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Opening Keynote: The Cost of Showing Up Happy: Burnout and the Wisdom of Asking for Help
1.0 SHRM & HRCI (GENERAL) Credits/THIS SESSION IS AVAILABLE FOR ON DEMAND
Location: Kalahari Ballroom
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Beginning at 12:00 PM
Session Duration
1.25

Session Description
As the implacably happy, beloved host of Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues, Steve Burns was the guy who sang, danced, and cheerfully bolstered your self-esteem. What you don’t know is that he was doing so with undiagnosed severe clinical depression. What is the cost of forcing joy? How can one maintain peak-level achievement and be completely burned out at the same time? And once it’s all over, how do you re-engage with your own life when the tank is completely empty? Steve Burns shares lessons from his struggles as the Happiest Depressed Person in North America and learns to personally take the messages he gave to an entire generation.

Session Speaker

Steve Burns

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More About Steve Burns

Steve Burns is an American actor and television host best known as the original host of the long-running children's preschool television program Blue's Clues from 1996 until 2002, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy. The series was rebooted as Blue's Clues and You, with Burns serving as frequent writer, director, and producer. As a musician, he collaborates with Grammy award winners The Flaming Lips, with whom he released critically acclaimed album Songs for Dustmites and Foreverywhere, an album for children. Burns also wrote and performs the theme song for Young Sheldon on CBS. He is a frequent host and storyteller for NPR's The Moth.