Ep#171 The Discipline Trap – Why Pushing Harder Won’t Cure Your Burnout

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

Many of us dissociate when confronted with overwhelming uncomfortable emotions. It's a habit we pick up as children, that we could easily drop as adults, when we have greater emotional resilience. Yet...

25 Mai 202329min

In this episode I chew the fat on burnout recovery with renowned expert Duncan So. We share the view that burnout is a wake-up call - the body's catalyst to a magical transition into your next level o...

23 Mai 202336min

When we're in burnout we might be trying to solve every problem - our own and other people's - often to save face and maintain status. The price we pay though might be exhaustion, overwork and resentm...

18 Mai 202331min

Sally Clarke and I discuss burnout - how people get it and what to do about it. Sally is Co-Director at Human Leaders, a movement of leaders making work a place where humans thrive. Yay! She's also ...

16 Mai 202341min