I Sat on the Edge of the Bed

The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast · Sep 24, 2026 · 30m · transcript

Jimmy Burroughs was promoted to a GM role in his mid-thirties, ten to fifteen years younger than everyone around him. The business was restructuring. The executive team was falling apart. People were taking their own lives. And then the government changed immigration rules overnight, costing the business twenty million dollars. He was told to fix it.

He worked twenty-hour days. Travelled offshore ten days out of thirty. Drank wine to calm his nerves. Took paracetamol and Coke Zero to get going in the morning. Skipped the gym. Ate takeaways. And told himself it would slow down eventually.

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