Hailey Paige Magee: Burned Out and Lonely: How Do You Rebuild Your Community?

The right support changes everything. Our Director of Coaching, Sarah Vosen, combines expertise and compassion to walk beside you: https://caitdonovan.com/coaching

Burnout takes a different shape when the life you worked hard to build no longer feels like it belongs to you and you’re pushed to rebuild meaning from the inside out.

Cait welcomes back author and coach Hailey Paige Magee, whose work has supported thousands of recovering people-pleasers and high achievers as they redefine their relationship with success. Their conversation focuses on the moment burnout stops looking like exhaustion and starts revealing a deeper misalignment. Hailey speaks candidly about the quiet collapse that happens when your identity no longer fits the life around you and the grief that rises when you can no longer pretend everything is fine.

The heart of the episode centers on reconnection. How do you return to community after a long stretch of self-protection? How do you stay rooted in yourself without slipping into performance or old habits? And what becomes possible when belonging has nothing to do with achievement? Cait and Hailey explore these questions and offer a grounded reminder that meaning grows through honest relationships, not algorithms or accolades.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Burnout, Misalignment, and Identity Collapse

06:02 Social Media, Success, and Loss of Purpose

12:02 Grief as a Turning Point in Burnout Recovery

14:56 Rebuilding Connection and Community

37:08 Evolving Identity and Rediscovering Meaning

42:06 From Me to We in the Next Phase of Recovery

Links

If you’re ready to take the next step toward healing, you can explore 1:1 coaching with Sarah Vosen at bit.ly/unfriedcoach

Download the Web of Causation Exercise to uncover the layers behind your burnout and begin creating your recovery plan: https://www.caitdonovan.com/freebie-web

Connect with Hailey Paige Magee:

Visit Hailey’s Website

Read more about Hailey’s story

Get Hailey’s free guide!

Listen to Hailey’s last episode on FRIED

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Connect with Cait:

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Initial Call with Sarah

The right support changes everything. Our Director of Coaching, Sarah Vosen, combines expertise and compassion to walk beside you: https://caitdonovan.com/coaching

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