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It's Your TimeAuthor: Michelle A Bourque
Welcome to It's Your Time, the podcast designed for busy professional women in sales who want to excel in their careerswithout the stress and overwhelm. If you're ready to do more of what you love while thriving in your career, you're in the right place. Join veteran sales professional, Certified Life Coach, and career mentor Michelle A. Bourque as she shares real-life experiences and powerful cognitive tools to help you feel more empowered and live the life you truly want. Each episode is packed with practical insights to help you create the changes you need and achieve the results you desire. It's your timelet's make it happen! Language: en Genres: Business, Careers, Health & Fitness, Mental Health Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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High Performing vs. Over Functioning | Episode 399
Episode 399
Wednesday, 2 September, 2026
You're hitting your numbers. Your customers love you. Your manager can't stop singing your praises. But inside? You're tired. Maybe even a little resentful. And somewhere underneath all of it, you're starting to wonder why a career you've worked so hard to build requires so much of you. That's the conversation we're having today. In This Episode ✨ Why high performance and over functioning look identical from the outside — and the one thing that separates them ✨ How your brain gets wired to need being needed (this is neuroscience, not a character flaw) ✨ The invisible rule most high-achieving women are living by without knowing it exists ✨ What "borrowed fuel" is and why it eventually gets expensive, no matter how successful you are ✨ The exact questions to ask yourself this week to start separating compulsion from conscious choice ✨ How to stay exceptional — and ambitious — without needing to be indispensable to prove your worth The Big Takeaway Over functioning can make you wildly successful, at least for a while. You get rewarded for it. You win the awards, you make the money, and people tell you how amazing you are. But when being indispensable starts to cost you access to your own life, it's time to look underneath the performance — not at it. The rewrite isn't doing less. It's doing from choice. RISE Method Connection This one lives at the heart of R — Resilient Mindset. The invisible rule "if I can handle it, I should" is a belief we absorbed so early it feels like a fact. Untangling it is some of the most important mindset work there is. Ready to go deeper? Get on the weekly RISE Report email list at www.michellebourquecoaching.com/risereport Timestamps 00:00 – High performing or over functioning? Introducing the question 03:30 – What over functioning looks like in a high-reward industry (and why it gets celebrated) 07:00 – When indispensable starts to cost you 10:15 – The real difference: same behavior, completely different driver 14:00 – The invisible rule: "If I can handle it, I should" 18:30 – The neuroscience of being needed and how it becomes a survival strategy 22:00 – Rewriting the rule — from compulsion to conscious choice
