Ep 40: Sara Carter – Leadership, Burnout & Knowing When to Walk Away

And then

I understand burnout happened.

Yeah, and then I just burnt out.

Yeah, I absolutely burnt out.

I think that started coming on after about five years.

We'd done a lot.

We'd worked hard as a team.

I'd made the grave mistake of being the subject expert, whereas I really should have had subject experts within my team.

So I was trying to do it all.

Yeah.

And so did you see it coming? What were any of the signs for you? Oh, the signs were all the typical ones you hear.

And no, I didn't see it coming because it's not like they – it's great when you read these things and they give you a list and you can go, oh, right, great, I'm at number four and I'm working like that.

You just kind of bounce around and I think you're so caught up in it.

So I had the waking up at 3 o'clock in the morning, you know, without fail, 3.12am.

Yeah.

It's very specific.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Without fail.

Like it was, you'd have the mistake of, oh, if I just do more today, I'll get this sorted and then tomorrow I can take the foot off the pedal.

Well, no, the more you do, the more the room fills back up full of straw and you're still trying to turn it into gold.

Then I did the, the team aren't quite producing things at the quality that I expect.

And this is all about proving the worth of the team.

So here I better go and fix everything up because if I just do it myself, it'll be quicker.

Yeah.