Episode #26: Jacinta Jiménez - From Burnout to BetterUp: Making Room to Recharge in a World Without Pause

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Coaching in your flow state is like playing jazz, according to Jacinta Jiménez, who has devoted herself to studying the psychology of performance and behaviour change.

Striving to become a dancer at a young age taught Jacinta invaluable lessons about flow, drive and resilience, and her passion for the arts spills forth when she speaks about how it almost consumed her.

Jacinta, driven to keep others from having to defer their dreams, has channelled her experience of what she calls the dark side of passion into her groundbreaking work on the personal, structural and societal causes of burnout in her book The Burnout Fix.

And she has been a growing influence on the world of coaching, using her passion for data and scientific research to debunk misnomers about success as Head of Coaching and then VP, Coaching Innovation at BetterUp, the market-leading organisation and coaching-at-scale pioneers who now have more than 2,000 coaches across 65 countries supporting professionals with the personal and professional growth.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Why we are all nervous to explore our internal landscape

  • The dangers of falling into 'the expert trap'

  • The periodic table of elements for a resilient life

  • How to look for burnout and how to replenish yourself as a coach

  • Why burnout was originally found in helping professions, and why coaches might be at risk

  • The impact that coaching at scale and heart-centred leadership can have on the world

Jacinta also shares key insights from her book, The Burnout Fix, and speaks about how she is harnessing science-backed resilience strategies to buffer against burnout.

For more information about Jacinta, visit: https://www.drjacintajimenez.com/

For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.

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Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):

~3: The WBECS Pre-Summit https://coach.wbecs.com/wbecs-2021/a182301

~6: BetterUp https://www.betterup.com/

~7: The Meaning Revolution by Fred Kofman https://www.fredkofman.org/lrds-ing.php

~7: Robbie's article on The Meaning Revolution by Fred Kofman https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-time-you-die-robbie-swale/

~10: Fred Kofman https://www.fredkofman.org/

~25: Timothy Wilson's shock study https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/people-would-rather-be-electrically-shocked-left-alone-their-thoughts

~29: Positive Psychology https://positivepsychology.com/

~32: College of Executive Coaching https://www.executivecoachcollege.com/

~38: Prince Harry joins BetterUp https://www.betterup.com/en-us/resources/blog/prince-harry-chief-impact-officer

~40: Jacinta's book, The Burnout Fix https://www.drjacintajimenez.com/theburnoutfix

~42: Martin Seligman https://positivepsychology.com/who-is-martin-seligman/

~42: Barbara Fredrickson https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/barb-fredrickson/

~1.10: Christina Maslach https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/christina-maslach

FULL BIOGRAPHY FROM JACINTA

Also known as ‘Dr. J’, Jacinta M. Jiménez, PsyD, BCC is an award-winning psychologist and board-certified leadership coach.

For more than 15 years as an in-demand speaker, consultant, and coach, she has worked with individuals in top organisations in Silicon Valley and throughout the world.

Jacinta specialises in bridging the fields of psychology and leadership, synthesising deep knowledge of human behaviour and applying it towards the development of technology, innovative programmes, and leaders.

As the global head of coaching and VP at BetterUp, she has developed groundbreaking science-backed coaching approaches for helping today’s top organisations foster resilience, while also leading a global community of 1500+ international leadership coaches in over 58 countries.

Her new book, The Burnout Fix, draws from the fields of motivation, psychology, and neuroscience to offer an approach to building resilience that is both easy to understand and apply.

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