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Beyond Chronic Burnout: Flourish Forward Podcast

Overcome Chronic Exhaustion, Embrace Harmony

Discover sustainable ways to flourish in high-stress environments.

Beyond Chronic Burnout: Flourish Forward - Your Weekly Guide to Well-Being and Optimum Performance

Have you ever felt like you're running on empty, trying to keep up with the relentless demands of your high-stress profession and life?

Imagine a space where you can reclaim your sense of calm, reconnect with yourself and others, and truly flourish.

Welcome to Beyond Chronic Burnout: Flourish Forward, your weekly sanctuary on Podcast & YouTube. Designed specifically for dedicated professionals like you in healthcare, media, education, government, and first response, as well as neurodivergent and disabled adults, our show offers practical strategies and heartfelt support to help you achieve sustainable performance and work-life harmony.

Let's embark on this journey together, one step at a time, towards a more balanced and fulfilling life.

What's it all about?

Beyond Chronic Burnout: Flourish Forward offers a comprehensive toolkit designed to support professionals in high-stress environments as well as neurodivergent and disabled adults.  Practical tips are shared to seamlessly integrate stress relief methods into your daily routine, making it easier to maintain harmony without feeling overwhelmed. You’ll also hear real-life success stories from individuals who have triumphed over burnout, providing you with inspiration and hope. Additionally, our interactive Q&A segments with a variety of wellbeing experts offer personalized advice and insights, ensuring you feel supported and connected to a community that understands your journey.

How to Use It

Flourish Forward: Your Path to Personal Power and Well-being

Imagine a life where you feel in control of your emotional and physical well-being, where stress doesn't dominate your days, and where you can truly flourish. Flourish Forward is designed to be your guiding light on this journey.

Here’s how you can make the most out of our weekly show:

1. Tune In to Transform:

Begin by subscribing to our weekly podcast and YouTube channel. Each episode is crafted with care, blending expert insights and real-life stories to resonate with the challenges you face. Can you imagine starting your week with a dose of inspiration and actionable advice?

2. Absorb Practical Wisdom:

As you listen, you'll uncover effective stress relief techniques tailored to fit your unique lifestyle. Picture yourself learning new strategies that not only enhance your professional performance but also foster a serene work-life harmony. Isn’t it time to equip yourself with tools that truly work?

3. Engage with the Community:

Join our vibrant community of like-minded professionals, along with neurodivergent and disabled individuals. Engage in meaningful discussions, share your experiences, and build connections. What if you could feel a sense of belonging and support from others who understand your journey?  We are live and in the chat box on YouTube every Wednesday at 3 pm Eastern (12 pm Pacific/ 8 pm UK)

4. Implement and Reflect:

Take the practical advice and techniques from each episode and integrate them into your daily routine. Reflect on your progress and celebrate small victories. How powerful would it be to see tangible improvements in your well-being and performance?

5. Sustain Your Growth:

Continue your journey with us, episode by episode, as we explore deeper aspects of thriving in high-stress environments. Think of Beyond Chronic Burnout: Flourish Forward as your ongoing companion, helping you sustain growth and cultivate a harmonious life. Are you ready to flourish forward?

By following these steps, Beyond Chronic Burnout: Flourish Forward becomes more than just a show—it transforms into a crucial part of your well-being toolkit. Let us walk alongside you, providing the support and guidance you need to thrive, not just survive. Together, we can create a life where you feel calm, connected, and in control.

Who's it for?

Healthcare professionals navigating demanding shifts and high-stakes environments.


Media personnel juggling tight deadlines and the pressures of constant connectivity.


Educators striving to inspire and support students while managing their well-being.


Government employees balancing public service responsibilities and personal health.


First responders facing intense, often traumatic situations on a daily basis.


Neurodivergent and disabled adults seeking strategies for sustainable performance and work-life harmony.

Beyond Chronic Burnout: Flourish Forward is here to be your partner on this journey. Imagine your professional life as a garden; with the right tools and care, you can cultivate a flourishing environment where both your career and personal well-being can thrive. Let's embark on this transformative journey together.

1. Enhancing an Optimized Steady State: Are you looking to build mental, emotional and physical harmony to better handle stress and adversity in high-pressure jobs? Beyond Chronic Burnout offers practical insights to help you operate in a wider zone of optimized well-being and performance with a solid dash of peace and joy.

