Our brain is so much more powerful. And the way that it does that is it's efficient. So it uses these programs to take all this information and to quickly look through files and find out, well, what do I know that's

familiar? Okay, that's what we've got. So I'm going to dive this broad amount of information down to a tiny piece of information I'm familiar with already so that I can function. That's what the brain's doing. It's great. It's very, you know, powerful and efficient, but who programmed it? You know, until we take that consciousness, that ownership of our own programming, and we do that with intention, then the brain is going to use that efficient programming that someone else put in there, probably our parents, possibly the news, our schools, our churches, whoever put that programming in there until we at some point consciously decide, here is how I want to experience life.

Here is how I intend to experience this election. Here is how I will show up on this issue today. Here is the impact I will have on the world in regards to my truth. So that's where we take intention and apply it to the situation. The other organ, the heart, like I'm feeling it in my chest right now, it's beating, it's happy, it's like, oh, she's talking about me. You feel that? Yeah. So our heart is a pump. It is a pump, just like a pool pump. It's moving and that movement creates energy friction it creates two forms of energy measurable energy electric energy and magnetic energy these are measurable if we put instruments outside of our body we could measure our energy about the distance of our hands so everywhere we go our

heart whatever the truth of our heart is, is broadcasting through the energetic imprint that we're putting out into the world. And of course, that affects the next person and the next and the next and the next, like the butterfly wings. It's just forever. So intention, you know, to tune into my heart and find out, well, you know, I'm afraid or I'm hopeful or I'm all of these things to know and to take ownership of that allows us to show up truthfully so intention allows us to align head and heart in a way that we can show up truthfully to whatever that flame, whatever our signature is, whatever our mission is in this life.

You know, I want to share a story and I don't, I'm going to have to ask permission to actually put it out there, but just to show and give everyone an example on how powerful love is. My son over this past weekend had weekend, he's been feeling down, and especially he really soaks in all of the stuff from the news and social media. And my nephew was turning four years old, and we went to his birthday. My son went with me, and my little nephew said to his friend, he goes, this is my friend Drew. And my son Drew said, well, actually I'm your cousin. And he goes, you are? And he just hugged him so tight. And he was like, I love you. What was really extraordinary was on the way home,

my son Drew had tears in his eyes and he said, I haven't felt that kind of love in so very long. And it felt so good. And it makes me want to get out of this funk that I'm in. Powerful. Every single day since that day, he's had a light in him. He's had his flame really lit. He's had his flame relit. The power of unconditional love.

That kid doesn't know anything about his life, doesn't care what he does or has done in his past or future, just loves him. That little boy, that love lit his fire. Isn't that beautiful? And children are so good at that. The little boy was just resonating in his truth. And the truth rings like a clear bell. And we all vibrate to it once it's out there. Yeah, that's a great example. And it is a really, really hard time for anybody who has any empathic qualities, because we're feeling that energy. And that's why I say that the first thing we have to do is keep going back to the grounding, keep going back to

that internal mission. What matters to me? Allow the things that upset us, allow the thing that even hurt us to be a mirror that says, that's because this is important to me. That's because I care. Okay, so then the second thing that we do is we shift that passion, we shift it. So we, the fear, the emotion, we shift it to action. Okay, so we narrow the focus here, the one, two, three, four things I value, and we shift it to action. We let that decide how we're going to show up moving in the direction of. So whatever our values turn out to be, holding a clear line on moving in the direction of. In my example, greater equality, gender, racial, class equality. I feel strongly about that there's no nothing i can

post on facebook there's no eloquent impassioned post that i'm going to make that's going to change anybody's mind but if i can show up among people who may feel differently than me and treat them with kindness and be compassionate and listen to their story, I might have an impact. And those are my skills. That is my skill set. So moving in the direction of yes. So that vibration of yes. If we're feeling repulse, we're feeling a no, there's something to move away from. We're not in our space. When we can go inside, find our truth, find our passion, find our flame, find our light, and then move towards that, we're always in a yes. We're always in that vibration of yes. Another shift to make once we are grounded is from victimization so when we feel like oh no

victimized and fearful it's telling us we need more information it's telling us that there's something we don't know and it becomes a red flag to seek information, to dive in, to gain understanding. So that passion, if it's holding up and making us feel afraid or victimized, we can reclaim our power by doing some actual research, by looking for information that helps us understand. Now that can be anywhere. It depends on what your issue is, on what your passion is, but it does indicate a need for information. And then where there's that outrage or surprise that we keep pretending we feel like, oh my God, they lied. Yes, they lied. Of course they lied. They lied a hundred times. Why are we surprised?

