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You Are Not A Frog — 316 episodes

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1

Try Softer, Not Harder

2

Going Back After Burnout When Nothing Has Changed

3

The 12-Minute Method for Getting Stuff Done

4

How to Embrace Your Capacity Instead of Defining Your Limits

5

Is Your Dedication the Reason You're Burning Out?

6

The Analytical Brain Trap: Why Smart People Can’t Switch Off

7

Why Every Doctor Should Learn to Coach

8

How to Work Free From Burnout

9

How to Hold Someone Accountable Without Losing the Relationship

10

Am I a Snowflake If I’m Not Coping Now?

11

How Wanting to Do More at Work Becomes a Burnout Warning Sign for High Achievers

12

Why Summer Makes Your Burnout Worse (And It's Not Your Fault)

13

Masking, Over-Functioning and the Shame That Keeps You Stuck

14

Why You Can't Switch Off (And It's Not About Workload)

15

The Occupational Hazard Every High-Achieving Leader Needs to Know About

16

Why Imposter Syndrome Isn't a Confidence Problem

17

Why Your Workload Keeps Growing Without You Agreeing To It

18

What to Do When Your Career Map No Longer Fits

19

How to Break the People-Pleasing Cycle That's Burning You Out

20

How to Stop Doing Everything

21

5 Reasons Your Ideas Keep Getting Overlooked (And How to Fix It)

22

How to Stop Feeling Guilty When It's Impossible to Do Your Job.

23

Why ‘I Have To’ Is Keeping You Stuck (And What To Say Instead)

24

When 'Can You Help' Doesn't Feel Like a Question (Part 2 of The Over-Responsibility Trap)

25

Freelance vs Employed - On Which Side is the Grass Greener?

26

Why Responsibility Keeps Landing on You (Part 1 of The Over-Responsibility Trap)

27

How to Use Clean Language to Stop Rescuing and Really Feel Your Feelings

28

You Can’t Meditate Yourself Out of a 60-Hour Work Week

29

When Speaking Up is Stressful – A Psychology Researcher Tells Us What to Do Instead

30

You Do Not Have to Be Good

31

How to Tell if Your Workplace is Toxic or Just Misaligned to You

32

How to Stop Overthinking at Work (Without Ignoring the Real Problems)

33

The Dangerous Programming That Influences Over-responsible Doctors

34

Why “You Always Have a Choice” Makes Doctors Feel Worse (And What to Say Instead)

35

How to Confront Someone Without Creating Conflict (According to a Conflict Expert)

36

Why You Keep Missing the Stress That’s Draining You

37

The Hidden Shame Spiral That Keeps Us Stuck (Our Most-Watched Episode Ever)

38

The Midlife Career Trap: Why So Many Doctors Feel Stuck After 20 Years — According to a Consultant Surgeon & Decision-Making Scientist

39

Why Women in Healthcare are Exhausted (According to a Burnout Specialist)

40

300 Episodes In… Here’s the Hardest Truth About Burnout No One Says Out Loud

41

Why You Won’t Feel Better Until You Give Yourself These 3 Permissions

42

The Real (Toxic) Reason You’re a People Pleaser

43

How to FINALLY Get on Top of Your Emails

44

“It’s OK Not to Be OK” – And Other Thought Limiting Clichés

45

The Sources of Power That Create Real Change

46

How to Stop Conflict from Turning Ugly

47

The Hidden Tax on Neurodivergent Professionals

48

How to Stay Calm When You Don’t Know What Will Happen Next

49

If I don’t do it, who else will?

50

Clear and Direct is Better than Hinting and Hoping

51

How to Stop Toxic People Pushing All Your Buttons

52

How Bad Does it Have to Get Before You Act?

53

Why “Keep Calm and Carry On” Fuels Burnout

54

Why Doctors Don’t Ask for Help – And How to Do it Right

55

What Do You Want from Work in the Second Half of Life?

56

Why You’re Stressed When Everyone Else is Calm

57

How to Get Better Sleep

58

How to Eat Better and Keep Your Energy Up

59

The 4 Books to Read This Summer to Set Up Your Next 6 Months for Success

60

How to Boost Your Leadership Skills (Even if You Don’t Think You’re a Leader)

61

The Personal Cost of Working in Burnout

62

How to Survive a Complaint from Another Clinician

63

What to Do When You Can’t Fix the System

64

5 Things Holding You Back from Getting the Career You Love

65

Why Wearing the Busy Badge is Burning You Out (And What to Do Instead)

66

How to Stop Money from Being Stressful

67

How to Say Yes When No isn’t an Option

68

What to Do if Someone Challenges YOUR Behaviour

69

Is All-or-Nothing Thinking Pushing You to Burnout?

70

The 5 Different Types of Burnout – And How to Prevent Them

71

What if Your Job Was Just a Job? (And 4 Other Thought Experiments)

72

Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side of Medicine?

