(120) Why Ignoring Your Self-Care Might Be Your Best Business Strategy

About this episode

Christi Johnson shares her journey from severe burnout to prioritizing mental health in her business strategy.

Most entrepreneurs are one bad mental health day away from meltdown mode... unless they listen to this. Christi Johnson reveals her struggle with a burnout so severe, it shut her business down & almost made her lose herself completely. But that didn't keep her down, she’s now building a business and life that prioritize her mental health first . Her story is a rollercoaster from hypomanic episodes and emergency crashes to radical self-care and boundary-setting that turned burnout into breakthrough.

People in this episode

Host: Heather Herington

Guest: Christi Johnson

Topics covered

• self-care
• entrepreneurship
• mental health
• burnout
• boundary-setting
• radical self-care

Keywords

• self-care
• burnout
• mental health
• entrepreneurship
• boundary-setting
• hypomanic episodes
• radical self-care

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