Overwhelm Isn't a Feeling. It's a Design Problem You Can Fix

Saying "I'm so overwhelmed" more often than you'd like to admit? This episode is for the business owner who is ready to stop treating overwhelm as part of the deal and start designing it out.

Co-host Rebecca Kaufman, Amanda's sister and a former member of her team, asks Amanda to unpack something she has said for years: overwhelm isn't a feeling. Amanda, founder of Clairvenu, gets into what the word is really diagnosing, the reasons we all repeat it, the habits that build it into a business by accident, and the design decisions that start to reverse it.

In this episode, you will learn:

🩺 Overwhelm as a diagnosis, and the feelings hiding underneath it

🏙️ What moving from a town of 3,500 to a metroplex of 11 million taught Amanda about awareness

🗣️ The status and relatability behind "I'm so busy"

🗂️ Overwhelm as a collection of habits, and closing the tabs on purpose

📧 The leader who deleted her whole inbox after vacation, and email is not the work

🔁 Living in reaction as a design decision, and being easy to find and hard to reach

🐴 Breaking up with overwhelm: name the feeling, put on the blinders, make the change

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