Burnout Recovery

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 sign you’ve failed
• The CEO trap: high performance masking deep exhaustion
• How to refra...

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 your consciousness shapes your experience of burnout
• The illusion of time, and how h...

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, this trap is especially dangerous. The very trait that’s propelled...

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 holds them back?

What can you do when you ARE ready to recover? It...

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".

Enhance your leadership with the Emotional Intelligence skil...

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!

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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, and positive connection, and if you are struggling to create a mor...

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? Come on a free consult to discuss your burnout s...

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 previous 9 Powertools in this series - it's on for young and old!!

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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 way that feels rewarding and freeing.

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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 you are, is where wellbeing and confidence begin.

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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 and enjoy them more.

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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 confidence.

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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 recovery from burnout. Let’s dive in and rediscover your true worth.

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 practical exercises to come home peacefully to your feelings, without shame, ...

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 practical tool to change your experience at work...

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 reverse to boost your modd, but there are so many more!

For the full se...

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!

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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 introduces the series and explains what you will achieve with these ...