Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

Are You Leading or Just Overfunctioning #shorts

4 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken monologue by Susan Drumm warning against overfunctioning: praising reliability and always ‘showing up’ can tie self-worth to constant fixing, leading to burnout. She urges leaders to examine motivations, stop equating self-sacrifice with strength, and lead sustainably from deeper values.

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That might be for the pattern that's burning you out. Let's be honest. You get praised for being the one who always shows up, the one who fixes everything, the one who never drops the ball. But that applause, that might be for the pattern that's burning you out. High performers learn early. Be useful, be reliable, be irreplaceable. And it works until your worth gets tied to over functioning. You push past the signs of stress or burnout. You ignore the costs, and you call it commitment. But here's the truth. That pattern might be meeting expectations while draining you dry. So check the story behind the hustle. Is this who I am? Or who I thought I had to be? You can lead powerfully without self sacrificing. You don't have to burn out to belong. That's not strength, that's survival. And it's time to lead from something deeper.