Why You’re Always Exhausted (Even When You’re Not Working) – w/ Dr. Guy Winch, Part 1
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Matthew Hussey
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Work has a way of following us home—replaying that one frustrating meeting, stealing our attention from the people we love, and turning Sunday night into a countdown to stress.
In this conversation with psychologist Guy Winch, we talk about why switching off feels so hard, and what actually helps when work starts to take over your life.
We get practical about breaking rumination, handling that end-of-weekend dread, protecting your energy, and staying in that “just enough stress” zone where you can still function without burning out. This is the first half of a two-part conversation. In this one, we’re focused on your professional life; next week, we’ll dive into burnout in your love life.
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| 0:00.0 | I am so excited for you to hear this interview. |
| 0:06.7 | We actually ended up covering so much ground. |
| 0:10.0 | We broke it into two parts because in the conversation, we talked about work and we talked |
| 0:16.4 | about love. |
| 0:17.2 | So how do you deal with it with practical strategies when work overwhelms you and when you feel |
| 0:22.5 | like you're burning out in a workplace setting and workers dominated your life? But then we go on to |
| 0:27.8 | talk about burnout in your love life. We are going to save the love life portion as a part two |
| 0:34.0 | for next week on the podcast. This week's is going to be about your professional life. |
| 0:39.3 | So if you feel that work has gotten to the point of burnout for you, you are just grinding it out |
| 0:45.9 | unhappily, or even you have a career that you're passionate about, but it's become something |
| 0:50.6 | that has become so overwhelming that you can't be passionate about it right |
| 0:55.4 | now. This is for you. It's practical. It's insightful. Guy is wonderful at this work. And if you |
| 1:02.2 | haven't yet, grab a copy of his new book, Mind Overgrind as well as you're listening to |
| 1:07.5 | this interview. Enjoy. |
| 1:22.3 | You catch me at an interesting time, guy, if we're here to talk about mind over grind, |
| 1:31.4 | the title of your new book and burnout, because I've, you know, as you know, our first son just arrived and you and I have had many conversations about burnout in the past and I've asked you for lots of advice in this area |
| 1:36.6 | I it's funny when you announced to me privately that you were writing a book on this I was like |
| 1:41.9 | oh I've been benefiting from the content of this book |
| 1:44.9 | for the last two or three years talking to you. If I thought I had a lot on my plate before, |
| 1:50.3 | it's like this whole new, you know, aspect of life has now landed on our plate, mine and |
| 1:57.2 | Audries. And a friend said to me, me something he had a child two years before us and he |
| 2:06.1 | said his experience was that something had to go I'm curious what you think of this but he was like |
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