Ep 232 // Dealing with Burnout as a Christian Entrepreneur? 6 Powerful Tips for Victory - Simple SEO and Marketing, Business Growth, Organic Marketing, Copywriting, Online Business, Blogging, Content Creation

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Podcast Summary: Ep 232 // Dealing with Burnout as a Christian Entrepreneur? 6 Powerful Tips for Victory

Release Date: July 10, 2025
Host: Faith Hanan, Marketing Strategist, Copywriter, Christian Business Coach, Barrel Racer

Introduction: Understanding Burnout

In Episode 232 of Simple SEO and Marketing, Faith Hanan addresses a pressing issue faced by many entrepreneurs: burnout. Recognizing that burnout can manifest as extreme fatigue or a profound desire to quit, Faith aims to provide listeners with both practical strategies and spiritual encouragement to navigate these challenging times.

Personal Insights and Context

Faith begins by sharing her personal experiences, emphasizing that despite her recent blessings and successes—such as building a new home, expanding her business team, and managing a busy family life with homeschooling and active children—she still encounters periods of exhaustion and overwhelm. She states:

“There are days, weeks, and months where I'm not in bed before 11pm and up at 6, right? So that's hard.”
[12:45]

This candid admission sets the tone for an honest and empathetic discussion, assuring listeners that even those who appear to have it all together can struggle with burnout.

Six Powerful Tips to Overcome Burnout

Faith outlines six actionable and scriptural tips designed to help Christian entrepreneurs regain balance and find victory over burnout:

1. HALT: Recognize Physical Needs

Faith introduces the acronym HALT, standing for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired. She underscores the importance of not making significant decisions when experiencing any of these states, as they can cloud judgment.

“Sometimes we legitimately just need a nap, y'. All. Jesus napped, so can you.”
[05:30]

Faith advises listeners to assess their physical state before tackling important tasks, suggesting that addressing basic needs can mitigate feelings of overwhelm.

2. Understand Your Cycle (For Women)

Specifically addressing women, Faith highlights the impact of menstrual cycles on emotional and physical states. She encourages women to track their cycles to better understand and anticipate fluctuations in energy and mood.

“Where you're at in your cycle is just gonna determine how big something feels, how big the emotion attached to that thing feels.”
[07:15]

Tracking these cycles can lead to greater productivity and self-awareness, allowing for proactive management of challenging periods.

3. Implement a True Sabbath Rest

Faith emphasizes the spiritual and physical necessity of a true Sabbath—a day of complete rest. Drawing inspiration from the Jewish tradition of Shabbat, she advocates for a 24-hour period of cessation from work to rejuvenate.

“Times and periods of cessation from work where we are not feeling the pressure to create, we're not feeling the pressure to work, and we can really just sit and rest in the goodness of God.”
[10:50]

For her family, Saturdays serve as their Sabbath, providing a structured time for rest amid their busy lives.

4. Assess and Adjust Your Pace

Faith warns against maintaining an unsustainable pace in business and personal life. She shares insights from Brady Boyd's book, Addicted to Busy, illustrating how relentless busyness can detract from long-term goals and family peace.

“You shouldn't feel like you're running around with your hair on fire all the time. That is not a sustainable rhythm.”
[15:20]

By evaluating whether current activities are maintainable, entrepreneurs can make necessary adjustments to preserve their well-being and achieve a balanced life.

5. Check-In with the Lord

Faith encourages listeners to seek divine guidance, especially when feeling overwhelmed. She suggests that misalignment in pursuits might be a sign to reevaluate one's path and be open to God's direction.

“God wants to speak to you even more than you want to hear him.”
[18:05]

Regular spiritual check-ins can provide clarity and reassurance, ensuring that one's endeavors align with their faith and purpose.

6. Engage in Honest Prayer

Closing her tips, Faith emphasizes the power of honest and heartfelt prayer. She urges listeners to openly communicate their struggles and seek God's intervention and wisdom.

“I want you to get gut honest with the Lord and say Lord, I'm having a hard time with this.”
[20:30]

Authentic prayer can bring peace, direction, and the strength needed to overcome periods of burnout.

Closing Thoughts and Prayer

Faith wraps up the episode with a heartfelt prayer, petitioning for wisdom, love, and divine guidance for her listeners. She emphasizes the importance of knowing God's love and trusting in His plan, even amidst challenges.

“Lord, I ask that you would give them wisdom. Deep, resounding wisdom, Lord, that you would help them to know the length and the height and the depth and the breadth of your love for them.”
[25:55]

Faith's prayer reflects her deep commitment to her faith and her desire to uplift her audience through both practical advice and spiritual support.

