Overcoming Working Mom Burnout

Developing psychological safety to prevent burnout with Laura Knights

Laura Knights is trained as a therapist, social worker, and in leadership development. She brings so much lived experience and wisdom to this episode. As the creator of the Black Woman Leading program and podcast she has seen the struggles of burnout and workplace trauma that Black women have faced. In her own work, she creates safe spaces for leaders to share their experiences and she teaches leaders at all levels of an organization how to better support their employees.

Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

There isn’t a silver bullet, so we need a flexible approach to workplace burnout with Jennifer Moss

Jennifer Moss is the author of The Burnout Epidemic. Her book focuses on the role organizations play in burnout. Written during the pandemic, Jennifer presents case studies of how vulnerable and flexible leadership allowed companies to better adapt. Leaders have to role model healthy work habits but also if we recognize how much we have learned about resilience during the pandemic we can have the confidence to make workplaces of the future more sustainable.

Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

A blue print to prevent parental burnout with Dr Whitney Casares

Dr Whitney Casares wears many hats but she sees them fundamentally as leadership roles. She leads in her pediatrician practice, in her mom support business and in her home. This leadership stance allows her to have a higher vision for life based on her core values. And she isn’t the one doing all the work. She is directing it. And this approach as well as a physiological understanding of stress, helps her manage her own burnout and prevent it in others.

Download your free burnout guide on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com.

Season 2 Wrap up

Dr Kerr summarizes what she has learned in the last 6 months from Season 2 guests and what she is looking forward to sharing next from Season 3 guests.

Watch my TEDx talk ‘How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts here’ https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ And download your free guide 4 ways to spot burnout in your employee on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com

Addressing the pay gap to prevent burnout with Allison Venditti

Allison Venditti is based in Canada, but is a global expert in HR. She supports working moms through her organization Moms at Work. She posts and speaks regularly about pay transparency and pay equity at work. Lack of reward is a cause of burnout so preventing pay inequality can prevent burnout. Of course when I first reached out to Allison she was way too busy to be on the podcast, but as the pandemic took its toll and she personally experienced burnout, she wanted to share her story so others could see that it’s normal to be undone by what we are going through at the moment.

Watch my TEDx talk ‘How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts here’ https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ And download your free guide 4 ways to spot burnout in your employee on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com

Creating a village of helpers to prevent burnout with Toyosi Babalola

Toyosi Babalola is a talented app developer who has created the Abule app to support families with a village of service providers. Based on a bartering system and a tribe of users, families can get support or provide support through ride shares, meals, classes, tutoring, summer activities etc. One of the most important tools for reducing burnout is leveraging resources. The Abule app makes this easy. Watch my TEDx talk ‘How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts here’ https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ And download your free guide 4 ways to spot burnout in your employee on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com

A brief insight into some of the science behind burnout and burnout solutions with host Dr Jacqueline Kerr

This week, I'm going to introduce to you the science of burnout. Last week, I interviewed Isabel Torres, who was the leader of Mothers in Science. In honor of her work in science, I would like to share some of the science behind burnout as an occupational phenomenon and how to use science to solve burnout. Watch my TEDx talk ‘How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts here’ https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ And download your free guide 4 ways to spot burnout in your employee on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com

Improving science and medicine by preventing burnout in STEMM moms with Dr Isabel Torres

Dr Isabel Torres leads the advocacy organization Mothers in Science. She had been collecting data and providing solutions through science, stories, networking, toolkits and polices. I wanted to speak with Isabel because as a mom in STEMM, which includes medicine, I wasn’t aware of the gender barriers and bias I faced. I assumed I was somehow failing. But Isabelle and others have shown that mothers are penalized in their scientific careers but fathers are not. This difference points to a systemic problem which Isabel is fighting to dismantle.

The importance of finding and being role models in changing burnout culture and burnout behaviors

Last week Allison Tsao, an organization development specialist and I spoke about leading with more humanity in the workplace and a large part of that leadership is being a role model. Often we think about role models as aspirational, larger than life characters. But everyday role models, people like you, are an essential part of individual behavior change and culture change.

Please watch my TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ

Understanding leadership transformation and culture change to prevent burnout with Allison Tsao

Allison Tsao is an organization development specialist. She is the founder of Humans Who Lead. She has a series of blog posts about transformational change and systems change. Allison is based in Australia, and as you probably know, I love to hear international perspectives. We haven’t talked about change burnout much on this podcast. So I appreciated Allison’s expertise on this topic.

Please watch my TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