The Real Reason You Can't Switch Off (with Nick Petrie)

Do you ever lie awake replaying a decision that you had to make? That anxiety loop about work where you just can't stop thinking about work even when you get home? Maybe you've told yourself that Burnout is just the occupational hazard of your job and you've tried to put things in place to leave on time, say no more often.

You just can't seem to do it, hard as that is to admit.

But what if you're solving the wrong problem? What if it's not a work stress problem, but an identity one? And that's why burnout prevention and burnout recovery has to start somewhere different.

If you're a doctor, a high achiever in a leadership role, someone who has to have those conversations that nobody else will.

who has to make the call that someone will disagree with, who lies awake replaying those decisions you had to make, this is for you.

I spoke with Nick Petrie.

He's a burnout researcher, a leadership coach, and he's the author of Burn Bright.

In high stakes, high stress jobs, we learn somewhere in our training perhaps to tie who we are to how we perform.

And Nick has discovered that burnout is more common when you don't just have a job, But you are your job.

So when work dips, you dip.

In this interview, we cover what keeps you and your identity fused to what you do.

How to avoid crash landing at home after a stressful day and why staying in pure delivery mode, what he calls perform mode for too long, leaves you exhausted and bored.

So if you're in a high stress, high stakes role and have ever thought, what is wrong with me? Why can't I cope? Maybe I'm not good enough for this.

Stay with us.

Do you ever lie awake replaying a decision that you had to make? That anxiety loop about work where you just can't stop thinking about work even when you get home? Maybe you've told yourself that Burnout is just the occupational hazard of your job and you've tried to put things in place to leave on time, say no more often.

You just can't seem to do it, hard as that is to admit.

But what if you're solving the wrong problem? What if it's not a work stress problem, but an identity one? And that's why burnout prevention and burnout recovery has to start somewhere different.

If you're a doctor, a high achiever in a leadership role, someone who has to have those conversations that nobody else will.

who has to make the call that someone will disagree with, who lies awake replaying those decisions you had to make, this is for you.

I spoke with Nick Petrie.

He's a burnout researcher, a leadership coach, and he's the author of Burn Bright.

In high stakes, high stress jobs, we learn somewhere in our training perhaps to tie who we are to how we perform.

And Nick has discovered that burnout is more common when you don't just have a job, But you are your job.

So when work dips, you dip.

In this interview, we cover what keeps you and your identity fused to what you do.

How to avoid crash landing at home after a stressful day and why staying in pure delivery mode, what he calls perform mode for too long, leaves you exhausted and bored.

So if you're in a high stress, high stakes role and have ever thought, what is wrong with me? Why can't I cope? Maybe I'm not good enough for this.

Stay with us.