Do you ever feel like your calendar owns you? Like the only way to prove you're needed is to keep saying yes? This week I'm joined by Lori Owens — Army veteran, certified resilience trainer, and host of Practical Solutions for PTSD — who nearly broke her health trying to prove her worth through overwork. She's sharing the exact moment she realized she had nothing left to give, why she now believes boundaries are bridges and not walls, and one simple, practical shift that turned her burnout into real peace.

Even Jesus stepped away to rest and pray — because our calling was never meant to cost us everything.

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📣 PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/practical-solutions-for-ptsd-anxiety-symptoms-seasonal/id1835492018

🔗 Lori Owens / Practical Solutions for PTSD: https://practicalsolutionsforptsd.com

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Do you love your team but feel like developing them is one more thing you don't have time for? Have you ever told yourself mentoring is a "nice-to-have" you'll get to once the real work is done? Do you secretly wonder if pouring into other people is stealing from your own growth?

In this episode, you'll hear the story of a newly promoted director who couldn't connect with the team she used to be a peer on — and the one-on-one work that completely turned her perception, her results, and her confidence around. You'll walk away with the single most usable tool inside it — lead your message for your audience, not for yourself — and a whole new way of seeing why investing in your people isn't a distraction from leadership. It is leadership, and it grows you as much as it grows them.

I pray this one blesses you and the people you lead.

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Have you ever ended a week exhausted — inbox empty, to-do list crushed — and still felt like you never touched the one thing that actually mattered? Do you feel busy all day but somehow behind on the work that's really yours? Are you starting to wonder if being "efficient" is the very thing keeping you stuck?

In this episode, you'll learn one simple filter — high-value vs. high-volume — that tells you what's actually worth your yes. You'll walk away able to spot the loud, urgent noise that's eating your day, and with a corporate-safe way to surface the tradeoff to your manager so nothing that matters slips through the cracks. Because the goal was never to do less — it's to give your yes on purpose, to the best thing instead of just the good one.

I pray this one meets you right where you are.

Let's connect:

✨ Get weekly boundary tools, leadership insights, and burnout‑proof systems delivered straight to your inbox — join the insider newsletter at raquel-ita.kit.com/insider.

💬 Join me and a community of high-achieving corporate women in my free Facebook group, Setting Boundaries in Corporate: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2808006476242265/ — come introduce yourself and tell me what's pulling you in every direction.

➡️ Send me an email at settingboundariesincorporate@gmail.com and tell me your biggest boundary struggle.

🎧 Hit Follow so you never miss an episode — and share this with a corporate woman who's running on empty.