FRIED. The Burnout Podcast
Your best people aren’t lazy. They’re burned out. And there’s a difference — one that costs you performance, retention, and culture if you can’t spot it.
FRIED: The Burnout Podcast is a top 1% global show with over a million downloads, hosted by keynote speaker and burnout expert Cait Donovan. It’s the show for leaders, executives, HR professionals, and high-responsibility humans who want to understand burnout at a systems level — not just survive it personally.
The core question FRIED keeps asking: Where is the work no longer matching the humans doing it?
Burnout isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a mismatch problem. When the fit between people, roles, expectations, and organizational systems breaks down — disengagement builds, resentment festers, and your best people start quietly planning their exit. FRIED helps you see those mismatches before they become crises.
Each week you’ll get expert conversations on workplace burnout, leadership, organizational culture, employee retention, and sustainable high performance — plus solo episodes where Cait breaks down the hidden dynamics driving disengagement in even the highest-performing teams.
No blame. No fluff. No breathing exercises you didn’t ask for.
Topics covered: burnout prevention, chronic stress, leadership development, workplace culture, employee disengagement, resentment at work, emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation, boundaries, organizational design, psychological safety, and middle management burnout.
FRIED. Because burnout isn’t the price of ambition. It’s a signal that something needs to change.
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