• The "Carrot Cake" Trap: Why over-functioning is actually a form of manipulation (and why it feels like death to stop).

• The Extinction Burst: Why the toddler kicks the vending machine when the candy stops coming and why your "toxic stakeholders" are doing the same thing to you.

• The 3 Scripts: Exact blueprints to handle the rage so you don’t backslide into people-pleasing.

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• Is your calendar a solid block of color from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, leaving you zero time to actually do your job?

• Do you find yourself eating a bag of chips from the vending machine for "lunch" while running to a meeting you didn't need to be in?

• Are you terrified to decline a calendar invite because you think, "If I don't show up, everything will fall apart"?

What We Cover You tell yourself you are just being "productive," but the truth is you are a High-Functioning Hostage. You are held captive by a calendar that you didn't create.

In this episode, we are taking a red pen to your schedule. We are going to stop the "Rescue Missions" that are eating up your family time and give you the confidence to leave the office at 5:00 PM without guilt.

We cover:

• The "Vending Machine Diet": Why you are starving yourself to save people who don't even appreciate it.

• The "Red Pen" Test: A simple way to look at your calendar and see exactly how much time you are wasting on other people's emergencies.

• The "Superwoman" Lie: What the Bible actually says about trying to do it all alone (Hint: It’s not a badge of honor; it’s a path to destruction).

• 3 Scripts to Say "No": Exact words you can use to decline a meeting with your boss without getting fired.

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Next Steps

• Step 1: Look at your calendar for tomorrow. Find one meeting that doesn't need you.

• Step 2: Use Script #1 from this episode to decline it. Reclaim that hour for you.

Keywords: Time Management for Women, Too Many Meetings, Toxic Work Culture, How to Say No to Your Boss, Christian Burnout, Work-Life Balance, Calendar Management, Leaving Work on Time.

• Are you staring at the ceiling at 2:00 AM, mentally rewriting a slide deck for a meeting that isn't for three days?

• Does your phone feel like a leash that you are terrified to put down, even during family dinner?

• Do you check your work email on weekends "just to make sure nothing is burning," only to ruin your entire mood?

Highlights of Episode It is 1:00 AM. The house is quiet, but your brain is screaming. You tell yourself you are just "getting ahead," but deep down, you know the truth: You are operating a system that is overheating.

In corporate risk management, when a system reaches critical failure, we don't just "try harder" we issue a mandatory Stop Work Order.

In this episode, I am diagnosing your "Outlook PTSD" and exposing the real reason you can't turn it off: You are addicted to the dopamine hit of being "needed."

Tonight, you face a binary choice: You can continue to be a Slave to the notification bell until you burn out, or you can become the Steward of your soul and flip the Circuit Breaker. I am teaching you the 4-Step Protocol to install a 24-Hour Sabbath without getting fired or feeling guilty.

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• Step 1: Open your calendar right now and block out a 24-hour window labeled "Authorized Downtime" (The Circuit Breaker).

• Step 2: Practice the "Digital Lockdown" tonight: Put your phone in a drawer at 8:00 PM and do not touch it until morning.

Keywords: Work-Life Balance, Setting Boundaries, Christian Women Leadership, Digital Detox, High-Functioning Anxiety, Rest and Sabbath, Corporate Burnout, Stop Checking Email, Outlook PTSD.