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Workplace Burnout: Jesse Favre on Becoming a Stranger to Yourself

28 min · 16. juli 2026
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Workplace burnout can make you a stranger to yourself. Jesse Favre, leadership and well-being expert, on the burnout she felt in her body and the way back. ▶ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 A stranger to yourself 02:24 From healthcare leadership to teaching burnout 02:43 Burnout in months, not years 05:37 Halos around the lights 06:14 The patient she turned away 06:47 Burnout as stress left unmanaged 08:18 Why asking for help is so hard 09:56 Humor as a doorway into hard topics 13:29 The circus performer under the hospital clothes 16:58 When work stress lands in the ER 17:38 Mental and physical health, two sides of one coin 19:16 Movement, nutrition, and connection 21:15 When you don't always live what you teach 24:24 Where to find Jesse WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🧭 Why burnout can arrive in months, not years, and how to catch it early 💛 The moment exhaustion turned physical, and what it was trying to say 🧠 How mental and physical health show up as two sides of the same coin 🙋 Why asking for help is one of the hardest human things, and how to make it easier 🌿 The movement, nutrition, and connection practices Jesse leans on to stay whole ABOUT JESSE FAVRE Jesse Favre is a leadership and workplace well-being expert with a dual MSW and MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. A former healthcare leader (and, for years, a circus performer), she has led more than 1,000 workshops on burnout, mental health, and team performance, and hosts the show "Inside the Team." https://jessefavre.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-favre STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Listen on your favorite platform: https://evergreenpodcasts.com/the-wellness-driven-life-show Join The Drive Collective: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #Burnout #WorkplaceWellbeing #MentalHealthAtWork #JesseFavre #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

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Workplace Burnout: Jesse Favre on Becoming a Stranger to Yourself

Workplace burnout can make you a stranger to yourself. Jesse Favre, leadership and well-being expert, on the burnout she felt in her body and the way back. ▶ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 A stranger to yourself 02:24 From healthcare leadership to teaching burnout 02:43 Burnout in months, not years 05:37 Halos around the lights 06:14 The patient she turned away 06:47 Burnout as stress left unmanaged 08:18 Why asking for help is so hard 09:56 Humor as a doorway into hard topics 13:29 The circus performer under the hospital clothes 16:58 When work stress lands in the ER 17:38 Mental and physical health, two sides of one coin 19:16 Movement, nutrition, and connection 21:15 When you don't always live what you teach 24:24 Where to find Jesse WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🧭 Why burnout can arrive in months, not years, and how to catch it early 💛 The moment exhaustion turned physical, and what it was trying to say 🧠 How mental and physical health show up as two sides of the same coin 🙋 Why asking for help is one of the hardest human things, and how to make it easier 🌿 The movement, nutrition, and connection practices Jesse leans on to stay whole ABOUT JESSE FAVRE Jesse Favre is a leadership and workplace well-being expert with a dual MSW and MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. A former healthcare leader (and, for years, a circus performer), she has led more than 1,000 workshops on burnout, mental health, and team performance, and hosts the show "Inside the Team." https://jessefavre.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-favre STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Listen on your favorite platform: https://evergreenpodcasts.com/the-wellness-driven-life-show Join The Drive Collective: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #Burnout #WorkplaceWellbeing #MentalHealthAtWork #JesseFavre #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

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Isabelle Daikeler Created Shakeology. Then She Rebuilt Herself.

