Episode 200. That's the number today — but this one isn't really about the number.

Four years ago, I started this podcast while on the inaugural Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program, wanting to share coaching tools without anyone needing to be in a formal coaching relationship.

Today's episode is a thank you to everyone who's pressed play since — and a reminder of what this whole thing was actually for. Burnout isolates us. It pulls us out of community right when we need it most. This podcast has always been a vehicle for something simple: helping people feel heard, and helping people learn to hear each other.

In this episode:
Why I started the podcast in October 2022, and how it's grown into keynotes, workshops, and coaching
Catching up with fellow AUSCEP crew - Dr Amandeep Hansra and Dr Carlo Bellini - at the Creative Careers in Medicine Conference on the Gold Coast
Two simple connection questions you can ask a colleague this week — no coaching qualification required: What is actually true here versus what you're assuming? What would you do if you weren't afraid of getting it wrong? 

A reflection question: when did someone last make you feel like a person, not a job title — and could you be that for someone else this week? 

Thank you for being part of this. It only exists because you keep listening — and sending it to someone else who needed it.

Connect with me: IG/FB: @burnoutrecoverydr LinkedIn: Dr Jo Braid Weekly newsletter, The Sunday Long Game: drjobraid.com/subscribe

Episode 200. That's the number today &mdash; but this one isn't really about the number.
Four years ago, I started this podcast while on the inaugural Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program, wanting to share coaching tools without anyone needing to be in a formal coaching relationship.
Today's episode is a thank you to everyone who's pressed play since &mdash; and a reminder of what this whole thing was actually for. Burnout isolates us. It pulls us out of community right when we need it most. This podcast has always been a vehicle for something simple: helping people feel heard, and helping people learn to hear each other.
In this episode:
<ul>
<li>Why I started the podcast in October 2022, and how it's grown into keynotes, workshops, and coaching</li>
<li>Catching up with fellow AUSCEP crew - Dr Amandeep Hansra and Dr Carlo Bellini - at the Creative Careers in Medicine Conference on the Gold Coast</li>
<li>Two simple connection questions you can ask a colleague this week &mdash; no coaching qualification required: What is actually true here versus what you're assuming? What would you do if you weren't afraid of getting it wrong?&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
A reflection question: when did someone last make you feel like a person, not a job title &mdash; and could you be that for someone else this week?&nbsp;
Thank you for being part of this. It only exists because you keep listening &mdash; and sending it to someone else who needed it.
Connect with me: IG/FB: @burnoutrecoverydr LinkedIn: Dr Jo Braid Weekly newsletter, The Sunday Long Game: drjobraid.com/subscribe

Welcome to The Burnout Recovery Podcast, where we're creating a global movement to keep healthcare professionals thriving in the careers they love.

I'm Dr Jo Braid, your host and The Burnout Recovery Doctor. Whether you're a med student just starting out, an allied health professional at the point of care, or a seasoned doctor feeling the weight of the system - this podcast is your lifeline back to sustainable practice.

Here's what I know: when one healthcare professional recovers from burnout and builds a sustainable career, the ripple effect reaches patients, families, colleagues, and communities around the world. That's the power of change where it matters most.

In each episode, you'll discover evidence-based strategies and real-world tools to not just survive healthcare, but to thrive in it. Because the world needs you healthy, energized, and passionate about the work that called you here in the first place.

This isn't just about individual recovery - it's about transforming healthcare from the inside out, one professional at a time.

Ready to be part of the solution? Let's dive in.

Welcome to The Burnout Recovery Podcast, where we're creating a global movement to keep healthcare professionals thriving in the careers they love.
I'm Dr Jo Braid, your host and The Burnout Recovery Doctor. Whether you're a med student just starting out, an allied health professional at the point of care, or a seasoned doctor feeling the weight of the system - this podcast is your lifeline back to sustainable practice.
Here's what I know: when one healthcare professional recovers from burnout and builds a sustainable career, the ripple effect reaches patients, families, colleagues, and communities around the world. That's the power of change where it matters most.
In each episode, you'll discover evidence-based strategies and real-world tools to not just survive healthcare, but to thrive in it. Because the world needs you healthy, energized, and passionate about the work that called you here in the first place.
This isn't just about individual recovery - it's about transforming healthcare from the inside out, one professional at a time.
Ready to be part of the solution? Let's dive in.