That emotion, that signal, that that response when we find that in ourselves it means that we have to and this one is tough but we have to move to some form of acceptance we're rejecting some truth that we must accept it's almost like with religions right you have to respect each other's beliefs exactly Exactly. So we have to accept that they believe this. And then we have to somehow weave that into the truth of the relationship. We're all on this planet. Yes, they believe this. I don't believe it. I don't share the same belief, but this is their belief. So outrage and surprise is sort of a way of pushing away truth. And when we find it in ourselves, we have to find that Buddhist way of saying, ah,

yes, this too. Yeah, this is hard to be dealing with. It's interesting that you brought up Buddha, because I was just thinking, you know, there's a lot of paradoxes that are written by Buddha. So the one that I just thought of is that you're saying, we have to accept, sometimes we have to accept lies to come to the truth. Right. Exactly. We have to see the lies for what they are in order to know the truth. So we have to shift fear to action. We have to shift that victimization to information. We have to shift outrage to acceptance.

And then we have to shift worry. So worry is just another form of fear. And when we find that worry, oh no, what's gonna happen? What's my future gonna be? Will I have my job? What's gonna happen on November 4th? That's an indication for action. Anytime we feel worry, it's telling us that we need to find our power and take

some action. That's sort of the second phase, the second bucket of how do we keep our flame alive? After we're grounded, after we do that work of self-care, we have to find that shift. We have to shift all of those energies towards showing up in our truth and taking action on the things that we value. I love that. We're starting some lives on Facebook and it's called Let's Get Our Shift Together. I love it. I'm going to be there.

So then once we do all of this work, the third thing, and this is where we get kind of into the big picture, the big picture of what this is all about, is we've got to following our passion, it's much bigger than this election. And whatever those issues are, healing, growth, passion, they're going to be here on November 4th, regardless of the outcome. Once we're doing that work of what is important to me and what is my flame and what am I here to do and how can I heal? How can I hone my gift? It's bigger than November 3rd. We are here on this planet to do some serious work. And each of us does that individually. It's not my job to change my neighbor. It's not my job to do their work. I couldn't if I tried and I have tried. It just doesn't work. It comes from inside. And here we are on this cusp of the

age of Aquarius. And we're feeling the monumental energetic shift in ages. And we're here as souls called to this earth at this time. None of this is coincidence. The goal is equanimity, win or lose. We're here to do the work. We're here to help heal. And there's opportunity in it. Back to the 2016 election, which was very traumatic for me and probably others. So I don't want to go into the details of the pain I felt when I woke up the next morning, but I learned a lot and it changed my path a lot and it clarified some ways that I was showing up that were not productive.

And it gave me the opportunity to go in to places and listen to people I wasn't listening to before. And ultimately, it's healed me in ways I didn't imagine. And so it's ugly. I mean, there is some real suffering here right now. And it's hard to watch. And it's karma working out. It's working out individually for each of us and it's working out in front of us. And we who are empathetic feel that suffering and we feel that pain. But this is the work. This is the breadcrumb trail that we're following to wholeness. And this is how we do it. This is how we do it. I love that song. You know, we all at some level chose to be here. So whether, you know, it's in our soul, whether it's in our Akashic record, whether it's our

karma, we're here at this time and we've got to figure out why. I think I'm here for see more sunsets and enjoy more roses. I've had that revealed to me in a couple of different readings and different experiences. And so when I get my head all in the suffering, and when I get my nose to the grindstone and all I'm doing is working myself, thinking that that's what it's going to take to, you know, earn my paycheck or clear my karma, I'm reminded, Liz, stop, just enjoy some sunset, you know, literally go smell some roses. And all of a sudden things get clear for me. Well, we all have something that called us here to do and each of us has to figure that out.

And that's the flame, that internal piece of wisdom that we just keep returning to. So in that way, I find hope. I find opportunity in all of this. Yes, there's work, but it's also opportunity. I woke up at 6.15 this morning. I wrote about hope and opportunity see yeah and I I wrote about hope standing for having opportunity proposed every day I gotta write that down that's what I wrote about this morning having opportunity proposed every day so every day we have an opportunity proposed to us and the opportunity that we're getting handed right now, huge. And, you know, people right now are all about 2020 sucks. No, you know what? It's an amazing opportunity. I love, love how you shared about the election in 2016 and what

it did to your heart and your soul. And now looking back how it's killed you and opened up conversations that that was beautiful. Wow. Thank you for sharing that. That's what's going to happen in four years when we all look back on 2020. That's right. You, you, there's no way you could have told me that this is how I would see things four years later. But literally, I stopped the work I was doing. In 2016, I was traveling around the country and I was speaking. So I was on output, speaking, speaking. I had a message.

