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In this solo episode, Nourish founder, filmmaker, and coach for filmmakers Jon Bregel explores burnout through the lens of his own life, career, and recent experience navigating exhaustion in real time.
This episode comes from a season where Jon was beginning to feel burnout rise back to the surface. In the conversation, he reflects on the emotional weight of filmmaking, the hidden cost of success, the pressure to stay available, and the ways burnout can quietly shape a creative life long before we fully recognize it.
What You’ll Discover in This Episode:
• Why burnout often looks like continuing, not stopping.
• How success, momentum, and being in demand can make burnout harder to recognize.
• The physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual signs of burnout.
• Why the question “at what cost?” can become a powerful filter for creative decisions.
• How fear can shape boundaries, productivity, and identity.
• Why naming burnout out loud can be an important first step toward healing.
• How filmmakers can begin building a more sustainable relationship to their work, energy, and lives.
This episode is an honest reflection on what happens when the work we love begins to quietly disconnect us from ourselves. It is also a reminder that burnout does not have to be carried alone.
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