Burnout Recovery: Strategies for Professionals
Episodes
Ep208 Leading Without Permission
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most leaders think they need authority to act — but real leadership begins when you give yourself permission to move. In this episode, we explore ho...
Ep#207 Invisible Leadership The High Impact Low Stress Approach
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I share a personal story about leading from behind in a small, entrepreneurial tech team. The team was fragmented, underperforming, a...
Ep#206 The Days of the Lone Wolf Are Over
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summary In this episode, we break the spell of the “lone wolf” identity — the myth that high performers must grind alone, stay stoic, and win th...
Ep#205 The GPS Inside You
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we go straight into the territory most professionals tiptoe around: intuition, subtle energy, the “inner signals” you’ve b...
Ep#204 Will ChatGPT solve your burnout?
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You will discover what ChatGPT says are the essential skills and practices needed for professional burnout recovery.I review ChatGPT's suggestion...
Ep#203 Trapped in the Shame Spiral of isolation and self-abandonment
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When burnout hits, most people think they’re simply tired. But underneath the exhaustion, there’s often a deeper driver: shame — that quiet voic...
Ep#202 Not Good Enough
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dex unpacks how early conditioning shapes what we see as “truth,” and how those truths quietly drive our adult stress, dissatisfa...
Ep#201 10x Results with Psychological Flexibility
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When I first stepped into leadership, I kept doing what had always worked — analysing everything and making the right call.It strangled my team’...
Ep#200 You're Trying to Control The Wrong Thing
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Ep#199 Finding New Hope
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Finding New Hope, Dex explores how professionals can rediscover hope and purpose after burnout. Drawing inspiration from Viktor Frank...
Ep#198 Be a Badass Leader and a Good Human
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Urs Koenig—leadership expert, bestselling author of Radical Humility, UN peacekeeper, ultra-endurance champion, and...
Ep#197 Is the “Nice Boss” Really Dead?
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep#196 How to Break Free From Your Stress Habit
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2017, I had a heart attack brought on by stress and burnout. Six months later, just as I was getting back on my feet, I was hit by a car. I sp...
Ep#195 When Your Wearable Becomes Your Stress Coach
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stress isn’t the real problem — it’s what we make it mean. In this episode, I explore how wearable technology combined with AI coaching can help...
Ep#194 Oli Johnson- Fast burnout recovery with biometrics + AI
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Oli Johnson, health tech entrepreneur and co-founder of PrescribeLife.AI—a human resilience platform helping high p...
Ep#193 State of Burnout 2025
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout hasn’t gone away — it’s just changed shape.Hybrid work blurred boundaries so badly that people are “always on.”AI was supposed to re...
Ep#192 Coach AI - Your new best friend
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wish you had a coach in your back pocket—24/7, no judgement, no waiting for an appointment?That’s the idea behind Coach AI. In this episode, ...
Ep#191 Deep Work - Your Highest Value Contribution
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout doesn’t come from doing too much meaningful work. It comes from being buried in meaningless work.In this episode, we explore deep work — ...
Ep#190 Burnout Proof
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever wondered why some people seem immune to burnout, this episode is your roadmap. I’ll walk you through the 10 key attitudes and pract...
Ep#189 Breaking Unconscious Habits That Keep You In Burnout
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dex introduces systems thinking as a powerful tool for breaking burnout loops. Rather than blaming ourselves for exhaustion, Dex expl...
Ep#188 Two Ways to Reduce Worry Quickly
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Worry can feel like a necessary part of success—but it’s more often a habit that drains your energy, confidence, and focus. In this episode, we ex...
Ep#187 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F---
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I unpack some of the core ideas from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k by Mark Manson — and how they relate (or don’t) to burno...
Ep#186 Top 5 Mind-Body Tools for High-Achievers
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover 5 powerful mind-body tools that support recovery from stress, anxiety, and burnout. Dex shares personal stories, client experiences, and sc...
Ep#185 Mind-Body Approaches to Recovery
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode on mind-body recovery, Dex explores how physical, emotional, and nervous system practices can help you break the burnout cycle—even ...
Ep#184 The Neuroscience of Burnout
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout changes your brain — literally! In this episode, Dex explains how stress rewires your mind, and how to restore energy, clarity, and joy.You’...
Ep#183 Exploring the Quantum with Henning R. Jensen
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if energy, stress, and perception held the keys to physical and emotional healing? In this conversation, Dex sits down with Henning R. Jensen, qu...
