SURVIVING BURNOUT: What happens when your body finally says no

LATE BLOOMERS

Rich & Rox Pink

Self-improvement, Education

5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox dive deep into the reality of burnout — not the buzzword version, but the terrifying experience of your body, mind, and soul completely shutting down. Rox shares her personal story of chronic self-neglect, the warning signs she missed, and the breaking point where she physically couldn’t lift her own arms. Rich offers his perspective on watching it unfold, and the helplessness of seeing someone you love slowly disappear under the weight of invisible pressure.

We unpack the hidden warning signs, the toxic culture that rewards overwork, and the complicated shame that can keep you trapped in a cycle of destruction. Plus, we talk about how to actually start healing — and why listening to your body isn’t weakness, it’s survival.

If you’ve ever felt like you had to keep going no matter what, or you’re scared you're heading toward burnout yourself, this episode is for you. It’s real, raw, and hopeful — because it’s never too late to start again.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the late bloomer's podcast. Today we are talking about the big burnout. We are going to
0:05.6	talk to you about what burnout is, what it feels like, what to do if you are burnt out, and also
0:12.0	how to build a life that you don't burn out from. We're specifically going to talk about when it
0:16.1	happened to rocks in 2021, which was an interesting time. It was. And hopefully there's some lessons to learn for us and for you.
0:24.4	This is the late bloomer's podcast where we are getting our lives together.
0:29.2	Eventually.
0:30.2	Burnout.
0:31.6	Burnout, yeah.
0:32.6	So should we like go straight into what happened with you?
0:36.4	Because it's just a fascinating story. So I'm going
0:39.8	to ask you some questions about it. Is that okay? I'll put my cards down then. So you'll
0:44.5	know when I'm talking about. So firstly, I suppose what was going on before burnout? So this was in
0:51.6	2021. We were living together in Seven Oaks and I was working as a songwriter. I was doing
1:02.1	five sessions a week, quite normal to be working five days a week. Now, I had known for quite some time
1:10.0	that it wasn't really making me happy anymore, but I didn't
1:14.5	feel I had the right to say that because I was someone who was a chronic quitter. I've been called
1:20.1	lazy in my life. So I knew I couldn't quit. I had no choice but to carry on turning up. So I just
1:27.2	sort of forced myself
1:29.4	to keep working on something that I wasn't necessarily enjoying that I was finding quite tough.
1:36.0	And I was so disconnected from the fact that I wasn't enjoying it. It's also the year that I
1:43.3	started to release my own music.
1:46.0	My first single came out in 2021.
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