#155 | The Burnout Nobody Talks About: What Happens When You, the Leader, Are Running on Empty

#155 | The Burnout Nobody Talks About: What Happens When You, the Leader, Are Running on Empty

Published: April 28, 2026

Duration: 11:35

▶︎ #155 | The Burnout Nobody Talks About: What Happens When You, the Leader, Are Running on Empty

In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska turns the burnout conversation inward: toward the person who is most often the last to receive support, the last to admit they're struggling, and the first to keep showing up with a plan. The leaders themselves.

Alex opens by naming what leader burnout actually looks like, and how it's almost the inverse of what you'd expect. Where a burned-out engineer goes quiet and withdraws, a burned-out leade...