{"id":22586,"date":"2022-04-29T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/?post_type=podcast&p=22586"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:09:24","slug":"why-social-entrepreneurs-need-to-prioritise-well-being","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/kn-in\/podcasts\/failure-files-podcast\/why-social-entrepreneurs-need-to-prioritise-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk about burnout | Mary Ellen Matsui"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mary Ellen Matsui is currently a consultant for Goodwill and sustainable fashion initiatives, based in Ontario, Canada. From 2011\u201321 she was the CEO at <\/em>Atma<\/em><\/a>, where she spearheaded the organisation\u2019s growth and the creation of the Atma Network, a resource-sharing and collaboration platform. Mary Ellen is a nonprofit management specialist and regularly facilitates workshops for nonprofits on leadership, fundraising, culture, and HR. She is a graduate of the Telfer School of Management and a member of the inaugural Dasra Social Impact Leadership Programme. Mary Ellen is also on the advisory board of several education organisations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cComing from Canada, however, I didn\u2019t have a strong support network initially. I had a lot of the wrong people around me, whose advice was less weighty than their egos. This created major distractions from the mission of our organisation. Trying to serve this mission, while also trying to keep operations functional, resulted in a confused set of performance standards for our people and the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was holding myself and the people around me to the wrong standards. My time was spent trying to follow through on less than sound advice, reacting to donor requirements, feeling envious of other organisations\u2019 team sizes, budgets, and scale plans, rather than reflecting on what my organisation needed and what we were doing with the resources we had (which were a lot).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this made me question myself. My self-confidence took a major slide and I ended up depressed and suffered from panic attacks. In this state of self-doubt, I wasn\u2019t able to take the steps the organisation needed. I didn\u2019t have the confidence to renegotiate deadlines with donors, and taking clear decisions on a branding revision became nearly impossible. I was totally drained.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Read Mary Ellen\u2019s story<\/a> on Failure Files.<\/li>
  2. Read more failure stories on Failure Files<\/a>.<\/li>
  3. Check out some ideas and tools<\/a> from Fail Forward to help your organisation take risks, learn, adapt, and fail intelligently.<\/li>
  4. Understand why the social sector must recognise and talk about failure<\/a>.<\/li>
  5. Learn why talking about failure<\/a> is crucial for growth.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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