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Episode 1: STOP Losing Yourself in Leadership: Doula Burnout Is Real🌸

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She Ghosted Herself for the Role. And a Lot of Women Have Too.

Cheyenne Bell didn’t leave burnout behind when she walked away from corporate.

She carried pieces of it with her.

Into her calling.
Into doula work.
Into entrepreneurship.
Into a role she loved.

And that’s what made this conversation so real.

Because a lot of women think burnout only happens in jobs they hate. But sometimes burnout follows you into the work you prayed for. Into the business you built. Into the mission that feels meaningful. Into the role that looks aligned on paper but still asks you to disappear from yourself to keep it going.

That’s exactly what Cheyenne names in this episode.

She talks about what it means to “ghost yourself for the role,” how high-capacity women carry wounded leadership patterns out of corporate and straight into entrepreneurship, and why burnout is not just about being tired. It’s about identity. It’s about survival. It’s about what happens when being useful becomes more familiar than being whole.

In this episode, we talk about how women begin to confuse who they are with what they do, why doulas and care workers are especially vulnerable to burnout, what it looks like to build boundaries after years of overfunctioning, and how community, reflection, and process can help women come back to themselves.

Cheyenne also shares how she learned to stop building the same survival system under a different name, how she created more sustainable boundaries in her business, and what helped her realize that being human is not failure.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:

  • 12:49 — “It’s like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.”
    Why leaving corporate burnout doesn’t automatically fix burnout and how passion-based work (like doula care) can still create unsustainable pressure without boundaries.
  • 24:59 — “I felt like I couldn’t do anything else… I was glued to my phone.”
    What burnout actually looks like in real life loss of freedom, constant availability, and realizing you’ve built a system that doesn’t allow you to rest.
  • 37:03 — “I wasn’t going to be able to do this work anymore if things stayed the same.”
    The turning point—when she realized something had to change, leading to boundaries, new processes, and a more sustainable way of showing up without disappearing on herself.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

If you’ve been carrying too much for too long overfunctioning, holding everything together, and quietly burning out it’s time to shift how you’re operating. The Protect Yourself from the Ego-Driven Manager Roadmap will help you identify the patterns, understand what you’re navigating, and reposition yourself so you’re no longer stuck reacting inside unhealthy leadership dynamics. And if you’re ready for deeper support, community, and real-time conversations around burnout, leadership, and rebuilding from wholeness, the Bikomeye Membership gives you a space to process, stabilize, and grow without performing your way through it.

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HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

  1. Burnout is not always about the job — sometimes it’s about the pattern you bring with you.
    Cheyenne left corporate burnout, but still found herself recreating the same pressure inside work she deeply loved. This episode names an important truth: if you don’t heal the survival pattern, you can rebuild it anywhere.
  2. Boundaries are not just personal — they are operational.
    Sustainability does not happen because you want it badly enough. It happens because you build processes, communicate expectations clearly, repeat those expectations often, and protect your nervous system like it matters. Because it does.
  3. You are not failing because you are human.
    You need sleep. You need rest. You need community. You need room to make mistakes without turning them into identity crises. One of the most powerful parts of this conversation is Cheyenne naming that being human is not the same thing as being unprofessional, unworthy, or unprepared.

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ABOUT THE SHOW

She Don’t Work Like That No More™ started as a podcast but it’s become a space people come back to when they realize something isn’t sitting right anymore. It’s where we name the patterns burnout, overfunctioning, disappearing into roles and tell the truth about what it costs to keep performing your way through your own life. No quick fixes. No pretending. Just real conversations that help you see yourself clearly, sometimes for the first time.

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