E29 How She Did It: How overcome burnout by designing your life in a way that works perfectly for you, with Kylee Nelson

The My Journey to Fearless Podcast

Welcome to episode 3 of the “How She Did it” mini-series where I’m interviewing 8 inspiring women who have kindly agreed to share their stories about how they found their passion and purpose, started their businesses, and left their day jobs.

Today I’m speaking to Kylee Nelson and Kylee is sharing her story of how she went from feeling burned out in her day job, to having her son and realising that 9-5 life just wasn’t going to work for her anymore, to starting her own business and designing her life in the exact way she wanted to. This allowed her to thrive and to make sure her own needs were fulfilled so she could be there as her best self for her family and her clients.

We also talk about:

*How Kylee realised that she is a highly sensitive person (this is a great discussion) and what this meant for her, her family, and her business and how she realised there were certain things she needed to do to look after herself

*How we all have the knowledge and experience within us to start a coaching business by sharing our story of a journey we’ve been on with our health, or a medical journey, or a parenting journey and you feel like you’ve overcome something then you can help other people to get to that place too. Your story is powerful!

*Kylee gives us an insight into how she has designed her life to balance everything for herself, her family and her business. There’s one idea in here she’s given me that I’m definitely going to adopt!

*Kylee shares the biggest fear she had to overcome on her journey and how she overcame it - this is for you if you have imposter syndrome or if you don’t feel qualified enough to help other people.

It was such an interesting and insightful discussion and I know you will take so much from it.

Links

Links:

How to find out more about Kylee:

Kylee's website

Join Kylee's community calls

Follow Kylee on Instagram

Tools to help you start your coaching business: www.myjourneytofearless.com/yourstoryispowerful

Timestamps

2:04: When Kylee had her son she realised the 9-5 life wasn’t working for her. She had a passion to help other moms with their mental health and wellness so she decided to start her business.

3:09: Kylee describes her toxic work environment. The work she enjoyed doing was overshadowed by meetings, paperwork and led her to burnout.

4:23: How Kylee decided to use the skills she had from her day job to start her own business. She began doing the same work, but for herself, and learning new skills in business at the same time. Then she transitioned into coaching work which allowed her to build amazing relationships with her clients.

6:54: Kylee’s journey of self-discovery. Her story begins right after the birth of her son when she went to therapy herself and discovered she is a highly sensitive person. This can make you more sensitive to noise, lack of sleep, other people’s emotions. And this combined with being in a toxic workplace and being a new mom was a recipe for disaster. Being a highly sensitive person gives Kylee the skills to be amazing at her job, but she also needed to put boundaries in place to care for herself.

10:04: Kylee talks about how she realised she had the power to create the life she needed, and how society today isn’t really set up for highly sensitive people.

12:19: Kylee’s advice for you if you’re at burnout and don’t know what else you could do apart from your day job.

12:53: How we all have the knowledge and experience within us to start a coaching business by sharing our story of a journey we’ve been on with our health, or a medical journey, or a parenting journey and you feel like you’ve overcome something then you can help other people to get to that place too. Your story is powerful!

14:44: Don’t get stuck because of the tech side of your business idea - you can find the support and you can learn it as you go. Just start.

15:49: Kylee describes her life, working at home, before and after the pandemic. She works around her son’s schedule, just a few days a week.

17:04: How Kylee carved out one day a week to do all her errands, and another day of the week when she could just be by herself, with no expectations and just breathe, which is needed as a highly sensitive person. The ultimate work-life balance, where everyone’s needs are met.

23:29: Kylee shares her best piece of advice with us for people who are at burnout or who think they might be highly sensitive.

26:19: Kylee shares the biggest fear she had to overcome on her journey and how she overcame it - this is for you if you have imposter syndrome or if you don’t feel qualified enough to help other people.

30:49: How Kylee was selective about who she shared her new little business dream with, so that she was surrounded with supportive people and that she didn’t let other people’s opinions affect her. Sometimes other people’s opinions can send you into a spiral of doubt.

33:19: How you can find out more about Kylee and her business and how she could help you.