Burnout isn’t just exhaustion; it’s a slow shift in your identity, boundaries, and belief system that many women entrepreneurs don’t recognize until they hit a breaking point. In this powerful conversation, behavior scientist and burnout survivor Dr. Jacqueline Kerr joins Wendy to unpack the early warning signs of burnout, the difference between passion and self-sacrifice, and why women leaders are especially vulnerable.

Dr. Kerr, one of the top 1% most-cited scientists worldwide, shares the behavior-change strategies she used to rebuild her own leadership after leaving academia, along with practical tools you can apply today—whether you’re leading a team, a company, or your own home office.

You’ll learn how to:
• Identify burnout before it becomes a crisis
• Set boundaries that support creativity, not guilt
• Break perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the “always on” habit
• Lead yourself (and others) through times of change with more compassion

This conversation remains deeply relevant in 2025, as women continue to navigate hybrid work, entrepreneurship, caregiving, and the pressure to be everything to everyone. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, resentful, or stretched too thin—this episode is your reset point.

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We explore disease as the loss of ease across the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual layers, tracing roots through ancestral trauma, environmental toxins, and learned suppression. We share practical tools to notice subtle body cues, rebuild worth, and restore ease in life and business.

• redefining disease as loss of ease across systems
• ancestral load, industrial toxins, intergenerational stress
• childhood suppression of feelings and body signals
• body dashboard metaphor and subtle symptom tracking
• medical gaslighting and turning to holistic care
• moving from supplements to quantum‑level integration
• surrender, perspective, and releasing fear narratives
• entrepreneurial dis‑ease in pricing, clients, and messaging
• observation, mirrors, coaching, and foundation repair
• self‑worth, identity shifts, and emotional maturity
• letting go of anger and drama to regain energy

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Stress doesn’t just live in your head—it shapes your breath, your hormones, and the choices you make when you’re tired and tense. We sit down with intimacy coach and educator Stacie Steinbock of The Golden Thread to explore how pleasure can be a reliable, ethical, and practical medicine for bodies carrying burnout, shame, and even post-cancer changes. Stacie brings a rare blend of expertise: two decades in sexuality education, including medical curriculum work with the UofL School of Medicine, and a rigorous Tibetan Five Element Tantra certification that roots her methods in lineage-based somatic practice.

We trace the real gaps in sex education—silence around desire, relationships, and body image—and how that silence becomes a generational pattern. Stacy shares her ovarian cancer story, surgical menopause, and the intimate process of relearning pleasure when familiar pathways no longer work. From there, we get specific: what somatic healing means, how cellular memory keeps trauma in the tissues, and why talk therapy alone can’t always resolve what the nervous system still flags as threat. You’ll hear how the chemistry of pleasure—dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins—protects against chronic cortisol, restoring focus, motivation, and calm. We also explore an Eastern perspective that frames orgasm as a momentary taste of freedom from suffering, while reminding us that everyday joys—like a quiet walk or a warm bath—can return the body to safety.

Stacie offers a grounded framework: movement, meditation, connection practices, and pleasure practices clients take home—no touch, clear ethics, collaborative care with medical providers when needed. We include a short guided exercise to feel the difference between recalling pain and invoking a nourishing sensory memory, illustrating how quickly the body can shift states. The takeaway is simple and powerful: pleasure isn’t an indulgence that steals from productivity; it’s the fuel that sustains creativity, resilience, and a clear connection to your why.

If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs relief, and leave a review to help more listeners find this conversation. To explore Stacie’s work, reach out for her free 30-minute consultation and ask for the complimentary ebook on pleasure as medicine.

Offer: 1:1 private intimacy coaching with Stacie for individuals, couples, and partnership systems

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