I Learned The Hard Way That Caring For Others Starts With Caring For Yourself

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of self-care and the challenges of prioritizing personal health over the needs of others.

Your calendar is full, you’re the one everyone counts on, and you’re still telling yourself you’ll “get to” your health later. That bargain feels normal until it doesn’t. I sit down with Melanie Saiedy, founder of Alevance LLC and a veteran leadership and organizational development consultant, to talk about the hard-earned lesson behind her “if only”: prioritizing everyone else’s needs while putting her own self-care last. We dig into how overgiving gets rewarded, especially in healthcare le...

People in this episode

Host: Brenda McGregor

Guest: Melanie Saiedy

Topics covered

• self-care
• overgiving
• healthcare
• personal development
• leadership

Keywords

• self-care
• overgiving
• health
• leadership
• personal development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Alevance LLC

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