Reinventing Rumbley

Burnout, Boredom, or Bad Season? How to Tell the Difference & What to Do About It | Reinventing Rumbley77% of professionals have experienced burnout. The World Health Organization made it official in 2019. And it is the number one reason founders exit their own companies. 👇But here's the question nobody is asking clearly enough —Is it actually burnout? Or is it boredom? Or is it just a really bad season?Because the answer changes everything about what you do next.In this honest, practical, and deeply personal episode, Christina breaks down what she calls the Three B's — and why confusing them can lead to the worst business decisions of your life. Putting a band-aid on an amputated leg is not a strategy. And if you're in burnout mode, you need to know it.Christina covers:The Three B's framework: Burnout, Boredom, and Bad Season — and why they look and feel so similar but require completely different responsesThe four telltale signs you are actually burned out: exhaustion sleep can't cure, cynicism toward things you used to love, working more but producing less, and resentment slowly creeping into everythingWhy burnout is not a personal failure — it's an official occupational phenomenon and 77% of professionals have been thereWhy boredom is the silent Achilles heel of entrepreneurs — and how it can trick you into making decisions that blow up your businessWhat a bad season actually looks like — and how Hurricane Helene wiped out Asheville's tourism, nearly destroyed Christina's 20-year spa business, and is still being felt almost two years laterThe tipping point question every business owner eventually has to answer: put up or shut up, reinvent, reinvest, pivot, or get outWhy running the scenarios is Christina's go-to move — and how it works whether you're an entrepreneur, a corporate executive, or managing a team of oneThe Let Them theory (Mel Robbins) and why allowing people to show you who they are is one of the most freeing things you can do in business and in lifeBook recommendation: Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski — for anyone teetering on the edge and not sure which B they're inChristina's self-appointed role as fractional president of her husband Doug's interior design firm — and why strengthening a strength beats trying to fix a weakness every single timeThis episode is for every entrepreneur, founder, corporate leader, or human being who has ever woken up and wondered — wait, is this burnout? Or am I just bored? Or is this just life being life right now? 🤍You are not alone. Christina is in the middle of it too. And that's exactly why this conversation needed to happen.📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday⭐ Leave a 5-star review — it genuinely helps more than you know👇 Drop a comment: Are you burned out, bored, or in a bad season right now? Be honest. Christina wants to know — and she's not judging.🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com

Welcome to the Empath Club: Is Being an Empath Your Superpower or Your Kryptonite? | Reinventing RumbleyDo you cry at Budweiser Super Bowl commercials? Do strangers tell you their entire life story in a grocery line within 1.2 seconds of meeting you? Do you feel other people's emotions like they're actually happening to you? 👇Welcome to the Empath Club. Pull up a chair. Christina has been saving you a seat.In this deeply personal and surprisingly funny episode, Christina opens up about what it's actually like being an empath — from crying at gospel hymns as a two-year-old to being a complete wreck watching Yellowstone, to being the only person in her house reaching for tissues while her husband and daughter stare at her like she's lost her mind.Christina breaks down:What being an empath actually means and why it's not an official clinical term but is extremely well-documentedThe surprising stat: 1 in 5 people show empathic traits — and what that means for how we navigate a world full of strong feelingsMirror neurons — the brain cells that make empaths literally feel other people's emotions as if they're their ownThe difference between an empath and an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) — and why Christina is bothThe telltale signs: crying at commercials and weddings, strangers telling you their whole life in the checkout line, saying yes when you desperately want to say noWhy empaths are natural targets for energy vampires — and how to protect yourselfThe sound bathing event in Asheville where Christina spent the entire time doing standup comedy in her head and waiting for someone to fart 😂Why empaths are some of the most powerful leaders in the room — and why that same gift can make them the most exhausted onesThe danger of empathy without boundaries — and the difference between feeling with your team and taking on their problems as your ownThe most important lesson Christina has learned: regulate first, respond secondWhy suppressed emotion leaks out sideways — and what decompression actually looks like in practiceThe closing truth that hit different: the most powerful empathetic leaders aren't the ones who feel the most. They're the ones who feel deeply and stay grounded.This one is for every person who has ever been told they are too sensitive, too emotional, too much — and is ready to understand why that might be the most powerful thing about them. 🤍📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday⭐ Leave a 5-star review — it genuinely helps more than you know👇 Drop a comment: Are you an empath? Do you cry at commercials? Tell Christina she's not alone. She needs it.🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com

