EPISODE 090 | Reducing Chronic Stress and Burnout to Transform Work Culture
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Reducing Chronic Stress and Burnout to Transform Work Culture
About Elizabeth Moore’s Human Amplified Podcast Episode
A huge part of our human condition is going to work. Let’s face it — for most of us, we spend more time with our colleagues and co-workers than our families. But, what if we imagined a better way?
A non-traditional wellness company based in Nashville, Tenn. called TRILUNA, is doing just that. Co-founders and Co-CEOs Elizabeth Moore and Ashley Brooke James started TRILUNA after hustle culture literally made them sick.
Both Elizabeth and Ashley met while obtaining health coaching and yoga certifications after quitting their corporate jobs.
Now, you can often find them leading workshops, hosting festivals, speaking at conferences, and executing panels about the power of stress management and self-care to prevent burnout.
Typically, Ashley joins Elizabeth in these types of discussions, but we did record this episode during a particularly stressful point during the Omicron surge here in Tennessee. So, today on Human Amplified, you’ll be hearing from a solo Elizabeth Moore.
This episode is for you if hustle culture just isn’t cutting it anymore and you want to educate yourself on how to say no to it. In other words, if you’re going through the motions of the grind day in and day out and it’s detracting from your life — as it is for so many others as evidenced by The Great Resignation — listen in as guest Elizabeth Moore empowers us to renegotiate our relationship to wellness, failure, work, our work environment, and our co-workers.
She explains the impacts of chronic stress and burnout on our bodies and our communities, including our work communities.
From this episode, you’ll learn:
What an unhealthy or sick environment is
How to recognize stress in your body
How to know when stress turns to burnout
When to set boundaries around your times of diminished capacity to produce
How to use vulnerability to change culture
And, what the hard conversations are that need to occur so we can start shifting expectations around stress and burn out at work
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode does come with a trigger warning. To get the full context of why a non-traditional approach to wellness can be needed to foster healthier change, we discuss Elizabeth’s journey with body dysmorphia and an eating disorder in detail.
Behind the Scenes with Elizabeth and Brandi Discussing relationship with wellness
This is Elizabeth Moore and Human Amplified host, Brandi Fleck, talking about what makes Elizabeth her. She decided to tell her life story through a lens of her journey with wellness, which she describes as a pendulum. She details everything from harm the industry can perpetuate by assigning morality to certain aspects of our human needs, like size, shape, and need to eat. We dive deep into her own relationship to wellness to give context to how stress and burnout can be perpetuated as well as changed into a healthier way of being and working.
The Highlights of Elizabeth Moore’s Human Amplified Interview
Getting to know Elizabeth Moore, co-founder and co-CEO of TRILUNA, a stress management and burn out reduction company
TRILUNA’s mission to defeat hustle culture and envision a new way of working and how they do that
Elizabeth and Ashley’s backgrounds and why they started TRILUNA, involving the impact of hustle culture
The evolution of TRILUNA’s offerings and their process of figuring out the most effective way to have an impact
What defines a sick (work) environment
Changing the conversation around mainstream approach to failure as part of hustle culture
Encouraging iteration
Elizabeth dives into her personal wellness journey and how she got to where she is today
Entrepreneurial roots
Body dysmorphia and how it manifested for Elizabeth
How the wrong counseling can hurt progress with eating disorders and the details of Elizabeth’s eating disorder
How wellness enabled eating disorder behaviors
The turning point involving cooking and Elizabeth’s relationship with food
Health coaching and yoga leading to TRILUNA
The result of the need for control in an environment where food is attached to morality
What’s behind “The Great Resignation”
Defining stress, the stressor, and burnout
What stress is in the body and why we have
sympathetic nervous symptom
parasympathetic nervous system
The most effective ways to get ourself out of a stress response
What stress feels like
Long-term side effects of chronic stress
The connection between mental health and the physiological impacts of stress
What chronic stress in individuals does to the community and our relationships
How cynicism spreads
The difference between time and capacity
Breaking down old ideas around productivity and flexibility
Dispelling fears around more flexibility
Balancing autonomy with the need for connection
The importance of having tough conversations to start taking the morality out of a culture of stress and burnout
TRILUNA’s podcast, Wellness, Community, Magic
More About TRILUNA
TRILUNA’s Co-Founders, Elizabeth and Ashley, each left our careers burned out and seeking a better way. Through our individual journeys we each came to the conclusion that in order for work to work it would need an overhaul. After health coaching and yoga certifications, self-study, and three years of running workshops for companies as large as LinkedIn and as small as local yoga studios, they've developed a program that helps organizations keep their teams productive, connected, and well.
Today, Elizabeth and Ashley are proud to say that TRILUNA is a local leader in helping individuals and organizations rethink their approach to stress and burnout. You’ll often find them leading workshops, hosting festivals, speaking at conferences, and executing panels about the power of stress management and self-care to prevent burnout.
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CREDITS: INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC AND EPISODE EDITING BY RYAN SAULS. EPISODE PRODUCTION AND GRAPHICS BY BRANDI FLECK. SOUND EFFECTS FROM ZAPSPLAT.COM. MID-EPISODE MUSIC IS “SYNAPSE” BY SHANE IVERS AT SILVERMAN SOUND STUDIOS. BIO AND PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ELIZABETH MOORE.
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