Onyi NProduct Marketing Manager, Quely · Product Marketing Manager at Quely

Rest is Important for Growth

22 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief podcast excerpt, Speaker A urges listeners to give themselves regular breaks, especially by taking weekends off and engaging in non‑work activities. They share a personal mistake of never truly disconnecting—even during leave, they stayed on calls and felt the company would collapse without them. While acknowledging that staying visible can bring benefits like referrals and perceived value, they stress that over‑working harms health and leads to burnout. Speaker B offers brief affirmation. The overall message is a call to prioritize rest to return refreshed, gain new perspective, and protect personal well‑being.

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Let me take it easy on yourself. Give yourself a break. So for instance, maybe like just basic, take your weekends, right? Go and have fun, do some other things with your life, um, and come back refreshed. Come back with a different perspective. Yeah, um, because if you don't rest forever, you will probably burn out, right? This— and this is a mistake I made. I never took my, um, leaves. I mean, even when I took leaves I will still be working on leave period, right? I'll still be on maybe some calls. I'm still like tending to something as if the whole company will crash if I was not there. And this has benefits. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's not just— it's not just one thing. This has benefits in that like you become valued, you get referrals, you get all of that. But I mean, yeah, do it as much as you can, but don't— don't do it to the detriment of your health, right?
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