1 Critical Leadership Skill You Need to Help You and Your Team Avoid Burnout

Episode 323: How can you, as a leader, stay grounded and avoid burnout when the pressure never seems to let up?

If you’re tired of the constant pressure, the never-ending uncertainty, and the feeling that sheer grit is the only way forward, you’re not alone. This episode is for you. Together with emotional resilience expert Molly Claire, you’ll discover a healthier, more effective path to lead with calm, clarity, and influence while avoiding the burnout trap.

By listening, you’ll gain:

• Practical ways to reset your nervous system so you can remain calm and effective in high-stakes situations.

• Tools to reduce burnout, increase self-awareness, and sustain long-term leadership energy.

• Strategies for modeling well-being and resilience that your team will naturally follow.

Press play now to learn how to build the emotional resilience that helps you thrive as a leader while inspiring your team to do the same.

Building Emotional Resilience to Avoid Burnout

00:00 — Setting the stage.
Host David Dye introduces the episode, explaining how emotional resilience helps leaders stay calm, build trust, and avoid burnout in today’s demanding workplaces.

01:43 — Rethinking resilience.
Molly Claire shares why resilience is more than just grit and powering through. True resilience is about emotional awareness and grounding yourself under pressure.

05:18 — The grind and uncertainty.
David highlights how leaders are exhausted by constant change and the relentless grind. Molly points out the toll this takes on performance and well-being.

07:02 — Why pushing harder fails.
Molly explains why the traditional “work harder” mindset leads to long-term damage and why leaders must find new, healthier ways to avoid burnout.

09:43 — Practical first steps.
From sleep to exercise to mindfulness practices like tapping, Molly offers simple but powerful habits to help leaders regulate their nervous systems.

Practical Habits and Leadership Lessons

13:02 — Making habits stick.
Molly shares the importance of starting small. Focusing on one change at a time to ensure new resilience habits become lasting routines.

14:42 — Unlocking better thinking.
Resilience isn’t just about health—it gives leaders greater access to their prefrontal cortex, boosting creativity, strategy, and effective decision-making.

15:52 — Modeling resilience for your team.
David and Molly discuss how teams mirror their leaders, and why modeling wellbeing is more powerful than simply telling employees to take care of themselves.

20:17 — Finding certainty in uncertainty.
Molly introduces a reframe: focus on what’s stable within you—your strengths, values, and resourcefulness—when external circumstances feel chaotic.

24:01 — Leading yourself first.
The episode closes with the reminder that you can’t lead others well if you aren’t leading yourself. Emotional awareness and personal well-being come first.

About Molly Claire

Molly brings 10 years of experience training coaches, Master Coaches, and designing high-level curricula that are effective in creating lasting change in others. She has worked personally with moms through coaching and her best-selling book, The Happy Mom Mindset. Molly has worked with thousands of coaches and consultants to help them build their businesses and find the balance they crave, enabling them to create a satisfying life. Coach Certification and Leadership Training is a great first step! Suppose you’re already running your coaching business. In that case, Master Coach Training will teach you how to dive deep with your clients in cognitive approaches, emotion-focused modalities, and the most effective action-focused strategies to create change.