The wonderful world of parenting can lead to parental burnout

The wonderful world of parenting can lead to massive burnout. Burnout isn’t just for the workplace anymore. It’s impacting various areas of our lives, and can lead to parental burnout.

Yes, parenting is rewarding, and it can also be overwhelming, stressful and challenging…and all before 8:00 am and on a good day.

Parental burnout is a real thing, impacting millions of lives.

Dr. Phil’s Morning on Merit Street interviews the foremost expert on burnout, Jessica Rector to get to the bottom of parental burnout.

Jessica shares the signs of parental burnout, how it’s impacting our kids, and what you can do to help prevent and tackle it.

Connect with Jessica to find out more at jessica@jessicarector.com

ABOUT JESSICA:

Jessica Rector’s mission is simple: transform lives. With a BBA, MBA and BS, Jessica started, hosted, and produced her own TV talk show in Los Angeles with just an idea to help others launching her first company jessICAREctor Enterprises. She now partners with organizations to prevent and break through burnout in their leaders and people to reduce turnover, increase productivity and enhance engagement while helping the organization gain a competitive advantage, create a workplace where people want to go and develop a healthy and thriving workforce and culture.

Founder of Vitalize Unlimited, the first to market all in one product suite for burnout prevention, Jessica has worked with clients such as Fortune’s “#2 Best Company to Work For, NBCUniversal, and the Dallas Mavericks and uses first-hand research, experiences, and strategies, to ignite your brain, extinguish burnout, and ignite your people through her process called Blaze Your Brain.

As a researcher, keynote speaker, and #1 best-selling author, Jessica consults with companies, trains teams, and speaks at conferences, conventions, and organizations helping you change thoughts, change your outcomes, and ignite the power within. She has shared the stage with Michelle Obama and has been recently featured on NBC and Dr. Phil’s Merit Street Network for her work and research on burnout.

When Jessica isn’t working, she enjoys spending her time with her 11-year-old son, Blaise, who is the CFO, Chief Fun Officer at Vitalize Unlimited and a best-selling author of two books.

Get Jessica’s recent book, Blaze Your Brain to Extinguish Burnout: 52 Tip to Prevent, Break Through and Eliminate Burnout at jessicarector.com. Connect with her on LinkedIn by CLICKING HERE.

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