The Burnout Recovery Podcast

200 Episodes: What This Podcast Was Actually For

You cut your hours to protect your time, and that protected time can become the most raided time in your week.

Dr Jo Braid shares what a real, full Monday looks like (home visit, clinical letters, her own coaching session, a board meeting) and why chosen switching feels like a rhythm while imposed switching feels like being pecked at.

IN THIS EPISODE:
Why so many clinicians go part-time, and where the inbox goes on their days off
Why a "quick" email costs more than it looks, and why the enemy is the open loop, not the switch
The rituals you already own for moving between roles: the drive, the school gate, the change of clothes

THE RESEARCH: Shanafelt et al., Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2016: emotional exhaustion and cutting hours (correlation, not causation) Micek et al., JAMA Network Open, 2023: part-time physicians and inbox time (US, one health service)

TRY THIS: THE PROTECTED DAY CHARTER
Name the zone and its edge: this zone is for ___ and ends when ___.
Close the loop: one minute on where you left off and what's next.
Guard the threshold: decide what earns an interruption and who covers the rest.
REFLECT Which of your zones has a clear edge, and which one bleeds into the next?
Is your self-care inside your day, or squeezed in around it?

THIS WEEK
Name your zones.
Pick one blurry edge and give it a marker: a one-minute note, a walk, a timer.

CONNECT: Instagram/Facebook: @burnoutrecoverydr

LinkedIn: drjobraid The Sunday Long Game (weekly newsletter): drjobraid.com/subscribe 

Boundary Scripts for Clinicians: drjobraid.com/store

Be human first, everything else will follow.

You cut your hours to protect your time, and that protected time can become the most raided time in your week.
Dr Jo Braid shares what a real, full Monday looks like (home visit, clinical letters, her own coaching session, a board meeting) and why chosen switching feels like a rhythm while imposed switching feels like being pecked at.
IN THIS EPISODE:
<ul>
<li>Why so many clinicians go part-time, and where the inbox goes on their days off</li>
<li>Why a "quick" email costs more than it looks, and why the enemy is the open loop, not the switch</li>
<li>The rituals you already own for moving between roles: the drive, the school gate, the change of clothes</li>
</ul>
THE RESEARCH:&nbsp;Shanafelt et al., Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2016: emotional exhaustion and cutting hours (correlation, not causation) Micek et al., JAMA Network Open, 2023: part-time physicians and inbox time (US, one health service)
TRY THIS:&nbsp;THE PROTECTED DAY CHARTER
<ul>
<li>Name the zone and its edge: this zone is for ___ and ends when ___.</li>
<li>Close the loop: one minute on where you left off and what's next.</li>
<li>Guard the threshold: decide what earns an interruption and who covers the rest.</li>
<li>REFLECT Which of your zones has a clear edge, and which one bleeds into the next?</li>
<li>Is your self-care inside your day, or squeezed in around it?</li>
</ul>
THIS WEEK
<ul>
<li>Name your zones.</li>
<li>Pick one blurry edge and give it a marker: a one-minute note, a walk, a timer.</li>
</ul>
CONNECT: Instagram/Facebook: @burnoutrecoverydr
LinkedIn: drjobraid The Sunday Long Game (weekly newsletter): drjobraid.com/subscribe&nbsp;
Boundary Scripts for Clinicians: drjobraid.com/store
Be human first, everything else will follow.

The Part-Time Paradox: Protecting the Time You Do Have

Registrar to consultant, the job changes shape. Less doing, more being. So why do so many of us keep doing all of it anyway?

A coaching story about chasing a patient's scan, a waiting room, and the guilt of asking someone else to help — and why that guilt is worth pushing through.

THE SIGNAL 🩺 Patient sent back to the waiting room while the scan gets tracked down — laborious, repeated, patient after patient

🎯 "Top of registration": Sinsky & Bodenheimer on redistributing tasks to reduce burnout

🧠 The real cost of task-switching between admin and clinical thinking

😬 Why delegating can feel like guilt, not relief — and what that guilt is actually protecting THE RESET

✅ Sort your task list: "only I can do this" vs "this just always defaulted to me"

✅ Name the guilt out loud when you hand something off

✅ Run a Top of Registration Audit for one day

✅ Delegate one task this week, guilt and all The doing crowds out the being. Hand some of the doing back.

