Heart to Hustle
Heart to Hustle is for those who believe their passion can become their purpose. Every Tuesday, we share stories from people who’ve turned their hustle into thriving careers. From creative sparks to business breakthroughs, we are diving into what drives them, how they made it happen, and the challenges they’ve overcome along the way. It’s not just about what they do, it’s about why they do it and how they’ve shaped their lives around their passions. Tune in for inspiring stories, unexpected lessons, and a whole lot of hustle. Because when passion meets purpose, incredible things happen!!
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Hustle Hotline #1: Career Burnout
Got questions about navigating your career, side hustle, or creative journey? Welcome to the Hustle Hotline, the career Q&A series from Heart to Hustle where host Layla Palmer tackles your biggest career questions. Whether you're wondering how to turn your side hustle into a full-time gig, negotiate a better salary, or stay motivated in the face of setbacks, we’ve got answers. Each episode, we dive into real questions from our listeners and bring in expert insights, personal experiences, and actionable advice to help you hustle smarter, not harder. In this episode, we’re covering the delicate balance of incorporating passions into your career without experiencing burnout or losing your love for the activity.
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Heart to Hustle is for those who believe their passion can become their purpose. Every Tuesday, we share stories from people who’ve turned their hustle into thriving careers. From creative sparks to business breakthroughs, we are diving into what drives them, how they made it happen, and the challenges they’ve overcome along the way. It’s not just about what they do—it’s about why they do it and how they’ve shaped their lives around their passions. Tune in for inspiring stories, unexpected lessons, and a whole lot of hustle. Because when passion meets purpose, incredible things happen!!
Hello, you've reached the Hustle Hotline. I'm Layla Palmer and this is the official career Q&A series of Heart to Hustle. You bring the questions, I bring the answers. Hi, I'm Layla Palmer and this is the Hustle Hotline. How's my lighting? Could it be better? We're going to and this is the Hustle Hotline how is my lighting? Could it be better? We're going to say that this is okay.
Speaker 1:Heart to Hustle is a podcast that I host and produce and edit and all of the above, where I dig into the passions behind people's careers. It's where passion meets purpose and I interview people who try and lead their careers with the things that they love most, so that they can live a life that's worth living and not just clocking into their nine-to-fives until, basically, they die. Yeah, the Hustle Hotline is just like a career Q&A bonus episode series that I came up with to have a little bit more one-on-one time with my audience. I'm a student. I've been there. I've been in the shoes of people who are wondering what the heck to do with their careers. You know what path to take, what degrees they need, should they even go to, you know, college or university. I've been through all of that Internship, jobs, getting jobs, classes, not doing well in classes, maybe changing a major? I have some experience in a little bit of all of those things, so I'm just here to give my advice from someone who's been there and who's also a fellow Gen Z who gets it, because Gen Z gets a lot of flack recently, especially in the professional landscape, and I figure that this is just a good opportunity to give us a little bit of a leg up, some advice, some tips and tricks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the main point of the Hustle Hotline is that you can go to my SpeakPipe account. A link will be in the show notes, but there's this website called SpeakPipe. You, the listeners, can send in voicemails, anonymous or include who you are. Either is fine. You can ask career questions. So we're going to go through one of those today as just like an intro episode to what the Hustle Hotline will look like now and in the future. Okay, so this first voicemail is a little bit interesting. So let's hear our first ever Hustle Hotline voicemail.
Speaker 2:Hi, leila, my name is Izzy. I'm the type of person who gets super duper passionate about things and then I do them all the time, and I usually find ways to bring the things that I'm passionate about into my career setting, my work setting and things that, because they're things that drive me forward, but I don't want to get burned out in doing them. So how do you suggest balancing bringing the things that you love into your workspace without ruining them in a way that doesn't make you want to do it anymore? Thank you, love your work. You're amazing.
Speaker 1:Okay, thank you, izzy, for calling in. That's a great question and it's something I've struggled with myself. I haven't really done that great of an introduction. I'm Layla, I go to school at Emerson College, I'm about to graduate, actually, and I have been in the same situation of your career and then something that you love doing that's a hobby or a passion project or you know anything in that realm. So actually, my career in podcasting began as a hobby slash passion project In high school. I was a sophomore, didn't really start taking it seriously until I was like a senior in high school. I had a series called Hollywood Hero, did two seasons of that, and that was like big senior in high school. I had a series called Hollywood Hero. I did two seasons of that, and that was like big passion project and something that I basically fell in love with and just was obsessed with doing and was lucky enough to make podcasting and audio stuff my career. I got an internship at a state agency in Boston at the end of my freshman year at Emerson and that was also for audio and podcasting and I'm still doing that to this day. I'm coming up on three years, so I have been able to transition from passion to career.
