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In this episode I am talking with Rashida Parrish, a Senior Staff Project Manager, Chief Cat Herder, and mindfulness advocate. She shares her transformative journey from workplace trauma and exhaustion to embracing rest as an empowered practice. We explore how prioritizing rest has awakened "Rashida 2.0," unleashing her creativity, authentic leadership, and confidence, fundamentally changing her approach to corporate work and life.

Drawing from her personal rest practices and commitment to family and community, Rashida reveals how operating from a rested nervous system has become essential to her well-being, creativity, and ability to show up authentically in corporate spaces. Her path from burnout to liberation offers a powerful testament to what becomes possible when we reject the badge of honor of exhaustion and embrace rest as self-affirmation.

In this episode, we explore:

• How toxic workplace culture and exhaustion led Rashida to seek out restorative practices
• The revolutionary act of challenging corporate messages that glorify overwork and exhaustion
• How intentional rest practices have transformed Rashida's leadership and opened doors to C-Suite conversations
• Finding liberation by knowing your worth and refusing to exhaust yourself proving it to others
• The power of consistent morning silence and evening restorative practices to clear the mind
• Breaking generational patterns through rest and teaching these practices to her son
• How rest enables us to make decisions from a place of intention rather than fight-or-flight reactivity

Experience a guided rest practice focused on letting go and releasing tension throughout the body. Discover how embracing rest can transform not just your approach to work but your relationship with yourself, revealing confidence and creative possibilities when you operate from a place of rest rather than exhaustion.

Connect with Rashida:

Instagram: instagram.com/shida_luana/ 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rashida-parrish-atkinson-pmp/

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