Meeting Summary
We asked everyone to introduce themselves and share their experience with burnout. Here's some of what came up:
⚖️ Emily of
Lumos Communications (peep the site - KL built it) pointed out that being burnt out from too many clients and not enough clients both suck.
🫠 Christy Price noticed that sometimes it's not burnout it's
actually just being bored of doing the same thing too often. Mixing it up is key. She also mentioned
Content Snare – a way to pester your clients to get their shit done without having to do it yourself. So, thank you, Christy!!
🕺 No surprise here - Alyssa of
Ampd Designs thrives on being busy. But she did get really burnt out taking on a leadership role that felt like a lot of commitments she didn't enjoy.
Other Burnout-Causers:
👩🏽💻 A million little hourly tasks - Izzy
🏖️ Not building in enough vacation days - Olivia
😱 The fear of not having enough work - Patricia
🫡 Saying ‘yes’ to everything - Erin
🗓️ Slow seasons - despite your efforts - Hollei
OK that was a long list.
BUT we also talked about burnout solutions that worked for us:
🫶 Kasey - low-pressure, community, hang-outs like G+B.
💸 LG - Profit First (seconded by Hollei) & implementing systems
🍳 KL -
Burnout book is great. You have to deal with the stress before you can deal with the stressor.
Also actually eating breakfast.🤳 Erin - doesn’t have email on her phone. Has really strong work/time boundaries.
💻 Alyssa - never brings her laptop on vacation.
🚶♀️Olivia - I started walking and I hate how much it works.
☀️ Christy starts her day by going outside and NOT looking at her phone first thing.
Announcements:
- Next G+B is Non-Cringy Networking. Tell your friends. Or else! 😈
- LG, KL, and Olivia are doing a Notion for Designers Dec. 1st, 1pm EST.
- LG and KL are also doing a webinar version of their Brand Audit if you're interested in working on your own brand vibes.
- Please let us know if you have topic ideas for future G+B's.
