1KHO 809: The Weight of Everyone Else’s Problems | Leah Marone, Serial Fixer
The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast
Ginny Yurich
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 1:05.2 | with code 1,000 hours at whisker.com slash 1,000 hours. Welcome to the 1,000 hours outside. My name is Jenny Eurch on the front of 1,000 hours outside. And I read a book that I really related with called Serial Fixer, Break Free from the Habit of Solving Other People's Problems. And the author Leah Marone is here. Leah is a psychotherapist. And you know what's interesting |
| 1:27.8 | to me sometimes, Leah, when you're like, oh, you know, I probably could fall into this category, |
| 1:32.8 | you know, where I would overhelp. And then you're like, oh, other people must too, because there's a |
| 1:37.2 | whole book about it. So can you talk a little bit about your history, your psychotherapist, a mental |
| 1:41.9 | wellness consultant, a former Division |
| 1:44.4 | 1 athlete, cool background. How did you end up learning about this concept of just overfixing |
| 1:51.7 | other people's situations, often to the detriment of our own health? Yes, oh my gosh, great question. |
| 1:57.5 | And it is. It's something that I was just seeing a pattern with, right, |
| 2:01.6 | over the years and with myself as well. And I think it, you know, I was just noticing that |
| 2:06.5 | people that tend to have, you know, high levels of empathy, high levels of compassion, can |
| 2:11.3 | operate very quickly, read a room very quickly, can be two steps ahead, can fill in the gaps, |
| 2:17.2 | you know, a high EQ, emotional |
| 2:18.7 | intelligence level. These are the people that have these amazing strengths and gifts, but it's almost |
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