Clinician Burnout Warning Signs: Can You Hear Your Body?

Ever finish a full clinic afternoon and only notice your shoulders when you start the car? Your body was talking the whole time. In episode 207 of the Burnout Recovery Podcast, Dr Jo Braid explains why high-performing clinicians override their body's early burnout signals, and gives you a simple ma…

Wired to Connect - Why Your Brain Treats Isolation Like a Threat

Episode 206 kicks off a 10-episode series on connection: with yourself, your colleagues, your patients and your purpose. We start with the brain, because connection is not a nice-to-have for people with spare time. It is biology. Dr Jo takes you to a women in leadership course in Prato, near Flore…

Decide Before You're Tired

Boundaries don't fall over in the planning meeting. They fall over when you're tired. So decide before you are. Episode 205 is the final episode of the Boundaries series. You already know the skills. This one is about holding them in October, when the tank is low and the year still has weeks to ru…

"Good Luck, Carry On for 30 Years": Why Doctors Need Supervision (with Dr Suzi Hamilton)

Doctors are supervised at every step of training, then told "good luck, carry on for 30 years." Dr Suzi Hamilton thinks there's a better way. Suzi is an emergency physician in Christchurch, New Zealand, who also works in the Chief Medical Officer's team as Director of Workforce Development, and co…

The Phone Is Not the Boss of You

Your phone doesn't need to ring for it to cost you. In this episode, Dr Jo Braid shares a moment from her own coaching session when one glimpse of a lit-up screen quietly pulled her out of the room, and what the neuroscience says about why that happens. This episode covers: The telepressure trap. …

Allowed to Take Up Space: The Self-Esteem Behind Every Boundary

You can know every script. You can know that no is a full sentence. And you can still say yes — because some quieter part of you doesn't believe you're allowed to say no. This week Jo goes underneath the boundaries series to look at the self-esteem doing the real work behind every hard conversation…

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

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…

200 Episodes: What This Podcast Was Actually For

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 episod…

The Delegation Boundary — Why Doing It Yourself Is Costing You

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 🩺 P…

Do Boundaries Clock Off? What Really Happens on Leave

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-…