How to prevent burnout (w/ Master Fixer Guy Winch) | from Fixable
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4.1 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Do you feel like work is taking over your life? Guy Winch is a psychologist and author of the book Mind Over Grind: How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life. In this episode, Anne sits down with Guy at the annual TED conference in Vancouver to discuss the insidious ways work can follow you home and how to set boundaries to avoid burnout. They dig into the harmful effects of after-hours rumination, share practical rituals to help you separate work from the rest of your life, and offer tips on how to take a truly restorative vacation.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Sunday. |
| 0:05.0 | Elise Hugh here. |
| 0:06.0 | Today we're bringing you a Sunday pick where we share an episode of another podcast from TED, |
| 0:10.5 | handpicked by us for you. |
| 0:12.4 | Do you feel like work is taking over your life? |
| 0:15.4 | Today we're sharing an episode of Fixable to dig into something we all face, burnout. |
| 0:24.2 | Guy Wynch is a psychologist and author of the book Mind Over Grind, How to Break Free When Work Highjacks Your Life. In this episode, host Anne Morris |
| 0:31.0 | sits down with Guy while they're both at TED, 26, to discuss the insidious ways work can follow you |
| 0:37.4 | home and how to set boundaries |
| 0:39.3 | to avoid burnout. They dig into the harmful effects of after-hours rumination, share |
| 0:44.5 | practical rituals to help you separate work from the rest of your life, and offer tips |
| 0:48.8 | on how to take a truly restorative vacation. Whatever you're dealing with at work, |
| 0:53.6 | fixable is there to help, offering actionable insights |
| 0:56.4 | to create meaningful change in your life and workplace. |
| 1:00.3 | Listen to Fixable wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:02.7 | And if you have a problem you want fixed, you can call their hotline at 234 Fixable. |
| 1:07.8 | That's 234-349-2253 to leave Anne and Francis a voicemail with your workplace problem. |
| 1:14.9 | Learn more about all of Ted's podcasts at podcasts.com. Now on to Morris, and this is fixable. |
| 1:41.3 | This is the show where we tackle the problems at work that seem, well, unfixable, |
| 1:46.2 | problems like burnout. There was a time when work was a place we went to. Now work follows his |
| 1:52.9 | home, crawls into bed with us, and hijacks our minds. Today's master fixer believes we aren't |
| 1:58.7 | just working too hard. We're letting our jobs hold our lives hostage. |
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