Cara H.

Founder at Cara Houser

Professional Training and Coaching

Education: UC Berkeley
San Francisco, CA, USA

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Biography

Cara Houser is The Burnout Lady and a workplace engagement coach building burnout-free leaders and teams. She makes burnout recovery accessible and fun and is also the author of the award-winning book: Burned Out to Lit Up: Ditch the Grind and Reclaim Your Life.

Passion

I'm crazy about spending time with my family, trail running, playing guitar, exploring new places, and writing.

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I am willing to travel

More than 100 miles

When it comes to payments

I generally get paid for speaking but make exceptions

Topics

burnout prevention burnout burnout recovery corporate burnout employee burnout mitigating employee burnout empowering women womens empowerment womens health and well being womens leadership team leadership authentic leadership women in real estate commercial real estate multifamily real estate career breaks career alignment women in business career development career personal empowerment empowerment female empowerment career advice workplace wellbeing wellbeing womens wellbeing employee wellbeing collective leadership leadership exhaustion overcoming overwhelm energy management selfdevelopment personal growth self care setting boundaries boundary setting

Origin Story

In her first career, Cara spent 20 years learning how to survive and ultimately thrive in the 24/7, always-on, pressure-cooker real estate development business. Her teams produced over 3,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, creating over $1.5B in value.

Trying to be everything to everyone (except herself), she learned about burnout the hard way, and spent two years learning how to tap into her innate power, possibility, and purpose to go from self neglect, past self care, to self possession, and a rich, full-bodied, joy-filled life.

Now she is The Burnout Lady and a workplace engagement coach building burnout-free leaders and teams. She makes burnout recovery accessible and fun and is also the author of the award-winning book: Burned Out to Lit Up: Ditch the Grind and Reclaim Your Life.

Example talks

Burned Out? This is the Way Out!

Commonwealth Club in SF - June 2024

Is hustling and grinding to “do it all” doing you in? Are you feeling fried and frayed, with a short fuse, low energy, and troubled sleep? Can't remember what you used to enjoy? But quitting your job doesn't feel like an option, and who has the energy and time to learn new coping skills or plan an escape? You’re not alone. Burnout is the modern epidemic, with an estimated 82 percent of American employees at risk in 2024.

That's why the Club chose Cara Houser, who was a high-performing executive running major real estate development projects while raising two kids, to talk about real burnout solutions for real people. In her first career, Houser spent 20 years learning how to thrive in the 24/7, always-on real estate development business. Her teams produced more than 3,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, creating over $1.5 billion in value. Trying to be everything to everyone (except herself), she hit the wall and burned out, badly.

Houser has now spent years focusing on what can be done to help people in burnout. She constructed a practical and inspiring guidebook that works for people who are so burned out that they don't have the emotional, physical, or financial resilience to follow the usual Internet tips of "relax, learn yoga, go for a run, brainstorm your ideal job."

That's what makes her approach so refreshing and useful. It meets you where you are: with barely enough energy to get through the day and zero interest in adding more expensive "self-care" to your overflowing to-do list. Houser says her realistic, no-fluff roadmap guides you step by step out of burnout and into creating a vibrant, joyful, fulfilling life.

Did you know that one of the ingredients for healing from burnout is enlivening experiences and supportive connections? So come to the Club for an engaging, interactive program, followed by a meet-and-greet and book signing with Cara Houser. You’ll leave feeling energized, inspired, resourced, and ready to chart a new course that lights you up. The world needs your spark, and your time to shine is now.

https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/burned-out-way-out