You Are Not A Frog
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You Are Not A Frog
The podcast for GPs, hospital doctors and other professionals in high-stakes, high-stress jobs who want to thrive rather than just survive. You studied for years, you’re really good at what you do but you’ve noticed that you’re starting to feel overwhelmed, overworked and under-resourced. You may b...
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How to Stay Calm When You Don’t Know What Will Happen Next
You’re used to dealing with uncertain outcomes for your patients. Here’s how you can use those superpowers for yourself.
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If I don’t do it, who else will?
Why saying no could lead to better outcomes for your patients, your colleagues, and you.
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Clear and Direct is Better than Hinting and Hoping
How to ask for what you need clearly instead of hoping they’ll take the hint, and to set expectations without feeling bossy.
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How to Stop Toxic People Pushing All Your Buttons
Dr Claire Plumbly shares strategies for nervous system regulation when dealing with angry patients and difficult colleagues.
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How Bad Does it Have to Get Before You Act?
If you’re overwhelmed at work, jumping out of the frying pan might seem like the only option. But there are things you can try today… you just have to...
Why “Keep Calm and Carry On” Fuels Burnout
Burnout happens when work stress and home pressures overrun our support structures. When we understand this balance, we can take steps to address burn...
Why Doctors Don’t Ask for Help – And How to Do it Right
Stop being gaslit into thinking your situation is futile. Apply Rachel’s script to ask for help in getting necessary care so you can be at your most e...
What Do You Want from Work in the Second Half of Life?
When it comes to work, what we seek can often shift in mid-life, from recognition and status towards meaningful contribution and purpose. What do you...
Why You’re Stressed When Everyone Else is Calm
Stress is created from the mind, not from the outside world. If that’s true, how can we stop listening to the unhelpful stories our minds tell us?
How to Get Better Sleep
Why we need to sleep, why REM isn’t the whole picture, and what to do when anxiety keeps you awake at night.
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How to Eat Better and Keep Your Energy Up
When that afternoon slump hits or you’re at the end of a long shift, what can you reach for instead of the biscuits in the cupboard or the cake in the...
The 4 Books to Read This Summer to Set Up Your Next 6 Months for Success
Essential reading to help you learn more about your brain and the brains of those around you, do less, and make decisions from a place of clarity.
How to Boost Your Leadership Skills (Even if You Don’t Think You’re a Leader)
Everyone in healthcare takes a leading role at various points in their career, even those who think they “just” handle admin. Dr Paul O’Dwyer explains...
The Personal Cost of Working in Burnout
Are you borrowing energy from your life outside of work, just so you can cope with everything on your plate? If so, it’s time to stop, and rebalance y...
How to Survive a Complaint from Another Clinician
Dr George Wright offers ways to tackle blue-on-blue complaints, and how to avoid going for the nuclear option if you have an issue with a colleague.
What to Do When You Can’t Fix the System
How to shift your locus of control and create sustainable change without burning out.
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5 Things Holding You Back from Getting the Career You Love
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side, but if you’re thinking about making a career change, understanding your values, strengths, and uniqu...
Why Wearing the Busy Badge is Burning You Out (And What to Do Instead)
Four ways in which the “badge of busyness” you wear could be contributing to your burnout, how to reframe busy or over-scheduled, and how you can dele...
How to Stop Money from Being Stressful
If you’ve been putting off taking a look at your finances, this episode will help you do it, minus the stress and judgement.
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How to Say Yes When No isn’t an Option
The 8 reframes you need when you have to say no, but you’re worried you’ll upset someone or it’ll cause trouble at work.
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What to Do if Someone Challenges YOUR Behaviour
How to know when you’re reaching your limit, and what to do to prevent you taking it out on someone else.
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Is All-or-Nothing Thinking Pushing You to Burnout?
Explore the consequences of binary thinking, why it’s damaging, and how we can reframe all-or-nothing statements so we can take care of ourselves and...
The 5 Different Types of Burnout – And How to Prevent Them
Five diagnostic tools you can use to determine whether you’re burning out, and the practical actions you can take to try and prevent it.
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What if Your Job Was Just a Job? (And 4 Other Thought Experiments)
Five questions to help you think differently about your work, in those moments when you find it more frustrating than usual.
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Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side of Medicine?
If you’re contemplating a change within or away from medicine, is starting your own business really all it’s cracked up to be?
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How to Beat Inbox Overwhelm
The mindset shift – plus the only 6 folders you need – to finally get control over your inbox.
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What to Do BEFORE You Get a Neurodivergence Diagnosis
What should you do if you suspect you might be neurodivergent? What’s the difference between neurodivergence and neurodiversity? And how can we suppor...
How to Protect Yourself from the Guilt of Saying No
Break the cognitive dissonance you feel when enforcing a boundary goes against one of your core values.
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How to Listen to Your Intuition
When you hear a voice guiding you towards or away from something, how can you tell whether it’s fear or your deepest intuition talking?
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11 Ways to Back Your Wise Self
How to overcome procrastination, follow through on your goals, and stick to the wise decisions you made in the past.
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Doctors with ADHD
If you struggle to keep on top of certain activities or you find a rigid schedule too constricting, you might be neurodivergent. And there are plenty...
The Trouble with Wellbeing
The key to beating burnout is not more wellbeing webinars; it’s giving you agency and autonomy over your time. Here’s how you can start to take back c...
How to Be Kind Instead of Nice (and Why it Matters)
Kindness builds trust in teams, and teams that trust each-other work more smoothly. When mistakes happen, they’re addressed from a place of positivity...
How to Make Long-term Behaviour Change Stick
Committing to behaviour change is one thing. Making it stick when life gets in the way or others’ needs conflict with yours is another matter. Alasdai...
How to Leave Work on Time
If changing ingrained behaviours was easy, no-one would have unhealthy habits, work too much, or fail to enforce boundaries. Here’s what a behaviour c...
How to Choose What Kind of Problem You Want
How to make the right decisions in the short-term so you don’t create problems in the long-term… featuring Brian the robot hoover.
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How to Plan Your Year for Peak Performance
What are your goals for the new year, and how do you plan to meet them? This conversation with former Paralympian Dr Kim Daybell will help you focus o...
Are You Amplifying Your Overwhelm? Here’s How to Stop
How to beat perfectionism, people-pleasing, conflict-aversion, and the many other things that amplify your sense of overwhelm.
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How to Manage Your Energy Instead of Your Time
Focusing on managing your time can lead to overwhelm and a sense that there’s just not enough. But with a few simple exercises, we can think about how...
How to Stop a Difficult Conversation Going Bad
When someone asks “Have you got 5 minutes for a call?”, here’s how to set yourself up for success to ensure neither you or nor the other party feels d...