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Burnout often comes from carrying what isn’t yours. Scott Smith explains how overfunctioning erodes leadership authority and why releasing unnecessary responsibility restores clarity and strength.

🎙️ Episode Summary

Exhaustion is often a signal.

Not of weakness.
Of overload.

In this episode, Scott Smith explores a common leadership pattern: holding everything together. Many founders and operators carry responsibilities that were never theirs to begin with. Over time, this overextension weakens authority, clouds judgment, and creates quiet resentment.

Leadership does not require you to carry it all.
It requires you to carry what is yours.

Drawing from Stoic principles of responsibility and self-command, this episode reframes burnout as misaligned ownership. When leaders release roles, expectations, and emotional burdens that are not theirs to manage, clarity returns.

Strength is not endurance alone.
It is discernment.

This reflection invites leaders to examine what they are holding unnecessarily—and what would change if they let it go.

🧠 What You’ll Learn Today

• Why overfunctioning leads to burnout in leadership
• How carrying unnecessary responsibility erodes authority
• The difference between service and self-sacrifice
• How releasing excess restores focus and strength
• Why sustainable leadership requires discernment

🔍 Tags:
Leadership Burnout, Executive Clarity, Founder Overload, Emotional Boundaries, Self-Mastery, Stoic Leadership, Strategic Focus, Authority

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The Stoic Inner Strategy is your daily shortform podcast—your blueprint for modern leadership rooted in timeless truths.

Hosted by Scott Smith, founder of Akhada Consulting, co-founder of ChatWorx, and host of The Outsourcing Blueprint podcast, this series blends ancient Stoic wisdom with real-world business strategy to help you lead with clarity, manage both your teams and yourself effectively, and move with purpose.

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