Episodes: 100
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Female
Location: United Kingdom
Instagram: 38.0k followers
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Mandy Lehto - Mandy Lehto hosts a podcast focused on perfectionism, people-pleasing, overachievement, burnout, and building a more easeful life.
Regena Thomashauer - Processing Overwhelming Emotions, Moving Beyond Relentless Self-control, And Reconciling Professional Identity With Personal Experience.
Emma Offord - Task Paralysis, Bore-out, Interest-based Nervous Systems, Body Doubling, Accommodations, And Shame Among High Achievers.
Tara Porter - High-achieving Parenting, Perfectionism, Pressure On Children, And The Long-term Mental-health Effects Of Achievement-focused Environments.
Nick Petrie - Sustainable High Performance, Burnout Prevention, And Habits That Help High Achievers Become Long-term Thrivers.
Cory Allen - Overachievement, Ambition, Mimetic Desire, Emotional Flatness After Success, And Changing Perspectives On Disappointment.
What Actually Helps When Everything Falls Apart, with Regena Thomashauer (Mama Gena) #105
August 27, 2026
You can run a board meeting after terrible news, and no one would know. Push through and deal with the feelings later. Or not… But sometimes a situation just takes your knees out from under you, and pushing through isn't an option. Then what? My guest is Regena Thomashauer – known to thousands as Mama Gena – the New York Times bestselling author of Pussy: A Reclamation, founder of the School of Womanly Arts, where she's taught pleasure for over three decades. Her new book, On Our Knees: Lovi...
It's Not Laziness: Why High Achievers Struggle With Simple Things, with Dr Emma Offord #104
August 06, 2026
You can lead the team, close the deal, hold an entire organisation's chaos in your head. And yet somewhere in your kitchen, there's a bag of salad turning into a science experiment. You know it's there. You're not dealing with it today. This episode is about that gap — and the secret, if-anyone-knew shame that comes with it. Because the more capable you are over here, the more brutal that inner voice gets over there. My guest is Dr Emma Offord, clinical psychologist and founder of Divergent L...
The Hidden Bill of High-Achieving Parenting — with Dr Tara Porter #103
July 23, 2026
How was your day? is the greeting. What follows — the homework, the essay, the spelling test — is the audit. Most of us never hear ourselves make the switch. Now the research that stopped me mid-sentence: kids raised in high-achieving environments now sit on the same mental-health risk list as kids growing up with poverty and trauma. The tutors, the top schools, the 6am swim squad — same list. Not because of the schools. Because of one specific thing that loving, well-intended parents do with...
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