Monthly Archives: May 2025

How do you deal with burnout when you’re in it?



We all know what we *should* be doing to recover from burnout, but how to do manage that when you’re already in the process of burning out? Plus we’ve got an interesting chat about privacy – is it the ultimate luxury and how do we protect it?

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Here is your 30 day burnout recovery guide, courtesy of chatGPT: https://open.substack.com/pub/growthinprogresspodcast/p/i-asked-chatgpt-for-a-30-day-burnout?r=51hwgi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Recommendations:

Salaryman on Amazon Prime

Things I do BTS to Protect my Privacy as an Influencer


Why is sharing ambitions outloud so uncomfortable?



It’s picky tea season in the UK but there’s a rogue revelation that someone doesn’t like picky tea… Helli has only just discovered a British staple podcast and Charlotte is repeating last week’s recommendation… we’re here for the chaos! We’re also chatting about why sharing our ambitions outloud feels so exposing, particularly as women and the tension between going after what you want but not being “too” ambitious and not wanting to be seen to fail.

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Want a taste? Here’s the bonus episode from March where we’re talking about Gwen Stefani, her right wing values and the discourse around that.

Recommendations

Off Menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble – the episode with Jeff Goldblum

P.Diddy: The Rise and Fall on BBC iPlayer


But do you even like it?



Boyzone, cosy murder-mysteries, and all the regular chaos you’ve come to expect from us this week, plus we discuss whether we even enjoy half the things we do, or are we just good at them?

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Want a taste? Here’s the bonus episode from March where we’re talking about Gwen Stefani, her right wing values and the discourse around that.

Recommendations

Boyzone Documentary on Now TV

The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz


The hypocrisy of the soft life aesthetic



We’re mixing heavy recommendations with a sprinkle of lighter ones this week, and we’re chatting all about Soft Life…

The Soft Life Aesthetic is supposed to be the antidote to Hustle Culture, the idea is to have more self-compassion, more intentionality, slow mornings and effortless routines. But the very nature of this curated trend means there is a lot of hypocrisy and privilege in what the soft life aesthetic stands for and the nature of creating content online means it is far from effortless. But there are some fundamentals of this trend that are important and speak to a wider craving of our generation for a more gentle, slower and compassionate lifestyle.

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Recommendations

IYCMI podcast – Have Influencers Become to Normalized to be Mocked?

Louis Theroux: The Settlers on BBC

Also mentioned

Bad Influence on Netflix

Ransom Canyon on Netflix