She hit a deep burnout while loving everything she was doing. Nothing about it felt wrong and that is exactly what made it so dangerous. It’s the specific trap Hannah Abad has spent fifteen years pulling high achievers out of.
In this episode of The Black Sheep Network, I sat down with Hannah Abad, founder of Hannah Abad Coaching and a fifteen year certified coach for high achieving, excellence driven leaders.
Hannah built her career doing everything right. She signed on with a coaching agency, gave it her all, and was carrying forty to sixty clients at once within a few years. She called that a win at the time, and in some ways it was. It also nearly wrecked her.
She left that agency, built her own practice determined to do it differently, and hit burnout again within two years. That second collapse is what led her to the discovery that changed everything: the connection between our nervous system and the way we work, lead, and live.
Listen in to discover why:
- Stress is simply the socially acceptable word for fear, and most high achievers are running their entire business on it
- The exhaustion, autoimmune flare ups, and hormone crashes she sees in ninety percent of her clients are not random.
- How to access your zone of genius through rest instead of hypervigilance
She is a shining example of what it looks like to build success that doesn’t cost you your health.
The solution is not to want less. Ambition is never the problem - it’s the fear driving it underneath it.
If you have ever felt like your only way to succeed is pushing, scrapping and fighting your way through it, this episode is for you.
Connect with Hannah Abad:
Website: hannahabadcoaching.com
Instagram: @hannahabadcoaching
Key Timestamps
[00:01:00] Intro to Hannah Abad, founder of Hannah Abad Coaching
[00:02:00] Why this conversation matters even if you are not a 'leader'
[00:03:00] Her non-traditional path out of photojournalism and into coaching
[00:04:00] Carrying forty to sixty clients at once and calling it a win
[00:05:00] Hitting deep burnout four years in and wanting to burn it all down
[00:06:00] The real warning sign of burnout: not caring about what you built
[00:07:00] Choosing to find a radically different way instead of quitting
[00:09:00] Building her own practice and hitting burnout again within two years
[00:10:00] A high risk deployment, a 'miracle' pregnancy, and launching a company at the same time
[00:11:00] Why stress is just the socially acceptable word for fear
[00:13:00] The mental load women carry and why we override our own needs
[00:16:00] Autoimmune conditions, hormone crashes, and the body's last resort
[00:17:00] The fear based sales training story and what adrenaline actually costs
[00:18:00] Redefining what healthy performance actually looks like
[00:20:00] Why eight hours of sleep somehow became 'high maintenance'
[00:22:00] Swimming upstream against the norms you built for yourself
[00:23:00] Why hypervigilance feels safer than peace
[00:25:00] What happens in your brain in a true safety state
[00:27:00] Rest and play as fuel for your creative genius
[00:29:00] Where to find and connect with Hannah
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