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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…
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The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable CareersHow Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Money
Episode 113 of The Burnout Podcast explores how chronic workplace exhaustion rewires our financial instincts. Lucas and Luna dive into the 'burnout…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Silence
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a rarely-discussed symptom of burnout: the inability to sit with silence. They anchor the conversation with a 2024…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Boredom
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive symptom of career burnout: the loss of tolerance for boredom. Drawing on a…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Nature
Episode 110 of The Burnout Podcast explores how chronic work stress distances us from the natural world — and how reconnecting with green spaces can support…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Wrecks Your Ability to Receive Help
We all know burnout makes it hard to ask for help. But what if the real problem is that burnout makes it almost impossible to genuinely accept help when…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Perfectionism
Lucas and Luna explore how burnout transforms perfectionism from a seemingly productive trait into a destructive force. They dissect the story of a former…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Quietly Shrinks Your Social World
Episode 107 of The Burnout Podcast explores a subtle but powerful effect of chronic work exhaustion: social withdrawal. Lucas and Luna discuss why burnt-out…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Boundary-Setting
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion quietly dismantles our ability to set and maintain boundaries. Using Dr. Harriet Lerner's classic…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Sleep
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout fundamentally alters your sleep architecture. They drill into…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Sense of Time
In episode 104 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion distorts your perception of time. They dive into the research on…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Creativity
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden link between career exhaustion and creative depletion. Drawing on a 2021 study from…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Erases Your Sense of Play
Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout doesn't just drain energy—it actively erases your capacity for play, spontaneity, and low-stakes fun. They…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Silences Your Intuition
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion doesn't just drain your energy — it also erodes your ability to trust your gut. Drawing on…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
A Therapist Helps You Rewrite Your Burnout Story
For the 100th episode of The Burnout Podcast, hosts Lucas and Luna explore the concept of narrative identity—how burnout fragments the story you tell about…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Voice
Episode 99 of The Burnout Podcast explores an often-overlooked burnout symptom: the loss of your speaking voice. Lucas and Luna examine the research from voice…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Rewrites Your Memory
Episode 98 of The Burnout Podcast examines a lesser-known symptom of chronic workplace stress: how burnout alters your memory. Lucas and Luna unpack a 2024…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship With Food
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion rewires the brain's reward system, leading to…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Exercise
Lucas and Luna explore a paradox: many burnt-out professionals stop exercising even though they know it helps. They trace the science behind exercise avoidance…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Ambition
Lucas and Luna explore how burnout redefines ambition — not as laziness or a lack of drive, but as a neurological and emotional recalibration. They discuss the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Sense of Purpose
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how prolonged career burnout can fundamentally alter your sense of purpose—not just…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Decision-Making
Episode 93 of The Burnout Podcast explores how chronic exhaustion alters the way we make choices at work and in life. Lucas and Luna dive into decision…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Money
Lucas and Luna explore a specific, under-discussed consequence of career burnout: how it quietly rewires your financial behaviors through something called…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Makes You Lose Your Sense of Agency
In episode 91 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout strips away your sense of agency — the feeling that you can influence your own…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Makes You Forget Your Own Strengths
When burnout sets in, one of the first things to go is your ability to remember what you're actually good at. Lucas and Luna explore the 'strength…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Morning Routine
Most burnout advice focuses on the workday, but what about the first hour of the day? Lucas and Luna examine how chronic exhaustion rewires your morning…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Rewires Your Definition of Success
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic career burnout reshapes what success means to you, drawing on the story of a senior product manager who walked away from a…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Inner Critic
Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but powerful effect of career burnout: the way it transforms your inner voice from a constructive guide into a harsh…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Friendships
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion doesn't just stay at the office — it rewires your social life. They discuss a 2024 study from the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Self-Identity
In Episode 85 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout doesn't just exhaust you—it fundamentally reshapes how you see yourself…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Sleep Architecture
Episode 84 of The Burnout Podcast explores how chronic career exhaustion alters your sleep architecture — specifically, how it fragments deep sleep and…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Quietly Reshapes Your Finances
In Episode 83 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a rarely discussed dimension of career burnout: its hidden impact on personal finances. They…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Changes Your Appetite and Metabolism
