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Adrenals, Burnout & Highly Ambitious Women - Why it Happens and What we Can Do About it with Funk'tional Nutritionist Erin Holt

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Brittany Nicholson sits down with Aaron Holtz to talk about burnout, adrenals, and ambitious women who keep pushing. Aaron comes in as a functional nutritionist, Stanford trained compassion teacher, and founder of the Functional Nutritionist, bringing an approach that blends evidence-based practices, functional lab testing, mindset, and energy medicine for women’s health. The conversation settles quickly into a familiar pattern. People know they should slow down, but they keep reaching for one more coffee, one more task, and one more hour before they rest. Brittany names the tension clearly. Hustle can matter, but it is a poor substitute for listening when the body starts waving a flag. That opens into a practical discussion of what burnout can look like before it becomes obvious. Aaron keeps returning to the idea that the body is usually talking long before the mind wants to hear it. She and Brittany talk through how easy it is to override signals in the name of productivity. They also point out that showing up depleted does not make anyone a better version of themselves. A coffee-fueled push can feel useful for a minute. It can also set up a harder tomorrow. The episode then shifts toward a simple check-in tool. Aaron walks through the idea of a life audit as a way to notice what is draining energy and where stress is building. That framing keeps the discussion grounded. It turns a vague feeling of being worn out into something you can actually look at. Brittany keeps the conversation warm and practical as they move through ideas like stress response, cortisol balance, and the adrenal glands. Before wrapping up, Aaron points listeners to Instagram and her podcast while her website is being revamped. The whole conversation is a thoughtful nudge toward paying attention before overdoing it becomes the default.

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Stress is treated as a signal to notice, not something to override.

Brittany Nicholson and Erin Holt keep the focus on something ordinary but easy to miss: how hustle, rest, and body signals start to add up when they are ignored too long.

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If your ambition has started sounding like survival mode, play this.

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