Ep#182 When Someone Pushes Your Buttons
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When someone pushes your buttons—at work, at home, or anywhere—it can feel like all your calm and clarity vanish in an instant. But these uncomfor...
Ep#181 Why your promotion feels exhausting
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Crown Feels Heavy: Why Promotions Burn You Out (and How to Grow Into Them)Stepping into a new leadership role should feel like a win — so w...
Ep#180 Coaching or Therapy
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Dex breaks down the crucial differences—and surprising overlaps—between coaching and psychotherapy, especially for profe...
Ep#179 For the Burned-Out Helper Gratitude as Medicine
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore a surprising yet research-backed path to recovery from burnout: gratitude. If you’re working in health care—or in any ...
Ep#178 Take Back What Burnout Stole from You
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout steals more than energy — it robs you of pride, peace, and purpose. But you can take it back.In this episode, Dex pulls no punches. If burno...
Ep#177 Chronic Stress vs Burnout
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you “just” stressed, or quietly burning out?In high-stakes careers, chronic stress can feel normal—even expected. But when left unchecked, i...
Ep#176 The Unreconstructed Type A Burning Out
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know that guy who’s brilliant—but hard to work with? The one who gets results but leaves a trail of tension behind him?Maybe you’ve worked w...
Ep#175 The Burnout Shame Cycle
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
High-achieving professionals often suffer in silence when burnout strikes—not because they’re lazy or weak, but because of something deeper: shame...
Ep#174 From Numb to Unstoppable
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
Ep#173 Overcoming Adversity in High-Stakes Careers
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 leadersh...
Ep#172 The Quantum and Infinite Possibility
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if burnout isn’t a breakdown… but a breakthrough?In this episode, we explore how quantum principles—like energy, vibration, the observer ef...
Ep#171 The Discipline Trap – Why Pushing Harder Won’t Cure Your Burnout
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ash...
Ep#170 Why you won't recover from burnout
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Ep#169 Jonno White on Managing Difficult Employees
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep#168 Mastering Difficult Conversations at Work
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 diffi...
Ep#167 What to Do About Despair
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you feel crushed by despair? Today we delve into the nature of despair, its physical and emotional signs, and understanding your experiences with b...
Ep#166 Powertools - What's next?
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To complete your Powertools series, here's an episode summarising how to recover from burnout and what you can expect from Burnout Recovery coach...
Ep#165 Powertool #10 Get Your Mojo Back
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep#164 Powertool #9 Reclaim Time and Energy
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Ep#163 Powertool#8 Creating Deep Wellbeing
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's nothing more fundamental to burnout recovery than a sense of wellbeing. In burnout, you probably don't feel safe, let alone resilien...
Ep#162 Powertool #7 Better Relationships
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Relationships are meant to be joyful, sustaining, warm and nourishing!Yet one of the deepest blights of burnout is its dampening effect on relationshi...
Ep#161 Powertool #6 Mastering Confidence
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In burnout, confidence implodes in a self-perpetuating cycle of overwork, perceived fails, being hard on ourselves, and experiencing disapproval.Thi...
Ep#160 Powertool#5 How to Champion Yourself
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Powertool #5: Learning to Champion Yourself. If you're feeling burned out, overwhelmed, or caught in a cycle of self-criticism, this episode is f...
Ep#159 Powertool#4 Tame Addiction
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ro...
Ep#158 Powertool#3 Retrain Your Inner Critic
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 confiden...
Ep#157 Powertool#2 Boost Your Mood
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Ep#156 Powertool#1 Stop Pain and Anxiety
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Ep#155 10 Burnout Recovery Powertools
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 vi...
Ep#154 Feeling Diminished
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep#153 When Everything Goes Wrong
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you navigate and survive life's crises during times of extreme burnout?Learn 20 survival skills to restore calm from the paralyzing effect...
Ep#152 Amy Fox on Work Culture
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep#151 The Art of Recharging: Managing Anxiety and Time
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Learn specific techniques to recharge your energy and beat that overwhelming feeling of burnout. This isn't a luxury - it's vital to your no...
Ep#150 Dr Jonathan Fisher, cardiologist
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jonathan Fisher, a cardiologist from Charlotte and author of "Just One Heart", co-host of the Ending Clinician Burnout Global Summit, fo...
Ep#149 How to Find Peace
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 elu...
Ep#148 Your body, your biggest ally
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep#147 - How Judging Others Hurts YOU
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the depths of our exhaustion in burnout, we often turn our frustration on ourselves, and on others. Unfortunately, this escalates OUR suffering.Lea...
