Petula Truly Flavius

She is not burned out because she is weak. She is burned out because she has been strong for too long without permission to stop. Burnout has become an epidemic among high-functioning women — and the cruelest part is that the women who need this message most are the ones least likely to admit they need it. They keep performing. They keep delivering. They keep showing up for everyone else while quietly running on empty. And then they add shame on top of the exhaustion because they believe that a woman of faith, a woman of strength, a woman at her level should be able to handle it. Here is the truth nobody is saying out loud — from the outside, success and burnout can look identical. You are delivering. You are dependable. People are impressed. But your body is keeping receipts. And burnout receipts do not expire easily. This talk dismantles the shame completely. Drawing on over 20 years of experience in healthcare, Truly brings both clinical credibility and personal honesty to this conversation. She shares the research — including that 48% of women say identity shift symptoms impacted their self-confidence and self-esteem at work — and she shares her own story of working a full-time remote job, a 16-hour weekend job, and a master's program simultaneously until her body sent her a signal she could no longer ignore. Burnout is not a personal failure. It is a signal. And this talk teaches women exactly how to answer it. Using her A.B.S. Signal Reset framework — Audit, Boundary, Support — Truly gives women a practical, repeatable tool they can use the moment they walk out the door. Not ten steps. Not a 90-day plan. Three things that work immediately. Women leave with permission to stop pretending they are fine, language for what they have been carrying, and a clear framework for responding to the signal before it becomes a crisis. This is the talk every healthcare organization, corporate women's event, and women's conference needs on their program right now. Burnout is not going away. But shame about it can.

Most women are not held back by lack of talent, lack of faith, or lack of drive. They are held back by an agreement they never meant to sign. Somewhere along the way fear showed up — dressed as humility, disguised as responsibility, hiding behind practicality — and they agreed with it. They agreed to stay quiet. They agreed to stay small. They agreed to wait until they were ready, until the kids were grown, until things settled down, until someone gave them permission. This keynote exposes that agreement by name. Using her proven Name It. Break It. Voice It. framework, Truly walks women through exactly how to identify the specific fears they have been agreeing with, how to break that agreement at the root, and how to use their voice anyway — even when fear is still in the room. This is not a talk about being fearless. It is a talk about being faithful and moving forward anyway. Women leave this session with language for what they have been feeling, clarity about what fear has been costing them, and a concrete framework they can apply to every area of their life — relationships, career, calling, and community. This talk is the one women come back to event planners about. It is the one they text their friends about on the drive home. It is the one that starts something.