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the under-discussed link between chronic career stress and metabolic disruption. They dive into…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Erases Your Creative Instincts
Episode 81 explores a less-discussed casualty of chronic workplace exhaustion: the loss of creative instinct. Lucas and Luna examine how burnout doesn't…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Silences Your Body's Warning Signs
By episode 80 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna have covered overwork, perfectionism, loneliness, and even climate grief. But there's a quieter…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Changes Your Sense of Time
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion distorts your perception of time—making days feel endless yet…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Climate Grief Is Fueling a New Kind of Career Burnout
Episode 78 of The Burnout Podcast explores a growing but often overlooked driver of workplace exhaustion: climate grief. Lucas and Luna examine how constant…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Your Nervous System Fuels Career Burnout
Lucas and Luna explore the connection between your autonomic nervous system and career burnout. Drawing on Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory, they…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Changes Your Sense of Time
Lucas and Luna explore a surprising driver of career burnout: time distortion. Drawing on research from psychologist Marc Wittmann and a study on perceived…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Pivots Create Identity-Based Burnout
Lucas and Luna explore why changing careers can be more exhausting than staying put, even when you're escaping a bad job. They dig into identity-based…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Setting Stronger Boundaries Prevents Career Burnout
Episode 74 of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo tackles a question many professionals struggle with: why is it so hard to say no, and how does weak…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Recovery Sprints Beat Long Breaks for Burnout
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the concept of recovery sprints—short, intense bursts of deliberate rest that can outperform traditional long breaks in…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Workplace Loneliness Worsens Burnout and What to Do
Episode 72 of The Burnout Podcast explores how chronic workplace loneliness accelerates emotional exhaustion and burnout, even when your workload is…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Social Comparison Fuels Career Burnout and What to Do
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how social comparison—constantly measuring yourself against colleagues' career wins—drives…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How to Recover from Burnout Without Quitting Your Job
Lucas and Luna explore the concept of 'quiet recovery'—small, hidden recovery practices you can integrate into your workday without anyone noticing…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Boredom Burnout Is Sabotaging Your Career
We often think burnout comes from overwork, but a growing body of evidence points to a quieter culprit: chronic under-stimulation. In this episode, Lucas and…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Unprocessed Emotions Drive Career Burnout Faster Than Overwork
Lucas and Luna explore a hidden driver of career burnout: unprocessed emotions like frustration, guilt, and resentment that accumulate when we suppress them at…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Perfectionism Is Driving Your Career Burnout
Lucas and Luna explore the link between perfectionism and burnout, focusing on the case of a graphic designer whose relentless self-criticism led to chronic…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
The Recovery Audit That Saved My Career
Lucas and Luna explore the concept of a personal recovery audit: a structured check-in to identify which parts of your workday drain you and which restore you…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Recovery Routines After Commutes Prevent Career Burnout
Lucas and Luna explore the often-overlooked link between commuting and burnout, focusing on how a structured post-commute recovery routine can reset your…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Email Batching Reduces Decision Fatigue and Burnout
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how email batching can dramatically reduce decision fatigue and burnout. They break down the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Your Sleep Debt Fuels Career Burnout and What to Do
Lucas and Luna explore the surprising link between cumulative sleep debt and workplace burnout. They cite a 2025 University of Chicago study showing that…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Recovery Sabbaticals Rewire Your Career Brain
Lucas and Luna explore the neuroscience of recovery sabbaticals, focusing on how extended time away from work changes your brain's default mode network…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Recovery Breaks Prevent Burnout in High-Stress Jobs
This episode explores the concept of microrecovery—short, intentional breaks that help professionals in high-stress roles reset their nervous systems and…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
Why Your Brain Needs Microrecovery Every Hour
Lucas and Luna explore the science of microrecovery: short, strategic breaks of 30 to 90 seconds that prevent cortisol buildup and decision fatigue. Drawing on…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
Why Recovery Sabbaticals Reduce Career Burnout
In episode 59 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the growing trend of recovery sabbaticals — extended time off specifically for burnout recovery…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Email Batching Reduces Decision Fatigue and Burnout
Lucas and Luna explore how the constant inbox interruption is a hidden driver of decision fatigue and burnout. They discuss research on attention residue, the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Afternoon Energy Dips Worsen Burnout
Episode 57 of The Burnout Podcast digs into the overlooked connection between your circadian rhythm and workplace exhaustion. Lucas and Luna explore how the…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Recovery Microdoses Prevent Career Burnout
Lucas and Luna explore the concept of 'recovery microdoses' — tiny, strategic breaks throughout the workday that can significantly reduce burnout…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Recovery Time Off Prevents Career Burnout
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the power of purposeful time off as a burnout prevention tool. Drawing on a 2024…
- The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Decision Fatigue Fuels Career Burnout
Lucas and Luna explore the link between decision fatigue and career burnout, zeroing in on a 2011 study by social psychologist Roy Baumeister that showed…