A mother and CEO reflects on burning out despite rigorous self-care, getting sick and missing time with her family she can't get back. She wrestles with the trade-off that every yes is a no to something else, and how women's higher emotional intelligence doesn't protect them from overwork.
And it's a fact, it's been studied that women have more emotional intelligence than men. It's very, very tricky if you're balancing that role of motherhood, wife, entrepreneur, CEO, founder, whatever the business is, journaling, massages, eating right. You better have a lot of self-care. Even though I was there, I wasn't there. I can't ever get that back and it's not worth it. I just made myself sick again. Through stress and overworking. When you say no, you're saying yes to something else. When you say yes, you're saying no to something else.
