Best Dex Randall Podcasts (2025)

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Ep#174 From Numb to Unstoppable 9:12

1d ago9:12

9:12

Dex takes you on a powerful journey—out of burnout, numbness, and self-doubt, and back into power, clarity, and authentic performance. If you’ve lost your mojo and can’t remember what it felt like to thrive at work, this episode is for you. What You’ll Learn: Why burnout often masquerades as “just a slump”; How Type A high performers collapse under…

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Ep#173 Overcoming Adversity in High-Stakes Careers 16:21

8d ago16:21

16:21

In this episode, we take a bold look at adversity—not as the thing that breaks you, but as the exact furnace that forges your next level of leadership, clarity, and power. If you’re a senior professional facing burnout, overwhelm, or high-stakes pressure, this conversation is for you. We explore: Why burnout might be your soul’s wake-up call—not a …

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Ep#172 The Quantum and Infinite Possibility 17:20

15d ago17:20

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What if burnout isn’t a breakdown… but a breakthrough? In this episode, we explore how quantum principles—like energy, vibration, the observer effect, and non-locality—can be powerful tools for healing burnout at its roots. If you’re open to a more expansive, interconnected view of reality, this conversation may change everything. We dive into: How…

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Ep#171 The Discipline Trap – Why Pushing Harder Won’t Cure Your Burnout 9:20

23d ago9:20

9:20

Is self-discipline the cure for burnout—or part of the problem? If you’ve ever told yourself, “I just need to get my act together,” or felt ashamed for not being able to power through exhaustion, this episode is for you. We unpack one of the most damaging myths around burnout: that you can fix it by trying harder. For high-performing professionals,…

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Ep#170 Why you won't recover from burnout 22:28

30d ago22:28

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The paradox of burnout is that we try to combat the stress of overwork by working harder to get ahead! Unfortunately, this does not address the root cause of burnout, and at best creates temporary relief. More often, we fail and sink deeper into exhaustion and despair. This week's episode, then, looks at why people don't recover from burnout - what…

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Ep#169 Jonno White on Managing Difficult Employees 34:19

1M ago34:19

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CEO Coach and author Jonno White joins us with reflections on how to manage difficult employees, and we share a few war stories that many leaders face. Jonno has written a succinct and practical book on Managing Difficult Employees that I can highly recommend, "Step Up or Step Out: How to Deal With Difficult People, Even If You Hate Conflict". Enha…

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Ep#168 Mastering Difficult Conversations at Work 9:34

1M ago9:34

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Have you ever wished tough conversations at work were easier? And didn't leave you feeling the worse for wear? Learn the basic framework for difficult conversations, and specific templates for 5 common scenarios. Emotional intelligence is the most in-demand skillset employers want. Boost yours today! Show Notes Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Golema…

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Ep#167 What to Do About Despair 19:23

2M ago19:23

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Do you feel crushed by despair? Today we delve into the nature of despair, its physical and emotional signs, and understanding your experiences with burnout and despair. Healing starts with acknowledging your feelings and finding a trusted person outside your family as a guide to combat the challenges. Antidotes include finding hope, perspective, a…

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Ep#166 Powertools - What's next? 36:08

2M ago36:08

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To complete your Powertools series, here's an episode summarising how to recover from burnout and what you can expect from Burnout Recovery coaching. What is the Burnout Recovery coaching program? Are you a good candidate? Is it a good fit for you? What if you've already tried everything? What's in the program and how does it work? Sounds good? Com…

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Ep#165 Powertool #10 Get Your Mojo Back 23:43

2M ago23:43

23:43

When you feel smashed and hopeless in burnout, the last thing you imagine is that your mojo will come roaring back along with your energy. Yet it does, no matter what career stage you are at. Your passion is not dead, and when you tame your schedule and start taking exceptional care of yourself at work - as you can learn to do by practising the pre…

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Ep#164 Powertool #9 Reclaim Time and Energy 23:51

2M ago23:51

23:51

Time is the resource we use to provide value at work. Yet so many of us in burnout, expert though we may be, are using it inefficiently, often ruled by our fears and desires. Yet we have a strange resistance to changing our habits for the better. In this episode learn the 5 most effective skills to optimise balance between effort and results, in a …

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Ep#163 Powertool#8 Creating Deep Wellbeing 30:40

3M ago30:40

30:40

There's nothing more fundamental to burnout recovery than a sense of wellbeing. In burnout, you probably don't feel safe, let alone resilient? In the Powertools podcast series you will learn many new skills to help you feel better, and in this episode we add 4 more vital tools to your toolkit. Creating a sense of it being safe to be you, just as yo…

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Ep#162 Powertool #7 Better Relationships 22:37

