Overwhelm is Optional

Are you a Struggling Rebel?  Not happy settling for a life where well-paid fulfilling work means a constant battle with life-crushing, energy-draining, focus-sucking overwhelm? The Overwhelm is Optional podcast is for you if you want to quit the struggle with overwhelm and live your life to the full. You don’t want to compromise your health and relationships in order to have well-paid, satisfying,...

You are not alone. There is nothing wrong with you. And you may just have stumbled on exactly what you need. The Gentle Rebellion is for the quiet rebels whose struggle to create a life they feel at home in has led to the life-crushing, energy-draining, focus-zapping kind of overwhelm. The kind that keeps you trapped — cycling through exhaustion and frustration, feeling like if you could just do m...

Having trouble accepting that this is just the way things are? That exhaustion and overwhelm are just part of having satisfying work? This episode is for you. The Overwhelm is Optional podcast is for you if you want to quit the struggle with overwhelm and live your life to the full. You don’t want to compromise your health and relationships in order to have well-paid, satisfying, meaningful work....

Spinning plates, trying to do all the things, being the CEO and the everything — sound familiar? This episode is for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to get out of marketing fear and overwhelm and find a way that actually works for them. Chloe Morris of Pink Flamingo Marketing is warm, practical and brilliantly honest about her own adventures in overwhelm. Side note: Chloe is the person...

Podcasts — yes, including this one — articles, books, YouTube rabbit holes, saved pages you'll definitely read later, music, TED talks, social media... all of it good, all of it chosen, all of it somehow feeling like pressure instead of pleasure. Who are you in the middle of all of this? And how did magic turn into overwhelm? This episode is about finding your way back to the joy of living in...

You're working hard. You're doing all the things. And yet somehow there's never enough space, time or energy left for the life you actually wanted. This episode is a gentle but firm invitation to try a different way. the old way — ignoring your body, disconnecting from your heart, over-using your mind — and why it's exhausting the new way — listening, connecting, controlling yo...

Sacrifice now, be happy later. Work hard enough, push through enough, achieve enough — and then you'll finally get to enjoy your life. We were sold a lie. This episode is a rant. A warm, honest, gently rebellious rant about the narrative that has kept driven, big-hearted people exhausted and waiting for a happiness that keeps moving further away. the long-standing lie about sacrificing now to...

Episode 104: Cutting through career overwhelm to find fulfilment in your work with Jennifer Wheeler of Career Progression  Join me as I chat to Jennifer Wheeler about peeling back the onion of nonsense as we learn to listen to and trust ourselves on the way to a more fulfilling life. Jennifer Wheeler is a qualified and experienced career advisor and coach.  Her background is in the technology sect...

How's your life going? Is it working out how you intended? Here's my new phrase for the year: I get to be myself AND have my dreams come true How does that make you feel? Neutral Noticing free audio: https://www.heidimarke.co.uk/theoneminutemarke Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heidi.marke/ The podcast for high earning, big-hearted, driven professionals  and business ow...

Positive thinking is supposed to help. So why does it sometimes make everything worse? This episode is honest about something most coaches won't say — that positive thinking, applied in the wrong way at the wrong time, can actually add to your overwhelm rather than ease it. Including one of the worst pieces of advice I was ever given. why positive thinking can backfire for driven, sensitive p...

Are you feeling disappointed with the start to your year? The podcast for high earning, big-hearted, driven professionals  and business owners who want to break free from overwhelm and experience more clarity, ease and joy. Overwhelm is Optional: Join The Gentle Rebellion Focus and satisfaction at work Switch off, laugh easily and be present at home Sign up for Gently Rebellious Emails here . The...

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The third in a special series: A Turn of the Year Pause To get your free workbook to accompany this series please visit: www.heidimarke.co.uk/pause The podcast for high earning, big-hearted, driven professionals  and business owners who want to break free from overwhelm and experience more clarity, ease and joy. Overwhelm is Optional: Join The Gentle Rebellion Focus and satisfaction at work Switch...

