THE BIG BURNOUT EPISODE: ADHD burnout and the cost of pushing through

LATE BLOOMERS

Rich & Rox Pink

Self-improvement, Education

5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of LATE BLOOMERS, Rox talks openly about going into burnout for the second time — and how this one crept up after things were finally going well. After launching the podcast, releasing her debut album, touring, writing a children’s book, running ADHD Love, and stacking her diary with self-imposed deadlines, she explains how momentum turned into pressure and rest slowly disappeared.

Rox and Rich unpack the warning signs she ignored along the way: telling herself she was “just tired,” flooding the bathroom twice by leaving the tap on, and pushing through weeks with no gaps at all. When they finally stopped and went on holiday, the burnout fully hit. Rox describes crying every day, feeling overwhelming shame, and experiencing burnout as a deadening of the spirit — where the world no longer looks blue, just grey.

Things intensify when Rox has to go on tour alone, terrified she won’t be able to do her job. She shares how she survived by switching into performance mode, crashing afterwards, and slowly realising that burnout didn’t come from failure — it came from pushing too hard for too long. This episode is an honest look at ADHD burnout, self-imposed pressure, and the real cost of always pushing through.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another burnout episode because she ignored all of the advice that she gave in the first one and went through another burnout.
0:06.7	I'm going to ask her and try and get to the bottom of what happened, what went wrong and how we could have prevented it.
0:12.1	Oh dear. Welcome to the late bloomer's podcast where we are getting our lives together for the second time.
0:26.7	Sorry, babe. Was that a bit mean? No, I think laughing at the fact that I've literally ignored all of my own advice from our burnout episode last year and have gone through
0:33.7	another burn. It's just brilliant. It's on brands. We aren't here to feel any shame
0:38.7	about it. It's something that happened. In fact, I probably feel like our first burnout episode
0:44.6	was quite serious. This one, I think we can, we can have a lot. I'm happy to be laughed at.
0:50.9	This is unscripted. I've made no no-nows. I'm just going to try and get to the bottom of it. Okay.
0:57.1	The bottom of my burnout. The bottom of your burnout. Okay. So I guess for the first question is a really
1:04.2	open question, but what happened? Talk us through, I guess, when you first would say there were
1:10.1	potentially signs up until
1:11.5	burnout. So I think it happened, it may have started around April. So we'd had a really
1:19.9	awesome start to last year. We launched the late bloomer's podcast. I'm not blaming the podcast,
1:25.8	by the way, but. Dubby Lives. We'd launch the Dubby Live Body Dublin Sessions. I had released my first
1:32.4	album and gone on tour around the UK and we'd continued making videos. So there was a lot...
1:39.2	ADME was in there as well, isn't it? Oh yeah, and we wrote Kids' book. Oh my God, no wonder.
1:43.7	So there was a lot
1:44.6	going on. For the first few months of the year, I was riding high. I was like, whoa, we've worked
1:51.1	so hard. Look at all this fun stuff. Look at all these fun creative projects. I couldn't believe
1:56.7	my album had gone top 10 in the UK. I'd sold out a big UK tour. Adie and me became a bestseller.
2:04.2	This pod, people didn't hate it. So we were really happy about that. The dubby live sessions went
2:09.1	crazy. So like, I almost feel like strangely, this burnout began after success, which is so weird because you don't maybe think about it in that way.
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