73

How to Beat Inbox Overwhelm

74

What to Do BEFORE You Get a Neurodivergence Diagnosis

75

How to Protect Yourself from the Guilt of Saying No

76

How to Listen to Your Intuition

77

11 Ways to Back Your Wise Self

78

Doctors with ADHD

79

The Trouble with Wellbeing

80

How to Be Kind Instead of Nice (and Why it Matters)

81

How to Make Long-term Behaviour Change Stick

82

How to Leave Work on Time

83

How to Choose What Kind of Problem You Want

84

How to Plan Your Year for Peak Performance

85

Are You Amplifying Your Overwhelm? Here’s How to Stop

86

How to Manage Your Energy Instead of Your Time

87

How to Stop a Difficult Conversation Going Bad

88

How to Overcome the Toxic Effects of Shame on Your Team

89

How to be Ridiculously Relaxed

90

How to Survive in a High Stress Job When You’re Neurodivergent

91

How to Stop Turning “You” Problems into “Me” Problems

92

How to Take a Good Long Look at Your Career

93

How to Catch Stress Early Before You Spiral into Burnout

94

How to Change Your Life One Tiny Step at a Time

95

How to avoid guilt on repeat

96

How to Think Past “Right and Wrong” and Find Choices That Work for You

97

How Stories Can Help You Beat Burnout

98

You Can’t Organise Your Way Out of Overwhelm

99

How to Make the Right Choice When You Aren’t Certain

100

The Magic Question to Unlock Your Deep Intuition

101

How to Promote Good Mental Health for You and Your Kids

102

Does the Usual Productivity Advice Work for People Seeing Patients?

103

What’s So Important About Purpose?

104

How to Get What You Need When Even YOU Don’t Know

105

Crafting a Career That Works

106

What to Do With That Nagging Feeling That Something’s Not Right

107

Finding Your Opposite World to Beat Burnout

108

How to Stop Your Inner Critic Hijacking Your Day

109

The Exact Script to Use When a Colleague’s Being Rude

110

"Having it All" as a Woman in Medicine

111

How to Keep Going in a Struggling System

112

What I Learned From My Facebook Haters

113

Why We Need MORE Conflict in Our Teams

114

Is My Attachment Style Causing My Burnout?

115

Are You an Accidental Toxic Leader?

116

What Does High-Performance Look Like?

117

The 3 Lies Which Hold Us Back

118

How to Put Your Team Back Together

119

What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

120

What Forgiveness Can Do for You

121

The Biggest Mistakes People Make When They are Heading for Burnout

122

Why Loneliness Can Kill, and What to Do About it

123

How to Set a Boundary No-one Can Break

124

What to Do When a Colleague isn’t Pulling Their Weight

125

Too Busy NOT to Pause

126

How to find your voice

127

Only You Can Choose Your Next Move

128

How to Make a Difficult Decision

129

What Happens When You Stay Too Long

130

How Money Holds Us Back

131

Beware Your Kindest Colleagues

132

Smashing the Gender Pay Gap for Women in Medicine

133

How to Tell People What You REALLY Think

134

Why Setting Goals Alone Won’t Help

135

Life’s Too Short NOT to Love What You Do

136

Finding Your North Star

137

How to get moving again when you feel stuck

138

The Most Powerful Question You Can Ask Yourself About Your Work

139

How to Feel Confident in Any Situation

140

How to Get Out of a Toxic Shame Spiral

141

Getting a Breakthrough by Using Your Right Brain

142

The Three-Step Plan for Getting Your Sh*t Together

143

How to Decide if You Need to Stay or Leave a Difficult Situation

144

What Shame Made Me Do

145

How to Survive the Holiday Season

146

How to Increase Your Confidence and Impact

147

How to Deal With Your Inner Critic

148

How to Escape the Tyranny of the ‘Shoulds’

149

Am I Burning Out?

150

How to Manage Your Energy if You're a Highly Sensitive Person

151

How Do You Say No When Someone Might Die?

152

How to Challenge Upsetting Behaviour

153

The Real Reason Other People's Boundaries Make Us Cross

154

How to Be REALLY Productive... Without Losing the Plot

155

What Will Your Future Self Thank You For?

156

Surprising Ways to Avoid Burnout

157

Stress vs Overwhelm – And Why You Should Know the Difference

158

How to Cope With Your Kids’ Anxiety, Your Colleagues’, and Your Own

159

Don't Wait for Tomorrow to Improve – Take Control Now

160

Is it You - or is it Menopause?

161

Why You Don’t Need to Earn Your Rest

162

Are Your Tiny Traumas Building Up to Burnout?

