Burnout: I Wasn’t Myself, And It Wasn’t Just Work (Secret Podcast)

Next Level eCommerce

Next Level eCommerce
Burnout: I Wasn’t Myself, And It Wasn’t Just Work (Secret Podcast)
May 01, 2026 Season 2 Episode 4
Isaac Smith

I didn’t feel like myself.

That’s the simplest way to describe the last few months, and it caught me off guard.

Because nothing was obviously wrong.
 I still loved my business. Things were growing. From the outside, it all looked good.

But underneath that, I felt overwhelmed all the time, like I was trying to keep up with something that wasn’t going to slow down.

At one point, I realized:
it felt like I was trying to dig myself out from under a mountain… and the mountain was growing faster than I could dig.

And it wasn’t just work.

In this episode, I’m talking through what that actually felt like, and why it took me a while to understand what was really going on.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed even when things are going well… or like you’re slowly losing your edge without knowing why… you might recognize more of this than you expect.

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