Your company has a meditation app, a mental health awareness poster, and maybe a yoga class at lunch. And yet people are burning out faster than ever. Jody Brooks calls this wellness washing: performing wellbeing without changing the structural conditions that actually cause burnout. In this episode, he shares the Nine Principles of Authentic Living, built from his own journey through severe anxiety, depression, and suicidal thinking, and explains what real wellbeing in the workplace actually requires.
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⏰ Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro -- Jody's story: successful on the outside, breaking on the inside
2:15 The moment it broke: crying in a toilet cubicle
3:30 The slow erosion: how burnout builds before you name it
5:15 What is wellness washing? The car wash analogy
7:00 Real examples: apps, yoga classes, mental health first aiders
9:00 Why yoga classes polarize instead of help
10:30 HR's impossible position: gatekeepers, not guardians
12:50 Are HR departments doomed by short-termism?
15:00 What it actually costs companies: sickness, turnover, hidden losses
19:10 UK burnout stats: 91% experience extreme stress every year
21:10 The Nine Principles of Authentic Living -- all 9 explained
31:35 Psychological safety: what companies get wrong
34:00 Ownership: personal agency when you can't fix the system
38:50 AI and burnout: why output models make it worse
42:15 Remote work and the return-to-office debate
46:50 What every person needs: to be seen, heard, listened to, and to belong
49:20 Quickfire round
51:05 How to connect with Jody Brooks
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