Ep. 91 - Burnout, Redundancy and the Reset We Didn’t Plan For

About this episode

Felicity and Renee discuss the realities of burnout, personal trauma, and the journey of redefining success.

Welcome back to Promoted with Felicity Furey and Renee Wootton-Tomlin — and this week’s episode is one of the most honest conversations we’ve ever had. Burnout isn’t a buzzword. It’s a warning sign. In this deeply personal episode, Felicity shares the story behind her decision to step away from much of her work in 2025 to focus on healing complex PTSD and trauma. For years, achievement had been her identity — building businesses, writing books, delivering projects, constantly striving. But underneath the success was a nervous system running on overdrive. Felicity opens up about what it really took to stop. The discomfort. The identity shift. The books that changed her perspective — including The Body Keeps the Score by The Body Keeps the Score — and the daily practices she now embeds to regulate stress, rebuild capacity and prevent burnout from creeping back in. She reflects on the shift from striving to prove something… to striving because she genuinely wants to. Renee brings her own powerful reflections, sharing several periods of burnout across her career and the perspective-changing moment of redundancy in September 2025. Instead of rushing into the next role, she paused. She…

People in this episode

Hosts: Felicity Furey, Renee Wootton-Tomlin

Topics covered

• burnout
• mental health
• identity shift
• trauma
• stress management
• career reflection

Keywords

• burnout
• complex PTSD
• stress regulation
• career change
• high performers
• identity
• success

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Body Keeps the Score

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