I was learning how to deliver the message. I was getting better and better at delivering the message. And I was not listening. I was not better and better at delivering the message. And I was not listening, I was not on input. And when I woke up on the morning after in 2016, a lot of things just crystallized for me. And I changed my course, I took an opportunity to do leadership coaching at a Navy facility. I coach I now my main gig is I coach leaders at a Navy base. Wow. That's intense too. A lot of masculine energy probably. Oh yeah. Weaponry, ships, noise, it's yang all the way. I go in and I listen. And I challenge myself to listen, to be in their space, to serve

them, to allow their truth to ring. Shortly after taking that work, maybe four or six months into it, there were actually some people outside the gate. They had billboards that said, you know, stop nuclear war, end nukes. And I agree with them. And I walked by them and walked into the gates to do my job where I hope that I'm participating in ending nuclear war by listening, by being present to other humans, by allowing a space for suffering and healing. So that's my work. That's my mission. And I got clear on that, that morning after the last election. That's powerful. Yeah, that's amazing. And also I'm so happy to hear that the Navy or any branch is allowing that because I've never seen a more group of people that need

it. So especially, you know, it's almost like they're kind of training the opposite, you know, like trying to kick the entire soul out of it. So you could just be disciplined and listen as told. And you're coming in there allowing that side of the soul part to actually come out and be heard. God bless it. That's awesome. I appreciate that you see that, Shanna, because I think it's not easy for them. I think it took a lot for them to decide to bring me and there's many of us, there's at least 20 in my group of people who are going in every day. I'm glad you see that there are some changes going on in the planet if we just open our eyes and be willing to look. So what's the next step, Liz?

It all sort of leads into a circle. So it brings us back to the grounding, the self-care, the awareness, the intention, the practice of growing ourselves like a spiral, coming back around, seeing it again. So we saw 2016. saw 2020 2024 we're going to see again we're just doing that soul work and we're speaking in terms of four-year election cycles but we're doing it every day we're doing it in every relationship and that is just the path that's the path towards enlightenment that's the path towards enlightenment. That's the path towards healing individually and our planet. It just becomes the work that we do. Yeah. Can you clarify for Shannon and I,

because we've been looking a lot into the feminine masculine energy and how this new age of coming upon us. Yeah. There's a mathematical, if you look at the Zod and you you know did some math around dividing it by 12 it's something like every 2100 years is a new age so the age of pisces started with christ so christ and if you just think of all the references of water and fish we have the age of pisces which which, you know, the Christ message,

and I mean, Christ, not necessarily the same as Jesus, it can be any faith. But the Christ message is love is take care of your brother, it's compassion. That's the Christ message. So the age of Pisces is dominated by that. Now, it also got sort of corroborated into the church and into the structure and into oppression that came as the shadow, the shadow side of Pisces. So that age is going to change somewhere around 2100, you know, the year 2100. Well, it overlaps for about 500 years. So some people say the age of Aquarius began with the French Revolution. So the age of Aquarius is dominated by technology. The idea is that we will advance with technology in a way that allows humans at its best, will support humans

in showing up in their best humanity because we can make our lives easier we can eradicate disease we could get rid of hunger we could support people with their basic needs and all of humanity could be lifted so the age of Aquarius has that potential what we're feeling we souls who are on earth on this planet is we're feeling that tide change the tide is changing and we're caught in it and it's uncomfortable, but it's opportunity. And change is always uncomfortable. Transformation is not easy. I mean, you just, you gave us so many examples of that when you were young and as you went to college and, you know, having that light burnout. And then even in 2016,

like none of it is comfortable, but in the end, there's so many lessons, there's so much to grow from and expand. The opportunity. I love it. It's the having opportunity proposed daily. It's so crazy. That's what I wrote about. Let's talk about your books real fast. I can't wait to read them. What was your first book that you wrote? The Opposite of Burnout came out about three years ago in the midst of all of this. It was part of my change. It was part of my wanting to bring tools to people.

So in my view of life through the lens of science and spirituality, I'm really just very adamant about tools being practical. We still have to get up and go to work. We still have to earn a paycheck. We still have to put food on the table. We still have to raise our kids. We still have to live in community. So we're not in a monastery. Most of us are not in a monastery. So how do we make these tools practical? So the opposite of burnout gives a series of tools and what I call five essential strategies for having a career, choosing a career path that keeps that fire alive and allows you to be guided by your flame.

The Opposite of Burnout does that. And it's a bunch of tools. And it's meant to be dog-eared. It's meant to be a companion on the journey. It's meant to be something you can reference at different points in your life and find other tools that you can bring in to help you. Then a year or two ago, I don't know how long ago, I released Intentionology 365 Days of Living on Purpose, which is meant to support the habit of creating intention in your life.

