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Rest or Burn Out? Why Slowing Down Fuels Startup Success (with Naily Makangu)

Real founders and community leaders. Real conversations. One kitchen - endless lessons. Are you starting 2026 already overwhelmed not just tired, but pulled in twenty directions at once? In this episode of In My Kitchen, I sit down with my friend and fellow founder Naily Makangu (“the Mary Poppins of Startups”) to talk about something most founders avoid: Rest. Recovery. And why slowing down might be the thing that finally moves your business forward. This isn’t a fluffy self-care chat. It’s two women in tech being honest about: building in a cost-of-living crisis carrying teams, clients and family at the same time hitting burnout… and what we did after the crash You’ll hear: Why I chose ONE goal (Dry January) instead of ten resolutions and how that one decision started tidying up everything else How Naily helps founders turn their company into a “workplace playground” instead of a pressure cooker The difference between being busy and being truly overwhelmed and how to tell which one you’re in Practical ways to rest without losing momentum (especially if you’re bootstrapping) How to choose your One Big Change for 2026 so the rest of your decisions get easier If you’re a founder, leader, or builder who’s secretly thinking, “I can’t keep going like this”… this episode is your permission slip and your playbook. About My Guest – Naily Makangu Naily is a software engineer turned startup advisor and tech consultant, often called the “Mary Poppins of Startups”. She specialises in: rescuing struggling tech projects, helping founders build happier, more productive teams, and championing smaller tech hubs and remote-first work as real engines of innovation. Through her company Athena Leaders, she works with startups and scaleups to turn chaos into clarity with better leadership, systems and delivery. Timestamps 00:00 – Cold open: for the overwhelmed founder 01:02 – Who I am & what In My Kitchen is about 02:05 – Why “overwhelmed” is the real word of 2025 04:10 – Bringing in Naily: the “Mary Poppins of Startups” 06:02 – What burnout actually looked like for us (not just tired) 09:18 – Busy vs overwhelmed: how to tell the difference 12:40 – Why I chose one goal (Dry January) instead of 10 resolutions 15:05 – Naily’s idea of the “workplace playground” and why fun = productivity 18:22 – The cost-of-living squeeze: building a startup when life is heavy 21:10 – Practical ways to rest without dropping your responsibilities 24:03 – How to choose your One Big Change for 2026 27:15 – Our One Big Changes (mine + Naily’s) 29:10 – A 3-step reset you can try this week 31:00 – Final message to overwhelmed founders & parents (Adjust the timestamps to the exact runtime once you upload.) If this helped… Like this video so more overwhelmed founders can find it Subscribe for weekly, real-world conversations from my kitchen Share it with one friend who’s quietly burning out From my kitchen to yours: you don’t have to do more to be “enough”. Sometimes the bravest move is choosing one thing to care about deeply, and letting the rest fall in line. 💚