163

Get Some Air Cover to Help You Set Boundaries

164

What Happens When We’re Really Listened to

165

How to Use Power Language to Keep Your Boundaries Strong

166

How to Thrive in a High-Stress Job When You’re Neurodivergent

167

Why You Should Expect Pushback and What To Do About It

168

Embrace Your Capacity, Not Your Limits

169

How To Influence Without Getting Frustrated

170

What to Do When You Can Never Do Enough as a Working Mum with Corrina Gordon-Barnes

171

Do I Disappoint Myself Or Others?

172

How to Survive a Toxic System - on Both Sides of the Pond

173

How to Avoid Amygdala Hijack Part 2

174

How to Feel Happy, Calm, and Connected

175

How to Avoid Amygdala Hijack Part 1

176

How to Do Something Different in Your Career

177

Why We Become Terrible in a Crisis

178

Are You OK?

179

What’s Your Flight Plan?

180

How to Stay Calm through Complaints (Even When It’s Personal)

181

Why Can’t I Say No

182

How to Stop Making Decisions Based on Fear

183

The Problem with Boundaries

184

How to Avoid Burnout on Repeat

185

How to Have More Impact with Less Effort

186

The Glass Slipper and Other Challenges for Women in Medicine

187

The Power of Pressing Pause

188

How to Change Your Life in 12 Minutes Per Week

189

The One Thing You Can Do For Your Well-being

190

How to Fix Your Broken Meetings

191

Think Differently About Your To-Do List

192

How Perfectionism and Shame Lead to Stress and Burnout

193

Embracing Your Limits in a Limitless System

194

How to Get People to LOVE your Ideas

195

When Working Harder Doesn't Work

196

Best Bits of 2022: Stress and Worry

197

Best Bits of 2022: How to Build Confidence

198

How to Deal with Xmas Disasters and Other Disappointments in Life with Corrina Gordon-Barnes

199

How to Know if You're Being 'Resilience Victim Blamed'

200

Job Crafting for Happiness

201

Is it ‘Normal’ Not to Cope?

202

How to Stop Your Finances Controlling Your Career with Dr Tommy Perkins

203

You Choose

204

How to Stop Emotional Eating, Eat Better and Feel Better with Dr Matthea Rentea and Keri Williams

205

If it Didn’t Hurt, There’d Be Something Wrong

206

How to Balance Life and Work

207

Shark Music

208

How to Choose Joy, Even When Life Sucks

209

How to Escape the Urgency Trap

210

How to Tell People What They Don’t Want to Hear

211

But is it a Tiger?

212

What to Do When You are Overwhelmed with Gerrie Hawes

213

Summer Replay 2022 Episode 5

214

Summer Replay 2022 Episode 4

215

Summer Replay 2022 Episode 3

216

Summer Replay 2022 Episode 2

217

Summer Replay 2022 Episode 1

218

What to Do if You're Stressed AND Bored

219

How to Say F**k it and Become Ridiculously Relaxed (even about stuff that REALLY matters) with John C Parkin

220

How to Cope With Trauma on the Frontline

221

After Burnout: Planning a Working Life You Want with Dr. Katya Miles

222

After Burnout: Going Back to Work with Dr Katya Miles

223

Using Nature to Answer Your Big Questions With Henri Stevenson

224

How to Say No and Deal with Pushback

225

How to Change When Change is Scary

226

How to Live With No Regrets with Georgina Scull

227

How to Be Happy at Work with Sarah Metcalfe

228

How to Be a (Happy) Working Parent with Corrina Gordon Barnes

229

Making Online Meetings Work with John Monks

230

How to Improve Your Mental Health in 10 Minutes with Dr Lee David

231

How to Manage Upwards (and Sideways)

232

The Surprising Power of Self Coaching (and How to Do it Well)

233

What I Got So Wrong About Mindfulness and How it Might Transform Your Life

234

How to Find Peace and Happiness, Even in a Life You Haven't Chosen

235

How to Get an Appraisal That Doesn't Suck

236

What to Do When a Junior is Badmouthing Your Colleagues

237

Why We're Ditching the Term 'Imposter Syndrome'

238

What to Do When You Start to See Red?

239

How to Stop People Pleasing and Absorbing Other People's Angst

240

Is it Possible to Have Fun at Work?

