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The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Ambition
- Published
- July 17, 2026
- Duration
- 8:47
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 2, 2026
Discusses Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion can quietly transform your ambition—not by k…
Summary
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion can quietly transform your ambition—not by killing it, but by warping it into something unrecognizable. Drawing on the real-world example of a senior product manager who went from high-octane careerist to someone who felt nothing at all, the episode digs into the difference between intrinsic and extr…
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Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion can quietly transform your ambition—not by killing it, but by warping it into something unrecognizable. Drawing on the real-world example of a senior product manager who went from high-octane careerist to someone who felt nothing at all, the episode digs into the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic ambition. Lucas cites a 2023 study from the Journal of Organizational Behavior showing that burnout reduces career identity integration b