Episodes: 100
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Unknown
Location: United Kingdom
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Mandy Lehto - Podcast host focused on perfectionism, people-pleasing, overachievement, burnout, and the pursuit of a more easeful life.
Dr Tara Porter - High-achieving Parenting, Perfectionism, Mental-health Risks In High-achieving Environments, And The Patterns That Connect Childhood Achievement Pressure With Adult Overachievement.
Nick Petrie - Sustainable High Performance, Burnout Prevention, High Achievers Who Maintain Performance Without Exhausting Themselves, And Habits Of Resilient Performers.
Cory Allen - Ambition, Overachievement, Achievement-related Dissatisfaction, Mimetic Desire, Disappointment, And Changing One’s Perspective On Success.
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...
Why Some High Achievers Don't Burn Out, with Nick Petrie #102
June 18, 2026
What if the thing that's exhausting you isn't the pressure? What if it's the formula you've been using to handle it all these years? It's probably the same formula that built your career, which is now quietly running you into the ground. In this conversation, leadership researcher Nick Petrie shares what he learned from studying more than 1,000 high performers and the handful who seem to have cracked a code the rest of us missed. Not because they're tougher. Not because they're better at self...
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