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Setting Boundaries in Corporate | Burnout, Work-Life Balance, Leadership, Structure, Prioritization
Setting Boundaries in Corporate | Burnout, Work-Life Balance, Leadership, Structure, Prioritization
This podcast is for high achievers in corporate who want to achieve work-life balance. It covers topics like setting boundaries, preventing burnout, leadership strategies, and finding clarity. The host, Raquel Ita, shares her personal journey from overwork to balance and offers practical systems and resilience tools. Listeners can expect to learn how to create boundaries, restore energy, and pursue passions without sacrificing themselves.
Episodes
25: Boundaries at Work Not Holding? Do This Instead to Take Pressure Off Your Calendar
You've been told to "communicate your boundaries." So why does your calendar still own you?
In my last corporate role, I was leading a large project when a big customer service meeting landed on my calendar. It was still in discovery, and they didn't need me there yet. I sat on that invite until the day of the meeting, scared of how a room full of people would react. When I finally declined, wit
24: Burned Out From Being Everyone's Go-To? The System That Frees You to Actually Lead
You're the one everyone comes to for the numbers, the status, the answers. It feels like value. What if it's actually keeping you stuck?
In my last corporate role, I gave my leaders a monthly recap on how our warehouse sites were performing, and my boss would wait for me to tell him. I thought being the one with the answers was my value. It took helping a dear friend see her own worth this summe
23: Due Dates Are Lying to You: The Prioritization Shift That Finally Gets You Ahead
Your to-do list is sorted by due date, and you still feel behind every week. What if the deadline is hiding the thing that actually matters?
Two weeks into a new consulting project, a whole team was waiting on me for one thing: how everyone's work connected, so they could safely move dates on a tight timeline. I spent an hour doing everything else: patching an old plan, asking AI for a shortcut. T
22: Protection at Work: The Limits Nobody Set For You with Jessica Taylor
Has anyone ever told you when to stop working? For most women in corporate, the start time is defined and the end time is left wide open — which means it becomes whatever you can stand. This week, I'm sitting down with Jess Taylor, who spent her career in insurance and had a manager sit her down in her first job out of college and tell her not to come in early and not to stay late. We talk through
21: Growth Doesn't Need a Finish Line: Did Your Big Idea Actually Fail, or Just Lose Momentum?
Ever poured months into a project, only to watch it quietly get deprioritized before it ever rolled out? For women pursuing real corporate growth, that moment can feel like a personal failure — even when it never was. This week, I am talking through a story of a nine-month AI initiative that ended in a meeting with her boss and an SVP, and the biblical framework that reframes what actually counts
20: Priorities Aren't the Problem - Pride is
Struggling to get your priorities straight, even though you already know what matters? For high-achieving corporate women, the real problem usually isn't a lack of structure — it's control. This week, I share the story of a hundred-name spreadsheet, a few too many midnight nights, and the moment pride nearly cost me a state grant deadline.
You'll walk away with The Scope Check — a simple tool for
19: Enough Bringing the Office Home! One Ritual That Actually Protects Your Family Time
Do you ever get home from work and realize you were never really gone from it at all — even though you left the building hours ago?
In this episode, I'm telling you about the night I lectured my own kids about respect and dignity in the back seat of my car — while my mind was still sitting at my desk, worried about a report a VP was waiting on. You'll hear the specific ritual I built afterward (
18: Overwhelmed at Work? The Review That Gave Her Permission to Set Limits with Josie Anderson
She gets overwhelmed. She needs to delegate more.
That's what Josie Anderson's boss wrote in her performance review. And she read it the way most of us would — as evidence that she wasn't measuring up.
It took her months to understand he was handing her a door.
Here's what you'll walk away with:
Why the feedback that stings is sometimes the permission you've been waiting for. Josie's boss saw her
17: Corporate Meetings Silencing You? The One-Line Ask That Gets Your Ideas Heard
You rehearse it the entire drive in. You know exactly what you're going to say and when you're going to say it. Then you sit through the whole meeting and say nothing — and replay it the whole way home.
I did that for months. I was a Director of Operational Excellence sitting in monthly business reviews with fourteen other leaders, holding context nobody else in that room had, and I never said a w
16: Tired of Losing Control Every Evening? What If This Hassle Is Actually Glory in Disguise?
You're standing at the door with the pool bags packed, and every part of you wants to say "not tonight." It's late. You're tired. It feels like one more thing on a day that already asked too much of you.
In this episode, I'm walking you through something that happened in my own house on a 100-degree evening — and the simple tool I used to catch burnout's voice before it talked me out of one of the
15: The Boundary of Clarity: 2 Things to Think Through Before You Bring AI to Your Team
Have you been told to bring AI to your team — and quietly panicked because you don't fully know what you're doing either? You're not behind. This episode walks through the real moment of standing in front of a team without the roadmap they expected and having to admit "I'm learning this too" — and the two boundaries that came out of it: getting clear on the actual problem before the using the tool
14: Why 'They're Depending on Me' Is Keeping You Burned Out — And the Boundaries That Set You Free with Lori Owens
Do you ever feel like your calendar owns you? Like the only way to prove you're needed is to keep saying yes?
