The Quiet Burnout Most High-Achieving Women Don’t Talk About

One of the most rewarding things about being an entrepreneur, is the freedom that women achieve instead of being tied down to a 9 to 5. They are able to make a lot of money, and even though success seems so close, they burn out quietly with warning.

Success Can Still Feel Heavy

As an operations partner, helping high level women build better systems with smoother operations, I have seen first hand the frustrations and these women deal with on an everyday basis. From decision making, to having to lead and execute at the same time, business often becomes somewhat of a regret until they can force themselves to let go of the day to day.

What Quiet Burnout Actually Looks Like

Quiet burnout rarely happens all at once. It starts slowly.

Your calendar fills up with meetings and calls that used to feel exciting but now feel draining. Your day begins before you are ready, and it ends long after you expected.

You are answering messages, making decisions, solving problems, and remembering things for everyone. Even when things are going well on the outside, internally you feel the pressure building.

You can’t fully rest because your mind is always running through the next thing that needs attention.

That is what quiet burnout looks like for many high-achieving women.

One reason for the quiet burnout is because they have not realized that a team, the right team is needed when their revenue reaches a certain level. The systems and strategies, and structure used for making $5k a month, no longer serves a purpose at $30k a month. The goal is continued growth and an increase in profits as long as you are in business.

Growth Changes the Weight of Leadership

The reality is that growth changes everything. At the beginning, doing everything yourself might have been necessary. If an email came in, you answered it. If new clients signed, you managed them. You tracked the numbers. You handled every moving part.

But as the business grows, those same habits start working against you.

More clients means more decisions. More opportunities means more responsibilities. More revenue means more pressure to maintain what you have built.

Without structure and support, growth can start to feel heavier instead of freeing.

Another reason for the quiet burn out, is the myth or idea that they have to be superwomen in their business. They feel that they should be everything to everyone. When the weight gets heavy on them, they fall into a place of blame and resentment when things don’t go as well. At some point, they realize running a service based business requires scaling on another level.

Three Ways to Prevent Quiet Burnout

Here are three things to do to prevent quiet burnout as a high achieving woman:

1. Hire an operations partner. When things are becoming overwhelmed and so much is stacked against you, it is a good idea to have someone to hold the business with you.

2. Put the right systems in place. Manual work will cause you to be at a standstill in your business. When you rely on memory, and not systems and processes, things begin to break and you are left to fix them and pick up the pieces.

3. Keep your focus on the strategies and growth of the business. No matter what you are able to do, it is not a good idea that you do everything. Your should be on long term growth and sustainability.

   
   

Why Doing Everything Stops Working

Being the woman who does it all stops working when you loose fulfillment, and excitement in running the business. The reasons that you used to want to get up in the morning, are no longer there. Now, there is chaos and mishap where there used to be patience and understanding.

The pressures of running a business can be extreme, but they can be managed. You revenue can be protected. You can become proactive instead of reactive. It all starts with the decision to let go of what you should not be holding on to.

That's why I built my strategic partnership, to help women just like you.

You deserve a business you can brag about!