Why I Had to Stop Everything: Matt Willis on Burnout & Growth
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We’re back! In this brand new season of On The Mend, Matt Willis opens up about what he’s been up to recently, alongside his struggles with overwhelm and the ongoing work of recovery. He shares what’s been helping, from hobbies to gratitude and sets the tone for a season full of raw, real conversations with guests, experts, and you.
Expect new segments, deeper honesty, and powerful stories about what it really means to move forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. |
| 0:09.8 | Yes, everybody. We are back. Brand new season. And in this season, we are going harder. We are going deeper. We're going more truthful and we're going to get really amazing people on. It's going to be very exciting. Brand new studio, brand new team. Hi, everyone. Yes, I'm at Willis. And on the mend, we dive into real stories of mental health, addiction and recovery, looking back on the hardest moments to understand how people move forward. It's been a while since we've done one of these. It feels a bit strange, if I'm honest. |
| 0:38.0 | We've been talking about this season for quite a long time. |
| 0:41.6 | You know, we've not been sleeping on it. |
| 0:43.1 | We've been preparing. |
| 0:44.2 | We've been trying to kind of get this show to be as good as possible. |
| 0:48.0 | Whilst I've been away, I have been doing all kinds of things. |
| 0:52.5 | I think I dealt with a bit of overwhelm at work. I'm |
| 0:57.4 | very, very good at getting in my own way, you know, and I can become very, uh, kind of, I don't |
| 1:04.8 | know what it is about me. Like, I feel like I'm like I can put loads of stuff in my diary to make myself feel like I'm being busy |
| 1:13.4 | when really I've been told and I've been and I've been learning how to give myself a bit more |
| 1:19.6 | of a break and I'm trying to do that more. |
| 1:23.0 | You know, I'm trying to relax a bit more and trying to give myself a bit of a break. |
| 1:26.3 | You know, stop being so hard on |
| 1:27.5 | myself and enjoy the fact that sometimes you can just be and it's all right. You don't have |
| 1:34.4 | to be attacking everything, you know, so I'm trying to chill out a bit more. A lot has been going on |
| 1:40.8 | and I've been doing loads of different projects. And last year, I dealt with |
| 1:46.9 | something that I got explained to me was overwhelm, you know, and it wasn't quite burnout. I've |
| 1:54.0 | heard that word burnout quite a few times. And I don't think I was quite there, but I was getting |
| 1:58.3 | really, like, physically and mentally overwhelmed with everything |
| 2:03.3 | I had on. |
| 2:04.3 | And so I've really kind of relaxed with that. |
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