Where Did Customer Service Go?! | Target, Phone Holds & The Mm-Hmm Generation | Not So Deep ThoughtsAn hour and forty minutes on hold. A Target employee fixing candles who definitely did not want to be bothered. And the most unsatisfying mm-hmm in retail history. 👇In this episode of Not So Deep Thoughts, Christina goes fully in on the thing that is driving all of us absolutely crazy — the complete and total disappearance of customer service as we knew it.Christina worked customer service. Glamour Shots. The mall. Waitressing in LA for years. She knows what it looks like when someone actually tries. And what she's experiencing out here in 2025? Is not that.This episode covers:The phone hold loop from actual hell — the song you now hate, the hang-up after an hour and forty minutes, and the murderous rage that followsFinally getting a real human on the phone only to immediately become the worst version of yourself — and hating yourself for itThe cancellation call that refuses to let you cancel — "May I place you on a brief hold?" "No you cannot." ...click.The Target incident: a three-pronged item, a candle-fixing employee who definitely said no twice, and Christina's owner-operator brain taking over"Why don't we use it until your battery dies? What do you say?"The mm-hmm heard round the worldWhy whoever is on the other side of the counter these days is watching a show in their earbud while taking your orderThe Gen X customer service standard nobody is meeting anymoreAnd the most important not-so-deep thought of all: she won't even remember this conversation. So who's more bothered? 🤔Short. Funny. Painfully relatable. And Tank-free this week. 🐾📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday⭐ Leave a 5-star review — it genuinely helps more than you know👇 Drop a comment: What's your worst customer service story? Christina needs the validation immediately.🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com

AI, Rest, and the Silver Tsunami: What Happens to Business in the Next 5 Years | Aaron Dean Pt. 2 | Reinventing RumbleyAI is not just a productivity tool. It might actually be a tool for rest. And nobody is talking about that. 👇In Part 2 of this conversation with Aaron Dean, AI consultant and machine learning expert, Christina and Aaron go deeper into the most human side of artificial intelligence — and the most practical advice for entrepreneurs who want to actually use it without going broke buying 47 different subscriptions.If you haven't watched Part 1 yet, go start there first — this episode builds directly on it.In this episode Christina and Aaron cover:Why AI is particularly powerful for people managing chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, or just low energy days — and how Aaron uses it to match his productivity to his energy after his ulcerative colitis diagnosis in 2010Why AI might be the most underrated tool for women's health — running lab results, mammograms, and medical records through AI as a second or third opinionThe folder structure system that Aaron calls the single best place for any small business to start with AI (and why it's not as technical as it sounds)The difference between Claude Projects and using AI within a coding environment — explained simply for non-techiesWhat AI tools are actually worth the money in 2026 and what Christina finally had to stop buyingWhy YouTube and finding the right person to learn from might be the best bang for your buck — no $500 course requiredAI and creativity: would Christina have used AI as a songwriter? The "when to hold them and when to fold them" conversationThe data center environmental debate — and why Aaron says raging against AI might not be the most useful responseDeep fakes, bad actors, and why guardrails matterThe silver tsunami: 11,000 baby boomers retiring every single day — and what that means for the businesses they ownWhy private equity is swooping in — and why ESOP employee ownership might be the most interesting alternativeWhat Christina wishes she had done before selling her own companiesWhat the next five years of AI actually looks like for businesses that adopt it — and the ones that don'tAnd a message to everyone who is anti-AI: put your bare feet on the ground, take a breath, and remember you are humanThis episode ends with one of the most grounding moments we've had on this show. And a standing invitation to sweet tea in Asheville. 🍵📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday⭐ Leave a 5-star review — it genuinely helps more than you know👇 Drop a comment: Are you on the AI train or still standing on the platform? Christina wants to know where you're at.🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com

