We’ve been taught to call it resilience, but it’s really burnout with good PR. You keep holding it all together, thinking the calm will come later. But what if “later” has already turned into your lifestyle? In this week’s post, I’m unpacking the real cost of burnout (financial, emotional, and personal) and what it looks like to make rest your most practical financial strategy in 2025's burnout economy.

The September 2025 jobs report makes it clear: one paycheck isn’t enough, especially for Black women. Since spring, over 300,000 have been forced out of the workforce, layoffs keep rising, and safety nets are thin. The old belief that loyalty equals stability has collapsed. In this post, I unpack why relying on a single job is dangerous, what real resilience looks like, and how to build income, savings, and skills that hold when the system doesn’t.