Karenna Soto

What Karenna talked about

Karenna Soto discussed burnout not as simple physical exhaustion but as a signal pointing to where someone is dishonoring their own capacity or abandoning parts of themselves. She argued that entrepreneurs in particular need to treat their physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health as foundational rather than optional, since they function as the life source of whatever they're building, and neglecting that undermines the sustainability of the work itself.

She spoke about somatic practices as a way to process emotions that get stuck in the body, contending that body-based approaches to transformation succeed more often than approaches that rely on the mind alone. She pointed to examples like animals physically shaking off stress after danger before returning to rest, and described daily practices such as grounding, eating and sleeping in alignment with circadian rhythms, and breathwork as ways to rebuild capacity before burnout sets in, rather than pushing through it.

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