Burnout Recovery: Strategies for Professionals
The podcast for slightly dented leaders and professionals seeking massive success, strong leadership and fulfilment. Weekly tips and techniques for high-achieving Type A professionals to beat burnout and restore outstanding leadership, performance and ease at work. Podcast hosted by Master Burnout Coach Dex Randall.
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250 episodes
Ep#225 Neuroscience Proves These Leadership Habits Damage Your Brain
Your leadership habits are reshaping your brain right now — for better or worse. Dex breaks down the neuroscience behind five common leadership behaviors that damage brain health.High performers often normalize habits that steadily erode...
Ep#224 Best Way to Fix Burnout
Burnout doesn't fix itself — and changing jobs won't solve it either. In this episode, Dex breaks down the three core drivers of burnout (exhaustion, fed up, and anxious), why high achievers are most vulnerable, and the precise internal shift t...
Ep#223 The worst mistake leaders make on bad days (OCEAN)
If you're having a bad day - foggy brain, short fuse, overcooked - as a leader, it's helpful to recognise that and adjust. Don't keep pushing for new decisions, quick output and critical conversations, as if you're at your best....
Ep#222 AI Brain Fry - Why You Can’t Think Straight Anymore
AI is making work faster — but it may also be making your thinking weaker.In this episode, we break down the hidden cognitive cost of AI: how small, everyday reliance is quietly eroding focus, depth, and decision-making in high performer...
Ep#221 Resentment is Burning You Out
Resentment might be the clearest early warning sign of burnout—and most people completely miss it.In this episode, we break down why resentment shows up, why it sticks around, and how it quietly drains your energy, focus, and perf...
Ep#220 ADHD as a Leadership Superpower
Listen if you’ve ever wondered why you perform best under pressure, struggle with consistency, or feel like your focus doesn’t always match your ambition.In this episode, Dex explores a common but often unspoken pattern among ...
Ep#219 Radical New Hope for Teen Depression
Content WarningThis episode includes discussion of depression and suicidal ideation. If you are currently in distress, please seek support from your local crisis services before listening.Dr Tim Strauman outlines an exciting n...
Ep#218 The 5 Leadership Skills That Matter Most in 2026
What will leadership actually look like in 2026?Technology is accelerating everything, but the leaders who win won’t simply be the most technical or the fastest decision-makers. They’ll be the ones who know how to lead people well in an ...
Ep#217 CORTISOL CRISIS: Chronic stress, health and aging
Dex Randall explains how chronic stress keeps the body in survival mode through ongoing cortisol activation, damaging brain function, health, and longevity even when you feel “fine” today. He contrasts normal stress (fight/flight f...
Ep#216 Understanding Anxiety in under 10 minutes
Anxiety is not a flaw — it’s a future-focused alarm system that can become a learned habit in the brain and body. In this fast, practical episode, Dex breaks down what anxiety really is, why it becomes chronic, and the hidden...
Ep#215 Willpower Doesn't Make New Habits Stick
What if high-performance habits didn’t require more willpower?Learn a practical 5-step system for leadership change—starting with identity, shrinking habits into micro-behaviours, engineering your environment, rewarding consistency, and foc...
Ep#214 EQ - The Leadership Upgrade AI Can’t Replace
Overview Emotional intelligence is one of the most sought-after — and least taught — leadership skills. Learn how high-achieving professionals become trusted leaders through emotional awareness, authentic connection, and stronger com...
Ep#213 Leadership Signals: High-Impact Cadence Shift
Quick announcement for loyal listeners: after publishing every week since September 2021, I’m shifting the podcast’s cadence. Going forward, episodes will drop only when there’s something genuinely impactful and possibly contrarian to share<...
Ep#212 Leadership from the Gap vs the Gain
January optimism fades fast.Goals wobble. Energy drops. And that familiar voice shows up: “I should be further along by now.”In this episode, Dex explores why high-achieving leaders often get stuck leading from the Gap
Ep#211 Fix Your Leadership Blind Spots
Every leader has blind spots. Not because they’re careless or incompetent — but because they’re human.In this episode, Dex shares a formative leadership mistake from early in his career and uses it to unpack how beliefs, biases, and unex...
Ep#210 You Don’t Need a New Year - You Need a New Standard
If you’re back at work and already quietly overloaded — you’re not broken.January often pretends everything resets, while your nervous system, responsibilities, and expectations clearly don’t.In this episode, Dex explores why high...
Ep#209 Why Caring Leaders Create Better Outcomes
This Christmas Day episode is a quieter, more reflective conversation about leadership that actually works — especially in high-pressure environments like healthcare.Dex is joined by Dr Joshua Hartzell, retired US Army Colonel, physician...
Ep#208 Leading Without Permission
Most leaders think they need authority to act — but real leadership begins when you give yourself permission to move. In this episode, we explore how to drop imagined judgement, stop waiting for endorsement, and step into decisive, high-impact ...
Ep#207 Invisible Leadership The High Impact Low Stress Approach
In this episode, I share a personal story about leading from behind in a small, entrepreneurial tech team. The team was fragmented, underperforming, and in constant conflict with other departments — a quiet war in full swing.I wal...
Ep#206 The Days of the Lone Wolf Are Over
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 through self-sacrifice. We explore why this model silently burns people out, why it’s colla...
Ep#205 The GPS Inside You
In this conversation, we go straight into the territory most professionals tiptoe around: intuition, subtle energy, the “inner signals” you’ve been trained to ignore since childhood.I talk about why Western culture is so committed to de...
Ep#204 Will ChatGPT solve your burnout?
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 client sessions. You will learn the impo...
Ep#203 Trapped in the Shame Spiral of isolation and self-abandonment
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.”In this episode, Dex un...
Ep#202 Not Good Enough
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 “not good enough” often began as a misguide...
Ep#201 10x Results with Psychological Flexibility
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 professional who’s starting to f...