This week I'm joined by Lori Owens — Army veteran, certified resilience trainer, and host of Practical Solutions for PTSD — who nearly broke her health trying to prove her worth through overwork. She's sharing the exact moment she realized she had nothing left to give, why she now believes
13: Support Your People, Grow Yourself: The Leadership Move That Changes Everything
Do you love your team but feel like developing them is one more thing you don't have time for? Have you ever told yourself mentoring is a "nice-to-have" you'll get to once the real work is done? Do you secretly wonder if pouring into other people is stealing from your own growth?
In this episode, you'll hear the story of a newly promoted director who couldn't connect with the team she used to be a
12: Efficiency Won't Save You - The 1 Question That Decides What's Worth Your Time
Have you ever ended a week exhausted — inbox empty, to-do list crushed — and still felt like you never touched the one thing that actually mattered? Do you feel busy all day but somehow behind on the work that's really yours? Are you starting to wonder if being "efficient" is the very thing keeping you stuck?
In this episode, you'll learn one simple filter — high-value vs. high-volume — that tells
11: Balance is a Myth - The Boundary Shift That Protects Your Time and Your Job
Balance is a myth — and chasing it is quietly costing you. If you're salaried and convinced that being "always available" is just part of the job, this episode is your permission slip and your playbook. I bust the boundary myth keeping high-achieving corporate women plugged in 24/7 — the fear that going dark makes you look less committed — and proves the opposite: clear boundaries make you more re
10: Leadership Starts the Day You Stop Leading from Fear
The bravest thing you can do isn't climbing the ladder. It's getting honest about what you actually want — and leading from that instead of from fear.
Have you ever stayed somewhere longer than you should have, telling yourself it was the responsible choice — when underneath, it was really fear? Two years before I left corporate, a mentor I deeply respected told me that if I didn't know what I w
09: Focus on Everything, Finish Nothing? 3 Steps to Protect What Matters Most Each Day
You don't have a focus problem. You have a protection problem — and the difference is everything.
Have you ever left the house before your kids woke up, worked nonstop until your laptop closed, and still driven home knowing you never touched the one thing that actually mattered? That guilt on the commute home isn't a sign you're failing. It's a sign you've been giving your day away — one "quick
08: Boundaries at Work: How to Turn Down the Wrong "Opportunity" Without the Guilt
Your boss calls it an "opportunity" — more exposure, more visibility, only a few hours a month. So why does saying yes feel like losing the parts of your life you can't get back? In this episode, I'm taking you inside the day I turned down a role the whole C-suite wanted me in, and the three questions that made the guilt disappear.
You've been taught that the good employee says yes. That the team
07: Career Growth on Autopilot? The One Thing I Wished I'd Ask Myself Sooner
You've climbed the ladder, checked every box, earned the title — so why does 10pm still whisper "is this really it?" In this episode, I'm taking you back to the season I was striving for everything and never once stopped to ask the one question that changes how you grow.
In this episode, I'm taking you back to a season when I was striving like crazy — chasing every certification, every license, ev
06: Can't Focus After A Long Day? The 5-Minute Evening Reset Every Overwhelmed Corporate Women Needs
Do you get to the end of your day completely depleted — and still have no idea what tomorrow looks like? You close your laptop, get the kids to bed, and somewhere between exhaustion and scrolling you realize you are already behind before tomorrow even starts.
Friend, your mornings do not change until your evenings do.
In this episode we are breaking down the simple five-minute evening ritual that
05: Overload Isn't Normal: Why Your Burnout Is Not a Personal Failure
Have you ever watched someone else crush a huge goal — and instead of feeling inspired, felt nothing? That quiet thought — "I don't even want that right now" — is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is a signal that your load has become too heavy.
In this episode we are busting the biggest myth keeping corporate women stuck in shame: the belief that burnout is a personal failure. We ar
04: Sick of Trying to "Push Through" Burnout? Try this Leadership Reset Instead
Hi friend!
Today I am getting personal about one of the hardest seasons of my corporate life — and the three truths about burnout that nobody in corporate will ever tell you.
If you have been telling yourself this is just a season, that you just need to push through one more quarter — this episode is for you. I share what a real leadership reset looks like, what Jeremiah 29:11 taught me about carr
03: Struggling to Stay Focused? 3 Strategies Every Corporate Woman Needs When Chaos Hits
Three strategies to stay focused when corporate chaos hits:
Strategy #1 — Triage the real fire in three minutes, then take sixty seconds to bring your team with you. Stop reacting and start responding strategically.
Strategy #2 — Analyze the time you actually have, set your three must-do's, and release the rest without guilt. Protecting your nervous system is part of leading well.
Strategy #3— B
02: Why Your Boundaries Keep Failing and 3 Simple Ways to Fix Them for Good
Ready to stop carrying weight that was never yours to carry? Send me an email at settingboundariesincorporate@gmail.com and tell me your biggest boundary struggle. I read every single one and I want to support you.
Because here's the truth friend... if you have been trying to set boundaries for months — maybe years — and they keep falling apart the moment someone pushes back, it is not because you
01: Welcome to Setting Boundaries in Corporate
If you're a high-achieving corporate woman struggling with burnout, work-life balance, and setting boundaries at work — you're in the right place. Setting Boundaries in Corporate is the podcast for ambitious women in leadership who are ready to stop running on empty, reclaim their time, and confidently set boundaries to achieve work-life balance. I'm Raquel Ita, certified financial coach and leade
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