A Conversation with Victoria Emes
I chat with the fabulous comedian, content creator, author and mum of two, Victoria Emes. Victoria shares three foundational self-care components that help her navigate the tough days and why humour and talking can help us all chip away at the exhaustion, loneliness and guilt that some parenting days can bring.
A Conversation with Jo Love
Jo Love is a trainee psychotherapist, mental health advocate, artist and author. In this episode, Jo shares her lifelong experiences with burnout and her challenge of avoiding future overwhelm and exhaustion. She explains why therapy can be an important part of burnout recovery and why we need to be gentle with ourselves and our daily expectations in everyday life.
A Conversation with Mandy Manners
Mandy Manners is an author, speaker, coach, and co-founder of Love Sober - the passionate community and podcast advocating for alcohol-free living to support mental health and wellbeing. Mandy specialises in mindset and recovery coaching, focusing on the impact of trauma and mental wellbeing on problematic alcohol use. In this brilliant conversation, Mandy shares her own experiences with burnout and explains the detrimental cost alcohol has to your health and wellbeing.
A Conversation with Tetyana Denford
In this episode, I talk with Ukrainian-American author and writer, Tetyana Denford. She discusses why we need to pace ourselves with the content we consume and share during these heartbreaking times. As well as how sharing the motherland stories of Ukrainian people amplifies the inspiring spirit and resilience that cultivates greater connection and compassion in the world.
A Conversation with Suzy Glaskie
This was a beautifully barefaced and searingly honest conversation with Functional Medicine Health Coach, Suzy Glaskie. Suzy shares her life-changing experiences of burnout as she juggled motherhood and family life while navigating a toxic work culture in PR.
A Conversation with Jo Bell
Jo Bell is a writer, teacher and poet on a mission to help others thrive in their lives through journaling with honesty and compassion. Jo talks about her experiences with burnout and how reflective writing helped her deal with a negative inner critic and led to developing the self-compassion and self-love that forms the foundation of her self-care today.
A Conversation with Natalie Costa
I chat with Natalie Costa, author, speaker, coach and founder of Power Thoughts. Natalie shares how she supports kids explore their 'big' feelings to help them grow and develop the confidence they need to manage the pressures of school, perfectionism, fear of failure, and all the potential anxiety and overwhelm that life transitions can often bring.
This is a great burnout conversation looking at the seeds of overworking and overachieving through a different lens.
A Conversation with Thalia Pellegrini
Thalia Pellegrini is the knackered mums nutritionist on a mission to support women in achieving incredible energy, no matter how busy their lives are.
No stranger to burnout, Thalia struggled with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and burnout when pursuing her dream career, working as a BBC presenter and reporter for ten years.
Now a mum of two boys, she knows exactly how #mumlife and perimenopause can impact women's daily health in their 40's.
A Conversation with Dr Meenal Viz
Behind every activist and changemaker is a story. And Dr Meenal Viz's story began at the beginning of the pandemic when she was pregnant, protesting alone outside Downing Street against the government's treatment of healthcare workers and the NHS's desperate need for more PPE. This iconic image of Meenal wearing her scrubs outside Downing Street went viral. And her life was never to be the same again. Meenal talks about the challenges of gently shaking the world and avoiding activist burnout.
A Conversation with Becky Pell
Becky Pell (a.ka. Rock 'n' Roll Yogi) is a sound engineer and qualified yoga therapist who tours globally to take charge of monitors on some of the most prominent stages with the music industry's biggest acts.
Becky chats about how yoga can help us manage our stress, burnout, and anxiety while sharing her wisdom on how she helps her clients recover from or prevent burnout.
A Conversation with Olga Thompson
This funny and heartwarming conversation with Olga Thompson (a.k.a Big Fat Greek Mother) is packed full of encouragement for those navigating struggles as well as wisdom for those dealing with overwhelm, exhaustion and burnout. Olga talks about the extremely difficult times she experienced childhood bullying and how she navigated past trauma and post-natal depression as a young mum.
A Conversation with Steph Douglas
I talk to mum of three and the owner of Don't Buy Her Flowers, Steph Douglas. You may know Steph from her honest and down to earth Instagram feed, where she shares what life looks like behind the scenes of growing a successful business, alongside the reality of family life and motherhood. We talk about the mental load and why you cannot expect to run a business on top of everything else you juggle on the daily to-do list.
A Conversation with Ebony Gilbert
Ebony Gilbert is the author of This Skin I'm In - a phenomenal debut collection of poems that not only hold the mic up to surviving trauma, shame and addiction but also spark a shock of powerful recognition, helping us feel less alone in our vulnerability. In this episode, Ebony talks about her chronic fatigue syndrome diagnosis, the wholesome discipline she's learnt to embrace, along with the wisdom she gained on her journey from rehab and recovery to self-compassion.
A Conversation with Debbie Edwards
In this episode, transformation coach Debbie Edwards shares the story of her burnout breakdown to self-love breakthrough. So much gold is imparted in this episode, as Debbie shares incredible lessons from her own experiences along with encouraging us all to ask the life-changing and self-compassionate question: how can I love myself more deeply right now?
A Conversation with Anna Mathur
Anna Mathur is the best-selling author, speaker, psychotherapist and mum of three, whose brilliant way with words help not only soothe our worries but can help us make sense of some of life's deep psychological concepts too. Anna shares her own burnout experience and talks us through some burnout truths along with the wellbeing debt we never tend to consider.
A Conversation with Laura Friedman Williams
Laura Friedman Williams was a happily married, stay-at-home and self-declared PTA mum of three children. For nearly three decades, she lived every inch of the life she had planned for. Then one day, she discovered her husband was having an affair. Laura found herself moving from rock bottom to a new path of self-discovery as she tackled sex and dating after divorce.
A Conversation with Sarah Tobin
Sarah Tobin discovered EFT/Tapping when she experienced severe PTSD. Now trained in EFT, Sarah works with women to release birth trauma, ancestral trauma, limiting beliefs, and deep emotional blocks. We go deep in this episode and discuss the ins and outs of tapping and how we can use it to overcome burnout and trauma.
A Conversation with Jess Rad
Jess Rad of The WomenHood has a passion for connecting women as they navigate ‘womanhood’. In this episode, she talks about burnout, early menopause, the therapeutic benefits of sea swimming and how embracing micro-changes along with just 1% of your day will improve your health and wellbeing.
A Conversation with Selina Barker
Selina Barker is a life and career coach, podcaster and author of Burnt Out. In this episode, she shares her own experiences of burnout along with helping us to recognise, understand and manage our own brushes with burnout. Selina discusses the burnout archetypes along with tools she uses to help keep burnout at bay for both herself and her clients.
My Year On The Road To Burnout Recovery
I can’t believe it’s been a year! So what better way to kick off Season 2 of the podcast than to share what I've learnt from my year on the road to burnout recovery. One of my biggest lessons was that you can't just self-care your way out of burnout. Learn why I had to unpack and address some other important factors too.