I didn’t start a business to banish burnout because burnout is trending. I started it because I know what it’s like to have to rebuild your life after being burnt out.

I started my first business in 2002 as an actor and singer pursuing parts on stage and screen in Southern California. Within a year of moving to LA I had earned an agent, a manager, and my entry into both unions. But the toxicity of the industry, coupled with depleted self-esteem due to years of bullying from peers and professors left me cynical and emotionally exhausted. I didn’t know what burnout was so I wasn’t able to get the help that could have helped me salvage my career. Instead, I fully left the industry I had spent my life training for in 2007.

I pivoted into journalism. I had always enjoyed writing and had won awards for it in the past. So it seemed the next logical move. I worked overseas for a company in Dubai and freelanced across the globe. I earned scholarships to multiple graduate programs, got a job in Washington DC, earned awards and a few sexy beats. But low wages, lack of professional development opportunities, and an industry turning away from my values left a familiar taste in my mouth. I was in the early stages of burnout, but again didn’t know it. If you don’t know what the problem is you can’t get the help you need to stop its spread. Once again, I found myself feeling like a failure, starting over with what felt like nothing.

A few years later, I was working in occupational health-wellness and in the fitness industries, reconnecting with my former inner athlete who had not been let out in decades because I had poured everything into work at the expense of friends and leisure to prove I was capable and become successful. This journey led me to my next flirtation with burnout. Rigid processes, job insecurity, limited professional growth opportunities, wellness washing, and more led to disenfranchisement among the staff. The mission we once felt so connected to seemed murky, and our contributions went unrecognized. But this time, I knew what burnout was. Except, that there was no one to help me because there were no burnout coaches to turn to. I had to become what I needed, and now I strive to be the resource for people that I didn’t have. 

I know what it’s like for your job or business to edge out everything else sometimes by choice, sometimes by chance. I know what it’s like to feel stuck or lost or simply like you’ve lost your mojo. I know what it’s like to survive toxic workplaces, abusive bosses, and psychologically unsafe industries. I know what it’s like to start resenting the job that you once felt called to do. I know what it’s like to cope with food (others might use alcohol or caffeine or sex or TV or social media or other substances) because you don’t want to feel anything, or you want to feel everything, or at least feel the illusion of control over something.

I know what it’s like to pick a career because you’re supposed to, and a job because you have to. I know what it’s like to say yes when you want to say no and no when you want to say yes because you feel guilty or scared to ask for what you want, or no longer know yourself well enough to ask for what you need. I know what it’s like to wake up one day and look at your life and the career you fought so hard for for so long and wonder, “what was the point?”.

And I know what it’s like be unaware that any of that is burnout because isn’t every adult exhausted and stretched too thin and venting about adulthood and their blah job and joking about how work-life balance is a joke?

Yes, many are. But not all. And just because something is common doesn’t mean it’s normal.

Wherever you are with burnout (overwhelmed, exhausted, stressed, feeling meh, overcommitted, resenting your job or your clients or your business, doubting your abilities, battling imposter syndrome, lacking a self-care routine, or wanting to “get healthy” again, or fearing that you’ll lose your best performers to burnout and your business will go down with them), I’ve got you.

I’m here to help you build an uncommon life. One that brings you joy, health, and personal and professional fulfillment. Because you have come too far to let burnout win. And because life is too damn short to settle for “good just busy” and live only for the weekends (assuming you still take those…?).

I’m Rachel Boehm. Armed with a PhD candidacy focused on business psychology and a national-board certification in health and wellness coaching, I help business owners and executives banish burnout for themselves and their organizations by creating conditions to thrive℠. You want some of that?