Erin Treacy spent years working 80- and 90-hour weeks, telling herself she would slow down next week. Her body ended the argument for her. Standing on the cook line of one of her 1950s-style diners, her right leg went numb. The diagnosis was a slipped disc and compressed discs in her lower back, and she could no longer stand on a concrete floor for twenty minutes, let alone a twelve-hour shift.

In this episode of Unpacked with Ron Harvey, Erin Treacy, a leadership and business coach in West Virginia, unpacks what burnout actually cost her, why closing the business was the smartest decision available, and how she rebuilt a people-first leadership model that includes the leader.

What Ron and Erin cover:

• Why servant leadership falls apart when the leader is left out of "people first"
• The signs her husband and kids named for years before her body forced the issue
• How leaders make themselves the bottleneck while believing they have empowered the team
• The Post-it note challenge that exposes how often you say "I'll just do it myself"
• Why two minutes of teaching today saves roughly ten hours of work next week
• What it takes to close a business when you are wired to compete and hate to lose
• The adult version of a timeout, and why walks, art, and a phone left at home are not indulgences
• The eye of the hurricane problem: staying calm for everyone else while the storm runs inside you
• Why a lesson often has to land hundreds of times before it sticks
• Ron's Daytona pit stop analogy and the military policy that made leave mandatory
• The line that changed how Erin leads: your opinion of me is none of my business

This one is for the leader who has become the answer to every question and the entrepreneur who keeps moving the goalpost. Burnout does not announce itself. It sends warnings, and most high performers are moving too fast to read them.

Connect with Erin Treacy: ErinTreacyCoaching.com, and Coach Erin Treacy on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. She answers every message personally.

Connect with Ron Harvey: LinkedIn, or the Global Core Strategies and Consulting website.

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