In today’s episode I’m joined by Dr Warren Kane, of Kane Psychiatry.
Warren is a psychiatrist who specializes in helping people with professional burnout, anxiety and depression – sounds like the perfect fit for the podcast.
In today’s episode Warren discusses some of his personal experiences with burnout and how he manages them. Plus, he shares some professional insights and tips to help you reduce and manage burnout and anxiety.
Warren is about helping his clients, and the broader community, to understand the root causes for burnout to make lasting and effective change. And I agree 100% with a root cause approach!

Today he also shared a great framework to help analyse the different areas of your work, or life, that may be out of balance and contributing to burnout. He shares these areas are – workload, control, reward, values, fairness and community. Perhaps you can view an aspect of your life or work in terms of these areas to help diagnose areas for change and attention.


If you’d like to get in touch with Warren, view his resources or chat about working together you can find him at –
www.KanePsy.com
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenkane/
Instagram: @doctorkaneMD
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorKaneMD/

Gretel is a Relationship Coach + Trauma Therapist for Separated Parents of School Age Children. She helps parents navigate the confusion, stress and emotional roller coaster of separation as well as supporting families who have experienced trauma or are dealing with mental health issues.

Gretel shares in this episode her experiences with hustling and burning out as a business owner and single parent trying to do it all. When parenting got overwhelming Gretel reached multiple points of fatigue and exhaustion – feeling she only had enough in her tank for her kids.

She shares how she has learnt to listen to her body, slow down and stop needing to do it all straight away. She also reached out for support from trusted friends and family and learnt how to carve out time and space for rest and recovery for herself by building a community of support.
In this episode we also discuss lots of parenting mindset and how this can influence burnout and wellbeing – including tips for managing high expectations of ourselves as parents, making mistakes, parent guilt and sharing openly about our feelings and experiences with our kids.
This is a must listen for parent.s

If you wish to get in touch with Gretel or learn more:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greteljanecoaching
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greteljane_coach/
To connect with Gretel schedule a free 30-minute Cuppa & a Chat or Free 30- Minute Taste of Calm Session https://calendly.com/gretel-2/combined-cuppa-a-chat-taste-of-calm-session

In today’s episode I chat with Debbie Munn from The You Project. Debbie’s business helps women to feel healthy and happy, and to reach their goals.

In today’s episode Debbie shares about her experience with burnout in her early twenties and the physical effects working too hard had for her. She was burning the candle at both ends and working long hours based on the inherited beliefs that you have to work hard to succeed, and that it is better to be busy than lazy.

She shares how managing diet, lifestyle, starting yoga and learning to rest and take breaks helped her to recover and how she engaged in nurturing her body and mind, and connecting with friends to have a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Debbie maintains energy and wellbeing today with regular exercise – that is right for her body at the time, cup filling time in nature, surrounding herself with great friends and getting quality sleep every night.

Debbie also has a range of tonics and supplements available through The You Project that she uses to help support wellbeing and beat overwhelm and burnout for both herself and clients. Reach out to Debbie to find out more about how you can get your hands on this gold.

You can find Debbie and The You Project at –
https://theyouproject.co
https://www.facebook.com/theyouproject.tribe
https://www.instagram.com/theyouproject.collective/

Episode 8 – Learning to let go and say no with guest Lesa Blackham

Today I am joined by Lesa from Lesa Blackham Coaching.
Through her coaching Lesa helps women to reclaim their right to thrive, unleash their true potential and live life with out limitations.

As a school teacher, Lesa experienced frequent stress, overwhelm and burnout and spent every school holiday recovering from it. Like me, she now uses her work as part of her mission to reduce stress, burnout and anxiety in her own and her client’s lives.

Through cutting back on work, gaining awareness and understanding of her mind and yoga and meditation Lesa learnt to reduce and manage stress better, and increase her sleep and health. The biggest difference was learning how to say no and put her own needs first.
Lesa’s tips now for managing stress and burnout are simple and powerful –
She starts with regular mental check ins to see how she’s feeling and where her thoughts are at. She encourages you to start this quick and simple practice regularly for yourself too.
She then ensures she is managing her wellbeing and self care through simple things like movement, nourishing foods and quality sleep. She also fills her cup regularly with downtime doing fun and enjoyable things like beach walks and hanging out with friends.