Speaker 1:However, within that it is super, super tough to not burn out. I guess For me it was less of a burnout and it was more of a losing my passion. I started to not do podcast and audio stuff on my own for me and it ended up just being something I did for work and I didn't like that. It was a really slippery slope. Eventually I did get out of that rut, but it wasn't until like probably a year later. And it was tough because podcasting started for me as a passion project, as a hobby, as something I just liked to do at that internship, and that I was able to get paid for what I loved to do. But within that there's a lot of difficulty separating the two, you know, separating what is passion and hobby and stuff that I want to do on my downtime to enjoy, and then what is nine to five workday related stuff, and when they're so deeply intertwined, especially in terms of like at least for me in podcasting it was all just audio podcast stuff, so they're so deeply intertwined, and when I'm in wind down mode and want to, you know, produce podcasting stuff for myself, then I feel like I'm in work mode, because it's the exact same thing I do for work. So I would say if you're looking to just fully separate the two, the first thing I would recommend is to just do things in different spaces. Another thing that has helped me in the past is to honestly have a schedule. So if you know you're working nine to five or maybe you're part-time and you're working like less hours in the day, having different days of the week where you do your work and where you do your hobbies is super, super helpful in terms of just like separating them mentally.
Speaker 1:I've had a few guests on Heart to Hustle, the main series sorry, shameless've had a few guests on Heart to Hustle, the main series sorry, shameless plug. A few guests on Heart to Hustle have talked about this, about the work-life balance and then burnout as a whole. It's really tough and I don't think it's something that anyone ever fully masters. I am actually like a few weeks ago I was on the verge of burnout myself and I think once spring sprung and the sun came out and the temperature went up, I was like, fine, I felt better. But it's really easy to get yourself caught in that rut of just like you don't want to do anything, you're unmotivated, and then everything feels like a chore. For the sake of our mental well-beings and you know our hobbies and our mind not feeling like chores we really need to like separate physical space.
Speaker 1:Do you work stuff at work? Or if you work from home remotely, do that in your home office or go to a coffee shop or something, and then your hobby stuff. If you're like me and you like to really be on the couch, do all your hobby stuff on the couch. Or if you're someone that likes to do a lot of their work from bed and you're really productive that way, even though I don't really recommend that, because then, like, we get some sleep problems that get kind of wishy-washy in there, but do your work from bed but do not do work, work and hobby work in the same spot. I would not recommend that.
Speaker 1:And I'm not an expert, like I just said. I am someone who has struggled with this and still struggles with this. It's kind of just a learning curve. You have to figure out what works for you. But the best thing I'll say is to just make a physical barrier yeah, physical barrier and I guess the other thing would probably be just like have a set time for you to do hobby stuff and not just when you're bored, because then it could feel like you know, if it's scheduled into your day can make things a whole lot easier. And then I would just say don't work when you don't need to be working. When you don't need to be working if it's not in your work day, that time is for you to wind down and to reconnect with yourself and your hobbies and the things you love doing on your downtime not working, and that's a lot easier said than done. Like having an internship that is remote and, like you know, I have the Outlook and the Teams app on my phone. Like after hours it can be hard to not check your email, answer an email really quickly, like that stuff's really tough. But you have to create boundaries with your job and also with yourself. Like it just is healthy to have the boundary physical and mental boundary between hobbies and work. So, yeah, I don't know if any of that made sense. I think that's going to be all for today.
Speaker 1:Hustle Hotline episodes are going to be really bite-sized. They will be video like this, hopefully every time, but they're going to be really bite-sized, really just like quick and dirty advice for you to take away and if you want to be featured in an upcoming episode, then I highly recommend going to the link in the show notes and sending in a little voicemail. You can include your name, you can include any information you want about yourself. That will help me answer the question better. And yeah, so if you liked this podcast, be sure to give us a reading and a review, because us indie podcasters it's rough out here, okay, and anything helps other people find the podcast. You leave a comment, you know, follow us on instagram heart to hustle pod. All of the things. All the things will be in the show notes and, yeah, I will see you guys next time bye.
