The Life Edit Project Podcast with Elizabeth Burrows
Struggling with perfectionism? Feeling overwhelmed by the demands of family, career, and your personal goals? You’re not alone. Join professional life coach Elizabeth Burrows each week for juicy insights and practical tips on how you can overcome perfectionism, beat burnout, and create a more balanced and fulfilled life. The Life Edit Project Podcast is designed to help recovering perfectionists and overachievers have better relationships with themselves, their futures, and the people around them—in binge-worthy weekly episodes that are under 30 minutes (usually!). Subscribe now!
Episodes
Pausing to check in with yourself can sometimes go a long way to helping you feel better and get yourself into gear. But sometimes, you need something more. Something more thorough.
In this week’s episode, Coach Elizabeth Burrows shares four different signs to watch out for in your life that could signal it’s time for a reset.
Book your own 2-hour RESET coaching intensive and get your mojo back for the second half of 2025!
Before you rush into July, be sure to take the time to pause and reflect on how the first half of the year has gone.
In this episode, Coach Elizabeth offers five questions to help you examine your successes and your struggles over the last six months, so that you can take the lessons with you into July and beyond.
Pro tip: Use these questions as journaling prompts to pull out even deeper insights.
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Are you afraid that if you stop going on ten all the time, your success will disappear? That’s a perfectionist thought trap…and it’s exactly what we’re unpacking in this conversation.
In this short but powerful episode, Coach Elizabeth breaks down how over-performing leads to a cycle of unrealistic expectations that keeps you tired, resentful and stuck. You’ll learn why letting go of perfection doesn’t have to mean lowering your...
When we think of a perfectionist, we usually picture someone that’s driven and organized and high-achieving. But the underachieving perfectionist is just as common.
In this episode, coach Elizabeth Burrows breaks down:
👉🏽 what underachieving looks like when it’s caused by perfectionism
👉🏽 how underachieving impacts our lives and relationships
👉🏽 two tips to help you stop underachieving
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Are you ready to finally put down the perfectionism and move forward with your life?
Tune into this week’s episode as Coach Elizabeth Burrows shares the single most important mindset shift you have to make to finally break free.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
▪️ how perfectionism is connected to self-betrayal
▪️ how perfectionists see themselves before the mindset shift
▪️ what you need to believe to make your progress stick
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When did you first become a perfectionist? If you’re anything like the host, Coach Elizabeth, your perfectionism can be traced back to a pattern of overachieving or people pleasing in your childhood.
Now as a parent, you might be raising the next generation of perfectionists. But the cycle can stop with you if you.
In this week’s episode, Coach Elizabeth discusses:
🔹 how perfectionism showed up in her own childhood
🔹 the early sign...
Perfectionism can create major problems in your relationships…especially when it shows up as you expecting perfect from other people.
Tune into this week’s episode as professional life coach and podcast host—Coach Elizabeth Burrows—discusses:
💡what’s really happening when perfectionism is pointed toward the people around us
💡 why it’s such a tricky dynamic to change, and
💡 how to recognize it in different types of relationships
Perfectionism can make parenting feel like a never-ending performance review—but it doesn’t have to be that way.
In this episode, Coach Elizabeth shares three simple but powerful strategies that will help you show up for your kids with more presence, confidence, and intention…even when it looks messy.
Whether you’re parenting toddlers, teens, or anyone in between, these mindset shifts will help you opt out of perfectionism a...
This quickie episode is a little reality check and a big permission slip for every parent with a perfectionist streak.
Tune in to hear how I’ve learned to parent with more peace—and how you can too.
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Perfectionism doesn’t just mess with your to-do list—it can quietly sabotage your relationships, too.
Whether it’s with your partner, your family, your friends, or your coworkers, perfectionist habits have a sneaky way of creating tension, frustration, and emotional distance.
In this short and powerful episode, Coach Elizabeth breaks down one of the biggest (and most overlooked) relationship challenges perfectionists face—and g...
You’ve been conditioned to believe that giving 100%—all the time—is the key to success. But what if giving it your all is actually holding you back?
In this quick episode, I’m coming for my overachievers and Performer Perfectionists, sharing one big mindset shift that might just free you up to make more progress with less effort.
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This episode almost didn’t happen. 🥵 But since it’s episode 100, your girl Coach Elizabeth figured it out.
This week, she turns a setback into a an insightful lesson on how consistency can be a more the perfect way to power through perfectionism.
Tune in to hear the three key insights learned along the way to 100 episodes of the Life Edit Project Podcast. And be sure to listen through to the end for a special offer 🎁, ava...
Perfectionism can cause lots of friction in relationships. And it can cause lots of avoidable stress, too.
So in this week’s episode, Coach Elizabeth offers three easy strategies you can use to cut back on the stress caused by perfectionism you experience in any kind of relationship. This episode is quick and practical, so don’t miss it!
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Decisions are a part of everyday life. But for perfectionists, even the tiniest decisions can feel high stakes, making every decision a source of anxiety and stress.
In today’s episode, Coach Elizabeth shares a practical three-step “decision detox” to take the stress out of making decisions…even if you’re a perfectionist.
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In this episode of the Life Edit Project Podcast, Coach Elizabeth breaks down the destructive nature of toxic comparison and offers practical strategies to transform how we compare ourselves to others. Tune in to learn how to turn comparison from a joy-stealing habit into a tool for personal transformation and growth.
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Being a perfectionist is a lonely way to live.
In your question for perfection, it’s easy to hide your true self, push people away and avoid vulnerability—all of which makes it harder to connect with other people.
Tune in as Coach Elizabeth explains what loneliness is in the context of perfectionism and how your perfectionism personality perpetuates it. Then keep listening for a simple strategy to fight back against the loneliness ...
What can Star Trek teach us about overcoming perfectionism in our careers? Actually, quite a lot.
Tune in as life coach and podcast host Coach Elizabeth Burrows uses a nerdy piece of Star Trek lore and a story from her own career to help ambitious women gain a new perspective on how perfectionism can impact career success (and failure).
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If you’ve ever struggled with perfectionism, you’ve probably struggled with procrastination. Not because you’re trying to avoid the work, but because you’ve got a bad habit of shaming yourself, even before you mess up. 😓
When shame fuels your procrastination, embracing imperfect beginnings can be a great way to get started and build momentum. Tune into this week’s episode as Coach Elizabeth offers an alternative way to think about ...
Remember that iconic episode of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air when Aunt Viv danced in a pink unitard to Everybody Dance Now? Of course you do. 😏
But did you realize that Aunt Viv was actually having a mid-life crisis and in the middle of a perfectionist meltdown? Probably not. 🫢
In this week’s episode, host and professional life coach Elizabeth Burrows breaks down what was really happening to Vivian Banks in that episode and explore...
All of us carry an invisible load…But it’s heavier for women, Black women, and perfectionists.
Tune into this episode to hear life coach and host Coach Elizabeth Burrows discuss what the invisible load really is, how it shows up in our lives, and why you can’t afford not to see it any longer.
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