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When Your Heart for Others Costs You Your Health: Breaking the Cycle of Burnout and People Pleasing

Episode Summary

In this powerful episode, Executive Coach and Counselor Jahmaal Marshall exposes the hidden patterns driving burnout among senior leaders, entrepreneurs, and high performers. Drawing from real client scenarios, he reveals why people-pleasing, emotional overextension, and subconscious programming drain leaders of their time, energy, and clarity often without them realizing it. Jahmaal also introduces his new Mini-Course, built for leaders who want to reclaim mental bandwidth, break self-sacrificing cycles, and lead from identity instead of exhaustion. And for a limited time, listeners can access a special Black Friday offer.

Episode Notes

 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

1. The “Always-Available Executive” Pattern

Why leaders feel compelled to stay on call 24/7 and the subconscious fear that drives it.

2. The High-Achiever Who Can’t Say No

How guilt-based decision-making leads to overcommitment and delayed growth.

3. The Hidden Burnout of Emotionally Compassionate Leaders

Why “carrying everyone’s pain” becomes a silent tax on mental health.

4. The Real Cause of Burnout: Subconscious Beliefs

How identity-level scripts — not poor time management — create chronic overwhelm.

5. The Internal Shifts Required to Lead from Wholeness

Practical mindset shifts and boundary strategies that restore energy and clarity.

About the Mini-Course

Inside the Mini-Course, you’ll discover:

Black Friday Exclusive Offer

For a limited time, listeners can access this new Mini-Course at a special Black Friday rate.
This is Jahmaal’s way of ensuring that leaders have the tools they need to step into the next year with clarity and capacity without financial barriers.

Access the Black Friday Offer HERE