You Are Not A Frog

    The podcast for GPs, hospital doctors and other professionals in high-stakes, high-stress jobs who want to thrive rather than just survive. You studied for years, you’re really good at what you do but you’ve noticed that you’re starting to feel overwhelmed, overworked and under-resourced. You may be comparing yourself to a frog in boiling water - the heat has built up so slowly that you haven’t noticed the extra-long days becoming the norm. You may feel on the edge and trapped in the very job that you’ve spent years working towards. Here’s the problem, frogs only h...

  • How to Stop a Difficult Conversation Going Bad

  • How to Overcome the Toxic Effects of Shame on Your Team

  • How to be Ridiculously Relaxed

  • How to Survive in a High Stress Job When You’re Neurodivergent

  • How to Stop Turning “You” Problems into “Me” Problems

  • How to Take a Good Long Look at Your Career

  • How to Catch Stress Early Before You Spiral into Burnout

  • How to Change Your Life One Tiny Step at a Time

  • How to avoid guilt on repeat

  • How to Think Past “Right and Wrong” and Find Choices That Work for You

  • How Stories Can Help You Beat Burnout

  • You Can’t Organise Your Way Out of Overwhelm

  • How to Make the Right Choice When You Aren’t Certain

  • The Magic Question to Unlock Your Deep Intuition

  • How to Promote Good Mental Health for You and Your Kids

  • Does the Usual Productivity Advice Work for People Seeing Patients?

  • What’s So Important About Purpose?

  • How to Get What You Need When Even YOU Don’t Know

  • Crafting a Career That Works

  • What to Do With That Nagging Feeling That Something’s Not Right

  • Finding Your Opposite World to Beat Burnout

  • How to Stop Your Inner Critic Hijacking Your Day

  • The Exact Script to Use When a Colleague’s Being Rude

  • "Having it All" as a Woman in Medicine

  • How to Keep Going in a Struggling System

  • What I Learned From My Facebook Haters

  • Why We Need MORE Conflict in Our Teams

  • Is My Attachment Style Causing My Burnout?

  • Are You an Accidental Toxic Leader?

  • What Does High-Performance Look Like?

  • The 3 Lies Which Hold Us Back

  • How to Put Your Team Back Together

  • What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

  • What Forgiveness Can Do for You

  • The Biggest Mistakes People Make When They are Heading for Burnout

  • Why Loneliness Can Kill, and What to Do About it

  • How to Set a Boundary No-one Can Break

  • What to Do When a Colleague isn’t Pulling Their Weight

  • Too Busy NOT to Pause

  • How to find your voice

  • Only You Can Choose Your Next Move

  • How to Make a Difficult Decision

  • What Happens When You Stay Too Long

  • How Money Holds Us Back

  • Beware Your Kindest Colleagues

  • Smashing the Gender Pay Gap for Women in Medicine

  • How to Tell People What You REALLY Think

  • Why Setting Goals Alone Won’t Help

  • Life’s Too Short NOT to Love What You Do

  • Finding Your North Star

  • How to get moving again when you feel stuck

  • The Most Powerful Question You Can Ask Yourself About Your Work

  • How to Feel Confident in Any Situation

  • How to Get Out of a Toxic Shame Spiral

  • Getting a Breakthrough by Using Your Right Brain

  • The Three-Step Plan for Getting Your Sh*t Together

  • How to Decide if You Need to Stay or Leave a Difficult Situation

  • What Shame Made Me Do

  • How to Survive the Holiday Season

  • How to Increase Your Confidence and Impact

  • How to Deal With Your Inner Critic

  • How to Escape the Tyranny of the ‘Shoulds’

  • Am I Burning Out?

  • How to Manage Your Energy if You're a Highly Sensitive Person

  • How Do You Say No When Someone Might Die?

  • How to Challenge Upsetting Behaviour

  • The Real Reason Other People's Boundaries Make Us Cross

  • How to Be REALLY Productive... Without Losing the Plot

  • What Will Your Future Self Thank You For?

  • Surprising Ways to Avoid Burnout

  • Stress vs Overwhelm – And Why You Should Know the Difference

  • How to Cope With Your Kids’ Anxiety, Your Colleagues’, and Your Own

  • Don't Wait for Tomorrow to Improve – Take Control Now

  • Is it You - or is it Menopause?

