This Job is Killing You: Burnout, Boundaries and the Reality of Midlife Overload With Burnout Expert and Psychologist Kelly Swingler What happens when your body forces you to stop — but you keep going anyway?
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Season 4, Episode 4: Burnout, boundaries and bold leadership – with Kelly Swingler
This week, I’m joined by the fierce, no-fluff force that is Kelly Swingler—global burnout educator, executive coach, and founder of The Burnout Academy.
After two devastating burnouts—one that wrecked her health, the other that nearly ended her life—Kelly made a decision: this ends here.
Now she’s on a mission to challenge everything we’ve been told about success, productivity, and performance culture.
She trains the world’s leading burnout coaches and works with organisations to move beyond lip-service wellbeing. No tick boxes. No fluffy fixes. Just real, lasting change.
In this conversation, we talk about how we got here—glamourising stress and normalising self-sacrifice—why burnout is not a personal failure, how to lead without losing yourself, and what it means to build bold, burnout-aware leadership from the inside out.
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Timestamps:
01:13 | What does it mean to you to be ‘in Bloom’ in work and life? 02:14 | How do you define success without sacrificing well-being? 04:01 | Which season of your career shaped you the most, and how did it impact you?
06:18 | What challenges did you face as a woman in the male-dominated world of work, and how did you navigate them?
07:44 | How did you create and maintain confidence and authenticity in environments where those traits might be tested? 09:39 | What advice would you give to women on building confidence and asking for what they deserve?
11:17 | What’s your relationship like with your feminine energy? How do you balance masculine and feminine energies in leadership? 13:10 | What are your top strategies for preventing burnout while staying driven?
15:02 | We can’t possibly Bloom all of the time, how do you bounce back from setbacks or failures stronger than before?
16:38 | How has understanding the connection between mind and body influenced your life and career growth?
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You may have experienced burnout. According to our guest, there is a spectrum and on one end a spa visit or a break may help but on the other end, your commitment to work will dominate your existence and in some cases will be a tipping point to depression or worse. Kelly Swingler experienced burnout twice as a highly successful corporate executive.
Burnout has been described as an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress that hasn't been successfully managed, and in this episode we’re joined by Kelly Swingler the ‘Burnoutologist’ to discuss signs and management of burnout.
Kelly Swingler, The Burnoutologist. Her first burnout made her seriously ill. Her second almost killed her.
Now, she's a global burnout educator and coach, sharing her insights globally, including to the TEDx stage, and authored books including Mind the Gap and F*ck Burnout.
What’s burnout? How can we spot burnout around us – among family members, friends and colleagues? How is burnout impacting society? What’s the antidote to burnout?
These are some of the questions we'll tackle with Burnoutologist Kelly Swingler in this BIG SOULS, BIG IDEAS episode dedicated to increasing our burnout awareness
Kelly Swingler will be our keynote for this session, sharing her insights about the self-centred approach to change in a changing world of work.
Burnout is a silent epidemic—and it’s time to fight back. In this hard-hitting episode, we sit down with Kelly Swingler, the UK’s leading expert on burnout and the powerhouse behind a bold mission: to banish burnout for good.
Kelly doesn’t just talk about burnout; she takes it apart piece by piece, exposing the root causes and arming you with the tools to reclaim your energy, passion, and purpose.
Kelly Swingler, Burnout Prevention Strategist and Coach for leaders who are done with being overworked, exhausted and on the brink of burnout.
Clients hire her to help them regain control of their busy lives and create the time, space and energy for the things that matter.
Kelly's most recent book is entitled " Mind The Gap: A Story of Burnout, Breakthrough and Beyond".
Burnout experts Kelly Swingler & Lucyna Milanowska explain why HR has a burnout problem. Taken from the live show - "Let's STOP Burnout!" Watch the full show here - • Let's STOP Burnout!
This episode of the Emotion at Work podcast looks at two different topics: boundaries and burnout.
My guest in this episode, Kelly Swingler, is a coach, keynote speaker and author who has an array of experience in both topics which have an important role in our overall wellbeing.
Kelly is the Author of the Book: Mind the Gap: A Story of Burnout, Breakthrough & Beyond.
Back in 2013, Kelly had a successful 15-year leadership career, yet she was burned out, exhausted, and missing out on life with family.
In this podcast, Kelly and Jo discuss what a toxic corporate environment looks like and how organisations can educate their employees on recognising the signs of burnout and preventing it in the first place.
The Association of Women Travel Executives present Kelly Swingler, leading motivational speaker, coach and author for core-led professional women.
According to the WHO, Burnout is an occupational phenomenon. And the CIPD Good Work Index 2022 still suggests that health and wellbeing, work-life balance are an increasing concern for people.
Amongst the HR profession, burnout is on the rise and HR professionals are at a high risk of burnout comparatively to other disciplines.