If you want to connect with Lesa you can on these channels –
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lesablackhamcoaching
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesablackhamcoaching/
FemEmPowered Program: https://www.facebook.com/femempoweredprogram
Website - Lesa Blackham Coaching: https://www.lesablackham.com.au/

If you would like to chat about working with Lesa you can book a Clarity Call at https://creatingcalm.kartra.com/calendar/claritycall

Lesa also is kindly sharing today with listeners her 45 Ways to Say No which you can grab here - https://creatingcalm.kartra.com/page/45waystosayno

My guest today, Romina, is a story coach and publisher guiding women in connecting with, articulating, writing and publishing their soul stories.
Romina’s stress levels and burnout occurred when she found herself working in a dysfunctional organisation where her role was constantly changing and she had increasing expectations placed on her, without training or support to learn roles outside of her scope.
After returning from maternity leave with a one-year-old and recently separated from her now ex-husband, Romina found herself thrown into the deep end once again and dissatisfied and disenfranchised with the job. As she decided she needed to move on, she was offered a redundancy package and path out.
After leaving this role, the stress continued as she hunted for a ‘unicorn’ job that didn’t exist, wound up living with her parents for 6 weeks after breaking her ankle and then selling her apartment in a pandemic effected market. Romina took this 6 months without work as time to recover, and face these other life challenges that came up, before realising she wasn’t finding new work as a job wasn’t aligning with her.
From here, she started to find work as a freelance writer, and now story coach and has come to a place of ease and balance in working on her own terms and with independence.
For Romina, burnout didn’t just resolve the day she left that old job, but rather eased as she came into alignment with herself and found a way of working that serves her. She shared that it has been a process of exploration and finding what makes her feel good day to day, noticing when change is needed in her life, and stopping feeling guilty that have helped her heal the most.

If you wish to connect with Romina you can find her at –
Website -rominacavagnola.com
Facebook - facebook.com/alchemyofalignment
Instagram - instagram.com/alchemyofalignment
Or join her Facebook group at - facebook.com/groups/storyalchemy

Romina has also kindly offered listeners a free downloadable workbook to help with finding inspiration on tap and prompts for journaling. You can find it here - rominacavagnola.com/essence

In today’s episode I chat with Suzanne Butler of Suzanne Butler Lifestyle Design – an empowerment coach AND Feng Shui expert.
Suzanne shares about her personal experiences with stress, trauma and burnout when she dealt with running 3 businesses, caring for her partner in a stressful relationship and family problems.
Suzanne reflects on what was going on at this stage of her life and what her burnout experience was like. She also shares how she moved through burnout with the help of a support team and learning how to say no and put her own needs first. She shares the beautiful, multifaceted life she has curated for herself now and how she manages her energy and life with balance and lots of naps.

If you are interested to connect with Suzanne or learn more about her work at Suzanne Butler Lifestyle Design you can find her at:
www.suzannebutler.com.au
Instagram – www.instagram.com/Suzanne_butler_lifestyledesign
Facebook - www.facebook.com/SuzanneButlerLifestyle

Suzanne is also kindly sharing with podcast listeners her Vision board workbook for FREE – find it at www.whatisfengshui.com.au/free-vision-board-workbook-2/

Episode 4 – Mindfulness for wellbeing with Katherine Newland

Join me and my special guest Katherine Newland who is a life coach for women in their midlife. Katherine helps women navigate midlife with power, confidence and clarity.

Katherine shares about her experiences with extreme stress and burnout during challenging stages and changes in her life, which were backed by a deep held limiting belief around needing to work hard to be valued.
She also shares some of what helped her move out of burnout and the associated shame she had around it.

Tune in to hear Katherine’s story and her tips and learnings around sharing, mindfulness, looking after her health and connecting with friends and her spirituality.

To connect with Katherine you can find her at –
https://www.katherinenewland.com/

You can join her Facebook group Women’s Midlife Collective at -
https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensmidlifecollective

In today’s episode I chat with the incredible Dawn Walton from Innerself Coaching.
Dawn is a Female Identity Coach and she works with women who have lost sight of who they are, what they want and feel they don't know where to start.

In our chat Dawn shares her experiences with burnout and emotional overwhelm as she navigated ending a toxic relationship.

Listen to Dawn’s story and her pearls of wisdom for how she shaped her life beyond this relationship, throughout burn out and continues to build a fantastic and full life without burn out.

She shares about how she became resilient, courageous and took responsibility for BEING the change in her life…and much more!

Dawn also reminds us as one of her takeaway tips to always remember who we are and what we need to stay on a path of self-identity and direction.



If you want to get in touch with Dawn or follow more of what she does at Innerself Coaching, you can find her here –
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/dawnwaltoninnerselfcoaching
Instagram - Https://www.instagram.com/dawninnerselfcoach
Linkedin - Https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-Walton-innerself
Website – www.innerselfcoaching.com.au
Or Join Dawn’s Facebook Group The Female Identity Project here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefemaleidentityproject

In this episode I explain what burnout and illness looked like for me in my teaching career. I also discuss the warning signs that I ignored and the changes I made to overcome burnout and start living a more balanced life.

Welcome to the podcast! Today I discuss why I started this podcast, why its all about burnout and the start of my journey through stress and burnout.