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Epi 43: Breaking the Burnout Cycle (Part II): What to Expect When Youâre Healing Burnout
If youâre trying to heal from burnout but still feel stressed and exhausted, you'll want to listen to this one. Burnout recovery isnât linear, and feeling better doesnât happen overnight. In this episode, we talk...
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Epi 42: Breaking the Burnout Cycle (Part I): When Burnout Feels Like a Personal Failure & What Actually Breaks the Cycle
Ever find yourself sitting in the parking lot before a shift, stressed, dreading walking in, and wondering why everyone else looks like they have it together while youâre questioning whether youâre cut out for...
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Epi 41: Why Burnout Doesnât Go Away, Even in Better Workplaces (Part II)
You love veterinary medicine, but the people, systems, expectations, constant pressure, and challenging cases are slowly draining you.
In Part 2 of this series, we dive into how to actually fix effortâreward imbalance...
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Epi 40: When Itâs Not the Medicine, but the People, Systems, and Expectations That Burn You Out in Vet Med (Part I)
Ever feel like youâre pouring everything you have into your work, yet still feeling unappreciated and ending the day exhausted, resentful, or emotionally drained?
Effortâreward imbalance is a research-backed burnout...
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Epi 39: Rough Shift? How to Vent About Vet Med Without Trauma-Dumping at Home
You love the people in your life, but theyâre not in veterinary medicine, and sometimes talking about work leaves everyone feeling frustrated, misunderstood, or overwhelmed.
In this episode, I break down why we feel...
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Epi 38: Canât Stop Overanalyzing Every Decision & Conversation at 2 AM? Hereâs Whatâs Going On (& How to Stop)
Join us in this episode as we dive into the exhausting (and weirdly universal) mental spiral of replaying cases, second-guessing decisions, and waking up at 2 AM thinking about something that wasnât even a problem...
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Epi 37: Why Are We Still Using âRemember Your Whyâ as Burnout Advice? Itâs Useless, But Hereâs What Actually Works
If youâve ever been told the cure for burnout was âremember your why,â as in remember why you got into this profession despite the disrespect, the short staffing, the underpay, and the ridiculous hours⌠this one is...
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Epi 36: Did That 1-Star Google Review Ruin Your Week? Hereâs How to Quit Overexplaining Yourself So Youâre Not Mentally Drained All the Time
OMG...this is a JUICY episode!
Weâre getting into one of the most exhausting habits fueling burnout in veterinary medicine: the urge to over-explain, defend, or justify every decision or recommendation you make.
From...
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Epi 35: Fresh Out of F*cks? Hereâs How to Stop Letting Other Peopleâs Opinions Drain You
Weâre talking about why you care so deeply about what other people think and how that pattern gets wired in through childhood, experiences, and past situations.
Iâm sharing real-life vet-med scenarios, personal...
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Epi 34: Profits Over Patients? No Wonder Youâre Burnt Out! Hereâs What to Do...
Feeling burnt out because your clinic cares more about profits than patients? đŹ
In this episode, we unpack what values misalignment really looks like, how to spot it, and what to do so you donât just job-hop into...
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Epi 33: Overthinking to Trusting Your Gut (Part III)
In this last episode of the series on Trusting Your Gut, we chat about why your brain loves to spiral (hello, fear + people-pleasing đ) and why replaying cases in your head doesnât save lives.
Youâll learn how to tell...
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Epi 32: From Overthinking Everything to Finally Trusting Yourself (Part II: Imposter Syndrome)
In this second part of the series, Iâm breaking down why imposter syndrome sticks around no matter how many degrees or gold stars you collect, and how to finally rewire your brain so you can trust yourself, stop...
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