Entrepreneur Burnout and Isolation: I Love You, Don’t Touch Me

Описание: Entrepreneur burnout and isolation often coexist in a frustrating push-pull cycle: craving connection, collaboration, and energy — while also wanting everyone to leave you completely alone. In this episode, Matthew Tompkins and Lance Pendleton unpack why entrepreneur burnout and isolation feel so confusing, exhausting, and shame-inducing for so many high-performing business owners.

They explore how ADHD, addiction patterns, anxiety, and burnout drive obsessive work cycles followed by isolation and withdrawal. You’ll hear why entrepreneurs accept invitations they later dread, why weekends become obsession marathons instead of rest, and why the crash always seems to come right before Monday. This episode also challenges the dangerous belief that you should be able to “will your way out” of burnout and isolation — and why that mindset actually deepens the cycle.

Matthew shares personal experiences of rumination, avoidance, exhaustion, and guilt, while Lance explains the psychology behind isolation as a coping mechanism rather than a choice. Together, they introduce awareness and radical acceptance as the first real tools for change.

If you’ve ever asked yourself what’s wrong with you while living a life other people envy, this episode explains why entrepreneur burnout and isolation aren’t personal failures — and what to do instead.

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00:00 Entrepreneur Burnout and Isolation Explained
00:40 The Push-Pull of Connection
01:11 Entrepreneurs and Entertainers
02:48 Creativity vs Isolation
04:40 Loving the Quiet Too Much
06:34 Obsession, Exhaustion, and Crashing
07:55 ADHD, Addiction, and Anxiety
09:21 Why Isolation Feeds the Cycle
11:07 Guilt, Shame, and Rumination
12:33 Isolation Isn’t a Choice
14:44 You Can’t Will Your Way Out
16:41 Normalizing Dysfunction
18:15 Radical Acceptance
20:00 Final Takeaway