Episode Details

In this episode, Barbara and JJ Flizanes discuss:  

• The increasing burnout rate among medical professionals and tools for identifying contributing factors.
• Marketing strategies to increase visibility and steps for self-promotion.
• How to strengthen your brand and the role that passion plays in inspiring an audience.   

Key Takeaways:  

• When evaluating daily habits, sleep is the number one tool most people don’t utilize.  
• If you’re not willing to break out of the box, then your energy will get stifled.  
• To grow your audience and business, you need to test out different brands, different messages, and see what resonates with your audience.

“ When it comes to health professionals, they are the worst offenders.  They’re working themselves way too hard, way too long, stress levels are very high, and their diets are very bad.” — JJ Flizanes

Transcription

008 JJ Flizanes- Optimal Health and Avoiding Burnout

Barbara Hales:             JJ Flizanes is an empowerment strategist and the host of several podcasts shows including Fit 2 Love and Spirit, Purpose & Energy. She is the director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon bestselling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core. She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. JJ has been featured in many national magazines including Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health, as well as having appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox, and KTLA. Her newest book, The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight & End Body Shame, debuted at number two on the Amazon bestseller list for women’s health, and number two, is a hot new release. Get your free copy at jjflizanes.com/book. Well, welcome to the podcast today, JJ.

JJ Flizanes:                 Thank you, Barbara.

Barbara Hales:             JJ, I was wondering if you could tell me about how to avoid burnout and meditation for the health professional.

JJ Flizanes:                 Sure, I put together an Optimal Health and Avoiding Burnout Checklist, which is also another free item that anyone is welcome to go get a copy of. It’s at jjflizanes.com. There are 17 different points on it, and it really breaks down into groups of areas of our lives that we don’t really focus on or don’t have a benchmark or a boundary for an idea of what might be best for us. Now when it comes to health professionals, it’s really funny that a lot of health professionals are actually the worst offenders for healthcare. A lot of health professionals are working themselves way too hard, way too long. Stress levels are very high. Diets are very bad. There’s usually not a lot of downtime, play time, mindfulness. It’s sort of like we’re in fight or flight all the time in the healthcare field.

So, it’s kind of a funny phenomenon in healthcare because there are so many… I think amongst doctors and nurses, there are probably more overweight,