4. The Most Important Job in the Room. And Why It's Set Up to Fail

If you work in sustainability and sometimes feel exhausted, frustrated, or like you're pushing uphill, you're not imagining it. This episode names the structural reason why: sustainability roles are routinely set up to influence systems they don't control, carry moral weight they weren't designed to hold alone, and measure outputs that don't reflect real change. Drawing on eleven years in the field and a story of one leader who found a way through, we explore what burnout in this space actually looks like, why distributed ownership isn't just a nice idea but a necessary one, and how the shift from concentrated responsibility to shared culture changes everything for the sustainability lead, the team and the organisation.Two Homes is for leaders who know that lasting performance — for people and planet — starts from the inside out. Two homes: the one we inhabit within, and the one we all share.Intro and outro music: Brooks, Kai Engel