336. Bekah's Story: From Burnout to Radical Healing - Bekah Giacomantonio

Meet Bekah. She’s a self-proclaimed nonprofit dropout and founder of the Interdependence Incubator, a community for white women who crave healing and a space to practice freedom. She’s made us a believer in the power of leaning into healing and making a collective change. She courageously shares her mental health journey in nonprofit and the change it awakened in personal, interpersonal and systemic levels. 

💡Learn

• Bekah’s mental health journey story
• Slowing down as self- & community-care
• Advice for leaders looking to foster a culture of balance & well-being
• Adopting a curiosity mindset to be “medicine in these fractured and fracturing times”

Today’s Guest
Bekah Giacomantonio, Liberatory Healing Doula & Facilitator

Episode Highlights

• Bekah’s story and journey to where she is today (3:00)
• Bekah’s personal mental health story and what she experienced in the nonprofit sector (10:20)
• Signals of burnout Bekah experienced (18:00)
• What Bekah learned in community in Guatemala (22:45)
• What slowing down looks like (28:05)
• Activation (34:45)
• Fostering a culture of wellbeing (41:15)
• A powerful moment of philanthropy in Bekah’s life (43:25)
• Bekah’s One Good Thing: Go outside. (46:35)

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