So intention, it is very simplest. It's just deciding what you want to experience. I had my intention for this conversation. I had my intention for the day. It's just taking control. And once I decide what I want that to be, my heart and head have to snap too. So it's just very quickly that moment of decision and it takes away being a victim. It's I decided that I wanted to experience this and therefore whatever happens

is a reflection of what I decided and I get to interpret it for my good, for my growth. So that's what intentionology is. And the book is meant to support creating a habit, a practice of that. Now, right now, I'm actually releasing an update to the opposite of burnout called Crisis Edition 2020. And I added an entire section of resources about resilience. It's seven steps. What do you do first? What do you do second, third, fourth, fifth, all the way through seven steps to find our way forward amidst the challenges that we have in 2020. Very practically oriented, very strategic. It helps you build your strength and focus one step at a time.

Get that fire lit up and you can get back on track. So I have to come clean. There's something that I have to tell you. I was in the red zone on your test. I got a 17 out of 56. It's a test that I created based on what medical science and spiritual references have, how they've identified burnout. So it's a link, it's free. And I encourage people to take it because it will create awareness in you. So Mandy, I hear that you seem a little surprised. So were you surprised by the result?

You want to know why I was surprised? Because I love what I'm doing. I love it so much. I can't wait to get up. But I'm also putting it above everything else. That's good information. So the test is meant to create awareness. Now you said you got a 17.

That number score is not enough to put you into a red. So you must have hit one of the triggers. There's a couple of, you know, time bomb questions in there that if you click yes to, you're going to go to red. So you must have clicked one of those. You can look at it and I'd be happy to talk to you about it offline if you wanted some help interpreting it. It's meant to create awareness so that you don't go down that slippery slope. Burnout is insidious. And especially when you love what you're doing, because you can be pulled into depleting your own reserves at the service of this thing to the point where you're not able to function anymore or to be good. So to be good for others, to be good for your mission, to be good for your message. So that awareness, if you're on that slippery slope is just meant to support you making different choices. I loved it. And that's exactly

what it did. And then I journaled about it and put in areas in my life. I know which one was the trigger one. I was completely shocked when I read that burnout is a medically diagnosable like syndrome in 2019. They made it one. Wow. Yep, it is it and it's rampant. Once they were able to now have medical records, we find that a high number of people are suffering from burnout. Definitely a medical concern now, while it's been a soul and wellness concern for a long time. Yeah, there's been more cases recently of suicide, even than COVID in some areas. And that scared me. And that's, that's very concerning. Suicide was already on the up prior to COVID. So, you know, using these tools to connect with yourself, this burnout, whether it's

for the election or just for life, is so vital for people right now. Thank you so much for being brave enough to tackle this topic. I mean, so many people don't want to go there. They're too afraid to put themselves out there for that. And I appreciate how brave you are with that. And you're very authentic and wise. And we're very blessed to have you in this world. Also, you did it very respectfully.

And so thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thank you, Shanna. I really am hopeful. I really do see that this is an opportunity for us all to grow and heal. And now it's time for break that shit down. Okay. Yeah, I do feel a little probably hit an open place, that there's a lot of maybe wounds

that are being touched upon by the news, by the events of the world, by the challenges of this year. And I just, I just feel such compassion for those of us who are showing up. And I do think that anybody who's here on this planet is here because at some level they chose to be. And I do know personally how our flame can be threatened, that it can flicker to the point of burning out. when shanna just mentioned suicide that's the ultimate so i feel in my heart a lot of love for anybody who's listening to this and um i've been there and i want people to know that they can they can find their way out follow that flame yeah that was perfect thank you so much that was beautiful you guys you guys stirred me up i love i love the way you say things you really do have such a gift of so beautifully expressing things yeah i appreciate that i hear that yeah so where can everybody find you find your books find this test that I'm gonna

have to get on and take yeah well my website is true you advantage so www.truewadvantage.com all one word from there you can get to some online courses that i offer on teachable there are links to my book that's just a good central place i think to send everybody my blogs are there there's a lot of resources i really believe in providing support so there's a lot of free resources including the burnout quiz to help you with whatever you might need right now awesome i feel so lucky right now because there were a lot of people in that summit. And for some reason I came across your video and I'm going to be honest, I didn't watch a lot of people's, but yours just kept coming up on my LinkedIn. And I

was like, so I watched it and I was so touched and man, I'm so glad that I listened to the universe and reached out to you I have to say I feel the same way I believe in that yes no vibration it guides me at every fork in the road and I did the I felt a yes with Shelly so I did that and then I checked out at all the other speakers I listened to some of the videos I felt a strong yes with you all. It was just boom. So when we connected, I have felt very confident in every step that we've taken together. Well, thank you. I'm so glad that we got to meet you and spend this time with you.

I feel very grateful to have met you too. I appreciate the opportunity you've given me to talk to your people. Liz, you're the best. Thank you so very much. Thank you, ladies. Thank you. Thanks for being with us today. We hope you will come back next week. If you like what you hear, don't forget to rate, like, and subscribe. Thank you. We rise to lift you up. Thanks for listening.