Isabelle Daikeler co-created Shakeology. Then a decade she couldn't walk taught her to surrender, and everything she thought gave her worth quietly fell away. Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 Who Isabelle Is, and the Story She Wants to Tell 02:32 The Decade She Couldn't Walk 04:00 What Losing Your Health Teaches About Aging 04:44 Chronic Fatigue, No Answers, and Real Depression 06:08 Meeting the Innate Intelligence 08:13 Grief, Fear, and the Loss of Worth 13:30 The First Prayer, and Surrender 14:38 The Click, and the Hammock 16:22 Source Is Not Calling You, Source Is You 21:15 Why She Finds Manifestation Distorted 24:07 From Bodywork to Energy Healing 27:00 The Mountain Temple and the Harmonic Egg 30:20 You Are the Temple, Right Here, Right Now WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🌿 Why a decade on the floor, not the early car accident, became her real turning point 🕊 What surrender actually is, and the "hammock" that appears when you stop fighting ✨ The reframe of worth: you are the spark, not the doing 🥚 How the Harmonic Egg resets the nervous system, even for people wary of energy work 💛 Why she is "allergic" to anyone making healing sound special or hard to reach ABOUT ISABELLE DAIKELER Isabelle Daikeler is a fitness and nutrition expert and the original concept creator and co-formulator of Shakeology, as well as the nutrition and reset programs that support it. After a car accident at 22, and later a decade unable to walk following the birth of her son, she rebuilt her health and her sense of self through surrender, energy healing, and a return to what she calls innate intelligence. From her temple in the Santa Monica Mountains, she now guides celebrities, athletes, and everyday people toward alignment, authenticity, and lasting peace, including through the Harmonic Egg sound-and-light modality and remote sessions. https://www.authenticitystressless.com/ 🧭 STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter for fresh episode alerts and SIP-aligned reflections: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Join The Drive Collective community: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #Shakeology #IsabelleDaikeler #HarmonicEgg #AuthenticityStressLess #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

9. juli 202634 min
episode The Coherence Effect: Mickra Hamilton on Why Health Is Remembered artwork

The Coherence Effect: Mickra Hamilton on Why Health Is Remembered

🎙️ The Coherence Effect: Mickra Hamilton on healing, breath, and becoming more. A retired Air Force Colonel who broke down at 40 shares how coherence became her way back, and why health is something we remember. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 The question that frames it all 01:07 Meet Dr. Mickra Hamilton 02:21 A childhood that knew we're limitless 05:06 Breaking down at 40, and the question that opened everything 06:49 Eighteen years of health, then COVID 10:23 What coherence really is, and how we breathe 13:55 Healing as a continuous practice, not one and done 18:29 The mind-body split, and why we're complex, not complicated 21:12 The one simple tool that changes the whole system 24:53 Two surprising domains: spirituality and energetics 27:11 Her morning coherence ritual 29:21 Two questions to leave you with WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🌬 Why coherence is the body's natural state, and the five-in, five-out breath that returns you to it 🧬 How "becoming more" replaces "doing more," and why health is remembered rather than achieved 🧠 The mind-body split that began with Descartes, and why you are a living system, not a machine of parts ✨ The two domains that surprised even her, where ancient knowing meets new science 🌅 Two questions to carry with you about what opens up as you grow more coherent ABOUT MICKRA HAMILTON Dr. Mickra Hamilton, AuD, is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and human performance expert who spent three decades helping elite performers thrive, until her own health crisis turned her inward and prompted her to rebuild from the ground up. She is the author of "The Coherence Effect" and co-founder of Apeiron, where she blends precision science with deep soul work to help people remember their wholeness and their limitless nature. CONNECT WITH MICKRA Website (her home base, with all her social links): https://www.drmickrahamilton.com Book: https://www.thecoherenceeffect.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickra-hamilton-a772684a/ 🧭 STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter for fresh episode alerts and SIP-aligned reflections: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Join The Drive Collective community: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #TheCoherenceEffect #MickraHamilton #Coherence #HolisticSystemsHealth #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

2. juli 202634 min
episode Why He Films What Heals: Keith Leon S. on Body & Belief artwork

