Andrea Olson talks about how toxic love and relentless ambition pushed her toward burnout. She describes the toll of chasing high achievement while trapped in a difficult relationship, and how both nearly broke her.
Went to Africa and dance there for their villages. Like I went to the top of that. I won the top student in my entrepreneurship degree program. Even though I fussed at my teachers and would be like.
You know, challenging.
Them every day, you know, I definitely, anything I have tried to do, I'm, I'm definitely a maximizer.
And a high achiever but.
That comes with a price. You know, there's burnout that comes with that.
And having a.
Toxic marriage for nine years of the last and then before that that was super toxic too.
Like I've been taking a look at.
Myself like what am I to do with all of this? I've been doing a lot.
Of self work the last couple of years after that but.
Man, it just made everything harder. So being a high achiever and being in that awful relationship, both of them was like it was really hard to maintain it because I wasn't in a healthy environment.