🎙️ Episode 3: The Unraveling – When Helping Hurts
There’s a moment in leadership, motherhood, and friendship that nobody prepares you for —when you realize you’ve been fighting harder for someone’s growth than they’ve fought for themselves.
In this episode, I open up about the season I tried to lead someone through transformation while silently grieving the loss of my grandmother and two aunts — all within months of each other.
I share what it looked like to carry someone’s development plan, their potential, their deliverables — while no one was holding space for my pain, my purpose, or my breaking point.
This is the unraveling. The moment you realize belief without boundaries leads to burnout. And love, without accountability, leads to self-abandonment.
🧠 In this episode, I cover:
What happened when I inherited someone else's unfinished leadership mess
Why I fought so hard for her — and what it cost me
How personal grief collided with professional pressure
The silent toll of over-functioning and emotional labor
3 questions to ask yourself when you feel like you’re carrying too much
How to love people deeply without losing yourself in the process
💭 Journal Prompt:
What are you carrying that wasn’t yours to pick up?
What would it look like to return it — gently, but firmly?
🧡 For the woman who gives it all:
This episode is for the leader, the nurturer, the fixer — the one who shows up, holds space, keeps the peace, and carries the load when no one else can.
It’s a permission slip to rest. To reassess. To release.
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This is a God-led journey — and I’m so grateful to walk it with you.
Still becoming, Still soft, Still strong.— Yana, The EXITpreneur
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