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Back to EpisodesYou Don't Have To Give Your All To Give Your Best | Erika Coleman | The Journey: Awakening
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What happens when you're still functioning, still achieving, still getting everything done, but everything starts feeling harder than it should?
Speaker, consultant, and recovering overachiever Erika Coleman joins Pam Dwyer for a candid conversation about burnout, chronic stress, perfectionism, and the hidden cost of constantly proving how much we can handle.
After building a million-dollar training company while caring for her mother through cancer, Erika experienced burnout so severe that she became non-functional. She later earned a master’s degree from Harvard University focused on stress, high performance, and well-being.
Together, Pam and Erika explore why high performers often normalize exhaustion, how achievement can turn us into our own rival, and why being capable of carrying more doesn't always mean we should.
Erika shares a powerful question: If you're bidding against yourself and you win, did you really win, or did you simply overpay for success?
They also explore the difference between pursuing a destination and choosing a direction, learning to receive help, allowing growth to take time, and finding a healthier way to succeed without losing yourself in the process.
In this episode:
• How overachievement quietly becomes burnout
• Why exhaustion can begin to feel “normal”
• Becoming your own rival
• The hidden cost of always rising to the occasion
• Direction vs. destination
• Learning to accept help
• Growing without rushing the process
• Building success without sacrificing yourself
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Website:
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Delay the Binge™ explores the patterns behind burnout, Quiet Depletion, reactive coping, and the behaviors we return to even when we know they no longer serve us.
Through emotionally honest conversations and practical insight from experts in neuroscience, psychology, resilience, wellness, leadership, and human behavior, we explore why we do what we do, what happens when stress and depletion take over, and how small intentional choices can begin to change what happens next.
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