Why He Films What Heals: Keith Leon S. on Body & Belief

🎬 Why He Films What Heals: Keith Leon S. on Body & Belief What makes a bestselling author pick up a camera to chase the truth about how we heal? After his aunt outlived a two-week cancer prognosis and his own chronic pain finally left him, Keith Leon S. went looking for answers and put them on film. He joins April on the body, belief, and how he keeps the work hopeful. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 Why a bestselling author films what heals 02:11 Twelve copies sold, then mentored by The Secret 04:15 His aunt's two-weeks-to-live healing 05:16 The chronic pain that finally left 05:58 Why Willy Wonka changed everything 08:24 "Cancer is a man-made word" 10:52 Dis-ease and the inner work 12:35 Pain equals healing 14:18 Finding the root cause 18:08 The films and the Clickety-Clack series 20:33 Whole BEing Healing and community 26:03 The risk of telling the truth on film 28:33 The Best Possible Outcome process 32:46 You make a difference WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY ✦ How his aunt's recovery from a two-week prognosis set him on the path to film what heals ✦ The reframe that freed him from fear: "cancer is a man-made word," and what she meant by it ✦ How a simple formula, pain equals healing, ended 25 years of chronic pain ✦ Why belief and faith may matter as much as the body in any recovery ✦ How he films controversial healers from a neutral place so the message actually lands ✦ A reminder you might need today: you make a difference, and no one can be you but you ABOUT KEITH LEON S. Keith Leon S. is a 12x international bestselling author, world-renowned speaker, and award-winning film and TV producer. With his wife Maura, he runs Beyond Belief Publishing, and he has worked across books, film, and television to carry healing knowledge to a wider audience. His documentary the INside effects and his How the Body Heals Itself series gather leading doctors and healers around what helps a body restore itself when we are willing to learn and share truthfully. Beyond Belief Publishing: https://www.beyondbeliefpublishing.com Keith on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@keithleon8959 WATCH KEITH'S WORK the INside effects: https://fawesome.tv/movies/10753779/the-inside-effects-how-the-body-heals-itself The How the Body Heals Itself Series: https://fawesome.tv/shows/103149/the-how-the-body-heals-itself-series Navigating the Clickety-Clack: https://fawesome.tv/shows/98596/navigating-the-clickety-clack STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Join The Drive Collective: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #KeithLeonS #BodyAndBelief #TheINsideEffects #TWDLS #DrivenLivin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

25. juni 202637 min
episode You're Not God: Scott Silverman on Asking for Help & Finding Hope artwork

You're Not God: Scott Silverman on Asking for Help & Finding Hope

💛 You're Not God, That Job Is Taken: Scott Silverman on asking for help, recovery, and the hope that's always there. Crisis coach Scott Silverman has spent more than forty years in recovery and in the work of helping others, and his message is simple: you're not God, and that's good news. We talk about why the three hardest words to say are I need help, what he calls funeral avoidance, why addiction is a disease and not a moral failing, and the long view from someone who has walked people from their lowest point back to hope. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 The one thing we're never meant to control 01:33 Meet Scott Silverman: crisis coach and founder of Confidential Recovery 01:54 Long-term recovery since 1984 and the three hardest words: I need help 04:38 Staying in the work without burning out 07:09 The twelve-inch trip from your head to your heart 08:00 Addiction is a disease, not a moral failing 09:36 It's okay not to be okay, and the family navigator role 11:48 You're Not God, That Job Is Taken: what the book frees us to do 17:45 Compassion on the front lines and the people no one reaches 23:36 Tough love that works: dignity and "Would you hire you?" 30:00 The homeless industry and why housing first failed 34:40 Self-reflection, self-love, and learning to look in the mirror 36:15 Closing: there's always hope and help WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🕊 Why the three hardest words, I need help, may be the bravest ones you say 🧠 Why addiction is a disease, not a moral failing, and what the diabetes comparison makes clear 🪞 The mirror moment behind Tell Me No, I Dare You: "Would you hire you?" 💛 Why it's okay not to be okay, and just as okay to be okay 🛞 A clear look at homelessness, the "homeless industry," and why intervention has to come first ABOUT SCOTT SILVERMAN Scott Silverman is a crisis coach, family navigator, and the founder and CEO of Confidential Recovery, an intensive outpatient program in San Diego. In long-term recovery since 1984, he has spent more than forty years helping individuals and families move from crisis back to recovery, and he founded Second Chance and the Veterans Navigation Center along the way. He is the author of You're Not God, That Job Is Taken and Tell Me No, I Dare You. http://yourcrisiscoach.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthsilverman/ 🛞 STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Join The Drive Collective: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #YoureNotGod #ScottSilverman #Recovery #HopeAndHelp #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

18. juni 202640 min