Your Managers Are Burning Out Too, and That's Your Bottleneck

Your Dream Coach Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 11m

You hired a manager to finally take something off your plate. Instead, the exhaustion just moved one desk over. In this episode, Shayla Wey breaks down why hiring a manager doesn't remove the bottleneck, it just gives the bottleneck a new face, and why your manager burning out the exact same way you used to means you delegated your workload, not your leadership.

Shayla gives a clear way to diagnose the problem: if your manager's exhaustion is coming from decisions constantly routing back to you, unclear standards, or never having permission to say no, that's a leadership development problem…