Jul 31, 2026 · 40 min · 10 segments
Send us Fan Mail Burnout is often treated as a personal failure to manage time, cope better, or become more resilient. But what if the real problem…
Herman VeitchGuest
Francois du ToitHost
So I think that's a very important question and opens up a good way towards becoming more resilient and preventing burnout because, um, The world according to Herman is that everything is one big whole.
And we think we are our brain, or we think we are our thoughts, or we think we are our emotions, or that we think we identify with our work.
Often you find somebody, hello, I am Herman, I'm a life coach, or a business coach, or I'm a financial advisor.
My analogy of running... any sport you know you you're intense active and then you you're short of breath and then you recover and your heart rate comes back to normal so the quicker your heart rate comes back to normal however after you've activated it in exercise that's your fitness measurement so in the same with emotional fitness or resilient mental fitness is we deal with difficult stuff in life and with challenges in life and it's really intense but when it's gone then we come back to normal emotional states so seeing it as weakness is one of the things that I have a pet peeve because we're all weak.
And for me, that's something that we should remember, especially when you work with other people as well.
And I think as US advisors always have that exposure to people's vulnerabilities around their financial context.
And to engage with that with empathy, I think is one of the gifts that I have, especially with my financial advisor, that he understands I'm making life decisions.
So that's one of the things that I think when we talk about, think about ourselves and say, this is just a weakness.
So I think that's a very important question and opens up a good way towards becoming more resilient and preventing burnout because, um, The world according to Herman is that everything is one big whole.
And we think we are our brain, or we think we are our thoughts, or we think we are our emotions, or that we think we identify with our work.
Often you find somebody, hello, I am Herman, I'm a life coach, or a business coach, or I'm a financial advisor.
My analogy of running... any sport you know you you're intense active and then you you're short of breath and then you recover and your heart rate comes back to normal so the quicker your heart rate comes back to normal however after you've activated it in exercise that's your fitness measurement so in the same with emotional fitness or resilient mental fitness is we deal with difficult stuff in life and with challenges in life and it's really intense but when it's gone then we come back to normal emotional states so seeing it as weakness is one of the things that I have a pet peeve because we're all weak.
And for me, that's something that we should remember, especially when you work with other people as well.
And I think as US advisors always have that exposure to people's vulnerabilities around their financial context.
And to engage with that with empathy, I think is one of the gifts that I have, especially with my financial advisor, that he understands I'm making life decisions.
So that's one of the things that I think when we talk about, think about ourselves and say, this is just a weakness.
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