From Woodstock to AI Expert: Reinventing Your Career in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Aaron Dean | Reinventing Rumbley Pt. 1What does a kid from Woodstock who studied Arabic, worked in trades, and almost got blown off a roof doing solar panels have to do with AI? Everything. 👇This week Christina sits down with Aaron Dean — AI consultant, machine learning expert, and one of the most genuinely fascinating reinventionists to ever sit across from this microphone. Aaron's path to becoming an AI expert was anything but linear — and that's exactly what makes this conversation so good.From nearly falling off a roof to a skydiving epiphany that changed everything, from discovering that math could be used to tell stories to running his entire business through Claude from the command line — Aaron is the real deal. And he breaks it all down in plain English.In Part 1, Christina and Aaron dig into:Aaron's wild reinvention story: trades work, Arabic studies, a skydiving moment that rewired his brain, and how a bad concussion in Jamaica led him to entrepreneurshipHow he went from machine learning before it was called AI to becoming a full AI consultantWhat most people get completely wrong about AI right nowThe difference between regular AI and agentic AI — explained so simply even Christina got it ("it doesn't just give you the recipe, it makes the cake")What MCP servers are and why they're a game changer for entrepreneursHow Aaron runs invoicing, client management, and his entire business through Claude — and walks away to get lunch while it worksWhy work-life balance is becoming AI and human balance — and what that means for your careerChristina's own AI journey — from using folders and projects in Claude to introducing people around her to the toolsThe AI bubble question: is it coming? Aaron weighs in honestlyWhy human stories are still essential — someone has to tell AI what to feel because it never willChristina's daughter Avery — a SCAD animation grad who calls AI "the devil" — and how Aaron responds to the naysayersThis one is for every entrepreneur, career reinventor, and woman over 50 who has wondered where they fit in a world being reshaped by artificial intelligence. Spoiler: you fit right in the middle of it. 💪Part 2 drops next week — naysayers, utopia vs. doom, and everything in between.📩 Share your AI story: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday⭐ Leave a 5-star review — it genuinely helps more than you know👇 Drop a comment: Are you using AI in your business or life right now? What's working and what isn't? Christina wants to hear it all.🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com

🤫 What Nobody Tells You About Your 50s | Not So Deep Thoughts | Reinventing RumbleyEveryone wants to talk about the 40s. The 40s are the new 20s! The 40s are everything!But the 50s? Crickets. 👇Christina Rumbley is here to change that. Because nobody is talking about what actually happens in your 50s and honestly somebody needs to.In this episode of Not So Deep Thoughts, Christina gets hilariously real about the things that just quietly happen when you cross into your 50s that nobody warned you about. Not one person. Not your mom, not your doctor, not your friends.Including:Why she stopped wearing makeup and her husband's reaction to itThe 5:30 PM dinner situation and early bird special energy that just arrives uninvitedOrdering off the 55 and up menu and nobody asking for ID — not even a courtesy checkBeing horizontal by 8:30 PM, lights out by 8:45, completely numb in front of the TV and loving every single second of itThe laundry list that has to be done before bedtime — cats fed, dog fed, dog peed, dog pooped, husband snoringThe moment she realized her world had gotten considerably... smallerThe analogy she uses to describe how small — which is gross, accurate, and she does not care because she is over 50 😂This one is short, real, and will make you feel completely seen if you are anywhere near this chapter of life. 🎙️📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday⭐ Leave a 5-star review — it genuinely helps more than you know👇 Drop a comment: What's the thing nobody warned you about your 50s? Christina needs to know immediately.🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com

