Ep#100 Surviving the holidays

You will discover what ChatGPT says are the essential skills and practices needed for professional burnout recovery. I review ChatGPT's suggestions, enhancing them with my own insights from 10,000 cl...

20 Nov 202528min

When burnout hits, most people think they’re simply tired. But underneath the exhaustion, there’s often a deeper driver: shame — that quiet voice that says, “You’re failing. You should be stronger.” I...

13 Nov 202511min

In this episode, Dex unpacks how early conditioning shapes what we see as “truth,” and how those truths quietly drive our adult stress, dissatisfaction, and burnout. You’ll hear how our sense of being...

6 Nov 202514min

When I first stepped into leadership, I kept doing what had always worked — analysing everything and making the right call. It strangled my team’s freedom. Sound familiar? If you’re a driven professi...

30 Okt 202518min

Most leaders think they’re holding it all together under duress. But often what they’re really doing is gripping the steering wheel of a car that’s already crashed. Control feels powerful, but it’s ac...

23 Okt 202517min

In this episode, Finding New Hope, Dex explores how professionals can rediscover hope and purpose after burnout. Drawing inspiration from Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Dex shows how meanin...

16 Okt 202516min

In this episode, I sit down with Urs Koenig—leadership expert, bestselling author of Radical Humility, UN peacekeeper, ultra-endurance champion, and professor—to talk about what it really takes to lea...

9 Okt 202532min

Forbes says leaders are ditching empathy in favour of hard-nosed results. I say: false dichotomy. Great leaders know people are the path to profits. In this episode, I pull apart the “nice vs. tough b...

2 Okt 202510min