Conclusion: Encouragement and Community

Faith concludes by encouraging listeners to share the episode, leave reviews, and join the Simple SEO and Marketing Facebook community. She reinforces her mission to help Jesus-loving entrepreneurs scale their businesses and make a meaningful impact.

“Make an even bigger impact for the Kingdom of God.”
[28:40]

Key Takeaways

Recognize and Address Physical Needs: Utilize the HALT method to ensure you're in the right state before making important decisions.
Understand Personal Cycles: For women, tracking menstrual cycles can aid in managing emotional and physical fluctuations.
Prioritize Sabbath Rest: Implement a dedicated day of rest to rejuvenate physically and spiritually.
Maintain a Sustainable Pace: Avoid burnout by assessing whether your current workload is maintainable in the long term.
Seek Divine Guidance: Regularly check in with God to ensure your endeavors align with your faith and purpose.
Engage in Honest Prayer: Openly communicate your struggles and seek God's wisdom and support through prayer.

Notable Quotes

“Sometimes we legitimately just need a nap, y'. All. Jesus napped, so can you.”
[05:30]
“God wants to speak to you even more than you want to hear him.”
[18:05]
“You shouldn't feel like you're running around with your hair on fire all the time. That is not a sustainable rhythm.”
[15:20]
“Lord, I ask that you would give them wisdom. Deep, resounding wisdom...”
[25:55]

Final Thoughts

Faith Hanan's Episode 232 offers a blend of practical strategies and spiritual wisdom tailored for Christian entrepreneurs battling burnout. By addressing both the tangible and intangible aspects of exhaustion, Faith provides a holistic approach to regaining balance and finding renewed purpose. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by your business, personal responsibilities, or both, Faith's compassionate guidance serves as a beacon of hope and actionable insight.

For more resources, tips, and community support, visit FaithHanan.com or join the Simple SEO and Marketing Facebook group linked in the show notes.

Transcript

Faith Hannon (0:00)

