Mar 5, 2024
Are you up late at night, pulling all-nighters, and burning out from the fast-paced nature of your job as a lawyer?
As a former litigator, Charlène Gisèle loved all of it! She reveled in the things you’re not supposed to love. While she was thriving in her environment, though, she got a wake-up call that made her realize that she’d been neglecting something along the way.
All signs pointed to burnout that affected her health and marriage. She took a drastic turn and eventually changed her focus from litigation to burnout prevention and high performance. Now, she’s fueled with a mission to lead the way in helping lawyers, leading law firms, and Fortune 500 companies optimize performance and transform their lives and businesses by banishing burnout.
In this episode of The Lawyer’s Edge podcast, you’ll learn how to optimize your performance and happiness through burnout combat and prevention. Charlène will reveal the 3Ds linked to neglect caused by stress and burnout, five aspects to determine where you are on the burnout spectrum, small shifts you need to decrease or break away from burnout, and so much more!
2:01 - The incident that made Charlène ask, “Will I survive my success?” and caused a career pivot
5:25 - Charlène’s radical approach to educating herself on ways to combat burnout and the mission it fueled within her
7:45 - How Charlène approaches lawyers who might not be as open to learning more about anything they suspect is woo-woo or out there
9:52 - Pain points (and their signs and symptoms) that affect those in the legal industry the most
11:37 - How the term ‘burnout’ gets misused and how Charlène figures out where someone is on the burnout spectrum
17:32 - What you can do to start stepping away from, minimizing, or preventing burnout (even if you have a really heavy workload)
23:22 - Why you should not just do anti-burnout techniques when you need to and how to anchor them as habits easily
26:56 - Example of how Charlène tailored a blueprint for working out for a hyper-successful client who didn’t feel he had the time for it
31:02 - A quick way to boost your energy and optimize the way you feel in the morning
32:05 - What law firms and organizations can do to help people overcome burnout challenges
35:33 - A recommendation that may help rekindle the love you have for your profession
Connect with Charlène Gisèle
Charlène Gisèle is a former Big Law litigator turned High-Performance Coach and founder of the unique Charlène Gisèle® Coaching method. Charlène empowers high-achieving professionals to prevent and recover from burnout without having to sacrifice their career.
The power of her approach is not to work less, it is about recovering more, which is why her expertise has been featured in major publications and is sought after by world leading organisations and professionals.
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