Joy Is a Skill, Not a Feeling: Beating Burnout with Brent Freeman

What if joy isn’t something you feel but something you practice — and burnout is what happens when you stop?

In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Brent Freeman, serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and author of the just-released The Alchemy of Joy: The Life-Changing Method to Beat Burnout, Retrain Your Brain, and Build a Life You Love.

Brent spent two decades building companies and chasing every metric success was supposed to deliver — until a Tuesday morning in San Francisco, a first sunset in years, and a handwritten list of joy changed the direction of his life.

He walks Andy through the method he built from that moment: why willpower snaps back like a thermostat, how the subconscious mind runs the show, and what a Joyful Operating System looks like on an ordinary Tuesday — then takes two mentorship moments, one for the founder who has everything and feels none of it, and one for the leader who has to sell “joy” to the CFO.

Tune in to episode 267 to hear the childhood loss that became Brent’s rocket booster, the three elements of a joyful company culture, and why joy isn’t the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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