# Erin Mahoney: The Invisible Weight — What Mental Load and Decision Fatigue Are Really Costing You Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-extraordinary-life-by-design-6786305/erin-mahoney-the-invisible-weight-what-mental-load-and-decision-fatigue-are-really-costing-you Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-extraordinary-life-by-design-6786305/erin-mahoney-the-invisible-weight-what-mental-load-and-decision-fatigue-are-really-costing-you.md Podcast: [HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design](https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-extraordinary-life-by-design-6786305) Published: 2026-09-13T16:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ECM4911098320.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ECM4911098320.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/her-extraordinary-life-by-design-6786305/episodes/erin-mahoney-the-invisible-weight-what-mental-load-and-decision-fatigue-are-really-costing-you Duration seconds: 2489 ## Resource Join Leslie Gaudet and Erin Mahoney, licensed mental health counselor and proud USAF veteran, for a warm, honest, and genuinely grounding conversation about what it truly takes to protect your peace, regulate your emotions, and build the kind of inner resilience that actually holds up under the weight of a full and demanding life. Erin brings a rare combination to this conversation — the discipline and strength of a military background alongside the deep empathy and clinical expertise of a mental health counselor who has dedicated her career to helping people feel seen, supported, and safe enough to heal. She works with adolescents, adults, couples, and veterans navigating everything from anxiety and depression to trauma, low self-esteem, and relationship struggles — and she does it with a warm, nonjudgmental approach that meets each person exactly where they are. If you have been running on empty mentally and emotionally while holding everything together for everyone else — this conversation is going to feel like someone finally gave you permission to put yourself first. ******************************************************************** Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com  ***************************************************************** Monthly Gathering: I built the space — a place where women can show up without the filter, without the performance, and without wondering whether being seen is going to cost them something. No faces. No names. No titles. Just voices and honest conversation. We have already held our first gathering and it was exactly what I hoped it would be. If you want to join us for the next one, send me an email with the words "I'm in for Monthly Gathering" and I will make s… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/her-extraordinary-life-by-design-6786305/episodes/erin-mahoney-the-invisible-weight-what-mental-load-and-decision-fatigue-are-really-costing-you/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-extraordinary-life-by-design-6786305/erin-mahoney-the-invisible-weight-what-mental-load-and-decision-fatigue-are-really-costing-you.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.