# 72: The Hidden Cost of Having It All: Motherhood, Burnout & High Achievement: With Mackenzie Shelton Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/raw-and-real-the-unfiltered-podcast-for-women-who-scale-with-clare-garner-7040538/72-the-hidden-cost-of-having-it-all-motherhood-burnout-high-achievement-with-mackenzie-shelton Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/raw-and-real-the-unfiltered-podcast-for-women-who-scale-with-clare-garner-7040538/72-the-hidden-cost-of-having-it-all-motherhood-burnout-high-achievement-with-mackenzie-shelton.md Podcast: [Raw and Real: The Unfiltered Podcast for Women Who Scale with Clare Garner](https://stenobird.com/podcast/raw-and-real-the-unfiltered-podcast-for-women-who-scale-with-clare-garner-7040538) Published: 2026-06-19T01:57:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rawandrealclaregarner/episodes/72-The-Hidden-Cost-of-Having-It-All-Motherhood--Burnout--High-Achievement-With-Mackenzie-Shelton-e3kgdaa Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/dfb49760/podcast/play/121172746/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-8%2F425732018-44100-2-488a137e70036.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/raw-and-real-the-unfiltered-podcast-for-women-who-scale-with-clare-garner-7040538/episodes/72-the-hidden-cost-of-having-it-all-motherhood-burnout-high-achievement-with-mackenzie-shelton Duration seconds: 1653 ## Resource What happens when you're the woman who can do it all... But secretly, you're exhausted from carrying it all? In this episode of Raw & Real, I sit down with entrepreneur, real estate leader, podcaster and soon-to-be author Mackenzie Shelton for a powerful conversation about motherhood, burnout, ambition, faith, resilience and the pressure so many women place on themselves to be everything to everyone. Because let's be honest... So many high-achieving women are building successful businesses, leading teams, raising families and holding everything together on the outside... While feeling completely overwhelmed on the inside. Together we dive into: ✨ Motherhood and entrepreneurship ✨ Burnout in high-achieving women ✨ Why successful women struggle to ask for help ✨ The pressure of trying to "do it all" ✨ Building systems that create more peace and less chaos ✨ Faith, surrender and letting go of control ✨ Resilience, nervous system regulation and emotional wellbeing ✨ Stepmotherhood, parenting and identity ✨ Why hustle culture isn't the answer ✨ Creating a life that feels successful and sustainable Mackenzie shares her journey from building a thriving real estate business and raising four children to answering a much deeper calling: helping women stop living in survival mode and start creating lives that feel calmer, more aligned and more fulfilling. We also talk about something I know so many women will resonate with: The belief that if we just work harder... If we just try more... If we just become better... Then everything will finally feel easier. Except that's rarely how it works. Because burnout isn't usually caused by doing too little. It's often caused by trying to carry far more than we were ever meant to carry alone. This conversation is a reminder th… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/raw-and-real-the-unfiltered-podcast-for-women-who-scale-with-clare-garner-7040538/episodes/72-the-hidden-cost-of-having-it-all-motherhood-burnout-high-achievement-with-mackenzie-shelton/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/raw-and-real-the-unfiltered-podcast-for-women-who-scale-with-clare-garner-7040538/72-the-hidden-cost-of-having-it-all-motherhood-burnout-high-achievement-with-mackenzie-shelton.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.