2. Achieving Work-Life Harmony: Do you find it challenging to juggle professional duties and personal life? This show provides tips and strategies to create a harmonious balance, allowing you to thrive both at work and home.

3. Improving Mental Health: Want to prioritize your mental well-being amidst a hectic schedule? Our episodes delve into mindfulness practices, stress reduction techniques, and self-care routines tailored for high-stress environments.

4. Boosting Productivity: Struggling to maintain consistent performance without burning out? Learn how to optimize your energy and focus, ensuring you can sustain high levels of productivity without compromising your health or your wealth.

5. Navigating Neurodivergence: Are you seeking effective ways to manage work and life as a neurodivergent or disabled adult? BCB: Flourish Forward explores adaptive strategies and inclusive practices to help you excel in your professional and personal life.  The host, Carole Jean Whittington, is a late identified AuDHD healthcare professional with co-occurring and often disabling health conditions.

6. Cultivating Positive Relationships: Do you want to build stronger, more supportive relationships at work and at home? Discover communication techniques and neuro inclusive approaches to foster meaningful connections and a supportive community.

Beyond Chronic Burnout is heard and downloaded in over 111 countries by over 550,000 listeners and watchers each week. Spotify ranks our show in the top 5% of podcasts in the Self-Help category in 2022. And on April 3, 2024 we hit over 80k downloads the prior week on Spotify!!!

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Meet your hostess with the most-est, Carole Jean Whittington:

Carole Jean Whittington is a leading expert in well-being and burnout research, dedicated to helping professionals in high-stress environments and neurodivergent and disabled individuals achieve their optimized Steady State.

As Chief Well-Being Officer of Whittington Well-Being, she developed the Whittington Burnout Inventory, addressing nine key burnout areas, from communication to sensory experience. Carole Jean’s global research, combined with her personal journey as an Autistic ADHD individual, fuels her mission to make long term stress impact a thing of the past.

Her talk show, Beyond Chronic Burnout, reaches over 550,000 listeners in 111 countries. She’s also the author of Unleashing Sustainable Energy, sharing new ways to feel excellent without shame and guilt.

Want MORE of Carole Jean and discover other shows?

Check out featured guest spots here:

Want to have Carole Jean on your show as a guest to talk all things burnout and energy management?

Topics Available for Discussion: (These can also be tailored to meet your show needs, let's chat)


  • Ways burnout shows up that may surprise you and answer WHY “self care” isn’t working long term.


  • The levels of burnout based on Carole Jean’s Spicy Pepper Scale of Burnout and her 3 year Global Burnout Research data that categorize burnout based on internal warning signs and impact from a Level 1 Poblano Pepper where you have just a bit of heat up to the Ghost Pepper Level 5 when you’re “so hot, you’re not.”


  • The 3 biggest energy drainers contributing to chronic burnout for neurodivergent and disabled humans based on the 3+ year Spicy Global Research Study conducted by Carole Jean Whittington.


  • Energy Mastery is possible and most effective when two key areas are dialed in, 1. Knowing Your Personal Human Nourishment Keys and 2. Incorporating your Sensory Profile Blueprint with ALL 8 of your senses. (Your sensory system is hard wired into your nervous system and it along with sleep are greatly impacted during burnout)


  • You can’t have MORE ENERGY if you don’t have a relationship with your energy first.  The blocks and barriers that most often create chaos in our energy relationship and the elements of a healthy energy relationship so that burnout is a thing of the past for good.

BOOK A 15 MIN CALL WITH CAROLE JEAN TO SET UP YOUR GUEST INTERVIEW AND TOPIC:

https://calendly.com/whittingtonwellbeing/15-min-virtual-coffee-guest-on-your-show 

Links to Website and Social Media for Carole Jean Whittington and Whittington Well-Being:

Whittington Well-Being Website:

https://whittingtonwellbeing.com/ 

Beyond Chronic Burnout Podcast

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondchronicburnout 

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73lo4QgCCkClj7sFm_mrZA  

LinkedIn Personal: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolejeanwhittington/  

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/carolejeanwhittington/ 

TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@carolejeanwhittington 

Facebook Business Page:

https://www.facebook.com/WhittingtonWellBeing/ 

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