Joining me on the pod this ep are two of my favourite industry gals the I now can’t live without - Rebecca Jarvie Gibbs, COO and co-founder of the earned-led culture agency Example, and Adelle Chang, Business + Design Director at Creatik Design.
In this episode, we’re unpacking burnout, hustle culture, the girlboss hangover…. and what it really takes to redefine ambition without burning yourself to the ground.
I recently read a piece by the brilliant Zoe Scaman about how our industry’s structure can quietly push women toward burnout, not because we’re not tough enough, but because the expectations can be genuinely unsustainable - and it got me thinking a lot.
So in this episode, we sit down and get into the big question I feel like so many of us are quietly asking right now: why do we work like this?
Where’s the line between loving what you do and slowly burning yourself to the ground?
Where did this pace come from, is this the girlboss era hangover? who does it benefit - and is it actually sustainable?
Bec opens up about her burnout journey as an agency owner, and how it collided with her new role as a mum when her son Otis was born. She goes into what it took to rebuild her relationship with work from the ground up, and why she’s on a mission to help as many women as she can redefine their ambition without losing themselves.
And Adelle shares what it’s like when your health forces you to rewrite the plan and shares some gems on how she’s trying to figure out how to create boundaries as a working mum of three in our industry while still staying ambitious.
Most importantly, we dig into what doing it differently can actually look like - for ourselves, for each other, and for the next generation of women coming up behind us.
So if you’ve been feeling tired in your bones… if you’re a people pleaser who struggles to hold any type of boundary (hi, its me)… and you’re craving a version of success that doesn’t cost you your health or your career than you love, then this one if for you.
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SHOWNOTES
Rebecca Jarvie-Gibbs Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/5NQ2Hm7wp3nxpC6qrPhipb
Example Agency
https://www.weareexample.com/
Rebecca Linked In
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-jarvie-gibbs-6009a531/
Adelle Chang Linked In
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelle-chang-188a2a85/
Creatik
https://www.creatik.com.au/
Zoe Scaman Article 'the stories we need now'
https://zoescaman.substack.com/p/the-stories-we-need-now
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