Mental Health v. Corporate Burnout: When Your Body Tells You It’s Time

August 13, 2026 · 1:25:04 read

Category: Business & Economy

Show: In The Room On Purpose

*Mental Health v. Corporate Burnout: Knowing When It’s Time to Change* What happens when you’re ambitious, successful, deeply capable... and the life you’ve built stops working for you? For short stor

*Mental Health v. Corporate Burnout: Knowing When It’s Time to Change*

What happens when you’re ambitious, successful, deeply capable... and the life you’ve built stops working for you?

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In this episode of _In The Room, On Purpose_, I sit down with Jen Mbanu for an incredibly honest conversation about mental health, self-trust, career, motherhood, nervous system regulation, and having the courage to change course.

Jen takes us through her experience with trichotillomania beginning at 13, navigating mental health diagnoses as a young woman, building a successful career in healthcare and biotech, raising a family, and eventually reaching the moment when her husband looked at her and said, *“You’re quitting your job today, aren’t you?”*

We talk about what happens when ambition and well-being begin working against each other, the stories we attach to the things that happen to us, and why learning to listen to your body can fundamentally change the way you live and lead.

Today, Jen is bringing decades of lived experience together with her background in healthcare, health policy, communications, and coaching to help other women build foundational health and lives that actually feel like their own.

*In this episode:*

* Mental health, ambition, and corporate burnout

* Learning to feel safe in your own body

* Separating what happens to us from the stories we tell ourselves about it

* Recognizing when your body is telling you something needs to change

* Building a healthcare and wellness team that works _with_ you

* Motherhood, marriage, career pivots, and maintaining your own identity

* Creating space before the world gets a say in your day

* Coming back to yourself and trusting what you find there

*Chapter Timeline*

* https://jenmbanuwellness.com/

* https://juliacameronlive.com/book/the-artists-way-a-spiritual-path-to-higher-creativity/

* https://healthydeviant.com/

* https://miraclemorning.com