The Part-Time CEO
The Part-Time CEO, hosted by Louise Stephens, is a podcast about building a business while navigating everything else life brings with it.
The Part-Time CEO is the next chapter of a podcast that began life as Strategise to Monetise. Same host, same heart — but a bigger, more honest conversation.
Louise is a business strategist, marketing mentor, and founder of Social Renegades — working with service-based business owners across New Zealand and Australia to grow their visibility and attract the right clients, without falling into the trap of doing more, pushing harder, and losing balance along the way.
Before starting her own business, Louise spent nearly nine years at Australia's largest travel retailer, moving from retail travel sales into recruitment and talent management, where the team she was part of was recognised with a National AHRI Award.
That experience shaped how she thinks about people, communication, and sustainable growth.
This podcast is for the business owner who is also a parent, a friend, a daughter, a carer, a volunteer, or someone simply trying to live a full life alongside a growing business. We talk about business seasons, burnout, visibility, leadership, mental health, client attraction, and what it actually looks like to build something sustainable without losing yourself in the process.
Real conversations. No hustle culture. No highlight reel.
Just honest talk about business and life, from someone who is living it too.
New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe so you never miss one.
For free resources and more visit www.socialrenegades.co
The Part-Time CEO
Business and Burnout: How To Break The Cycle
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On a scale of 1-10, where would you rate how exhausted you feel right now?
Ok, so maybe that's a trick question! If you said 1 or higher then it's time for you to STOP!
Since when did it become "normal" to feel so down and out all the time?
Sure some days we may feel like or have more energy than on other days but saying 'yes' to doing all the things or telling ourselves "it's ok to work non stop because we 'love' it" it's not sustainable long term lifestyle.
The good news is that if you don't know how to say no, stop or put your needs before everyone else's, then you're going to love today's episode.
You see I am a not only a recovering people pleaser and work-o-holic myself but I also have all the papers and medical records from being professional diagnosed with 'burnout in 2015. So when it comes to this topic, I am without a doubt an expert!
Being 6 years into my own recovery as well as watching and working with others to help them avoid making similar mistakes, my passion and commitment to burning the "24/7 hustle" mentality is at the core of what I do
In today's episode is, Business and Burnout: How To Break The Cycle you're going to find why as well as my own tips to helping you break the cycle and create a happier and more "successful" life - The balanced way!
HERE'S WHAT I COVER:
+ How I claimed to LOVE what I did so much that I literally worked 24 hours a day
+ How that same apparent love of working I had, drove me to feeling depressed and suicidal
+ Some of my journey to recovery and five tips on help you break your own burnout cycle and create a health, balanced and 'successful' life
+ Plus, so much more!
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Full show notes for all episodes can be found at: Strategies to Monetise - The Podcast