Finding Your Worth After Hitting Rock Bottom – Jane Chen

About this episode

Jane Chen discusses her journey of finding self-worth after experiencing burnout and confronting her past traumas.

What happens when your entire sense of worth is tied to achievement? Jane Chen spent years pushing herself to the limit: working nonstop, chasing impact, and trying to prove she was enough. From the outside, she looked wildly successful: she co-founded a company whose life-saving infant incubators would eventually help over one million babies around the world. But internally, she was exhausted, disconnected, and falling apart. In this episode, Jane shares how burnout forced her to confront the childhood trauma, perfectionism, and fear of failure that had been driving her for decades. She talks about the uncomfortable process of slowing down, healing, and learning self-compassion for the first time. ABOUT GUEST Jane Chen is a leadership coach and keynote speaker. She is the co-founder of Embrace, whose life-saving infant incubator has helped over one million babies worldwide. Her new memoir is “Like a Wave We Break” (https://www.janemariechen.com/). CHAPTERS (0:00) Introduction (0:48) Meet Jane Chen (1:24) Building Embrace (2:26) Hitting Rock Bottom (3:29) High Highs Unhealthy Drive (5:41) Extreme Healing Quest (7:42) Uncovering Trauma (10:07) Being Enough (11:39) Self Compassion…

People in this episode

Guest: Jane Chen

Topics covered

• self-worth
• burnout
• healing
• perfectionism
• self-compassion
• childhood trauma

Keywords

• self-worth
• burnout
• perfectionism
• healing
• self-compassion
• childhood trauma
• leadership

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Embrace

Books & works: Like a Wave We Break

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