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Understanding Empathy vs Enabling | Why Caring People In Business Care Themselves into Burnout | EP 5

Published: September 5, 2025

Duration: 31:22

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Ever catch yourself spending unpaid hours researching solutions for problems you weren't even hired to solve? There have been times when we both have done exactly that, laying awake worrying about a business when we should have not. We then discovered the hard way that there's a crucial difference between caring about your clients and caring yourself straight into burnout.

In this episode, we explore the difference between empathy and enabling in client relationships. We share hard-won lessons from our own experiences of burning out while trying to solve problems outside...