Madison Utendahl on Healing From Burnout and Becoming The Creative She Always Dreamed Of Being

Madison Utendahl returns to the show on the heels of an incredible career pivot and with her burnout in check. Madison has appeared as a guest on the show in her capacity as the Webby-Award-winning and Forbes 30 Under 30 director of the Utendahl Creative Branding Studio, and founding member of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Refinery29’s 29Rooms, and Museum of Ice Cream. Today she arrives as the Founder of Utendahl Consulting, the magnetic voice behind BURNT on Substack, and a fractional CMO. Madison has proven that she can do it all, and her nervous system tells the story of what happens when she does. During our conversation, we talked all about what having massive ambition and a work ethic in overdrive costs and how she’s healing in public. 

During our chat, Madison walks us through her earliest experiences with ambition, success, and burnout in school and work. She shared that she always knew she wanted more from life than others, and that she was willing to do whatever it took to achieve it. And while she has achieved incredible success, Madison has also learned difficult lessons about burnout and how it manifests itself in her body and mind. We talked about how she came to understand when she needs to take a step back and sometimes away from her professional pursuits and pivot to something new. Madison explained that this can mean a career change, shuttering a successful business, or trying non-Western therapies to find peace and healing. In this incredibly transparent conversation, Madison opens up about the highs and lows of building a fulfilling career and defining success on her own terms and with her mental health intact.

Tune in as we discuss:

(00:00) Welcome Madison

(8:55) How Being Raised In New York Shaped Her Work Ethic

(16:00) Her Burnout Triggers

(17:50) Taking A Sequential Approach To Life

(26:55) How Burnout Shows Up In Her Body

(33:33) Experiencing Burnout As An Entrepreneur

(40:20) Why She Turned Down A Multi-Million Dollar Opportunity

(43:03) How She Ethically Closed Utendahl Creative

(49:08) How She Became An Artist and CMO

(50:45) Why She Turned To Non-Western Therapy

(54:45) Dealing With Intergenerational Trauma & Anxiety

(59:00) The Hoffman Process and Ketamine Therapy

(01:08:14) How She Navigates Estrangement With Her Mother

(01:10:25) Designing Her Day

(01:24:01) When She Feels The Most Beautiful

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