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Andy Brown - Managing your Emotional Overdraft

Sep 23, 202431 min
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Keywords

Resilience - Emotional Overdraft - Burnout - Emotional Reserves - Wellbeing - Invisible Costs

In this episode if Resilience Unravelled, Andy Brown, an award- winning adviser and coach for people-based businesses, talks about the concept of 'emotional overdraft'. He highlights its implications for burnout, the need to maintain healthy emotional reserves and the importance of acknowledging invisible personal and emotional costs in business finances, He also explores the idea of building a personal board of experts for support, the significance of prioritising well-being in highly stressed jobs, and the potential of writing a book to share experiences and insights.

Main topics

  • The concept of 'emotional overdraft' and how it can be managed
  • The dangers of misusing the term 'burnout' and the need to refresh the meaning of terms like 'stress' and 'resilience'
  • Acknowledging and maintaining healthy emotional reserves for personal and professional success
  • The concept of an "invisible line" in business finances, referring to the hidden personal and emotional costs of pursuing profitability
  • Maintaining a healthy "emotional bank" balance to avoid excessive strain
  • Building a personal board of experts to help overcome challenges.
  • Discipline as a better approach to building habits and achieving goals
  • The role of motivation in funding work
  • Why leadership development needs more focus


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