Well, hey y'. All. So today we're chatting about burnout. And you know, maybe it's not full on burnout that you're experiencing or have experienced. Maybe it's just that I'm stinking tired of this and I want to quit feeling been there. So today I'm going to give you six some really practical, some scriptural things to just think through and pray through when you're in that season. Okay? So, so listen in, be prepared to take notes and we're just going to have a really honest heart to heart conversation like we were having coffee across the table. So let's jump on in. Hey there fellow entrepreneur. Welcome to simple SEO and marketing. Do you want to grow your business with sustainable traffic sources? Have you heard about the power of search engine optimization? And you want to take advantage of it to get more traffic, more eyeballs on your business. But when it comes down to it, does SEO feel complicated and hard to implement? Are you tired of wondering what in the heck to do with your website to get more traffic and more leads knocking on your door? What if I could tell you that there was a simple, proven system for using SEO, blogging and copywriting to get leads from your website and not just any leads. High converting lead. Hey, I'm Faith Hannon, wife, mama, copywriter, SEO strategist and barrel racer. And for the last eight years I've been figuring out what works and what doesn't work in the world of online marketing to get organic traffic. And now I'm here to share all the things I'm learning in the trenches of SEO, copywriting and content marketing. How does 300%, 500% or even 12,000% more traffic in a year sound? What could your business do with that kind of traffic increase? How many more people could you help? So listen in and prepare to take note. I'm about to drop some simple, actionable SEO, marketing and copywriting tips, all with a heavy dose of Jesus loving encouragement. Let's get you more traffic and more leads so you can help more people with your God given gifts. So this is a conversation that I have had a lot over the years. You know, partly just for my own like, level of enthusiasm and I'm tired of something or wanting to quit something and then also, you know, with, with other people and not just entrepreneurs. A couple of things. I think that, you know, burnout is a result of a lot of things, right? Burnout in ministry, burnout in work, burnout in life. Like it's a result of a lot of things and it's not always just you suck at life. So if you're listening to this and you're feeling kind of, I'm just tired of it. Feelings, I'm burnout. I'm over it. I want to quit, throw in the towel. Know that this is absolutely a zero judgment podcast. And I want you to know that you're not alone, that you're loved, and that there is hope in Jesus on the other side of whatever you're going through. But I think that getting to a place where you're just tired of your job, tired of your business, want to throw in the towel. Like, it's not something that we talk about very often and not something that's talked about from a Christian perspective very often, especially. So that's what we're doing. That's where we're going today. And know that this is all very much from a place of love. I'm sending you a great big old hug and a cup of coffee and a nap if I could. So, full disclosure, we are at a place in my life and in my family that we are so amazingly blessed. Like, I don't say that lightly. We're in a season where we're just seeing so many answered prayers. And I was texting one of my cousins the other day. She was just saying, how, you know, how's this going? How's this going? And I was just telling her, like, boom, things are rocking and rolling and moving. And she said, you are experiencing so much breakthrough. And I was like, I am. But it feels a lot like hard work right now because we're just in the middle of building our own place. Got some pretty big expansion stuff going on in my team at work. Got new goals and new opportunities with a horse that I just got. We have three small kids. We're homeschooling. Like, there's a lot on my plate and my husband's plate, right? And it's all good. It's all good. But there are days, weeks and months where, where I'm not in bed before 11pm and up at 6, right? So that's hard. So I say all of these things in this podcast from a I'm with you in the trenches, but I'm also coming out the other side with hope. And I see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I want to share some of that hope with you. So if you are in a season of just wanting to quit in your business or in your calling, here are some things six tips today that I want to walk you through. Okay? Tip number One is an acronym called halt, and it stands for hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. I have a rule in my life. We have a rule in our family that we don't make big decisions when we are hungry, angry, lonely, or tired, okay? Because those just biological needs, if we're hungry or angry or lonely or tired, like, those biological needs are going to override our good judgment more often than not, okay? And one. Some. One of the things that we tell our kids is like, listen, if a nap will fix it, it's probably not that big of a problem. It just feels really big right now. Okay? Sometimes we legitimately just need a nap, y'. All. Jesus napped, so can you. Or we legitimately just need a really good night's sleep, okay? And things will look better in the morning. So that is, like, the first thing that I want you to be like, hmm, do I need a snack or a nap? If I do, I'm gonna hold off on this decision. Okay? The number two thing I want you to run through in your checklist is for women, specifically women. Where are you at in your cycle? Okay? Because where you're at in your cycle is just gonna determine how big something feels, how big the emotion attached to that thing feels. Right? It might be a hard thing, it might be a legitimately hard thing, but it might feel 10 times harder because of where you' in your cycle. If that's not something you're tracking, you should be, because it'll give you so much more insight and honestly make you more productive if you can track that and sync your work to it. That's another story for another time. Okay? The number three question I want you to ask yourself is, when was the last time you had a true Sabbath? I don't mean went to church and then came home and worked all day. I mean, when was the last time that you had a true Sabbath? So, years ago, I read this book called Addicted to Busy by Brady Boyd. He's a pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs. But that book has absolutely changed my outlook on Sabbath and rest. We, my husband and I, more so my husband right now, just because of the ages of our kids. But we serve in church every week, sometimes two or three times a week. We love it. We love our church. We love serving in church. But Sundays are not really a Sabbath for us. And I really don't think a Sunday is a Sabbath for anybody who is, like, serving a ton in church, right? And the Jewish tradition of Sabbath is Shabbat Shalom, which is just to stop, to cease from Work and to rest in peace. And it's a 24 hour period that the Jewish people honor from sundown Friday night to sundown Saturday night. And I really think that we as Christians in the Western world could take some notes from that. Because our bodies are not designed to go, go, go, go, go 24 7, right? Like we need sleep, but we also need rest. Not just sleep, we need rest. We need times and periods of cessation from work where we are not feeling the pressure to create, we're not feeling the pressure to work, and we can really just sit and rest in the goodness of God. Now, for me