💉 GLP-1 Pros, Cons & The Truth Nobody Tells You | 7 Years on Saxenda Part 2 | Reinventing RumbleyI kept 60-70 pounds off for nearly seven years. Here's everything I wish I had known before I started. 👇In Part 2 of this honest, no-holds-barred GLP-1 conversation, Christina picks up right where she left off — this time going deep on the real pros and cons of the three main types of GLP-1s, doing a live show and tell with her actual Saxenda pen, and sharing the final takeaways from seven years of daily injections that changed her life.If you haven't watched Part 1 yet, pause and go watch that first — this episode builds directly on it.In this episode Christina covers:The three GLP-1s broken down simply: Liraglutide (Saxenda/Victoza), Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) and Tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) — and why they are NOT all the sameA live show and tell with her actual Saxenda pen — the needle size, how she does it, where she injects, and what it actually feels likeThe full pros list: significant weight loss, reduced food obsession, better blood sugar, less emotional eating, reduced inflammation, improved confidence and why she wouldn't have started this podcast at 203 poundsThe real cons: gastro issues, muscle loss, bone density reduction, emotional flattening, dopamine suppression, libido changes and the foods you absolutely cannot eat on this medicationThe weight regain reality: 50-70% of people regain the weight within a year of stopping — and why Christina hasn't gone off itUp to 25-30% of weight lost on GLP-1s can come from muscle — and why that scared her into finally talking about strength trainingThe stomach paralysis side effect nobody warns you about — and why you MUST get off your GLP-1 before any surgeryWhy she pays $25 with insurance now versus $1,500 a month without it — and the Canada workaround that kept her on itWhy she would never recommend ordering these online without a doctorHer final honest takeaway: GLP-1 didn't save her. She wasn't lost. She just needed help — and it gave her a fighting chance to finally work WITH her body instead of against itThis is not a sponsored episode. This is not medical advice. This is seven years of lived experience, hard lessons, and the conversation Christina wishes she had before she started. 🤍📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday⭐ Leave a 5-star review — it genuinely helps more than you know👇 Drop a comment: Are you on a GLP-1? What's your experience been? Christina wants to hear ALL of it — good, bad, and ugly.🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com

💉 I've Been on a GLP-1 for 7 Years & Nobody Talks About This Part | Saxenda, PCOS & My Honest Story | Reinventing RumbleyI weighed 203 pounds. I had a root meniscus tear from weight bearing alone. I was hiding in every family photo. And I had tried absolutely everything. 👇This is the episode Christina has never fully told before — and she's going there completely.Seven years ago, before Ozempic was a household name, before the GLP-1 conversation exploded, Christina's doctor put her on Saxenda — a liraglutide GLP-1 injection. She had PCOS and insulin resistance, couldn't lose weight no matter what she tried, and was gaining five to seven pounds every year regardless of trainers, calorie counting, or diets.Today she's lost 60-75 pounds and is sitting at a size eight. And she has a LOT to say about the journey.In this episode Christina breaks down:Her full personal story of weight gain, PCOS, and insulin resistance — and why diet and exercise alone couldn't fix itThe three main types of GLP-1s: Liraglutide (Saxenda/Victoza), Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy), and Tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) — and the real differences between themWhat food noise actually is — and why she didn't even know she had it until it shut offThe side effects nobody fully prepares you for: gastro issues, nausea, dopamine suppression, lowered libido, and why alcohol suddenly does nothing for herThe thing her doctor didn't warn her about that she wishes she'd known from day one: massive muscle and bone lossWhy she now has osteopenia in one hip — and what she believes is the connection to seven years on a GLP-1What she'd do differently if she started over todayThe emotional side of losing 60+ pounds — the body dysmorphia, the hiding in pictures, the moments of confidence and the moments of cruelty toward herselfWhy she's still not working out as much as she should — and why she's finally getting honest about thatThe difference between being at your goal weight and actually feeling good in your bodyWhy she's staying on maintenance at 0.6mg instead of going off it — and what happens when people stop cold turkeyHer take on celebrities and GLP-1s — without naming names but saying everything that needs to be saidThis is not a sponsored episode. This is not medical advice. This is one woman's raw, real, seven-year journey with a medication that changed her life — and an honest conversation about everything that comes with it. The good, the bad, the meh, and the muscle loss. 💊Part 2 is coming — pros, cons, and everything else.📩 Email Christina: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every Wednesday⭐ Leave a 5-star review — it genuinely helps more than you know👇 Drop a comment: Are you on a GLP-1? Thinking about it? Got off it? Christina wants to hear YOUR story.🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.https://www.youtube.com/@ReinventingRumbley?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Me.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reinventing-Rumbley/61582519707845/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/reinventingrumbley/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reinventingrumbley📩 Got a story about reinvention? We’d love to hear it, email us at: ReinventingRumbley@gmail.com