The StArt Show
Season 1: The Search (From Burnout to Ever-vescence)
Three warnings before the break.
A leap that didn’t make sense
A search that changed everything.
I burned out three times.
On the third, just as my daughter’s first cries rang into the world, I jumped.
I stepped out.
No income. No title. No clear plan.
Not because I had it figured out…
but because staying was costing more.
What followed was not a strategy… yet.
It started as a search.
Coffee shops.
‘Yes’ to every invitation.
Answered strange messages.
Walked into conversations I couldn’t explain.
Along the way, I met people —
mentors, teachers, disruptors… a few I had to unlearn.
Some showed me who I was.
Some... who I wasn’t.
Some sharpened my craft.
Some broke my patterns.
They helped me find something I hadn’t found yet:
my voice… my way… my work.
I had jumped the cliff… and discovered my wings on the way down.
Most people don’t need to go that far.
But something does need to shift.
This podcast is not about burnout.
It’s about what burnout reveals…
and what becomes possible next.
Each episode traces steps in that search:
how high performers lose alignment
how clarity returns
how resilient creativity reawakens
how people rebuild, inside out.
If this is you —
capable, committed, but quietly misaligned…
And if you lead people like this —
sensing something is off…
This podcast is for you.
Because here’s what I’ve learned, inside organisations and alongside them:
You don’t need people to leave to find their way.
But you do need to create the conditions where they can:
stabilise before they break
rediscover their thinking
grow within and beyond their roles
bring their full, human capacity to their work
experience growth and wellbeing.
Today, I help leaders, founders, and teams do exactly that.
And I help individuals find their voice and shape their path —
without needing to disappear to do it.
You don’t have to jump the cliff.
But you do have to see what it’s costing you not to.
Welcome to The StArt Show.
Three warnings before the break.
A leap that didn’t make sense
A search that changed everything.
I burned out three times.
On the third, just as my daughter’s first cries rang into the world, I jumped.
I stepped out.
No income. No title. No clear plan.
Not because I had it figured out…
but because staying was costing more.
What followed was not a strategy… yet.
It started as a search.
Coffee shops.
‘Yes’ to every invitation.
Answered strange messages.
Walked into conversations I couldn’t explain.
Along the way, I met people —
mentors, teachers, disruptors… a few I had to unlearn.
Some showed me who I was.
Some... who I wasn’t.
Some sharpened my craft.
Some broke my patterns.
They helped me find something I hadn’t found yet:
my voice… my way… my work.
I had jumped the cliff… and discovered my wings on the way down.
Most people don’t need to go that far.
But something does need to shift.
This podcast is not about burnout.
It’s about what burnout reveals…
and what becomes possible next.
Each episode traces steps in that search:
how high performers lose alignment
how clarity returns
how resilient creativity reawakens
how people rebuild, inside out.
If this is you —
capable, committed, but quietly misaligned…
And if you lead people like this —
sensing something is off…
This podcast is for you.
Because here’s what I’ve learned, inside organisations and alongside them:
You don’t need people to leave to find their way.
But you do need to create the conditions where they can:
stabilise before they break
rediscover their thinking
grow within and beyond their roles
bring their full, human capacity to their work
experience growth and wellbeing.
Today, I help leaders, founders, and teams do exactly that.
And I help individuals find their voice and shape their path —
without needing to disappear to do it.
You don’t have to jump the cliff.
But you do have to see what it’s costing you not to.
Welcome to The StArt Show.