🔗 Get the words for the moment: No Is a Full Sentence, at drjobraid.com/store

📩 The Sunday Long Game, my weekly newsletter: drjobraid.com/subscribe

📱 Instagram/Facebook: @burnoutrecoverydr

💼 LinkedIn: Dr Jo Braid This episode is supported by MIGA www.miga.com.au

Registrar to consultant, the job changes shape. Less doing, more being. So why do so many of us keep doing all of it anyway?
A coaching story about chasing a patient's scan, a waiting room, and the guilt of asking someone else to help &mdash; and why that guilt is worth pushing through.
THE SIGNAL 🩺 Patient sent back to the waiting room while the scan gets tracked down &mdash; laborious, repeated, patient after patient
🎯 "Top of registration": Sinsky &amp; Bodenheimer on redistributing tasks to reduce burnout
🧠 The real cost of task-switching between admin and clinical thinking
😬 Why delegating can feel like guilt, not relief &mdash; and what that guilt is actually protecting THE RESET
✅ Sort your task list: "only I can do this" vs "this just always defaulted to me"
✅ Name the guilt out loud when you hand something off
✅ Run a Top of Registration Audit for one day
✅ Delegate one task this week, guilt and all The doing crowds out the being. Hand some of the doing back.
🔗 Get the words for the moment: No Is a Full Sentence, at drjobraid.com/store
📩 The Sunday Long Game, my weekly newsletter: drjobraid.com/subscribe
📱 Instagram/Facebook: @burnoutrecoverydr
💼 LinkedIn: Dr Jo Braid This episode is supported by MIGA www.miga.com.au

The Delegation Boundary — Why Doing It Yourself Is Costing You

If you're still contactable, are you actually on leave? A watched moment on a family holiday — one work email, and the mood shifted for everyone.

This episode looks at why accessibility during leave costs more than we think, and what to actually put in place before you go.

THE SIGNAL
 📧 One out-of-hours email, and the holiday brain switches off 
🧠 Allostatic load: your body doesn't always know "quick" from "urgent" 
🔬 Sinsky et al, JAMA Network Open 2024: inbox coverage predicts real detachment 
🏥 Stanford Medicine wellbeing data: 100% found an Out of Office best-practice doc helpful; 77% found a "life outside work" grand rounds moment helpful

THE RESET 
✅ Name one delegate before you leave, not as you're walking out the door ✅ Update your out-of-office with their contact, not just "I'll reply when I'm back" 
✅ Separate work email/phone — a physical barrier beats willpower 
✅ Bring the culture piece to your team, not just yourself

Hope is not a boundary. A named delegate is.

🔗 Get the words for the moment: No Is a Full Sentence, at drjobraid.com/store

📩 The Sunday Long Game, my weekly newsletter: drjobraid.com/subscribe

📱 Instagram/Facebook: @burnoutrecoverydr 💼 LinkedIn: Dr Jo Braid

This episode is supported by MIGA. www.miga.com.au

If you're still contactable, are you actually on leave? A watched moment on a family holiday &mdash; one work email, and the mood shifted for everyone.
This episode looks at why accessibility during leave costs more than we think, and what to actually put in place before you go.
THE SIGNAL &nbsp;📧 One out-of-hours email, and the holiday brain switches off&nbsp; 🧠 Allostatic load: your body doesn't always know "quick" from "urgent"&nbsp; 🔬 Sinsky et al, JAMA Network Open 2024: inbox coverage predicts real detachment&nbsp; 🏥 Stanford Medicine wellbeing data: 100% found an Out of Office best-practice doc helpful; 77% found a "life outside work" grand rounds moment helpful
THE RESET&nbsp; ✅ Name one delegate before you leave, not as you're walking out the door ✅ Update your out-of-office with their contact, not just "I'll reply when I'm back"&nbsp; ✅ Separate work email/phone &mdash; a physical barrier beats willpower&nbsp; ✅ Bring the culture piece to your team, not just yourself
Hope is not a boundary. A named delegate is.
🔗 Get the words for the moment: No Is a Full Sentence, at drjobraid.com/store
📩 The Sunday Long Game, my weekly newsletter: drjobraid.com/subscribe
📱 Instagram/Facebook: @burnoutrecoverydr 💼 LinkedIn: Dr Jo Braid
This episode is supported by MIGA. www.miga.com.au

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