FRIED: The Burnout Podcast

FRIED: The Burnout Podcast

By Cait Donovan, Top Burnout Expert for Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations

The place to listen to real, raw stories of burnout and burnout recovery so that you can learn: Burnout is Real. You're not alone. This is doable. There are resources for you. Someone like you has been through this and has answers for you. Interviews go deep and discuss trauma, race, deep depression, thoughts of suicide and of course, the light that enters once the realization happens and the decision to make a change has been made. We're here with you. For all of it.
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07/12/26

Moral Injury Is Costing You Your Best People - a Harvard Trained Neurologist Explains with Dr. Zarya Rubin

Dr. Zarya Rubin spent twelve years as a neurologist before realizing the career she'd sacrificed everything for no longer matched who she'd become. What she figured out on the way out is exactly what most corporate and nonprofit leaders are missing r… Read more

06/28/26

Your Boss's Burnout Is Burning You Out Too.

There's a story from the 1840s that is going to make you furious. And then it's going to make you look at burnout solutions very differently. Stress spreads like a nasty bug. We have the data. We know what interventions work. We have the results. And… Read more

06/21/26

Your Workplace Is a Soap Opera. Here's How to Rewrite the Script with Robyn Hatcher

Burnout does not start with overwork. It starts with miscommunication. Robyn Hatcher, keynote speaker and former soap opera writer for All My Children and One Life to Live, joins Cait to break down why every company has a show bible and what happens … Read more

06/14/26

Burnout Recovery Is Surging: What Leaders Need to Know Right Now

Burnout searches just hit 24.8 million per month, and searches for burnout recovery grew 1,000 percent year over year (for those not great at math, that's 10x more searches for burnout recovery this year as compared to last year). Cait digs into a re… Read more

06/07/26

350 Episodes In: The Burnout Story I Haven't Told in a While, a #straightfromcait episode

EPISODE SUMMARY Cait Donovan has spent the last seven years building one of the most rigorous, nuanced frameworks for understanding burnout in the world. In episode 350, she finally tells the full story of how she got there -- and it turns out it sta… Read more

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