241

What We Wish We'd Learnt at Med School

242

Defining Your Own Success in Life

243

How to Stop Worrying When There’s a Lot to Worry About

244

The Simplest Way to Beat Stress and Work Happier

245

How to Cope With Nightmare Relatives and Colleagues Without Losing the Plot

246

How Not to Settle for the Way it's Always Been Done

247

Why FAIL is Not a 4-Letter Word

248

Making Helpful Habits Stick

249

Dealing With the Guilt of Not Being Okay

250

How to Deal With Criticism When You've Reached Your Limit

251

Why it’s Easier to Talk About Football Than Feelings with Dr Naren Senthil Nathan

252

What to Do When Your Strengths Have Side Effects with Dr Joanna Bircher

253

How to Deal With Difficult Meetings with Jane Gunn

254

3 Conversations Which Will Get You Unstuck with Annie Hanekom

255

How to Reconnect With Your Purpose in Life with Dr Richard Pile

256

How to Delegate, Do it, or Drop it with Anna Dearmon Kornick

257

How to Avoid Becoming the Second Victim with Dr Caraline Wright & Dr Lizzie Sweeting

258

How to Break Up With Your Toxic Relationship With Your Career with Dr Pauline Morris

259

What to Do About Bitching and Backbiting with Dr Edward Pooley

260

Should I Stay or Should I Go? with Corrina Gordon-Barnes

261

Summer Replay Series: The One About Alcohol with Dr. Giles P. Croft

262

Summer Replay Series: Productivity Hacks for a Calm, Effective Life with Dr. Gandalf

263

Summer Replay Series: How to be an adult with Ebonie Allard

264

Summer Replay Series: Treat Others How THEY Would Like to Be Treated with Gitanjali Trevorrow-Seymour

265

Summer Replay Series: How to Do Conflict Well with Jane Gunn

266

Summer Replay Series: Eff-It Living with John C Parkin

267

How to Ditch the Saviour Complex and Feel More Alive with Rob Bell

268

Complaints and How to Survive Them E5: What Should I Do When I Think a Complaint is Unfair? and Other Questions with Drs Sarah Coope, George Wright, Samantha White, and Andrew Tressider

269

Gaslighting and Other Ways We’re Abused at Work: What’s Really Going on? with Dr James Costello

270

How to Have Crucial Conversations with Dr Ed Pooley

271

Complaints and How to Survive Them E4: Creating a Workplace Where it's OK to Fail with Prof Susan Fairlie and Dr Jane Sturgess

272

The Ups and Downs of Being a Man-Frog with Dr Chris Hewitt

273

Complaints and How to Survive Them E3: Surviving the Process

274

When Soft and Fluffy Met Coronavirus with Steve Andrews

275

Complaints and How to Survive Them E2: What to Do When You Make a Mistake with Drs Clare Devlin and Dr John Powell

276

How to Give Yourself Permission to Thrive with Dr Katya Miles

277

Complaints and How to Survive Them E1: Preparing to Fail Well with Drs Sarah Coope, Annalene Weston and Sheila Bloomer

278

Denial, Displacement and Other Ways We Neglect Ourselves with Dr Andrew Tresidder

279

Tech Tips for Happy Hybrid Working with Dr Hussain Gandhi

280

How to Escape the Drama Triangle and Stop Rescuing People

281

Managing Your Time in a System Which Sucks with Dr Ed Pooley

282

EASTER REPLAY: What we're talking about when we talk about compassion fatigue

283

How to Find Your Tribe: The PMGUK Story with Dr Nazia Haider and Dr Katherine Hickman

284

Working Well - From Anywhere! with Dr Katya Miles

285

Create a Career You’ll Love with Dr Claire Kaye

286

How Safe Do You Feel at Work with Scott Chambers

287

Make Time for What Matters with Liz O’Riordan

288

The Revolutionary Art of Breathing with Richard Jamieson

289

Bringing Your Best Self to Work with Dr Sarah Goulding

290

Staying Positive Through COVID – Getting Back to Basics with Dr Amrita Sen Mukherjee

291

Passing the Naughty Monkey Back with Dr Amit Sharma

292

What to Do When You’re Out of Fuel with Dr Jess Harvey

293

How to Survive Even When Times are Tough with Dr. Caroline Walker

294

Self-Coaching for Success with Dr Karen Castille, OBE

295

The Self-Help Book Group on Happiness with Dr. Nik Kendrew

296

Creating a Workplace that Works with Dr. Sonali Kinra

297

A Social Dilemma? with Dr James Thambyrajah

298

Bullying in the Workplace with Dr Adam Harrison

299

Fertiliser for Your Brain with Michael Ledzion

300

Very Nice People and Other Deadly Perils

301

The One About Alcohol

302

How to Work Flexibly, Without the Stress

303

How to Be More Anti-Racist

304

A Year of the Frog

305

How to Stay Calm and Focused in the Face of Uncertainty

306

Freeing Yourself from the Money Trap

307

The Self Help Book Group No 2 with Nik Kendrew

308

Looking After Your People Through COVID and Beyond

309

How to Have a Courageous Conversation

310

Default to Happy

311

Rest. The final frontier

312

How to ACT Instead of Stewing on Your Thoughts

313

COVID-19 Supporting Doctors. COVID boredom – What Should We Do?

314

Ask the Frog – What Will You Stop Start Continue After Lockdown?

315

How to Be a Professional Woman with Dame Jane Dacre

316

Leading With Tough Love with Gary Hughes