Burnout Recovery
The podcast for slightly dented medics, execs 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.
- Burnout Recovery Coaching https://dexrandall.com
- Guest Podcast Appearances https://bit.ly/dex-guest-appearances
Episodes
205 episodes
Ep#180 Coaching or Therapy
In this week’s episode, Dex breaks down the crucial differences—and surprising overlaps—between coaching and psychotherapy, especially for professionals experiencing burnout.You'll learn:When therapy is essential—and w...
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Season 4
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Episode 180
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8:17
Ep#179 For the Burned-Out Helper Gratitude as Medicine
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 high-stress, high-stakes profession—you might feel like there’s no room for gratitude whe...
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Season 4
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Episode 179
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9:42
Ep#178 Take Back What Burnout Stole from You
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 burnout has dimmed your light, made you question your worth, or ...
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Season 4
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Episode 178
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12:11
Ep#177 Chronic Stress vs Burnout
Are you “just” stressed, or quietly burning out?In high-stakes careers, chronic stress can feel normal—even expected. But when left unchecked, it turns into burnout: a state of emotional, mental, and physical depletion that affect...
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Season 4
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Episode 177
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9:57
Ep#176 The Unreconstructed Type A Burning Out
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 with him.Maybe you’ve been him.Let's explore:What makes driven...
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Season 4
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Episode 176
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17:12
Ep#175 The Burnout Shame Cycle
High-achieving professionals often suffer in silence when burnout strikes—not because they’re lazy or weak, but because of something deeper: shame. In this episode, we explore how shame silently fuels burnout, why it’s especially common ...
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Season 4
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Episode 175
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14:14
Ep#174 From Numb to Unstoppable
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....
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Season 4
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Episode 174
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9:12
Ep#173 Overcoming Adversity in High-Stakes Careers
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 173
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16:21
Ep#172 The Quantum and Infinite Possibility
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 172
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17:20
Ep#171 The Discipline Trap – Why Pushing Harder Won’t Cure Your Burnout
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 171
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9:20
Ep#170 Why you won't recover from burnout
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 int...
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Season 4
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Episode 170
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22:28
Ep#169 Jonno White on Managing Difficult Employees
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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 169
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34:19
Ep#168 Mastering Difficult Conversations at Work
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 intelli...
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Season 4
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Episode 168
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9:34
Ep#167 What to Do About Despair
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 findin...
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Season 4
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Episode 167
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19:23
Ep#166 Powertools - What's next?
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 goo...
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Season 3
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Episode 167
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36:08
Ep#165 Powertool #10 Get Your Mojo Back
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 t...
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Season 3
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Episode 165
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23:43
Ep#164 Powertool #9 Reclaim Time and Energy
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 bette...
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Season 3
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Episode 164
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23:51
Ep#163 Powertool#8 Creating Deep Wellbeing
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 i...
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Season 3
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Episode 163
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30:40
Ep#162 Powertool #7 Better Relationships
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 her...
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Season 3
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Episode 162
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22:37
Ep#161 Powertool #6 Mastering Confidence
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 dow...
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Season 3
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Episode 161
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19:49
Ep#160 Powertool#5 How to Champion Yourself
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 yoursel...
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Season 3
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Episode 160
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12:05
Ep#159 Powertool#4 Tame Addiction
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 159
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30:04
Ep#158 Powertool#3 Retrain Your Inner Critic
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 abo...
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Season 3
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Episode 158
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26:50
Ep#157 Powertool#2 Boost Your Mood
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 157
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30:17
Ep#156 Powertool#1 Stop Pain and Anxiety
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 156
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19:30