3M ago22:37

22:37

Relationships are meant to be joyful, sustaining, warm and nourishing! Yet one of the deepest blights of burnout is its dampening effect on relationships, as you suffer anxiety, fear and loss of trust in yourself and other humans. So here are some high quality practices to help you improve the quality and depth of relationships, so you can relax an…

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Ep#161 Powertool #6 Mastering Confidence 19:49

3M ago19:49

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In burnout, confidence implodes in a self-perpetuating cycle of overwork, perceived fails, being hard on ourselves, and experiencing disapproval. This implosion can be reversed more easily than you think, in tandem with turning down your inner critic. I promise you that you are still good on the inside. Learn how to resurrect that goodness AND conf…

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Ep#160 Powertool#5 How to Champion Yourself 12:05

3M ago12:05

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Powertool #5: Learning to Champion Yourself. If you're feeling burned out, overwhelmed, or caught in a cycle of self-criticism, this episode is for you. Learn practical techniques to help you reconnect with your inner strength, offering yourself instead the love and support you deserve. Championing yourself is a huge step toward healing and recover…

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Ep#159 Powertool#4 Tame Addiction 30:04

4M ago30:04

30:04

If you find your own emotions disturbing, and you urgently distract yourself to escape them, this episode is for you. Emotional avoidance is at the root of every addictive process - we try to escape one feeling, to grasp at another. It's normal human behavior, you're just following your biology - but it impacts work, life and relationships. Learn p…

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Ep#158 Powertool#3 Retrain Your Inner Critic 26:50

4M ago26:50

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How's your inner critic? Are you feeling a bit bashed around by it? Let's start to turn it down, because that will help restore your confidence and spirits, and it's entirely within your control to do that. Burnout recovery is all about pausing to notice the good - primarily in YOU! This is not some fluffy self-care or positive affirmation, it's a …

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Ep#157 Powertool#2 Boost Your Mood 30:17

4M ago30:17

30:17

Powertool #2 will help you begin the rebuild of your energy, hope and wellbeing. You have much more power to do this than you realise, and it's free! You don't need to wait for someone else to fix your burnout! Right now, is there a mean voice in your head reminding you at every turn how bad things are? Or YOU are? That's one thing you can start to…

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Ep#156 Powertool#1 Stop Pain and Anxiety 19:30

4M ago19:30

19:30

Powertool #1 is all about pain-reduction. And in deepest burnout, one of the quickest ways to do that is to reduce anxiety - that insidious thief of energy and morale. Listen in for the fastest skills you can use to reduce the spin cycle of anxiety in your moments of stress. Then practice every day. You can do it! Join 10 Burnout Recovery Powertool…

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Ep#155 10 Burnout Recovery Powertools 14:20

4M ago14:20

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This week launches series 3 of the podcast, starting with 10 episodes with all the wisdom from 7 years of burnout coaching, distilled into the 10 vital powertools YOU need to master recovery from burnout. Follow each weekly episode and practice the techniques you learn, watching your daily stress reduce as your skills build. Today's episode introdu…

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Ep#154 Feeling Diminished 7:21

5M ago7:21

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Has someone spoken to you lately in a way that made you feel 'less than'? And - even though what they said wasn't true - you started to believe them? Would you like to be done with the shame, humiliation and embarrassment, and back yourself to the hilt instead? What if you knew that much stronger self-belief had many pleasant side-effects and no do…

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Ep#153 When Everything Goes Wrong 22:45

5M ago22:45

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How do you navigate and survive life's crises during times of extreme burnout? Learn 20 survival skills to restore calm from the paralyzing effects of emotional exhaustion and overwhelm. In 'When Things Fall Apart,' Pema Chodron emphasizes the importance of giving up control and accepting the chaos. Here's how to do that without falling apart yours…

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Ep#152 Amy Fox on Work Culture 42:47

5M ago42:47

42:47

Had enough of EAPs, management fails and toxic culture? You are not alone, my friend! This is a hot button topic for most of my clients in burnout! Meet Amy Fox, who runs a management consultancy, and helps leaders create a culture that staff never want to leave. This episode is for you if you are on the receiving end of a challenging work culture,…

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Ep#151 The Art of Recharging: Managing Anxiety and Time 23:49

5M ago23:49

23:49

Learn specific techniques to recharge your energy and beat that overwhelming feeling of burnout. This isn't a luxury - it's vital to your normal functioning. We'll also explore the vicious cycle of anxiety, and some cool breathing exercises to calm your nerves. Plus, real-world tips on managing your time better and reducing stress, encouraging you …

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Ep#150 Dr Jonathan Fisher, cardiologist 43:31

