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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10/18/26

Bankrupt and in the Hall of Fame the Same Year: How Leaders Climb Out of Crisis, with Jess Pettitt

"The same year that I filed bankruptcy, I was inducted into the Hall of Fame." Jess Pettitt On Inauguration Day, my friend Jess Pettitt lost her largest contract. Not because of anything she did. The entire office she worked with was closed 21 minute… Read more

10/11/26

Why Good People Burn Out in Good Organizations: Jess Pettitt Interviews Me About Mismatch

Preorder Mismatch (out October 27, 2026): https://caitdonovan.com/mismatch "I just, for the first time, realized that I'm not actually in a toxic workplace. I'm just in a bad match." From an email a coaching client sent me. For almost three years, … Read more

10/04/26

Your Team Already Knows You're Burnt Out: Leadership, Capacity and the Busy Badge, with Anton Gunn

Your team already knows you're burnt out. Anton Gunn said it out loud on one of his leadership lives, and I almost drove off the road: "Leaders, your team knows you're burnt out, so here's what we're going to do about it." In this episode, I sit down… Read more

09/27/26

Burnout Is Not Your Fault, It's a Mismatch: An Early Look at My New Book, a #straightfromcait episode

FRIED Fam, One month before Mismatch: Why Good People Burn Out in Good Organizations lands, I got the email I was most nervous to open. A beta reader who has read a mountain of burnout books, and admits her honest reaction to most of them is "meh," t… Read more

09/20/26

Former SWAT Negotiator: The Workplace Mental Health Lie Nobody Tells You | Jessi Beyer

FRIED Fam, Your company cares about mental health. There is a flyer in the break room, a pizza party in September, and an EAP number nobody calls. And people are still quietly drowning at their desks. This week I sit down with Jessi Beyer, MHP, a cri… Read more

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