Mind Over Grind: Practical Tips to Manage Work Stress and Enhance Your Well-Being with Guy Winch

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode, Guy Winch discusses the concept of mind over grind along with practical tips to manage work stress and enhance your well-being. He explains the pervasive impact of work-related stress, the cultural glorification of overwork, and how chronic stress leads to burnout. Guy also shares strategies for reframing stress, breaking the cycle of rumination, and intentionally recovering from mental fatigue. The conversation emphasizes the importance of conscious effort, mindset shifts, and small daily actions to restore work-life balance and protect mental health in a world where work often hijacks our lives. Take our quick 2-minute survey and help us improve your listening experience: ⁠oneyoufeed.net/survey⁠ Exciting News!!! Coming in March, 2026, my new book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How a Little Becomes a Lot: The Art of Small Changes for a More Meaningful Life is now available for pre-orders!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Key Takeaways: Impact of work-related stress on personal life and mental health Imbalance between work life and personal life leading to burnout Chronic nature of modern work stress and its effects Psychological framing of stress: “challenge state” vs. “threat state” Cultural romanticization of overwork and hustle culture Importance of conscious effort to maintain work-life balance Strategies for managing stress and avoiding burnout The role of mindset in stress perception and performance Techniques to interrupt rumination and intrusive thoughts Importance of engaging in meaningful activities for mental recovery For full show notes: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! If you enjoyed this conversation with Guy Winch, check out these other episodes: Emotional First Aid with Guy Winch How to Recognize the Hidden Signs of Burnout with Leah Weiss How to Deal with Burnout Through Self-Compassion with Kristin Neff By purchasing products and/or services from our sponsors, you are helping to support The One You Feed and we greatly appreciate it. Thank you! This episode is sponsored by: ⁠⁠⁠David Protein ⁠⁠⁠Try David is offering our listeners a special deal: buy 4 cartons and get the 5th free when you go to ⁠⁠⁠davidprotein.com/FEED⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Hungry Root⁠⁠⁠⁠: For a limited time get 40% off your first box PLUS get a free item in every box for life. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.hungryroot.com/feed ⁠⁠⁠⁠and use promo code: FEED. IQ Bar: Text FEED to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, including the ultimate sampler pack, plus FREE shipping. (Message and data rates may apply). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you can think of the tasks that you tend to procrastinate on as nuisances and frame them that way in your head, think of them in that way.
0:07.6	Use that word when you speak about them or even think about them in your own head, you are much more likely to tackle them soon and avoid exacerbating the stress that comes from them.
0:26.9	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:31.6	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:37.0	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, true and yet for many of us our thoughts
0:39.5	don't strengthen or empower us we tend toward negativity self-pity jealousy or
0:45.5	fear we see what we don't have instead of what we do we think things that hold us
0:50.6	back and dampen our spirit but But it's not just about thinking.
0:55.0	Our actions matter.
0:56.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:01.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:10.0	Here's a simple question with a surprisingly uncomfortable answer.
1:14.9	When does your work day actually end?
1:18.1	My guest today is Guy Wynch and his latest book is Mind Over Grind, How to Break
1:23.5	Free When Work Hijacks Your Life.
1:26.1	Guy makes the case that work doesn't end when you stop
1:28.7	answering emails. It ends when you stop thinking about work. And for a lot of us, that moment never
1:35.4	really comes. We talk about the difference between mental fatigue and physical fatigue,
1:41.1	why scrolling feels like rest, but it often isn't, and how to turn
1:45.8	rumination into something more useful or to shut it down entirely when it's just
1:51.4	chewing up your life.
1:52.9	I'm Eric Zimmer, and this is the one you feed.
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