Ep#146 Self-Protection in Difficult Times
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
Ep#145 - Your Subconscious Saviours
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Ep#144 - Bathing in Compassion
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 - i...
Ep#143 Dropping the Need to be Right
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of burnout's devastating effects is to diminish our confidence in ourselves, through constant self-criticism and self-diminishment.When we ex...
Ep#142 - How to Avoid Burnout Paralysis
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Motiv...
Ep#141 - How to Prevent Team Burnout
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Ep#140 How to Avoid Disappointment
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you're flat out disappointed most of the time in burnout, the good news is that this is avoidable. It's within yo...
Ep#139 How to Believe in Yourself
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Perhap...
Ep#138 How to Get Your Mojo Back
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 goo...
Ep#137 Alchemy - Transforming burnout to joy
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The alchemy of transforming burnout into joy takes a little getting used to. But I cannot otherwise explain the transformation that clients go throu...
Ep#136 Blame
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep#135 Codependency
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What you need to know about codependence and its detrimental effects on relationships. Codependent behaviors stem from fear of rejection and a commen...
Ep#134 Hiding From Yourself
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep#133 Hannah Holden on Burnout Prevention
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Holden, a Burnout Prevention expert from UK, speaks about her own burnout experience and how she now works with others. She shares mindfulness ...
Ep#132 Extreme Ownership
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 act...
Ep#131 Childhood Conditioning
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep#130 The Myths of Burnout
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 hav...
Ep#129 Psychological Safety for Teams
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep#128 Personal Psychological Safety
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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.. ...
Ep#127 Burnout Prevention
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep#126 Authenticity
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout shuts us down big time, cramming us up inside with our negative emotions. We become automatons, plodding through our day, trying to satisfy ...
S25 Eugene Lee on burning out at 27yo
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 profes...
Ep#125 Old Dog New Tricks
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Change is fun, right? Well, not always, but anything has to be better than burnout :) Here are some ideas to boost your learning power and results in...
Ep#124 Belonging
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Belonging is a gnarly topic to raise with anyone in burnout, who is caught between wanting to be seen as a high-performer, and guiltily slinking awa...
Ep#123 Open to Receive
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most people can't recover from burnout alone - because what got them into burnout will not get them out. It takes a mentor - but asking for help...
EP#122 Willingness to Accept Help
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It can be hard for a successful executive or professional with an established reputation to admit to burnout. Yet for such a person, burnout recovery ...
Ep#121 Moral Outrage and Moral Injury
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you're struggling to deal with moral outrage or moral injury at work, and it's contributing to burnout for you, here are some ways you ca...
Ep#120 Unsticking Yourself
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you stuck in burnout or career growth?Let's talk about breaking free from stuckness and overcoming burnout. The origins of stuckness lie in o...
Ep#119 Tending to the Mind
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Don't accept being stuck with an under-performing and fragile brain.Practice these simple exercises to gain more mastery over burnout. Replace th...
Ep#118 Tending to the Body
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our human bodies are designed to heal, but under a constant burden of high stress, not enough sleep, poor diet, lack of exercise, less than nourishing...
Ep#117 Tending to the Soul
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It can be tough(!) to pause for self-care when burnt out, but those essential pauses can be transformative. I've learned that the act of being ki...
Ep116 Overcoming Learned Helplessnes
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are your feeling burned out and stuck because of learned helplessness? It can happen to anyone! In a burnout context, Learned Helplessness can simply ...
Ep115 When You Feel Disrespected
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most common indicators of burnout is feeling disrespected. We tend to feel unacknowledged, under-valued, unsupported and used. Which we na...
Ep114 The Transformative Power of Self-Advocacy
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Feeling undervalued and overwhelmed in your professional life? As someone who has navigated the murky waters of burnout, I've learned that self-a...
Ep113 Perceived Limitations
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We humans spend much of our time lying outrageously to ourselves about ourselves and our own capabilities, twisting the data to match our beliefs....
Ep112 Your Life Post-Burnout
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I want to let you know how different your life will look after burnout. But if I told you, you wouldn't believe me ;)So instead I'll show yo...
Ep111 The Sword of Invincibility
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I would (pre-burnout) have loved to be invincible. Sadly, I was shaking at the knees with raw vulnerability instead. Invincible would have been SO con...
S24 Your Heart Was Made For This - Oren Jay Sofer
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Spiritual heart advice for troubled times! Oren is a meditation and non-violent communication teacher, somatic practitioner and author of "Your H...