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You're smart, driven, and accomplished — but you're exhausted. Not the kind of tired that a good night's sleep fixes. The kind that makes you wonder how much longer you can keep going at this pace, and whether the life you've built is actually the life you want. Welcome to Outsmart Burnout. I'm your host, Dr. Zarya Rubin — a Harvard-educated physician, TEDx speaker, burnout expert, and recovering overachiever — this show is for high-achieving women who are done white-knuckling their way through life and ready to reclaim their passion, purpose, and joy. As a physician who burned out in medicine and found my way back to personal and professional success, I don't just study burnout - I've lived it. Each week, I invite expert guests to dive into the real conversations high-achieving women need most: the science of burnout and nervous system regulation, the identity shifts that midlife brings, the systems and patterns keeping you s
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Outsmart Burnout: The Podcast for High-Achieving Women with Dr. Zarya Rubin is hosted by Dr. Zarya Rubin. The show has published 58 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Hidden ADHD Tax: Why Midlife Women Burn Out - with Theresa Lear Levine" (28 October 2026, 62 minutes), "Scrubbing In: A Surgeon's Journey from Burnout Back to Wholeness - with Dr. Mel Thacker" (21 October 2026, 50 minutes), and "How to Be Enough: Worthiness, Achievement Addiction, and Burnout - with Dr. Mandy Lehto" (14 October 2026, 50 minutes).
Outsmart Burnout: The Podcast for High-Achieving Women with Dr. Zarya Rubin publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 58 episodes.
Booking probability for Outsmart Burnout: The Podcast for High-Achieving Women with Dr. Zarya Rubin is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Outsmart Burnout: The Podcast for High-Achieving Women with Dr. Zarya Rubin requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Outsmart Burnout: The Podcast for High-Achieving Women with Dr. Zarya Rubin's contact route on record: verified email.
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Dr. Zarya Rubin hosts Outsmart Burnout: The Podcast for High-Achieving Women with Dr. Zarya Rubin, an education podcast with 58 episodes published.
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Episode #57
SUMMARY Theresa Lear Levine was diagnosed with ADHD at 43, just as perimenopause began to wear down the coping systems she had spent decades building. The founder of Becoming More Me, a best-selling author, EFT Master...
Episode #56
Summary Dr. Mel Thacker is a practicing ENT surgeon, master coach, host of the Surgeons with Purpose podcast and two-time TEDx speaker on a mission to rehumanize the profession of surgery. She knew at 13 that she wanted...
Episode #55
Summary Dr. Mandy Lehto was a Director at a global investment bank and a single mother who moved up the ranks fast. Then burnout caught up with her, and a workout that ended in a blackout became her tipping point. Today...
Episode #54
Dr. Sophie Engelhardt did everything medicine asked of her — years of rigorous training, a pathology residency, labwork and autopsies. Then, mid-residency, she walked away to become a professional actress. She and Dr...
Episode #53
Natasha Ramlall, embodied immigration coach and founder of Humanist Coaching, joins Dr. Zarya to unpack "identity rupture" — the disorienting collapse that hits hyper-capable women at midlife. After 25 years supporting...
Episode #52
Board-certified functional physician Dr. Miranda Naylor joins Dr. Zarya to unpack why ovarian aging isn't just about egg count — it's a whole-body process shaped by stress, toxins, and nervous system dysregulation. We...
Episode #50
GUEST BIO Dr. Sadie Rodriguez is a pediatric cardiac intensivist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and an associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. Her academic work focuses on...
Episode #49
Liz Moyer Benferhat spent nearly two decades in sustainable development, grassroots poverty work, and UN-affiliated policy research before noticing that the people doing the world's hardest, most heart-centered work...
Episode #48
Serena Arora has spent over 25 years teaching Ayurveda and yoga therapy, yet she still burned out completely before writing Unbound, her memoir about recovery. She's dedicated much of her career to guiding...
Episode #48
Serena Arora has spent over 25 years teaching Ayurveda and yoga therapy, yet she still burned out completely before writing Unbound, her memoir about recovery. She's dedicated much of her career to guiding...
Outsmart Burnout: The Podcast for High-Achieving Women with Dr. Zarya Rubin
Dr. Jeannie Lawrence spent years looking like she had it all together — a thriving psychiatry career, a new marriage, a beautiful home — while quietly wondering why none of it felt like enough. She and Dr. Zarya trace...
Outsmart Burnout: The Podcast for High-Achieving Women with Dr. Zarya Rubin
Laurie Maddalena spent years as the "fixer" — the leader who carries her team's entire workload — before discovering the archetype shift that changed her career: becoming a facilitator instead. She and Dr. Zarya unpack...
Episode #45
Dr. Nikia Smith, board-certified anesthesiologist and founder of She Is Fire Forged, has burned out in medicine not once, but twice — and lived to build a framework for catching it earlier the second time. She and Dr...
Episode #44
What if burnout isn't about doing too much, but about invisible subconscious patterns running the show? Anik Malenfant — a former corporate finance branch manager turned inner work strategist — joins Dr. Zarya to unpack...
Episode #46
Lisa Danahy spent years in corporate HR at a law firm, living in a state of hypervigilance she didn't have language for — until her body and her family life forced a reckoning. In this episode, she joins Dr. Zarya to...
Episode #44
Dr. Julie Merriman has spent nearly 30 years studying compassion fatigue and her own “scorched earth” burnout. A PhD-educated counselor, educator, and former department chair, her latest book, Are We Gonna Have Sex or...
Episode #44
Eva Medilek spent decades being the woman who did it all — full-time dental hygienist, side-hustling real estate investor, wife, mother of daughters, and self-described control freak — until burnout quietly almost cost...
Episode #41
Summary What if the reason you keep burning out isn't that you're doing something wrong, but that you're doing too much right? Erika Coleman is a speaker, consultant, organizational psychologist, and self-described...
Episode #40
What does it actually cost to survive in a system that wasn't built for you? Dr. Erin Sheffield is a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, founder of The Doctor Is ALL In retreat, and co-host of The Resting...
Episode #39
Have you ever worked yourself to the bone to prove you deserve to be there — and ended up more exhausted than ever? That's probably impostor syndrome fueling burnout, and it's one of the most common — and most...
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