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Am I a Snowflake If I’m Not Coping Now?
Episode 328
A doctor emailed me recently, she's been in medicine for 25 years, and the question she asked was one I've heard in a hundred different ways: "Am I a…
2 months, 1 week ago
How Wanting to Do More at Work Becomes a Burnout Warning Sign for High Achievers
Episode 327
When Aoife O'Brien is close to burnout, she doesn't want to stop. She wants to do more. One more task. One more thing to get through before she can s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Summer Makes Your Burnout Worse (And It's Not Your Fault)
Episode 326
You may have been counting down to summer all year, telling yourself that you just need to survive until your next holiday. You may have been looking…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Masking, Over-Functioning and the Shame That Keeps You Stuck
Episode 325
If you've always felt like everyone else got an unwritten handbook about how to behave at work - and you've had to figure it out yourself, one intera…
3 months ago
Why You Can't Switch Off (And It's Not About Workload)
Episode 324
Burnout in high stress jobs isn't always about doing too much; sometimes it's about a belief you were never taught to question.
You finished your day,…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Occupational Hazard Every High-Achieving Leader Needs to Know About
Episode 323
Getting a complaint from a colleague is one of the most destabilising things that can happen to a high-achieving leader. Not because of the process, …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Imposter Syndrome Isn't a Confidence Problem
Episode 322
Imposter syndrome is something we often don’t talk about openly, and the standard advice - build your confidence, reframe your thinking, remember you…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Your Workload Keeps Growing Without You Agreeing To It
Episode 321
If you constantly find yourself picking up tasks that nobody else will do, staying late to cover gaps, or slowly absorbing more and more without anyo…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
What to Do When Your Career Map No Longer Fits
Episode 320
You know something needs to change, but you just have no idea what, how, or where to begin, and your lack of a plan may be starting to feel like fail…
4 months ago
How to Break the People-Pleasing Cycle That's Burning You Out
Episode 319
If you have ever ended a clinical day exhausted not from the medicine itself but from the weight of everybody else's feelings, this episode might hit…
4 months, 1 week ago