Wondering if you can have it all - a consulting or coaching business AND life you love, without burning yourself out to get it?

If you think building a thriving consulting or coaching business requires sacrificing your health, relationships, or personal life, think again.

In this episode of Consulting Matters, executive coach and burnout resilience expert Rachelle Stone shares what she's learned after more than a decade of helping high achievers create success on their own terms. Together, we explore why burnout isn't just about working too hard. It's often the result of building your business and life around someone else's definition of success instead of your own.

This conversation will show you what's really required to build a consulting or coaching business that creates meaningful success year after year while also creating a life you love.

What you'll discover in this episode:

Why burnout often begins long before you realize you're headed there.
How inherited "success scripts" quietly shape your business and career decisions.
The simple daily habits that help prevent burnout before it becomes a crisis.
Why your values, strengths, and natural wiring are the foundation of sustainable success.
How to redefine success in a way that supports both your business and your life.

WHERE TO DIVE IN

0:00 Rachelle opens with the question that changes everything: whose success script are you actually living?

4:23 The I-95 moment: how Rachelle burned out without even knowing it

9:36 The coaching class epiphany that finally gave it a name

14:44 Where the tagline "no one should burn out of a life they love" was born

20:13 How to identify and rewrite the scripts running your life

31:18 Prevention vs. recovery: why you want to choose prevention

46:08 How Rachelle lives the mission today, including coaching for free at industry conferences

53:57 The one thing to focus on if you want sustainable success

NEXT STEPS

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