Ep#144 - Bathing in Compassion

Do you want your career to grow this year? In these times of interest rate hikes, escalating cost of living and widespread job loss - you can protect your career and finances, even if you are curren...

20 Jul 20238min

You may have discovered that from the dark trenches of burnout, a new work role often looks very seductive. However, all is not as it seems. If you are exhausted and frustrated to the extent of burno...

13 Jul 202324min

Getting new habits to stick can be a challenge(!), so here are some excellent tweaks to make habit-forming as close to effortless as it gets! Starting small and easy, with plenty of reward, turns out...

6 Jul 202320min

As leaders, we might be tempted to ..ahem.. over-manage our teams, but in fact the greatest success is much more likely to come from teaching them to self-manage and letting their collective creative...

29 Jun 202321min

Cait Donovan has just written a paper on ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and burnout, so we talk here about that and her extensive experience as a Burnout Coach. Cait also shares her methods of b...

22 Jun 202340min

Anxiety is the main axis around which all the other symptoms of burnout revolve and it's especially so for leaders, whose distress might be amplified by the distress of the people they lead. Many of...

15 Jun 202318min

Performative productivity sound good. Doesn't it? But in burnout, it isn't. It's looking like you're being productive, without actually delivering the deep value that's expected of you. It's looking ...

8 Jun 202321min

Our anguish in burnout tends to be magnified enormously by a merciless inner critic, that chips away at our self-esteem, morale and motivation all day long. But you don't need to put up with THAT kin...

1 Jun 202328min