The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast

The 9pm glass of wine is not really about wine. For a lot of high-performing women, it is the only reliable off-switch in the house. The work day never properly ends, the second shift starts the moment it does, and by the time the kitchen is finally quiet, the glass is the one thing that makes the noise stop. An entire industry knows this, which is why wine is marketed to exhausted women as self-c...

Kate Whitwam spent twenty years in corporate HR. Change management, unions, closing sites, opening sites. She was good at bringing people together. Then she was made redundant and found property. She thought the hard part would be learning construction, finance, tax. It was not. The hard part was realising she had taken herself with her. The over-functioning. The need to be useful every single sec...

When was the last time you rested without earning it first? For the woman who holds it all together, recovery sits at the bottom of a list that never ends: after the business, after the family, after everyone else is sorted. Which means it never comes. In this episode of The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast, Katie Harvey takes one of the central chapters of her book The Success Hangover and turns it int...

Jimmy Burroughs was promoted to a GM role in his mid-thirties, ten to fifteen years younger than everyone around him. The business was restructuring. The executive team was falling apart. People were taking their own lives. And then the government changed immigration rules overnight, costing the business twenty million dollars. He was told to fix it. He worked twenty-hour days. Travelled offshore...

How do some women stay composed under pressure while everyone around them tightens up? It is not temperament. It is training. In this episode of The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast, Katie Harvey makes the case from her book The Success Hangover that calm is a skill, not a personality trait, and shows you exactly how to build it. Katie knows the stakes from both sides: years spent as the only woman on c...

Cass is a Nigerian-born nurse turned entrepreneur who has lived in Dominica, London, and Newcastle. She built The Tolicious Brand as a side hustle while working full-time in the NHS. Then, on 16th August, she almost lost her life and her newborn's life during an emergency caesarean section. That was the moment everything changed. She went back for a few shifts, then walked away from the NHS and we...

Why do you feel guilty every time you rest? You finally sit down on a Sunday afternoon and within minutes something in you is itching to be useful. You check your phone. You remember a task. You get up. For high performers, rest does not feel like relief. It feels like a small moral failure. In this episode of The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast, Katie Harvey unpacks where rest guilt actually comes fro...

Megan Ashton spent eighteen years trying to heal. Clinical hypnotherapy. Yoga in India. Holistic nutrition. A week of Iowaska in Colombia that overwhelmed her nervous system and left her sick for a year. Nothing touched the bulimia, the alcohol dependency, or the wounds underneath them. By the end of it, she believed she was broken. Then a friend in Bali told her to try a breathwork class. Within...

You journal. You cold plunge. You wear the tracker, take the supplements, guard the morning routine. You have done everything the optimisation world told you to do, and you still feel off. Wired, flat, running on willpower. If the hacks worked, they would have worked by now. In this episode of The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast, Katie Harvey explains why biohacking fails the people who need help most....

Why do you keep waking up at 4am? You fall asleep fine because you are exhausted, then your eyes open in the dark and your mind is already running. The client. The cashflow. The conversation you need to have. For founders and high performers, the 4am wake-up is one of the most common and most misread signals there is. In this episode of The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast, Katie Harvey explains the phy...

Cortisol face. Cortisol belly. Cortisol detox. TikTok has decided cortisol is the villain of 2026, and content about lowering your stress hormone has racked up hundreds of millions of views. Most of it is wrong. And Katie Harvey is in an unusual position to explain why: she lives with Addison's disease, a rare condition where the body produces almost no cortisol at all. She doses the hormone TikTo...

Ailie Suzuki was a zoologist, a conservationist, and the director of an environmental nonprofit in New Zealand. She relocated across the world to the UK with her partner Tristan and their son, sold everything they owned, and started building a property business from scratch. The adrenaline of the move carried her through. Then it stopped. The whole family got sick. The motivation disappeared. She...

