The Burnout Recovery Podcast

Same burnout. Completely different costumes. Why the pressures driving a librarian, a trainee, and an entrepreneur toward burnout look nothing alike on the surface, and what leaders miss when they assume their own experience is the template.
Signal: → Burnout shows up differently by role even within the same institution (physicians, nurses, residents, researchers all differ) → ED trainee burnout risk climbs with seniority, not away from it → Boundary-setting entrepreneurs: 45% report low burnout vs 6% of non-boundary-setters → Mentor/peer access linked to ~50% higher resilience Reset: → Ask, don't assume, what a hard day looks like for someone in a different role → Build cross-role listening into leadership, not just same-lane check-ins → Protect recovery time as the floor, whatever the sector → Deliberate variety across your own work can be part of your own protection
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You're sleeping. You're exercising. You're doing all the things. So why do you still feel like you're white-knuckling through the week?
In this episode, Dr Jo Braid explores why standard wellness advice can fall short for high performers — and what the science says is actually driving the stress spiral underneath.
In this episode:
— Why tracking recovery can make the stress response worse (Stanford research)
— What allostatic load means and why sleep alone can't clear the debt
— How rumination hijacks your resting brain (UCLA neuroscience)
— Values distillation: getting from ten words to two
— The difference between solo wellness and nervous system co-regulation
— One action: take a one-week break from a tracking tool
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Culture isn't something that happens to you. It's something you're already participating in — whether you lead a team, belong to one, or sit somewhere in between.
This week, Dr Jo shares what a window taught her about workplace culture, why Appreciative Inquiry might be the most underused tool in healthcare teams, and how you can shape the environment around you — regardless of your job title.
In this episode:
Why small environmental details signal something much bigger about belonging
What Appreciative Inquiry is (and why it's not toxic positivity)
The neuroscience of deficit-focused workplaces — and what chronic "what's wrong here" culture does to your prefrontal cortex
How a two-minute huddle can change the temperature of an entire day
Culture by design vs. culture by default drift
Researchers referenced: David Cooperrider (Appreciative Inquiry), Dr Kim Cameron (positive organisational scholarship), Dr Christina Maslach (lack of community as a burnout driver), Harvard Centre for Sleep and Cognition
This week's action step: Try one appreciative question — with yourself or your team. When were we at our best? or What went well today? Just one. Notice what shifts.
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What does it look like to build a big clinical career and stay well doing it?
This week Jo sits down with Dr Jennifer Coller — senior cardiologist, regional practitioner, and founder of Pulse Point Academy — to find out. Jen's burnout never stopped her showing up to work. But it quietly hollowed out everything outside of it. What changed wasn't willpower. It was systems, environment, and intentional design.
In this episode:
Why the clinicians most at risk are often the ones who care the most
How Jen redesigned her environment to make sustainability the default
The power of micro-recoveries over waiting for annual leave Identifying your personal yellow flags before you need them
Women's heart health — the gaps that are still being missed
About Dr Jennifer Coller: Senior cardiologist based in Shepparton, VIC, and founder of Pulse Point Academy — delivering accessible, evidence-based cardiovascular education to regional and rural clinicians across Australia. 🌐 pulsepointacademy.com.au
Reflection question: Where are you relying on willpower to sustain something that probably needs a system?
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We're halfway through 2026. And if your year has been relentless with very little genuine recovery built in — this episode is your reset.
The most downloaded episode of this podcast ever is "How to Recover from Burnout" — over 2,100 listens. That question never stops being relevant. So today we go deeper.
I share the four signals your mind and body send before you crash, and one concrete reset for each. No grand overhaul. Just tools you can use this week.
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SIGNAL 1 — "I'm tired even after I sleep"
RESET: 5 minutes of intentional rest before you leave work. No phone. No to-do list. Just stop.
SIGNAL 2 — "My brain feels like it's running too many tabs"
RESET: 3-minute brain dump. Everything unfinished out of your head and onto the page.
SIGNAL 3 — "I'm doing everything and resenting all of it"
RESET: One boundary this week. You know which one.
SIGNAL 4 — "I don't remember why I chose this"
RESET: Write down one moment this week where you made a difference. Just one.
Start with the signal that made you uncomfortable when I named it.
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