The first ever episode of Life, Oh Life, a new podcast about life advice, with former HuffPost UK and Press Association journalist Becky Barnes. This week’s guest is career change coach Selina Barker, whose book Burnt Out: The exhausted person’s guide to thriving in a fast-paced digital world was published in April 2021. Selina is one half of the Project Love duo who have a podcast of the same name and who created the Goodbye, Hello journal. Selina has been helping people design a life they love and change careers for nearly 15 years.

In this episode we talk about burnout, reclaiming your energy and the benefits of reframing exercise as movement. We also talk about the four ‘burnout archetypes’ coined by Selina during her research for the book, smartphone addiction, toxic workplaces and career change among other things.

Selina also guides us through how to turn the volume down on your ‘shitty committee’ (aka inner critic) and how to nurture your 'inner wise cheerleader’. We also laugh a lot.

And as this is a podcast about life advice, Selina shares the best advice she’s been given, the advice she’d give her former self and the advice she wants to pass on to others.

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BECKY BARNES

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SELINA BARKER

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