Quiet cracking is the workplace term of 2026: still performing, still delivering, while quietly coming apart underneath. Research suggests more than half of workers recognise it in themselves, and people in this state are over six times more likely to slide into full burnout. But almost all of the coverage talks about employees. Nobody is talking about what quiet cracking looks like when you are t...

Rob Edmonds has been a self-employed electrician for 36 years. He runs his own business, chases his own work, does his own invoices, and carries the financial pressure that comes with nobody else paying the wages. On top of that, he is building a property portfolio. A few years ago, burnout hit him so hard he could not function for weeks. He did not know what it was. He just knew he could not move...

Why do you feel empty after achieving your goals? You hit the revenue target, closed the deal, won the award, and instead of joy you felt flat, restless, or just relieved. In this episode of The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast, Katie Harvey names what you are experiencing: the success hangover. Drawing on her Amazon No.1 bestselling book The Success Hangover, Katie explains the science behind why achie...

Luke Green went from managing Hilton and Mercure hotels in Sheffield, Leeds and Dublin to building two property businesses, a podcast, and 50 managed properties across South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. The trigger was COVID. The fuel was a skill set he already had. The cost was everything else. Luke is honest about what the growth has taken from him. He cannot switch off. He cannot stick to the non-...

Pat Harper spent years in corporate being sold a dream that never arrived. When he finally quit, his wife told him she was pregnant a week later. In this conversation, Pat talks about what pushed him to leave, the fear and freedom that came with building something of his own, and why he now measures success by bedtimes and morning book reads with his four year old. We explore why exercise is non-n...

Marion Neggers was 25 years old, managing five bank branches, raising two young children and going through a divorce. One morning she could not get out of bed. Her daughter had to help her get dressed. When the doctor said it was burnout, she laughed at him. Burnout was for weak people. She was just sick. In this conversation, Marion talks about the signals she ignored, the six years of financial...

In this conversation, Katie Harvey is joined by Natalie Carter, host of the Dementia Dialogues podcast. Natalie shares her journey from full time motherhood into business ownership, property investment and eventually creating a podcast that supports families navigating dementia. What began as a deeply personal experience after her grandmother developed dementia has grown into a platform that helps...

Most high performers do not think their nervous system is exhausted. They think they are just busy. In a demanding season. Building something meaningful. But there is a difference between being busy and being neurologically overloaded. In this episode of The b.reathe Podcast, we explore the subtle signs of nervous system exhaustion that ambitious leaders, founders and high achievers often miss. Th...

Tsen Wharton spent nearly a decade in corporate knowing it was wrong for him but not being able to name why. He was leaving at seven, getting home at seven, and bringing energy into his house that he did not want his wife and young kids to feel. He now knows the word for it: misalignment. In this conversation, Tsen talks about the relentless drive for growth that never switches off, even when peop...

Burnout rarely begins with collapse. It begins with capability. In this episode of The b.reathe Podcast, we explore why high performers, founders and leaders often miss the early signs of their own burnout. Not because they are weak, but because they are strong. Because they are adaptable. Because they are praised for pushing through pressure. We unpack how burnout whispers before it shouts. The s...

In this episode of The b.reathe Conversations, Katie sits down with Matt Dolman to explore meditation, mindset and what sustainable high performance really looks like in a distracted world. Matt shares how building a purpose-led property business led him into deeper work around resilience, reactivity and leadership under pressure. What started as curiosity around meditation evolved into a foundati...

In this personal and powerful episode of The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast , Katie Harvey shares the story of a Muay Thai fight she had already lost before it began. After an intense fight camp, extreme training load, and insufficient recovery, Katie stepped into the ring knowing her body and nervous system were not ready. What followed became a turning point in how she understands performance, press...

What does sustainable high performance really look like when responsibility keeps growing? In this episode of The b.reathe Conversations, Katie speaks with entrepreneur and property investor Rupen Patel about leadership under pressure, the quiet signs of burnout, and the discipline required to build long-term success without sacrificing health or family. Rupen shares his journey from a 25-year cor...