Why We’re All So Overwhelmed, Stress vs. Burnout & What Actually Helps

Happy Healthy Homo

Joel Wood & Keegan Hirst

Gay, Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgbt, Lgbtq, Lgbtq+, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Feeling overwhelmed? Us too. In this episode, Keegan & Joel break down the difference between stress, overwhelm, and burnout and why so many of us are stuck in the messy middle right now. From constant notifications to comparison culture, cost of living stress to queer emotional labour, it’s no wonder life feels like too much.

We share our own stories of hitting breaking point, what actually helps us cope (and what definitely doesn’t), and why “just do yoga” isn’t the whole answer. Think practical tips, honest laughs, and a reminder that if you’re overwhelmed, you’re not broken—you’re just human.

✨ Highlights include:

Stress vs. overwhelm vs. burnout (and how to spot the difference)

Why modern life feels impossible sometimes

Coping strategies that actually work (and the BS ones we’ve tried)

The queer side of overwhelm—extra layers nobody talks about

🎧 Tune in for real talk, practical tools, and a little less FOMO.

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0:00.0	Hey Homo's. Welcome back to our podcast. I'm Keegan and I'm Joel and this is Happy Healthy Homo's the podcast where we're empowering gay men including ourselves to live happily and healthy life.
0:15.0	Yeah, this podcast is as much for us as it is for you guys. Absolutely. Especially today's episode. I feel like is, the reason we're talking about it is because we're going through it right now. Going through it. We're going through it. Are you overwhelmed? Me too. We're going to be talking about overwhelm and what it is, how we experience it, the difference between that and stress. We're going to be talking
0:38.4	about whose responsibilities, why we're all overwhelmed and what we can actually do. Yeah, we're
0:43.9	not experts at all. We're just, as we're going through it, decide to chat about it with you
0:48.6	guys. Maybe we say some wise things that you can take from it. Maybe we don't. Maybe you can
0:53.7	leave us a comment if you're
0:54.6	watching on YouTube if you have any tips and advice. But yeah, we're not experts, but we thought we get questions all the time, don't we? From things we're not qualified to answer even, but we just thought we give it a go. We just do our best because we have been, we get this, we get asked this a lot because I mean if you look at our social media or most people's
1:13.3	social media you think how are they doing all that um and especially for us over the last six weeks
1:18.6	we've been away with the kids we've been away with GMC with clients we've been in chicago we've
1:25.3	been back and forth to london multiple times for various different things. Podcasts, events, award ceremonies. It's relentless. Yeah, and last
1:32.9	night we were kind of like, because we've come down to London here to the studio to record
1:37.9	and we're like, oh, how we're going to do this? How we're going to get through it? Well, because this
1:42.6	trip is podcast. We are also doing some work on my house which is currently on the market which is in london and then we're going to an event and then we're going back home so we always when we try to come to london we try to cram in as much as possible to make it worthwhile but then it ends up being a bit manic of a overwhelmed fest fest. Yeah, and it's all good problems, you know,
2:02.6	when it's like, oh, we've travelled so much
2:04.6	and we're here there and everywhere,
2:05.6	we're very aware that we're very privileged that we can do that,
2:08.6	and there is a part of us that really enjoys that.
2:11.6	But like everything, everything is relative,
2:13.6	and when you do something too much, anything too much,
2:16.6	it becomes draining
2:18.3	absolutely and it stops being fun and everybody experiences overwhelming it
2:22.0	doesn't matter if you're jet setting if you're doing a you know something that
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