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Burnout Recovery: Strategies for Professionals

Dex Randall | Master Burnout Coach

The podcast for slightly dented leaders and professionals seeking massive success, strong leadership and fulfilment. Weekly tips and techniques for high-achieving Type A professionals to beat burnout and restore outstanding leadership, performance and ease at work. Podcast hosted by Master Burnout Coach Dex Randall.- Burnout Recovery Coaching https://dexrandall.com - Guest Podcast Appearances https://bit.ly/dex-guest-appearancesGlobal rank top 5%

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Ep#222 AI Brain Fry - Why You Can’t Think Straight...

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2026/04/15

AI is making work faster — but it may also be making your thinking weaker. In this episode, we break down the hidden cognitive cost of AI: how small, everyday reliance is quietly eroding focus, depth, and decision-making in high performers. At the same time, companies are racing to adopt it, pouring in investment without clear ROI — and no one’s entirely sure what “good” looks like yet. Or if they'll lose their job. Yet the pressure builds: use it more, move faster… don’t fall behind. This ep...

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Ep#221 Resentment is Burning You Out

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2026/04/08

Resentment might be the clearest early warning sign of burnout—and most people completely miss it. In this episode, we break down why resentment shows up, why it sticks around, and how it quietly drains your energy, focus, and performance. Resentment isn’t weakness. It’s a signal that something feels wrong and you don’t feel able to resolve it. Left unchecked, it keeps your nervous system on high alert, fuels overthinking, and blocks recovery. You’ll learn: What resentment actually is (...

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Ep#220 ADHD as a Leadership Superpower

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2026/03/25

Listen if you’ve ever wondered why you perform best under pressure, struggle with consistency, or feel like your focus doesn’t always match your ambition. In this episode, Dex explores a common but often unspoken pattern among high-performing leaders — traits associated with ADHD — and how they show up in leadership, performance, and burnout. This is not about diagnosis. It’s about recognising a leadership operating style, understanding its strengths, and learning how to work with it more ef...

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Ep#219 Radical New Hope for Teen Depression

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2026/03/18

Content Warning This episode includes discussion of depression and suicidal ideation. If you are currently in distress, please seek support from your local crisis services before listening. Dr Tim Strauman outlines an exciting new approach to tackling teen depression. We dive into how schools, hospitals, and social services can work together to prevent suffering before it escalates, empower teens to understand their own emotional patterns, and build real-world skills to support mental well-be...

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Ep#218 The 5 Leadership Skills That Matter Most in 2026

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2026/03/11

What will leadership actually look like in 2026? Technology is accelerating everything, but the leaders who win won’t simply be the most technical or the fastest decision-makers. They’ll be the ones who know how to lead people well in an environment of constant change. In this episode, Dex Randall breaks down five leadership traits that separate high-performing leaders from the rest: human-centred performance, AI fluency, disciplined focus, decisiveness under pressure, and the ability to crea...

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Ep#217 CORTISOL CRISIS: Chronic stress, health and aging

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2026/03/04

Dex Randall explains how chronic stress keeps the body in survival mode through ongoing cortisol activation, damaging brain function, health, and longevity even when you feel “fine” today. He contrasts normal stress (fight/flight followed by reset) with chronic stress (no reset). Over the long term, stress dysregulates the nervous system, increases inflammation, accelerates aging, and is linked to diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, and neurodeg...

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Ep#216 Understanding Anxiety in under 10 minutes

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2026/02/25

Anxiety is not a flaw — it’s a future-focused alarm system that can become a learned habit in the brain and body. In this fast, practical episode, Dex breaks down what anxiety really is, why it becomes chronic, and the hidden loops that keep it alive. You’ll learn why logic alone can’t switch it off, what makes it addictive, and how early environments shape your threat response. Most importantly, discover simple, real-time ways to calm your nervous system, regain sov...

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Ep#215 The Identity Shift Every High-Performance...

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2026/02/18

What if high-performance habits didn’t require more willpower? Learn a practical 5-step system for leadership change—starting with identity, shrinking habits into micro-behaviours, engineering your environment, rewarding consistency, and focusing on one keystone habit that creates a ripple effect. Stop forcing new behaviours and start becoming the leader your goals demand. Fasttrack your leadership skills with Dex AI Coach: https://app.coachvox.ai/share/DexRandall Subscribe for more leaders...

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Ep#214 EQ - The Leadership Upgrade AI Can’t Replace

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2026/02/12

Overview Emotional intelligence is one of the most sought-after — and least taught — leadership skills. Learn how high-achieving professionals become trusted leaders through emotional awareness, authentic connection, and stronger communication. Key Takeaways Why the solo high-achiever mindset doesn’t scale to leadershipSimple ways to stay calm and non-reactive during conflictWhy psychological safety drives engagement and performanceRefs The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety — Timothy R. Clark...

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Ep#213 Leadership Signals: High-Impact Cadence Shift

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2026/01/28

Quick announcement for loyal listeners: after publishing every week since September 2021, I’m shifting the podcast’s cadence. Going forward, episodes will drop only when there’s something genuinely impactful and possibly contrarian to share. Fewer episodes, higher signal — same commitment to depth. This episode explains the change, why it matters for you as a leader, and how it frees space for me to focus on new projects and coaching. If you’re here for in-depth leadership analysis, understan...