6M ago43:31

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Dr. Jonathan Fisher, a cardiologist from Charlotte and author of "Just One Heart", co-host of the Ending Clinician Burnout Global Summit, focuses on healing the heart in the broadest sense, encompassing both the physical and emotional aspects of cardiac care. Here Dr Jonathan shares many useful insights and tips for taking care of your one precious…

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Ep#149 How to Find Peace 25:05

6M ago25:05

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It may surprise you to learn that peace is our fundamental natural state. Chronic stress is not! In burnout, peace is more likely to be painfully elusive. So listen here to discover how to return your shattered mind to a restful and peaceful state. It IS possible to achieve this via meditation, yoga, or escapes into nature - provided you're able to…

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Ep#148 Your body, your biggest ally 33:16

6M ago33:16

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In these challenging and toxic times, our bodies have much innate wisdom to help us heal and thrive. If you haven't been listening and attending to your body's messages, here's how. It's the perfect accompaniment to burnout recovery coaching, reducing stress in the body as you reduce stress in your mind, to stimulate better physical health. …

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Ep#147 - How Judging Others Hurts YOU 24:51

6M ago24:51

24:51

In the depths of our exhaustion in burnout, we often turn our frustration on ourselves, and on others. Unfortunately, this escalates OUR suffering. Learn a better way: giving yourself the gift of releasing judgment. This will free up a lot of good energy in you, that you really need to thrive. It's not our job to police every other human. We're muc…

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Ep#146 Self-Protection in Difficult Times 20:53

7M ago20:53

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Times are tough in this world of ours. The environment has challenges our ancestors did not have to face. There are many apparent global threats to our wellbeing. Yet recently, voices of research on the human health crisis have become more prominent, finally reaching the US senate in September. I think this is good news! But let's take this persona…

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Ep#145 - Your Subconscious Saviours 16:48

7M ago16:48

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Humans have many inner mechanisms that try to save our butts when we're going off track. They can attract our attention in painful ways, though, and that's inconvenient, to say the least. But if you know how to decode their messages - impulses that spring up in your mind, body pain, self-criticism and off-key behaviors - you can heal the cause of t…

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Ep#144 - Bathing in Compassion 20:21

7M ago20:21

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Compassion is a gift of gentle care that we can offer to ourselves in burnout. When we learn to do this - offer ourselves support in our suffering - it revives our spirits. Listen for the path to compassion, even when you feel down on yourself and are not seeing yourself as worthy. Show Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2hLhWSlOl0 Lissa Ranki…

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Ep#143 Dropping the Need to be Right 14:52

7M ago14:52

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One of burnout's devastating effects is to diminish our confidence in ourselves, through constant self-criticism and self-diminishment. When we experience this low self-esteem, we sense a loss of control and our need to be right increases proportionately. Sadly, the way this plays out is often to make us look even less competent in front of our col…

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Ep#142 - How to Avoid Burnout Paralysis 27:16

8M ago27:16

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There's something about burnout that grinds us down to a stump, until we have lost energy and hope, and almost stop trying to fix anything. Motivation hits an all-time low. We're missing deadlines right and left. Unfortunately, burnout thrives in this paralysis. To free up energy to make change, we might need a bit of help - from someone who believ…

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Ep#141 - How to Prevent Team Burnout 22:19

8M ago22:19

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Team leaders: you CAN help prevent your team burning out. Despite years of pioneering work into psychological safety at work, up to 67% of Australian workers felt burnt out in a three month period in 2024. How can this be? If you lead a team and they (or you!) are experiencing burnout, here are my top 10 suggestions to restore balance, wellbeing, r…

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Ep#140 How to Avoid Disappointment 28:35

8M ago28:35

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If you're flat out disappointed most of the time in burnout, the good news is that this is avoidable. It's within your control to change your experience, because it's your expectations that sow the seeds of disappointment. And many of your expectations are actually redundant - they don't make your life better. Reducing your need for the worl…

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Ep#139 How to Believe in Yourself 26:54

8M ago26:54

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Becoming your strongest ally is a choice. Many people have not been taught the kind of self-belief that will protect them from burnout for life. Perhaps that's why you're here? I can teach you. Self-belief is a CHOICE, and we can LEARN how to do it. This, more than any other choice we might make, is the gift that keeps on giving and it's never too …

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Ep#138 How to Get Your Mojo Back 28:25

8M ago28:25

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Burnout tells us it cannot be redeemed, that our golden days (if we had them!) are over! So here's how to rekindle the flame of your essential goodness post-burnout: What are the conditions to come back full force, better and stronger, after burnout? What has been lost, what must be regained? The answers may surprise you, because you stand to surpa…

