In this episode of the Humanising Business Podcast, I sat down with Ellen Duffy Boop, holistic life coach and founder of Reclaim Your Control, based in the Netherlands.

This isn't just a conversation about burnout. It's about what happens when a high-performing woman hits a wall at 31, working in international marketing research, and decides to build something from that experience that actually helps others avoid the same collision.

Ellen brought her full story to this conversation. The burnout, the recovery, and the five-step framework she built around energy management that is now helping professionals perform sustainably without running themselves into the ground to do it.

We went into the warning signs that most high performers brush past, the physical signals the body sends long before the breakdown, and why sensitive, high-achieving women in particular tend to be the last ones to slow down and the first ones to pay for it.

This one is practical and personal in equal measure. Ellen does not just talk about the problem. She hands you tools you can use today.

We explored what sustainable high performance actually looks like, why energy management changes everything, and why the discomfort of the recovery path is worth every step.

You'll learn:

• How Ellen went from burnout at 31 to building a coaching framework used by professionals across industries
• The five steps at the core of her energy management approach
• The common burnout symptoms high performers keep overlooking
• How to use the Circle of Control tool to stop overwhelm before it takes over
• Why daily breathing exercises and walks are not soft suggestions but performance tools
• Why high-performing sensitive women respond so strongly to energy management approaches
• Why recovery involves temporary discomfort and why it leads somewhere better than before