Rethinking Success

We tend to treat wellbeing as something we add on once the real work is done, but in this episode Amy Green returns to a framework from her book Wellbeing Leadership and makes a different case — that a well and...

Burnout might be the most overused word we have right now, and in this solo episode Amy asks whether we have started reaching for it too easily. Feeling tired, flat or done with work is real, but it is not automatically...

Someone asked Amy on a recent interview where she stands on wellness gadgets — the watches, the rings, the sleep scores, the step challenges — and it turned into a bigger question about the line between useful...

Amy read a piece predicting that by 2040 the daily commute will be gone, and it sent her reaching for her own crystal ball. In this solo episode she lays out four predictions for the future of work, the end of the...

Three people commented on the evolution of Amy's work in a single week, so in this solo episode she finally traces where that evolution comes from and why it matters now. From teaching in London to writing about teacher...

Description When Amy's 11-year-old nephew was asked what he wants to be when he grows up, everyone expected "a lawyer" — the answer he'd given for years. Instead he said he wants to "work from home." It sounds like a...

For thirty years, nobody questioned the smoke break. People stepped outside three, four, five times a day to breathe, reset, and talk something through, and no one blinked. As smoking declined we lost the ritual, and we...

Most of us never sat down and decided what a successful life would look like. We absorbed it — from the town we grew up in, the questions we were asked as kids, the shift from working in community to working in...

Amy discusses the true meaning of workplace wellbeing, its misconceptions, and how organizations can foster genuine wellbeing by understanding its multifaceted nature and addressing root causes. Workplace wellbeing has...

You're tired. You're trying. And I think the world just keeps telling you it's still not enough. But what if the goal was never to be extraordinary? What if average was actually enough? Not a consolation prize. Not...

You did the right things, followed the checklist, ticked all the boxes. And somewhere along the way, you realised the medal at the finish line isn't going to make you happy. So what now? What if letting go of your...

Belonging isn't something you find, it's something you create. And it starts with you. Most of us have been searching in the wrong direction. Looking outward for the right room, the right team, the right community. When...

If bouncing back means returning to what depleted you in the first place, is that actually resilience? Or is it just an efficient path back to the same problem? That's the question Amy opens with, and it's the one that...

Resilience is everywhere right now. In job descriptions, leadership programs, school curriculums and wellness strategies. It's the word everyone's using and almost no one is questioning. And that's exactly the problem...

If rest was the answer, we'd all be fine by now. But we're not. In this episode Amy unpacks the energy paradox, the one that explains why you can sleep eight hours, eat well, take the weekend off, and still wake up...