The podcast for the life worth living. Monthly conversations on joy and what it means to be human. From a former burnout goblin who lived to tell the tale.
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I couldn’t help but share this on the pod’ with you this month: I met two women at a volunteering gig recently. I told them both the same thing about myself and my work, but I left one of those conversations feeling about two inches tall and the other feeling fucking brilliant.
Same conversation, almost the exact same sentence, but completely different approach and outcome. And it was down to me how I spoke about myself.
The stories we tell about ourselves — to ourselves and others — matter way more than we think. This will make you reconsider the next time you downplay how awesome you are and stop trying to make yourself smaller to fit. Because: fuck that.
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5 Aug 2026
You Don't Have to Be a B*tch to Set a Boundary
I discovered something about myself as I was rushing to get ready for a funeral last month. I was in a chaotic house with six adults, two babies, a toddler, and two dogs. All of us needing to use one iron, one shower, and a small kettle. And I became really aware of the mellow discomfort I felt being in the front of the queue.
I realised this is a part of my — and probably your own — taught condition: put everyone else before yourself.
Everyone else eats first. Everyone else gets the iron first. Everyone else’s needs are the ones that count, not our own.
In this ep, I talk about that instinct, and how setting boundaries isn’t the same as being difficult. It’s about the vulnerability hangover that comes after you finally say what you need, and about why feeling like a bitch for asking isn’t a sign you’ve done something wrong.
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8 Jul 2026
If You're Feeling Powerless, Watch This
I burnt out last month. Proper dramatic burn-out. And it taught me a brilliant lesson in self-trust.
For years I’ve handed the decisions over to someone else first. Whether it’s about my business, my body, my rest… I used to run it all through a partner, then a coach, then whoever’s shouting loudest on Instagram. Never my own instincts.
Because that’s what some of us have been taught: don’t get it wrong, ask for permission first, you’re not capable to do it alone.
I used to think I just needed to find the right system. But I didn’t. I just needed to start trusting the thing I’d been outsourcing to other people the whole time: my own instinct.
This episode is about that pattern — in relationships, in business, in the algorithm’s advice on how to eat, sleep, and heal. About the peculiar gift of burnout. And about finding real certainty in the face of chaos.
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