Fried. The Burnout Podcast
Hosted by Cait Donovan and Cait · Cait Donovan, Top Burnout Expert for Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations
4.8from 315 ratings
- 372
- Episodes
- 141
- Transcribed
- 315
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 27K
- YouTube views
About Fried. The Burnout Podcast
Your best people aren't lazy. They're burned out. And there's a difference — one that costs you performance, retention, and culture if you can't spot it. FRIED: The Burnout Podcast is a top 1% global show with over a million downloads, hosted by keynote speaker and burnout expert Cait Donovan. It's the show for leaders, executives, HR professionals, and high-responsibility humans who want to understand burnout at a systems level — not just survive it personally. The core question FRIED keeps asking: Where is the work no longer matching the humans doing it? Burnout isn't a motivation problem. It's a mismatch problem. When the fit between people, roles, expectations, and organizational systems breaks down — disengagement builds, resentment festers, and your best people start quietly planning their exit. FRIED helps you see those mismatches before they become crises. Each week you'll get expert conversations on workplace burnout, leadership, organizational culture, employee retention, and sustainable high performance — plus solo episodes where Cait breaks down the hidden dynamics driving disengagement in even the highest-performing teams. No blame. No fluff. No breathing exercises you didn't ask for. Topics covered: burnout prevention, chronic stress, leadership development, workplace culture, employee disengagement, resentment at work, emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation, boundaries, organizational design, psychological safety, and middle management burnout. FRIED. Because burnout isn't the price of ambition. It's a signal that something needs to change.
- Publisher
- Cait Donovan, Top Burnout Expert for Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations
- Category
- business · education · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Jun 2019
- Latest episode
- 18 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
141 of 372 episodes have a transcript.
18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bankrupt and in the Hall of Fame the Same Year: How Leaders Climb Out of Crisis, with Jess Pettitt
11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Good People Burn Out in Good Organizations: Jess Pettitt Interviews Me About Mismatch
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Your Team Already Knows You're Burnt Out: Leadership, Capacity and the Busy Badge, with Anton Gunn
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Bankrupt and in the Hall of Fame the Same Year: How Leaders Climb Out of Crisis, with Jess Pettitt
Published 18 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I think we're being convinced to not do that, to disempower ourselves. from the empowerment that we have, right? Like how many derivatives of the word power can I use? But I think that's, I think it's true. Yeah. So yes, the same year that I filed bankruptcy, I was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a lifetime achievement for the 20 years of work. And if we're going to talk about my depression, to contrast that, I did not feel like a diversity hire. I felt like I truly deserved it. And my ego was like, you're not allowed to say those things. And I was like, yes, I am. Like there's so much evidence that this is not a fluke. […]
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- Jess Pettitt
- Anton Gunn
- Jessi Beyer
- Ewa Błaszczak
- Bhushan Sethi
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 26,659
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 193 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 122 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts Fried. The Burnout Podcast?
Cait Donovan and Cait host the show. Published by Cait Donovan, Top Burnout Expert for Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations.
How often do new episodes come out?
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Does Fried. The Burnout Podcast take guests?
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