52. Ditch the Hustle and Thrive Again (with Jennie Blumenthal)

52. Ditch the Hustle and Thrive Again (with Jennie Blumenthal)

After spending 20 years in Corporate America helping Fortune 500 companies manage multi-million-dollar growth strategies, Jennie left her partnership in a global consulting firm to launch her own leadership company. In addition to her role as CEO, she also serves as a professional speaker, an Adjunct Professor in Strategy, a Board member, and the author of Corporate Rehab: Ditch the Hustle Culture and Thrive Again. Her coaching and speaking business focus on female executives looking to reach the next level of leadership and thrive in the future of work without losing themselves in the process, and on companies interested in building human-centered cultures. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two kids, and puppy, and is trying to enjoy this chance to rewrite the next chapter of her career and life by running 10 miles, learning poetry, and joining an adult ice hockey league.

In this episode: 

• She talks about her own experience with burnout that led her to leave her corporate job, write the book and start her company.
• How the pandemic helped her to realize that she didn’t have to follow along with what she thought she had to do, even though it didn’t make her as happy.
• Jennie talks about the 300 interviews that she did for her book, Corporate Rehab, and the learnings she gained through that process.
• The role of culture, society and families that may have impacted to the “shoulds” that we all thing we need to follow.
• She describes the hustle culture as an addiction that many people are living in every day.
• The differences between generations and the things that each generation has gone through and the impact to security, risk, meaning and purpose for each person.
• Stress is being internalized by women and how it is showing up in their bodies…it has pointed them to changing the way that they look at their jobs, their value, and their lives.
• She walked through her REHAB framework process that she uses with women who work with her to break the habit of the hustle culture.
• The workplace is designed for men based on when it was first built in the industrial revolution and how that impacts women today.

Book Mentioned in the Podcast:

• Corporate Rehab: Ditch the Hustle Culture and Thrive by Jennie Blumenthal
• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab

How to Connect with Jennie

• www.corporate-rehab.com

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