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The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
Lucas and Luna explore the science, psychology, and economics of workplace exhaustion. Each episode picks a single dimension of burnout — the role of cortisol spikes in decision-making, how open-office layouts drain cognitive reserves, the hidden costs of presenteeism on long-term productivity, or why the gig economy's flexibility often masks chronic overwork. They cite real studies — like the 2023 Gallup State of the Global Workforce report showing 44% of employees experienced a lot of stress…
Episodes
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable CareersHow Burnout Makes You Fear Your Own Email Inbox
In episode 173 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic exhaustion reshapes your relationship with your inbox — from the dread of the red…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Quietly Steals Your Workday Creativity
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but damaging symptom of burnout: the slow disappearance of your workday creativity…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Makes You Fear Your Own Ambition
In Episode 171 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a paradox: after burnout, ambition itself can start to feel like a threat. They focus on the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
Burnout and the Loss of Your Workday Curiosity
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can quietly rob you of your curiosity at work. When you're running on empty…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Blunts Your Workday Motivation
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion erodes motivation, using the real-world example of a senior software engineer who…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Changes Your Relationship with Your Desk
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can make your desk a place of dread and what you can do about it. Drawing on…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
Burnout and the Loss of Your Workday Pause
In episode 167 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout quietly steals the small pauses that once punctuated your workday—the moment between…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Blunts Your Workday Ambition
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but telling symptom of burnout: the slow fade of ambition during the workday. They break down the psychology…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Rewrites Your Relationship with Power
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a rarely discussed consequence of workplace exhaustion: how burnout quietly rewrites your…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your To-Do List
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can transform your relationship with your to-do list—from a trusted ally to a source…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
The Quiet Cost of Answering Emails After Hours
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how after-hours emailing quietly rewires your relationship with your evenings and your sense of…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Changes Your Relationship with Your Side Hustle
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can quietly corrupt what was once a source of joy and extra income: the side hustle. They break down the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Money
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion quietly rewires your financial decisions. From impulsive…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Morning Routine
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can quietly dismantle the rituals that once anchored your mornings, from…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Changes Your Relationship with Feedback
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but powerful shift: how burnout rewires your relationship with feedback. They look at…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Personal Brand
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can quietly rewrite your professional identity, focusing on the tension between the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship With Weekends
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout quietly rewires your weekends—turning them from a source of restoration into a…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Lunch Break
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout changes the way we experience the midday pause. They dive into the psychology of the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Lunch Break
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a seemingly small casualty of workplace exhaustion: the lunch break. Once a proper pause, it's often reduced to a…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Commuting
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout changes your relationship with the daily commute. They discuss the psychological…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
Burnout and the Loss of Your Workday Pause
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic career burnout can quietly erase the natural pauses that once structured a workday —…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Home
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh angle: how chronic workplace exhaustion subtly reshapes your relationship with your home…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Calendar
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a quiet but pervasive symptom of workplace exhaustion: the way burnout distorts your sense of…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Evening Commute
In this milestone 150th episode, Lucas and Luna explore a quiet, often-overlooked casualty of workplace exhaustion: the evening commute. Once a simple…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Quietly Rewires Your Relationship with Silence
In Episode 149 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a rarely discussed casualty of workplace exhaustion: our tolerance for silence. Drawing on a 2023…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Career Story
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can fracture the narrative we tell ourselves about our careers. They discuss the concept of 'career…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Professional Reputation
When burnout hits, many professionals either stop caring about their reputation or become hypervigilant. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the two-sided…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Decision Making
Burnout doesn't just drain your energy — it fundamentally alters how you make choices, from daily trivial decisions to major career moves. Drawing on a…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Coworkers
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion fundamentally alters the way we interact with our colleagues…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Industry
A 2025 Gallup study found that 44% of workers across industries report feeling burned out, with the highest rates in healthcare and tech. In this episode, we…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Meetings
Lucas and Luna explore how workplace exhaustion transforms our experience of meetings—from productivity sink to energy drain. They dissect Shopify's…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Ambition
Burnout doesn't just make you tired—it can fundamentally rewrite what ambition means. This episode explores the psychological shift from…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Rest
Episode 141 explores how burnout fundamentally changes your perception and practice of rest. Lucas and Luna discuss the difference between passive recovery…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Rewrites Your Career Story
When burnout hits, it doesn't just drain your energy—it reshapes the story you tell yourself about your work. This episode dives into narrative identity…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Redefines Your Professional Boundaries
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout fundamentally reshapes our ability to set and maintain professional…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Home Office
Episode 138 explores the blurred boundary between work and home in the remote era. Lucas and Luna discuss why your home office can become a trigger for…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Money
In episode 137, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden financial toll of workplace exhaustion. Drawing on a 2025 survey from the American Psychological Association…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Weekend
Burnout doesn't just drain your workdays—it hijacks your weekends too. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the psychological toll of the 'Sunday…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Feedback
When Sarah, a marketing director in Chicago, hit burnout last year, she noticed something strange: even a well-intentioned suggestion from a colleague felt…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Lunch Break
Episode 134 explores a small but powerful boundary: the lunch break. Lucas and Luna look at why so many professionals skip lunch or eat at their desks, using…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Voice
Episode 133 of The Burnout Podcast explores how chronic workplace exhaustion can silence you—literally. Lucas and Luna dig into the phenomenon of vocal fatigue…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Desk
Lucas and Luna explore how burnout transforms the physical workspace—from the cluttered desk that mirrors mental fog to the empty cubicle that feels like a…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Commute
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic burnout can transform a daily commute from a neutral transition into a source of dread, resentment, or even a surprising…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Desk
Episode 130 of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo explores how burnout changes the way you interact with your physical workspace. Lucas and Luna discuss the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Changes Your Relationship with Exercise
In episode 129 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the paradoxical relationship between burnout and exercise. When you're exhausted, the body…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Sleep
Episode 128 explores how burnout fundamentally alters our sleep patterns and what to do about it. Lucas and Luna examine the research on hyperarousal and sleep…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Phone
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion changes your relationship with your phone — from compulsive scrolling to a numbing…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Creativity
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion erodes creative thinking and what you can actually do about it…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Time
Ever feel like there's never enough time, or that time is slipping away? Lucas and Luna explore how burnout distorts our perception of time, turning it…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Play
Episode 124 of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo explores how chronic workplace exhaustion strips away our capacity for play—and why reclaiming purposeless…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Failure
Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout rewires our perception of failure, turning ordinary setbacks into catastrophic evidence of inadequacy. They dive into…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Body
Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known symptom of burnout: the disconnect from physical sensation. Lucas shares how chronic stress can suppress…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Silence
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout fundamentally alters your relationship with silence. They…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Food
What happens when the energy you pour into work leaves nothing for fueling your body? Lucas and Luna explore the quiet way burnout rewires how we eat—skipping…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Ambition
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion can quietly transform your ambition—not by killing it, but by warping it into something unrecognizable…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Gratitude
Episode 118 of The Burnout Podcast explores a less-discussed casualty of chronic workplace exhaustion: your ability to feel and express genuine gratitude…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Exercise
Exercise is supposed to relieve stress, but when you're burned out, even the thought of a workout can feel exhausting—or worse, like another obligation…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Nature
Lucas and Luna explore a growing body of research linking burnout recovery to time spent in natural environments. They focus on a 2023 study from…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Conflict
Episode 115 explores how career burnout rewires how you handle disagreements at work and at home. Lucas and Luna break down the science of 'conflict…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Reading
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout fundamentally alters your relationship with reading. Drawing on a 2024 study…