Rethinking Success

Why I'm Happy to Be Called the Anti-Wellness Wellness Speaker Description Someone recently called Amy Green the anti-wellness wellness speaker, and she is leaning right into it. In this solo episode, Amy explains why she isn't against wellness, but is against the way it has been designed, priced and pitched to workplaces and people. She also unpacks the difference between wellness, self-care and w...

What Do We Actually Mean by Workplace Conditions? Description Everyone is saying workplace wellbeing comes down to the conditions, but what does that actually mean? In this solo episode, Amy Green breaks down her four lenses of feel, work, team and lead well, with a personal and a workplace version of each, so the word conditions becomes something you can build. She also explains why a wellbeing f...

Description After a hard year, Amy Green went looking for a different kind of work, and a CEO told her she was too skilled to apply for the role. In this solo episode, she shares what that conversation showed her about intimate, bespoke work in a world built for scale, and why deciding what comes next can start with the life we want to live. It is also Amy's announcement that she is not going anyw...

Amy Green opens this episode with a warning that what she's about to suggest will make some people want to close the app in protest — and then makes the case anyway. She tells the story of 2016, when her GP suggested she leave her laptop at work, the meeting where that boundary was read as a lack of professionalism, and the fact that in all the years since, no one ever called. Her proposal is simp...

For years Amy Green has stood on stages saying work-life balance is a myth and pointing people toward flow or harmony instead — and in this episode she wonders out loud whether she had it slightly wrong. The problem was never the word balance, it was the framing: work on one side, all of life on the other, as if those two piles were ever the same size. Here she reaches for a different picture — li...

Episode summary This is a more personal episode than usual, and one Amy Green almost didn't publish. Having built a business teaching people how to work and live well, she's started to notice the early signs of chronic stress returning — the broken sleep, the creeping resentment of constant travel, the sense that the life she's built might not be one she can sustain — and rather than tidy that awa...

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 successful life is one we design across four domains: feeling well, working well, teaming well, and leading well. She walks through why the order matters, from the pile of micro-stresses th...

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 burnout, and you cannot diagnose burnout from a quiz or a staff survey. Amy makes the case that it is a complex clinical state, shares what she learned the humbling way about her o...

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 information and creeping obsession. In this solo episode she makes the case that trackers can help us cut through years of mixed messages about what keeps us well, while being honest about t...

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 commute, the collapse of the nine-to-five, the death of the single job for life, and a real shift toward autonomy over how and where we spend our time. None of it is about title or statu...

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 wellbeing when almost no one was naming it, to leading wellbeing rather than simply doing it, Amy walks through a decade of work and the harder shift she's making next. Because wel...

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 punchline, but it's an observation, and it says a great deal about how the next generation is thinking. In this episode Amy unpacks the shift from choosing a title to choosing a life,...

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 never replaced it with anything, so now stepping away from your desk can feel like slacking off. In this episode Amy looks at what the smoke break actually gave us, why the micro b...

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 isolation. In this solo episode, Amy traces her own arc from chasing every external marker of success to slowly pulling apart the stories sitting underneath it, and asks what changes when w...

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 become a hot topic in recent years, yet many organizations struggle to implement effective strategies. We need to find out why it’s essential, and how to move beyond quick fixes to...

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? If everyone is chasing extraordinary, if every single person, every day, is oriented toward being above average, toward achieving more than everyone around them, that world can't actually exist. By definition, aver...

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 current definition of success isn't a loss, but the beginning of something better? After ten episodes unpacking the six paradoxes at the heart of The Wellness Paradox , Amy steps back an...

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 the piece that actually makes belonging possible has been inside us the whole time. In this episode, Amy unpacks the paradox of belonging. Why we can be welcomed into rooms, includ...

We are, in some ways, the most connected generation of humans to ever exist, and yet we have probably never felt more alone. That’s not really a coincidence, it’s a paradox. Because connection and belonging, she’d say, are not actually the same thing. And we’ve been so busy building the infrastructure for one that we’ve quietly let the conditions for the other fall away. Social media, emails, Zoom...

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 ends up reframing pretty much everything you thought you knew about what it means to be resilient. In this episode, she unpacks the resilience paradox and makes the case that the ve...

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. In this episode, Amy takes on one of the most celebrated concepts in the modern workplace and asks the question nobody seems to be asking. Not 'How do we build more resilience?' but...

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 Monday morning feeling like you never stopped. The wellness industry has been quietly sidestepping this one for years. The exhaustion most of us are carrying isn't a rest deficit. It's...

You are not a mobile phone, you can’t just plug yourself in on Friday night and expect to be functioning at full capacity by Monday morning. And yet somehow, that’s exactly the model most of us are running on. Get through the week, recover on the weekend, do it all again, and wonder quietly why it never actually feels like enough. In this episode, Amy reframes everything you thought you knew about...

Your workplace can put on the best morning tea in the building, and people will still be stressed, overwhelmed, and quietly checking out. Not because they're ungrateful, but because the morning tea was never the point. In this episode, Amy brings the wellness paradox into the workplace and asks the question most organisations are still too uncomfortable to sit with. What are the emotions showing u...

There's a reason the self-help section keeps getting bigger, and it isn't because we're getting better at being well. It's because somewhere along the way, someone realised that our discomfort was a business model, and they built an entire industry around the idea that if you just added one more thing, tried one more strategy, bought one more supplement, you might finally feel okay. In this episod...