  • Why You Don’t Need to Earn Your Rest

  • Are Your Tiny Traumas Building Up to Burnout?

  • Get Some Air Cover to Help You Set Boundaries

  • What Happens When We’re Really Listened to

  • How to Use Power Language to Keep Your Boundaries Strong

  • How to Thrive in a High-Stress Job When You’re Neurodivergent

  • Why You Should Expect Pushback and What To Do About It

  • Embrace Your Capacity, Not Your Limits

  • How To Influence Without Getting Frustrated

  • What to Do When You Can Never Do Enough as a Working Mum with Corrina Gordon-Barnes

  • Do I Disappoint Myself Or Others?

  • How to Survive a Toxic System - on Both Sides of the Pond

  • How to Avoid Amygdala Hijack Part 2

  • How to Feel Happy, Calm, and Connected

  • How to Avoid Amygdala Hijack Part 1

  • How to Do Something Different in Your Career

  • Why We Become Terrible in a Crisis

  • Are You OK?

  • What’s Your Flight Plan?

  • How to Stay Calm through Complaints (Even When It’s Personal)

  • Why Can’t I Say No

  • How to Stop Making Decisions Based on Fear

  • The Problem with Boundaries

  • How to Avoid Burnout on Repeat

  • How to Have More Impact with Less Effort

  • The Glass Slipper and Other Challenges for Women in Medicine

  • The Power of Pressing Pause

  • How to Change Your Life in 12 Minutes Per Week

  • The One Thing You Can Do For Your Well-being

  • How to Fix Your Broken Meetings

  • Think Differently About Your To-Do List

  • How Perfectionism and Shame Lead to Stress and Burnout

  • Embracing Your Limits in a Limitless System

  • How to Get People to LOVE your Ideas

  • When Working Harder Doesn't Work

  • Best Bits of 2022: Stress and Worry

  • Best Bits of 2022: How to Build Confidence

  • How to Deal with Xmas Disasters and Other Disappointments in Life with Corrina Gordon-Barnes

  • How to Know if You're Being 'Resilience Victim Blamed'

  • Job Crafting for Happiness

  • Is it ‘Normal’ Not to Cope?

  • How to Stop Your Finances Controlling Your Career with Dr Tommy Perkins

  • You Choose

  • How to Stop Emotional Eating, Eat Better and Feel Better with Dr Matthea Rentea and Keri Williams

  • If it Didn’t Hurt, There’d Be Something Wrong

  • How to Balance Life and Work

  • Shark Music

  • How to Choose Joy, Even When Life Sucks

  • How to Escape the Urgency Trap

  • How to Tell People What They Don’t Want to Hear

  • But is it a Tiger?

  • What to Do When You are Overwhelmed with Gerrie Hawes

  • Summer Replay 2022 Episode 5

  • Summer Replay 2022 Episode 4

  • Summer Replay 2022 Episode 3

  • Summer Replay 2022 Episode 2

  • Summer Replay 2022 Episode 1

  • What to Do if You're Stressed AND Bored

  • How to Say F**k it and Become Ridiculously Relaxed (even about stuff that REALLY matters) with John C Parkin

  • How to Cope With Trauma on the Frontline

  • After Burnout: Planning a Working Life You Want with Dr. Katya Miles

  • After Burnout: Going Back to Work with Dr Katya Miles

  • Using Nature to Answer Your Big Questions With Henri Stevenson

  • How to Say No and Deal with Pushback

  • How to Change When Change is Scary

  • How to Live With No Regrets with Georgina Scull

  • How to Be Happy at Work with Sarah Metcalfe

  • How to Be a (Happy) Working Parent with Corrina Gordon Barnes

  • Making Online Meetings Work with John Monks

  • How to Improve Your Mental Health in 10 Minutes with Dr Lee David

  • How to Manage Upwards (and Sideways)

  • The Surprising Power of Self Coaching (and How to Do it Well)

  • What I Got So Wrong About Mindfulness and How it Might Transform Your Life

  • How to Find Peace and Happiness, Even in a Life You Haven't Chosen

  • How to Get an Appraisal That Doesn't Suck

  • What to Do When a Junior is Badmouthing Your Colleagues

  • Why We're Ditching the Term 'Imposter Syndrome'

  • What to Do When You Start to See Red?