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Ep#212 Leadership from the Gap vs the Gain

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2026/01/21

January optimism fades fast. Goals wobble. Energy drops. And that familiar voice shows up: “I should be further along by now.” In this episode, Dex explores why high-achieving leaders often get stuck leading from the Gap — measuring themselves against a moving ideal — and how shifting to the Gain changes performance, energy, and impact without relying on willpower. This is a grounded conversation about leadership, not a hype-up. In this episode What “the Gap” is and why high performers live t...

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Ep#211 Fix Your Leadership Blind Spots

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2026/01/15

Every leader has blind spots. Not because they’re careless or incompetent — but because they’re human. In this episode, Dex shares a formative leadership mistake from early in his career and uses it to unpack how beliefs, biases, and unexamined assumptions quietly shape leadership decisions. Often at a cost. You’ll explore why blind spots exist, how they show up under pressure, and the practical signals that tell you when one is running the show. Dex also explains why self-awareness alone isn...

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Ep#210 You Don’t Need a New Year - You Need a New...

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2026/01/08

If you’re back at work and already quietly overloaded — you’re not broken. January often pretends everything resets, while your nervous system, responsibilities, and expectations clearly don’t. In this episode, Dex explores why high-performing leaders don’t need new goals, more effort, or a “new you” — they need a new standard. Drawing on Dan Sullivan’s concepts of The Gap and The Gain and 10x thinking, this episode reframes overwhelm, pressure, and ambition — and shows how leadership energy ...

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Ep#209 Why Caring Leaders Create Better Outcomes

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2025/12/25

This Christmas Day episode is a quieter, more reflective conversation about leadership that actually works — especially in high-pressure environments like healthcare. Dex is joined by Dr Joshua Hartzell, retired US Army Colonel, physician, and author of A Prescription for Caring in Healthcare Leadership. Josh has spent 25 years in military medicine and leadership training. His message is simple and deeply relevant at this time of year: Take care of your people. They will take care of the miss...

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Ep208 Leading Without Permission

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2025/12/18

Most leaders think they need authority to act — but real leadership begins when you give yourself permission to move. In this episode, we explore how to drop imagined judgement, stop waiting for endorsement, and step into decisive, high-impact leadership. What we cover: Drop the "hairy eyeball"Own your authority instead of waiting for itAnchor in your highest-value contributionGive yourself the green lightExperiment and iterate without perfectionReflect on impact — not opinionMini-Exercises Y...

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Ep#207 Invisible Leadership The High Impact Low...

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2025/12/11

In this episode, I share a personal story about leading from behind in a small, entrepreneurial tech team. The team was fragmented, underperforming, and in constant conflict with other departments — a quiet war in full swing. I walk through how I: Connected with each team member to understand strengths, weaknesses, and ambitionsStabilised fragile IT systems and workflows without fanfareBuilt trust, morale, and cross-team collaboration quietlyTurned invisible leadership into tangible resultsWe...

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Ep#206 The Days of the Lone Wolf Are Over

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2025/12/04

Summary In this episode, we break the spell of the “lone wolf” identity — the myth that high performers must grind alone, stay stoic, and win through self-sacrifice. We explore why this model silently burns people out, why it’s collapsing as a leadership archetype, and what replaces it: inner partnership, genuine support, and a way of working that restores energy instead of draining it. What We Cover – How the lone-wolf philosophy sneaks into high-stakes careers – The quiet suffering that ...

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Ep#205 The GPS Inside You

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2025/11/27

In this conversation, we go straight into the territory most professionals tiptoe around: intuition, subtle energy, the “inner signals” you’ve been trained to ignore since childhood. I talk about why Western culture is so committed to denial, how that denial fuels burnout, and why your quiet inner nudges are often the most honest, helpful guidance you’ll ever get. We cover everything from witches and shamans, to Victorian emotional repression, to the modern addiction cycle… and yes, the mome...

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Ep#204 Will ChatGPT solve your burnout?

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2025/11/20

You will discover what ChatGPT says are the essential skills and practices needed for professional burnout recovery. I review ChatGPT's suggestions, enhancing them with my own insights from 10,000 client sessions. You will learn the importance of deep self-awareness, stress management, emotional resilience, and setting boundaries, in the context of your own personality and experiences. Then compare it with the general advice offered by large language models. Finally, I'll introduce Dex AI C...

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Trapped in the Shame Spiral of isolation and...

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2025/11/13

When burnout hits, most people think they’re simply tired. But underneath the exhaustion, there’s often a deeper driver: shame — that quiet voice that says, “You’re failing. You should be stronger.” In this episode, Dex unpacks how shame silently fuels isolation and self-abandonment in high performers, and what it really takes to break that destructive cycle. Through the story of “Mark,” a high-achieving executive who spiralled into withdrawal and disconnection, Dex reveals the hidden mechani...

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