Burnout & Breakthroughs: The High's Lows, and Healing of Working in Service
Burnout & Breakthroughs is a podcast for nonprofit professionals, mission-driven leaders, and purpose-driven individuals who are ready to reclaim their humanity and move beyond glorifying exhaustion.
Hosted by Samantha, a nonprofit leader with over a decade of experience, the show tells the truths we usually whisper in staff kitchens or cry about in therapy.
Recent Episodes
Nonprofit Career Secrets No One Tells You: What I Wish I Knew Before Starting
The Myth of the Selfless Servant: Why Boundaries Matter
Burnout Isn’t a Badge of Honor
The Breaking Point and the Shift: Why I’m Telling These Stories
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Recent Blog Posts
No One Told Me This: The Silent Truths of Nonprofit Work
"You can't pour from an empty jug. And yet, here's the thing nobody put in the job description—so much of nonprofit culture teaches us to keep pouring anyway." There's a moment in every nonprofit career—maybe it's three months in, maybe…
The Giving Tree Problem: Why Nonprofit Workers Deserve Boundaries
"And the tree was happy... but not really." If you've ever worked in the nonprofit sector, you've probably felt that quiet, persistent pressure to keep giving, no matter the cost. The late nights that blur into early mornings, the skipped meals at …
Decoding the Body's Response to Nonprofit Stress: Lessons from 'The B…
Welcome to the Burnout & Breakthroughs Blog! In this post, we're diving deep into a topic that's incredibly important, especially for those of us working in the nonprofit sector: the impact of stress and trauma on our bodies. Drawing insights fr…
About the Host
Samantha Funk
Samantha Funk is a Maine-based artist, podcast host, and Program Manager with over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector. She holds a Master's degree in Leadership and is the creator and host of Burnout & Breakthroughs, a podcast that explores the human cost of mission-driven work and the path to sustainable leadership and healing.
Samantha’s expertise spans Creativity, Play, Game-Based Learning, Team Development, Transformational and Adaptive Leadership, Change Management, Consciousness, Emotional Intelligence, and Social Competence. Her nonprofit work has focused on community development, workforce programming, refugee resettlement, and systems-level advocacy — navigating the complexities of policy, funding, and human-centered service delivery.
Through her nonprofit leadership and podcast work, Samantha invites others to reclaim rest, rediscover purpose, and resist burnout culture, one breakthrough at a time.