DiscoverResilient Entrepreneurs163: Hawa Kombian: Why Productivity Hacks Cause Burnout
163: Hawa Kombian: Why Productivity Hacks Cause Burnout

163: Hawa Kombian: Why Productivity Hacks Cause Burnout

Update: 2025-09-26
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As entrepreneurs, our default response to stress is often to add more: another system, another hack, another early-morning routine. But what if the key to resilience is actually stopping, not stacking?  


In this episode, Hawa Kombian, a Leadership and Burnout Resilience Coach chatted with us from Ghana. She breaks down the four “burnout masks” that entrepreneurs and leaders wear in our attempt to achieve success - meanwhile our health, relationships, and clarity quietly unravel. She shares why mission-driven leaders are especially at risk, and how shifting from adding more to stopping what no longer serves you is the real path to sustainable success.


  What You’ll Learn:   


📌 Why adding more productivity hacks can actually fuel burnout 


📌The four “burnout masks” entrepreneurs wear (and which one might be yours) 


📌How brain fog signals burnout before physical symptoms appear 


📌Why sustainable leadership begins with stopping, not pushing harder 


📌The difference between resilience and just grinding through challenges  


Feeling like your business is “successful” but is secretly draining you? You’re not alone. This episode is your reminder:  


You don’t have to add more. 


You need rather to allow room to breathe and release.  


🎧 Listen here → https://youtu.be/OtV8mBAOxP4 


🌟 Connect with Hawa → https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhkombian 

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163: Hawa Kombian: Why Productivity Hacks Cause Burnout

163: Hawa Kombian: Why Productivity Hacks Cause Burnout

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