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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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

05/31/26

The 4 Behaviors of A Toxic Workplace a #straightfromcait episode

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/UffD0Ec0SX4 Cait Donovan, host of FRIED. The Burnout Podcast breaks down a 2018 peer-reviewed study on toxic workplaces and what it actually proves about the relationship between organizational dysfunct… Read more

05/24/26

Toxic or Just a Bad Fit? How to Tell the Difference at Work with Leanne Elliott of Truth, Lies, & Work

Your workplace might not be toxic. It might just be missing the biology lesson that explains why everyone keeps behaving badly. Work burnout is rarely one person's failure, and this conversation makes that case clearly. Occupational psychologist an… Read more

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