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Natasha Bowman built a successful career and reputation teaching employers how to effectively lead, tackle workplace challenges and get the best out of their employees. As founder and president of leadership development firm Performance ReNEW, Bowman seemed to have all the answers but suddenly found herself facing her own substantial questions last year.

"I thought my ability to stay up for days on end was a sign of ambition," Bowman wrote in a LinkedIn article describing the events that turned her life upside down last year. "I thought that when I could hardly get out of bed for days, that was a sign of burnout."

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