The second in a special series: A Turn of the Year Pause To get your free workbook to accompany this series please visit: www.heidimarke.co.uk/pause The podcast for high earning, big-hearted, driven professionals  and business owners who want to break free from overwhelm and experience more clarity, ease and joy. Overwhelm is Optional: Join The Gentle Rebellion Focus and satisfaction at work Switc...

The first in a special series: A Turn of the Year Pause To get your free workbook to accompany this series please visit: www.heidimarke.co.uk/pause The podcast for high earning, big-hearted, driven professionals  and business owners who want to break free from overwhelm and experience more clarity, ease and joy. Overwhelm is Optional: Join The Gentle Rebellion Focus and satisfaction at work Switch...

Christmas Overwhelm - so many expectations! So many opportunities for overwhelm during the season of unexpected loveliness. The upcoming special series of episodes to help you start the new year out of overwhelm starts next week. To get hold of the free workbook to accompany the series please visit: www.heidimarke.co.uk/pause The podcast for high earning, big-hearted, driven professionals  and bus...

Struggling with Seasonal Overwhelm? If you’re struggling with seasonal overwhelm and feeling like we’re hurtling through time and space at a faster and faster rate as the days get shorter and shorter then tomorrow’s episode of The Overwhelm is Optional podcast is for you. If you feel like the overwhelm has ramped up as you rush to finish your never-ending to-do list so that you can take some time...

Sometimes overwhelm isn't coming from your to-do list. Sometimes it's the noise, the light, the people — the environment you're sitting in right now. This episode explores how your surroundings affect your overwhelm and your energy — and what you can do about it. how noise, light and people add to or drain your energy why your environment matters more than most productivity advice a...

When this project is done. When the kids are older. When things calm down. When I've achieved enough. When this, then that. Sound familiar? The pressure to keep temporarily postponing your life feels like it's coming from your circumstances. This episode gently but firmly shows you it isn't. why "when this, then that" thinking keeps your real life permanently out of reach...

How do you react when you get a cold or other minor illness? For years I had no time, it was a major inconvenience that through everything else out - and I got more and more of them. I recorded this episode with a cold - noticing the difference between getting a cold whilst struggling through periods of intense overwhelm - and now. The One Minute Marke  Neutral Noticing is the easiest and most eff...

She pitched me. I said yes immediately. Leonie Dawson is an award-winning entrepreneur who has created $11 million working just 10 hours a week — whilst being completely, unapologetically herself. And that last part is where I learn the most. This is one of my favourite ever episodes. Honest, blazing, and full of permission to do things your way. how Leonie built a multi-million dollar business wi...

If you believe a dietary cheeseburger exists, you can have one. And that apparently ridiculous idea is the key to everything. This episode uses the dietary cheeseburger as a playful, low-stakes model to explore one of the most profound ideas in all of my work — that what you believe is possible for you determines what actually is. The cheeseburger doesn't matter. But your meaningful work, you...

What if the thing that feels completely impossible — meaningful work, great health, real relationships, actually enjoying the life you've worked so hard for — is actually the most natural thing in the world for you? And what if the "realistic" version everyone else is settling for is the real impossibility? This episode is for the ones who want it all and refuse to believe they can&...

You might not even think of yourself as a perfectionist. But perfectionism is sneaky — it hides in the invisible pressure you put on yourself without even noticing it's there. This episode shines a light on the surprisingly subtle ways perfectionism adds to your overwhelm — and what to do about it. why you don't have to identify as a perfectionist to be affected by it the invisible press...

Nobody talks about life admin overwhelm. But it's there — quietly draining your energy, filling the gaps between everything else, and never, ever seeming to get done. This episode shines a light on the hidden pressures of life admin and — hopefully — eases them a little. why life admin creates a unique and underestimated kind of overwhelm the hidden mental load that comes with just keeping li...