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My Brilliant Burnout

by Fix the System

There's nothing brilliant about burnout. But there's everything brilliant about our brains. Becky Hirst and Karen Cocks bring six decades of combined experience fixing systems across government, business and community, plus two big burnouts of their own. Each episode we pick apart the absurd systems that wear people down (schools, health, workplaces, even ordering a coffee) and talk about how to fix them. Honest, funny, a little sweary, and for anyone who's ever been asked "How do you do it all?" We fix the system, not the people.

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  1. # 2 | “Truancy" Is Not the Word: School Can't and Why Nobody's Winning

    Parents who care deeply. Teachers who care deeply. A young person both sides are invested in. So why does everyone walk out of the school meeting feeling defeated? When a young person can’t make it through the school gate, that’s school can’t, not truancy. So why does the system still treat it as...

  2. #1 - What the FTS?! Two Burnt-Out Brains, 1,443 Swear Words & a Letter to the Prime Minister

    Welcome to the very first episode. One of us was hanging pictures five minutes before we hit record, and one of us was still working out where the “go” button on the camera was. So it’s very us. Becky Hirst and Karen Cocks are two women with nearly 30 years’ experience each, two big burnouts…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

There's nothing brilliant about burnout. But there's everything brilliant about our brains. Becky Hirst and Karen Cocks bring six decades of combined experience fixing systems across government, business and community, plus two big burnouts of their own. Each episode we pick apart the absurd systems that wear people down (schools, health, workplaces, even ordering a coffee) and talk about how to fix them. Honest, funny, a little sweary, and for anyone who's ever been asked "How do you do it all?" We fix the system, not the people.

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There's nothing brilliant about burnout. But there's everything brilliant about our brains. Becky Hirst and Karen Cocks bring six decades of combined experience fixing systems across government, business and community, plus two big burnouts of their own. Each episode we pick apart the absurd...

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