“You Might Be Burnt Out — Even If You Don’t Realise It” - Dr Claire Ashley
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Burnout isn’t just a buzzword — it’s a creeping, physiological and psychological disconnection that’s become all too common in high-achieving cultures. And often, the people most affected are the ones least likely to see it.
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Clare Ashley — author of A Burnout Doctor and former NHS medic — who knows this terrain from the inside. After her own collapse early in her medical career, Clare began to explore burnout not just as a condition, but as a message.
We explore:
- Why denial is often a hallmark of burnout
- The subtle early signs we tend to ignore
- How purpose, community and autonomy act as protective forces
- Why 20% of meaningful work can shift everything
- How burnout recovery ties in with self-awareness, flow and intention
This is a vital conversation — especially if you’ve been pushing through, wondering why you’re so tired, or feel like something’s been missing.
👉 To go deeper, check out my free mini-course on burnout and flow at simonmundie.com
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Claire Ashley, a doctor neuroscientist and author of the |
| 0:06.5 | Bloomsbury book, A Burnout Doctor. And after experiencing burnout early in her medical career, |
| 0:13.3 | Claire turned her focus inward and then outward to help others understand the silent, |
| 0:18.4 | creeping nature of burnout and how to recover and indeed grow from it. |
| 0:23.1 | We talk about how burnout can disguise itself, why so many people resist seeing it even when |
| 0:28.6 | it's right there, and what recovery really looks like. |
| 0:37.3 | Claire, absolutely delightful to see you. How are you? |
| 0:41.7 | Hi, Simon. Thank you so much for having me on the podcast today. Yeah, I'm really good at the time that we're filming this podcast. The sun has come out. It feels like spring has arrived. So yeah, great. |
| 0:52.4 | Yes, absolutely. A quick side note on that. This is the first year |
| 0:56.3 | I've put off New Year's resolutions until spring, because I've decided New Year's resolutions |
| 1:01.6 | in January, dreadful idea, it's hibernation time. This is the time of year to start doing new things, |
| 1:07.9 | get in sync with the seasons. Do you know what I'm? I couldn't agree more. |
| 1:11.6 | I also didn't do New Year's resolutions this year because I was like, why do we make resolutions |
| 1:15.7 | in January when we are tired, we're stressed, we broke and the days are really short, so we're |
| 1:22.7 | really unmotivated and you just want to curl up in bed and eat like calves all day. |
| 1:32.3 | Worst time to be changing your habits or doing new healthy things or whatever it is that you want to do. So yeah, totally. |
| 1:33.3 | We're on the same page. |
| 1:34.3 | Wonderful. |
| 1:35.3 | Yes, absolutely. No dry January. |
| 1:36.3 | We went full wet January this year. |
| 1:38.3 | But, okay, let's talk about your work and your book. |
| 1:43.3 | So first of all, congratulations on the |
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