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Ep#137 Alchemy - Transforming burnout to joy 20:40

9M ago20:40

20:40

The alchemy of transforming burnout into joy takes a little getting used to. But I cannot otherwise explain the transformation that clients go through, when they come in riddled with negativity, feeling dragged down and lifeless and coming out smiling, cheerful and full of optimism and enthusiasm. So listen in, here is the alchemy, broken down into…

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Ep#136 Blame 23:51

9M ago23:51

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It can be oh-so-tempting to blame others for our burnout blues. Usually, we won't win that fight, and the cost will be more than we can bear, and our despair will increase. Whether others blame us, or we blame others, we might instead extract ourselves from the battle and soothe our bruised souls. Here's how. Show Notes: https://www.burnouttoleader…

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Ep#135 Codependency 20:25

9M ago20:25

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What you need to know about codependence and its detrimental effects on relationships. Codependent behaviors stem from fear of rejection and a commensurate need for approval and control, leading to dysfunctional relationship dynamics that impact self-esteem, emotional maturity and connection. It's possible to overcome such behaviors through creatin…

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Ep#134 Hiding From Yourself 19:48

9M ago19:48

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Somewhere in the depths of burnout, life may become so dark that we hide our bleak reality from ourselves. As if we're personally bankrupt - our previous capable self no longer available - and we retreat in distress. Happily, burnout is reversible, and the restoration includes your mood, performance, sociability, self-esteem, enthusiasm and all the…

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Ep#133 Hannah Holden on Burnout Prevention 38:51

10M ago38:51

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Hannah Holden, a Burnout Prevention expert from UK, speaks about her own burnout experience and how she now works with others. She shares mindfulness and breathing practices for calming the nervous system, being more present with one's children and living a healthier, happier, more purposeful life. Show Notes: Essential Toolkit for instant calm: ht…

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Ep#132 Extreme Ownership 18:29

10M ago18:29

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Let's explore how extreme ownership can help you bounce back from burnout and boost your leadership skills. It's so powerful to own your actions, performance and mistakes, instead of overcommitting or trying to please everyone, or passing the buck. Understanding the pressures others face can really help with better communication and teamwork, creat…

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Ep#131 Childhood Conditioning 22:32

10M ago22:32

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Childhood gave us rules for survival that worked well then, but can be counter-productive in adulthood. At work, our unresolved childhood fears pop up at random and trigger the amygdala, freezing our adult brain. We cannot (in the moment) solve a fear that happened decades ago. However, coaching is particularly successful in unburdening us of the c…

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Ep#130 The Myths of Burnout 33:43

10M ago33:43

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If you don't know what burnout truly is, how can you tell if you're in it? Or what to do about it? Let's explode a few myths you may have heard about burnout, so you can get a clear understanding and find a solution if you need one. Seeking help early, and practising compassion for your battered self, will save you repeating painful patterns and he…

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Ep#129 Psychological Safety for Teams 21:47

11M ago21:47

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Have you ever considered how safe you feel at work to speak up, take risks, or be yourself? And if you are a leader, how that affects your leadership and team? Here we tackle the much-discussed (but often not implemented) basics of psychological safety. It's more than a buzzword; it's the bedrock of team stability, where belonging, confidence and i…

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Ep#128 Personal Psychological Safety 21:42

11M ago21:42

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Burnout recovery starts with safety. Until you feel safe at work, it will be a challenge to overcome your fear-driven reactivity and perform well.. Happily, you can create all the safety you need inside of you - by learning to give yourself the unconditional love, approval and acceptance you've always wanted. It works! Learn what lack of safety loo…

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Ep#127 Burnout Prevention 38:55

11M ago38:55

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Get my 4 best tips to prevent burnout here. Do ever wonder where the line is between chronic stress and burnout? And if you have crossed it? Or how to know if your loved ones or colleagues are burned out? This week's episode helps you recognize burnout and make good decisions about it, whether it's your burnout or someone else's. I outline some cri…

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Ep#126 Authenticity 20:31

11M ago20:31

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Burnout shuts us down big time, cramming us up inside with our negative emotions. We become automatons, plodding through our day, trying to satisfy others, forgetting about things we like to do. What we discard on the way is our authenticity, leaving a dull empty ache. In this episode I invite you to a better place, where being you is the BEST thin…

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S25 Eugene Lee on burning out at 27yo 35:53

12M ago35:53

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Special guest and fellow burnout recovery coach Eugene Lee talks about how he burned out at 27yo. I love this story because it represents young professionals who are burning out at ever increasing rates and very many are not receiving the support they need. I work with young men in college or recently graduated, because it's vital for them to make …

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