The Podcast
Share. Inspire. Explore. is the podcast from Where I'm At. Through solo episodes and conversations with guests, it looks at burnout, recovery, career change, and what honest reinvention actually looks like in practice. Calm and grounded, without pressure to have it all worked out.
Almost everyone recovering from burnout mentions their sleep, usually quietly. This episode brings it into the main conversation. Chris Wilson sits down with Kathryn Pinkham, founder of The Insomnia Clinic and one of…
People pleasing rarely looks like a problem. It looks like being dependable, reliable, the one who always says yes. Content note: this episode contains a personal account of burnout including a period of intense…
Burnout does not only live in the mind. It shows up in the face: the jaw you clench, the brow you hold, the tension you stopped noticing years ago. Chris Wilson sits down with Vienna based face yoga teacher and presence…
High performers are often the worst at resting, and it is not because they do not know how. It is because rest has to be earned first. Simone Arlits spent more than fifteen years in corporate leadership before her body…
Heather Simco built a career, a business and a polished public life while privately struggling with addiction, and almost nobody around her could see it. Content note: this episode includes a personal account of…
Overworking. Endless scrolling. A drink to take the edge off. The things we reach for when burnout sets in start as survival and do not always stay that way. Chris Wilson sits down again with resilience coach and…
Chronic stress is not just in your head. It shows up in your DNA, your inflammation levels and how much energy your cells can actually make. Dr Andreia Luis is a biomedical scientist with a PhD from the Medical…
Rest is necessary. For most people in burnout recovery it is also not enough on its own. Organisational psychologist Dr Ben Searle explains what positive psychology adds to burnout recovery, and why reconnecting with…
Katrin Tschürtz had five jobs on one contract. She asked for help. Nothing changed. So she kept going, until she couldn't. Katrin shares the full arc of her burnout: the years of overwork in the film industry, the panic…
Burnout can come back. Even when you have been through it before. Even when the work you are doing is work you built for yourself. In this Season 2 opener I give the honest account of what happened between seasons. A…
You can't outwork your wounds. That is the one lesson underneath everything else in this season. The fall was Part 1. The surrender was Part 2. This is Part 3, and the last episode of Season 1. I close the personal…
The actual moment of surrender is not cinematic. It is 4am, a work laptop, and an email that says I can't come in. Part two of my three part burnout story is about what came after the collapse. What asking for help…
Burnout does not start at work. Mine started in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Growing up somewhere the world could shift without warning, I learned quietly, without anyone teaching me, to stay braced, stay…
If the first half was about recognising the pattern, this one is about where it came from and what starts to change it. Chris Wilson continues with Alina Meyer-Riad into the psychology underneath work addiction:…
Work addiction is harder to spot than most patterns, because it is the one that gets rewarded. In the first half of a two part conversation, Chris Wilson sits down with Alina Meyer-Riad to work out what work addiction…
Burnout is not only about work. Plenty of people carrying emotional exhaustion are also carrying a load outside the workplace that keeps it going, even when the job itself is not that bad. This solo episode covers the…
If burnout has left you exhausted and questioning yourself, working out when to ask for help, and what kind, is its own problem on top of the first one. Psychotherapist Claudia Bayer joins Chris Wilson again to look at…
Burnout recovery is not only about getting better. It is about understanding what keeps standing in the way of staying well. Chris Wilson and organisational psychologist Dr Ben Searle continue through the six obstacles…
Burnout recovery is not as simple as taking time off. For a lot of people it feels harder than the burnout did. Chris Wilson is joined by Dr Ben Searle, organisational psychologist, consultant and host of the Mind on…
What happens when the workplace you believed in turns toxic, and can HR lead the change when it is caught between the people and the power? Karin Kradischnig, HR expert and founder of Coaching4HR, returns to talk with…
If a workplace is toxic, can HR actually fix it? And if not HR, then who? Chris Wilson continues with HR expert Karin Kradischnig, founder of Coaching4HR, on whether broken cultures can be repaired and what it costs the…
What makes a workplace toxic, and why does HR so often end up caught in the middle of it? Karin Kradischnig, HR expert and founder of Coaching4HR, joins Chris Wilson with twenty years of HR and leadership experience…
Burnout recovery is not finished the day you go back. Staying well once you are there is a separate problem, and mostly not one you can solve alone. Chris Wilson speaks with HR consultant and workplace wellbeing…
Returning to work after burnout is often harder than the burnout was. Chris Wilson is joined by Janina Liensberger-Desnica, a strategic HR consultant working in organisational development, to talk about what happens…
Supporting someone through burnout recovery costs the person doing the supporting, and HR is rarely given anywhere to put that. In the second half, Chris Wilson and HR consultant Martina Teufner get into what real…
Burnout recovery does not end when someone returns to work. In a lot of ways that is where the hardest part starts. Chris Wilson and HR consultant Martina Teufner talk about the emotional reality of walking back into…
Corporate burnout is not about being too busy. It is about what is actually burning you out, which is usually not the hours. This solo episode goes into the workplace dynamics that build burnout long before anyone…
Preventing burnout means changing what a workplace rewards, not adding something to the wellbeing budget. Picking up where Part 1 finished, HR consultant Martina Teufner and Chris Wilson work through the how: balancing…
Corporate burnout is not an employee problem. It is a systems problem, and prevention starts with policy rather than perks. HR consultant Martina Teufner returns to talk with Chris Wilson about what actually prevents…
Burnout is not only about working too much. It is about feeling unseen, unsupported, and stuck in a system that does not account for you being a person. In the second half of the conversation, HR consultant Martina…
Corporate burnout is a workplace problem long before it becomes a personal one, and HR sits right in the middle of it. HR consultant Martina Teufner joins Chris Wilson for a two part conversation about what burnout…
The signs of burnout are easy to miss in yourself, and easier still to miss in someone you work with. Psychotherapist Claudia Bayer joins Chris Wilson to talk about what burnout actually looks like before it becomes a…
Burnout sends warnings long before it stops you. I got most of mine and ignored every one. This episode is the honest version of what came before my breaking point: the chronic fatigue I explained away, the headaches,…
Burnout is a gradual process, not an overnight collapse. It arrives in stages, and most of them look like something else at the time. This episode walks through two models of how burnout develops and stays with the five…
The signs of burnout creep in slowly, disguised as ordinary stress. By the time most people notice, it has already taken hold. This episode works through the physical, emotional and behavioural signs, with examples from…
Burnout is not just extreme stress. If we treat it like stress, we miss it completely. This episode covers the history and the science: the term being coined in the 1970s, and the WHO formally recognising burnout in…
Burnout recovery does not start with a plan. It starts with the moment your body and mind refuse to go any further. At 45, that moment came for me. Work addiction, a toxic workplace, a nervous system completely shot,…
About the host
I'm Chris Wilson, founder of Where I'm At. I built this platform from lived experience after burnout changed my work, my confidence, my health, and my sense of direction more than I expected. This podcast is here to help people feel less alone, put words to what they are going through, and find out what a more honest way forward might look like.
Read my story →I am always open to thoughtful conversations with people whose work, experience, or story connects to burnout, recovery, career change, identity, or what comes after a major professional shift. The conversations that resonate most are honest ones: people who are still figuring things out, not just those who have arrived at a tidy answer.
Episodes run between 30 and 60 minutes and are recorded remotely. The focus is the human experience, not credentials or job titles.
Get in touchbiz@whereimatcommunity.com: tell me a little about who you are and why you think the conversation would be useful for the WIA community.
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