and my family practically, this looks like most Saturdays. We try to have Saturdays as our Sabbath. Just the nature of life. Right now that looks like maybe we, you know, my husband has to work on building, you know, half a day on Saturday or something like that. But for the most part, we really try to keep Saturdays as a Sabbath and as a rest day. And I can tell when we haven't had a Sabbath in a while. All right, the number four thing I want you to ask is, are you trying to maintain an unsustainable pace? Are you like, is this pace that you're going at right now, is this sustainable for the next six months, for the next year, for the next five years? Right? And you may be in a super busy season with a super specific goal and you're like, no, this pace isn't sustainable. But when I get this giant project done, like building a house, right, like this pace is done, and that's okay, right? I am, I'm a huge proponent of working hard towards the things that God has called you to do. Not saying you shouldn't do that, but we have this stinking mentality in our, in our society where it's like you have to be go, go, go, go, go all the time, or you're missing out or you're not achieving to your full potential. And you know, back to the book that Brady Boyd wrote, Addicted to Busy, he, he gives an example where he was talking to a mom whose kids were in competitive sports. And being in those competitive sports, they were traveling every weekend. So they were gone every weekend, sometimes from Friday night through Sunday. And with that, you know, they had the goal of trying to get their kids a college scholarship for that sport. So he had a conversation with this mom and he said, okay, well, how much is college at a state school? And she's like, well, it's X amount. And he's like, well, how much are you spending every weekend? And she's like, well, we have hotel fees, food, travel, like, team fees, like, competition clothing, like, whatever. And it all added up to, like, they could have just set aside that money and paid for their kids college without having to go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go all the stinking time. I'm not saying you shouldn't play sports. I love sports. Big proponent of sports, love rodeo, all of that. But if you. What you are trying to accomplish is stealing from your family's peace and stealing from having a sustainable rhythm in the long run. Like, something's off and you probably need to make an adjustment, especially as a mom of small kids. Like, I get it. There is pressure out there to have your kids in all the things, doing all the things, learning all the things all the time. But y', all, it's not necessary. It's really, really not. All right? Do what God has called you to do. Raise the family, take care of the family that God has called you to take care of in the way that he is calling you to do it. Right? Just because Sally down the street has her kids in ballet and trumpet lessons and soccer and T ball and golf and art all at the same time does not mean that you have to. All right? So that's my little side soapbox for you. But really, like, what's the rhythm that you're trying to maintain? Can you actually maintain it? Like, you shouldn't feel like you're running around with your hair on fire all the time. That is not a sustainable rhythm. That's not how you want to live your life. So take a step back, and maybe it's time to adjust some things. Okay? And number five is to check in with the Lord, because you really may have gotten off somewhere. Not in, like, you're doctrinally screwed up or going to hell, but like, you may be pursuing some things that aren't yours to pursue right now. And you need to be okay with hearing no. When you talk to the Lord about it, you need to be okay with hearing that it's time to make some adjustments, okay? John, chapter 10 talks about my sheep. Hear my voice. Guys, God wants to speak to you even more than you want to hear him, okay? So don't feel like it has to be this weird, like, crazy thing to hear from the Lord. Like, when you sit down, have time with the Lord every day. Some of that time should be listening, not just talking. Now, number six is I want you to pray. I want you to really, really pray. I want you to get gut honest with the Lord and say Lord, I'm having a hard time with this. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, I feel like this. This is what's going on in my heart. This is what's going on in my life. This is what's weighing on me. What do you have to say about this? Show me in your word and then dig into the word and listen. All right. One of the things that I try to make a regular practice of is checking in, like, okay, Lord, am I on the right track? Am I still supposed to be doing this? Okay, great. Rock on, baby. Like, how do I do this? You know, like, listening prayer is a whole other episode. But check in with the Lord, right? Like, and then if he says, go for it, like, keep going. Like, keep going, keep going, then you have that confirmation. You have that knowing that you are on the right track and you can keep going. Okay, so I'm gonna pray for y' all next week. I have a few more tips for you, but I didn't want to overwhelm you today. So, Lord, I just lift up, Lord, the sweet, sweet people on the other side listening to this podcast. Lord, I ask that you would give them wisdom. Deep, resounding wisdom, Lord, that you would help them to know the length and the height and the depth and the breadth of your love for them. That they would know how wonderfully you love them. And, Father, I ask that you would direct their steps. Lord, your word says that the steps of the righteous man are ordered of the Lord and, Father, even if they have messed up or, you know, attempted tasks that they weren't supposed to do or whatever. Lord, your word says that though the righteous fall seven times, they will rise again. And so, Lord, I thank you that you would help them to pick themselves up and carry on. Father, I thank you for speaking to them, Lord. Give them. Give them encouragement, correction, direction. Help them to carry on in the direction that you have for them. And, Lord, if there's been a spirit of depression coming over them, I break that in the mighty name of Jesus right now. Father, I thank you that you have given us oil of joy for mourning, Father, that you give us your spirit, your peace, your grace. Everything of who you are is included in the Holy Spirit when he comes to dwell inside of us. And so, Father, I thank you for that. Lord, I thank you that you are here with us in our midst. And, Lord, I ask that you would continue to just meet their needs, that you would help them to come surrender before you, Father, and to walk in the fear of the Lord, in everything they think, say and do in Jesus mighty name. Amen. All right, we'll be back with you next week, y'. All. Bye. Thank you so much for listening in today. Hopefully this episode gave you some really tangible tips for better SEO and marketing to get more leads and more sales from your website. If it did, can I ask you a quick favor? Would you please share this episode with a friend and then just take 10 seconds and go leave a written review on Apple Podcasts. That is the very best way to help more Jesus loving entrepreneurs scale their businesses so that they can help more people with their gifts and make an even bigger impact for the Kingdom of God. And get guess what? We now have a Facebook community where we can learn, hang out and laugh. Go join the Facebook group now. It's linked in the show notes and all the other things. Courses, coaching and copywriting can be found at my website, faith hannon.com until next time. God bless and I'll talk to you soon.