Between Hustle Culture, Work-From-Home, and other trends and changes in the work and business culture, we’ve seen a large rise in burnout within the community and so we’ve become very interested in hosting conversations around how folks can avoid or overcome burnout.
Samantha Mirallegro
Burnout is a challenge, but for me, the key has always been staying connected to why I do what I do. I genuinely love learning, creating, and helping businesses grow through thoughtful branding, web design, and SEO. That passion fuels me, even during the busiest times.
Balancing Samantha Digital with my 9-5 job requires intentional boundaries. I plan my days carefully, prioritize tasks, and take breaks when I need them. Stepping away, even briefly, helps me recharge and come back with a fresh perspective. I remind myself that rest is as important as hard work for long-term success. Read more>>
Ed “zorz” Hafizov
Overcoming and avoiding burnout in a highly creative and demanding field like photography has been a continuous process, and my 18 years of experience have taught me that maintaining passion and balance requires a multifaceted approach. Here’s how I managed to navigate those challenges:
1. Diversifying my creative outlets
Early in my career, I leaned into my background in drawing and comics as a way to stay creatively engaged even when photography felt draining. Drawing allows me to slow down and revisit composition, line, and storytelling in a tactile way that photography doesn’t always permit. Comics, in particular, taught me how to think in sequences and visual narratives, which translated beautifully into my photography by helping me see every shoot as a complete story. Read more>>
Ryan Suender
The dynamic nature of cybersecurity can be both exhilarating and exhausting. To avoid burnout, I embrace the constant evolution as an opportunity for continuous learning, keeping my skills sharp and my interest high. I focus on the positive impact my work has on individuals and organizations, finding motivation in contributing to a safer digital world. I establish clear boundaries between work and personal life by setting limits on working hours and avoiding excessive overtime. I connect with other cybersecurity professionals through networking events or online communities, sharing experiences and learning from each other. I incorporate mindfulness techniques like going for a walk or watching a show into my routine. Read more>>
Fractal World
Being a fairly young band, we haven’t really had issues with burnout in the song writing or performing process. We’ve all experienced, however, the band helping us from becoming burnt out in our personal and professional lives. Having the band as a creative outlet has prevented us from feeling stuck in a day-to-day, week-to-week routine that lacks personal growth. Having this creative outlet has definitely helped us remedy our individual burnout experiences and has since prevented burnout in our professional lives. Read more>>
Yb Biste
A lot of people always ask me how I have time to everything. I currently work full time as a senior editor and cast member for the Try Guys, maintain my own YouTube channel with other social media, have 3 pets, work out twice a day, play video games, and take part in social activities on the weekend. I am not completely free from burnout – it hits me from time to time, especially when we’re editing heavy videos back to back. But, it is not often. Most of the times I enjoy my daily routine and never find it too overwhelming. Read more>>
Drake Aasen
Burnout is a very real consequence of working on something you love. It becomes so easy when you’re passionate about something to take on too many projects to where you don’t have any time at all to take care of yourself. The unfortunate thing is, I only think I really learned this by experiencing it.
For a long time, I thought I was immune to burnout. This goes back to when I was doing mostly theatre. I would do 2 or 3 musicals at the same time, just hopping from one rehearsal to the next. I could always put on a front while I was at rehearsal, but the reality is I was struggling. Behind the scenes, I barely had time to eat between one rehearsal and the next. Read more>>
Leah Seraq
In my training as a palliative care pharmacist, burnout was a very important topic, even before the pandemic made it a broader concern in the healthcare field. When you practice in the specialty of palliative care, you work with individuals with complex, advanced, or terminal illnesses to provide holistic support for them and their families and caregivers. While palliative care clinicians, including myself, are often drawn to this work because we find great value in taking care of these individuals, it can be very emotionally draining, sad, and stressful, and thus, awareness of the potential for burnout and ways to mitigate it was always top of mind. Read more>>
