# How Do I Get My Work Energy Back? 🔋

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Podcast: [Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/moonshot-mentor-with-laverne-mckinnon-6611026)
Published: 2026-03-30T12:03:16+00:00
Episode link: https://moonshotmentor.substack.com/p/how-do-i-get-my-work-energy-back
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## Resource

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit moonshotmentor.substack.com Most of us are gonna hit turbulence at one point or another in our careers. A faceplant. A missed opportunity. A project that goes sideways. A job that ends in a way that feels unfair or messy. The painful part is not just what happened. It’s what happens inside of you afterward. When a professional failure goes unprocessed, it turns inward. It shows up as imposter thoughts, burnout, low confidence, and that weird dread that kicks up when it’s time to take the next risk. Sometimes it even pushes people to abandon dreams they still care about, not because the dream stopped mattering, but because their internal capacity got depleted. That internal capacity to weather tough times is resilience. And when resilience is low, you don’t have the energy to keep going. What resilience means, for real Resilience is your capacity to recover after something knocks you off course. I think of it like the elasticity in a pair of Spanx – they bounce back to their natural shape after having been stretched to their full capacity. I’m wearing Spanx under this dress and it’s like a modern day miracle how it bounces back! When our resilience runs low, rigidity kicks in because we have no energy to be supple and nimble. It’s like the shoes I wore with the dress. They had no give what-so-ever. They looked lovely and solid, but fell apart that night. They broke under pressure. In your work, rigidity might sound like I’m going to keep doing things the same way despite market contractions or expansions, new responsibilities, or that the tools of the trade have changed. Elasticity sounds like: I’m adjusting my approach because the market has altered, I have new challenges or I need to close a skills gap. One…

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