  • How to Stop People Pleasing and Absorbing Other People's Angst

  • Is it Possible to Have Fun at Work?

  • What We Wish We'd Learnt at Med School

  • Defining Your Own Success in Life

  • How to Stop Worrying When There’s a Lot to Worry About

  • The Simplest Way to Beat Stress and Work Happier

  • How to Cope With Nightmare Relatives and Colleagues Without Losing the Plot

  • How Not to Settle for the Way it's Always Been Done

  • Why FAIL is Not a 4-Letter Word

  • Making Helpful Habits Stick

  • Dealing With the Guilt of Not Being Okay

  • How to Deal With Criticism When You've Reached Your Limit

  • Why it’s Easier to Talk About Football Than Feelings with Dr Naren Senthil Nathan

  • What to Do When Your Strengths Have Side Effects with Dr Joanna Bircher

  • How to Deal With Difficult Meetings with Jane Gunn

  • 3 Conversations Which Will Get You Unstuck with Annie Hanekom

  • How to Reconnect With Your Purpose in Life with Dr Richard Pile

  • How to Delegate, Do it, or Drop it with Anna Dearmon Kornick

  • How to Avoid Becoming the Second Victim with Dr Caraline Wright & Dr Lizzie Sweeting

  • How to Break Up With Your Toxic Relationship With Your Career with Dr Pauline Morris

  • What to Do About Bitching and Backbiting with Dr Edward Pooley

  • Should I Stay or Should I Go? with Corrina Gordon-Barnes

  • Summer Replay Series: The One About Alcohol with Dr. Giles P. Croft

  • Summer Replay Series: Productivity Hacks for a Calm, Effective Life with Dr. Gandalf

  • Summer Replay Series: How to be an adult with Ebonie Allard

  • Summer Replay Series: Treat Others How THEY Would Like to Be Treated with Gitanjali Trevorrow-Seymour

  • Summer Replay Series: How to Do Conflict Well with Jane Gunn

  • Summer Replay Series: Eff-It Living with John C Parkin

  • How to Ditch the Saviour Complex and Feel More Alive with Rob Bell

  • Complaints and How to Survive Them E5: What Should I Do When I Think a Complaint is Unfair? and Other Questions with Drs Sarah Coope, George Wright, Samantha White, and Andrew Tressider

  • Gaslighting and Other Ways We’re Abused at Work: What’s Really Going on? with Dr James Costello

  • How to Have Crucial Conversations with Dr Ed Pooley

  • Complaints and How to Survive Them E4: Creating a Workplace Where it's OK to Fail with Prof Susan Fairlie and Dr Jane Sturgess

  • The Ups and Downs of Being a Man-Frog with Dr Chris Hewitt

  • Complaints and How to Survive Them E3: Surviving the Process

  • When Soft and Fluffy Met Coronavirus with Steve Andrews

  • Complaints and How to Survive Them E2: What to Do When You Make a Mistake with Drs Clare Devlin and Dr John Powell

  • How to Give Yourself Permission to Thrive with Dr Katya Miles

  • Complaints and How to Survive Them E1: Preparing to Fail Well with Drs Sarah Coope, Annalene Weston and Sheila Bloomer

  • Denial, Displacement and Other Ways We Neglect Ourselves with Dr Andrew Tresidder

  • Tech Tips for Happy Hybrid Working with Dr Hussain Gandhi

  • How to Escape the Drama Triangle and Stop Rescuing People

  • Managing Your Time in a System Which Sucks with Dr Ed Pooley

  • EASTER REPLAY: What we're talking about when we talk about compassion fatigue

  • How to Find Your Tribe: The PMGUK Story with Dr Nazia Haider and Dr Katherine Hickman

  • Working Well - From Anywhere! with Dr Katya Miles

  • Create a Career You’ll Love with Dr Claire Kaye

  • How Safe Do You Feel at Work with Scott Chambers

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