CAREER COACHING & BOUNDARIES | How Setting Boundaries Can Change Your Life

MentorMeet Stories is a mentorship podcast for professionals seeking inspirational mentorship on career development and well-being. This mindset mentor podcast features career coaches sharing insights on boundaries and sustainable success.

Episode: How to prevent burnout through boundaries, why people-pleasers struggle, and practical frameworks for saying no without guilt.

Lucile Kamar, award-winning career coach and leadership expert, shares her journey from mental health crisis caused by lack of boundaries to helping clients transform careers through conscious boundary-setting.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

Key topics:

- Lucile's story: mental health crisis from people-pleasing

- Signs you need boundaries: resentment after saying yes, exhaustion while appearing fine, overthinking reactions, personal priorities always last

- 2025 work demands: hybrid models, global teams, always-on connectivity

- Performance impact: client who worked late until attitude suffered

- Relationships: leader as team "therapist" until drained

- Well-being: hardest boundaries are with yourself

- Myths: boundaries don't make you difficult, don't mean constant no, good leaders aren't 24/7 available

- ACE framework: Awareness (where drained/resentful), Choice (what you'll accept), Expression (communicate clearly)

- Leadership transitions: boundaries with former peers

- Open door ≠ anyone anytime

- Guilt around no: "no is a full sentence"

- Women and conditioning: "be nice, don't rock the boat"

- Primal fear: boundary-setting = exclusion threatens safety

- Professional vs personal boundaries

- Letting things build until explosion

- Well-being enables sustainable performance

- Start with one boundary, communicate consistently

For professionals feeling exhausted but appearing fine, people-pleasers who overextend, new leaders navigating dynamics, anyone with work-life boundary struggles, and leaders modeling healthy behaviors.

GUEST: Lucile Kamar

Award-winning career coach, culture and leadership expert, Cambridge alumni. Boundaries, people-pleasing recovery, leadership transitions, sustainable performance.

https://mentormeet.com/profiles/lucile-kamar/

HOST: Katie Bradbury

https://mentormeet.com/profiles/katie-bradbury/

EPISODE LENGTH: 25 minutes

THREE TAKEAWAYS:

1. Boundaries = deciding what you're available for. Every yes to something draining is a no to something that matters.

2. ACE framework: Awareness (notice where drained), Choice (decide what you'll accept), Expression (communicate kindly but clearly).

3. Start with ONE boundary. Communicate consistently. Get accountability buddy or coach. Clear boundaries = MORE respect, not less.

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MentorMeet Stories features mentors and coaches. Episodes explore career development, boundaries, leadership, well-being. Inspirational mentorship and educational mentorship grounded in lived experience—not theory.

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