Thrive | Joanna Denton

The life changing power of saying “This sucks”

by Joanna Denton | Oct 21, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Build your community, Rewire out of fear, Telling your story, Thrive

When fear turns into a funk. Yesterday I hit rock bottom. After weeks of unpacking a bunch of emotional stuff, bringing forth anger and mounting anxiety and all the dark stuff, my body has been screaming in pain for the last ten days. My back hurts, my muscles hurt,...

Top Tips on How to Coach and not Micro-Manage a Team

by Joanna Denton | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog, Play bigger, Practical tips to be awesome!, Rewire out of fear, Thrive

When you have delegated something to your team member, and they get stuck – how often do you just tell them what to do so they get unstuck? I know that this can be really tempting, especially when you are up against time pressure, or a bit of a recovering...

What’s Your Excuse?

by Joanna Denton | Aug 31, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Rewire out of fear, Thrive

Let’s talk about the boundaries we set for ourselves. There are a lot of articles written about boundaries – mainly about setting boundaries with others – your friends or family, your boss, other third parties. Strangely, I have come across fewer articles...

Space to breathe

by Joanna Denton | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog, Play bigger, Rewire out of fear, Thrive

Over the last two weeks, the biggest thing that I have been working on is space. Space to think. Space to write. Space to get quiet and see what comes up. Space away from the noise in my head about what a great article looks like, or a great speech, or a great...

A week back to work, and you may as well never have been on holiday

by Joanna Denton | Jan 11, 2021 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Thrive

When I was still working in corporate, Christmas holidays were the best. We would have invariably have been working like mad in the run-up to Christmas to meet our compliance deadlines, but every couple of years I would get to spend a proper ten days off on holiday....

“Lazy, self-indulgent and unprofessional?” – no wonder I burned out

by Joanna Denton | Dec 14, 2020 | Avoid burnout, Blog, Thrive

I read something this week that rang true. In the context of a workshop on burnout, symptoms of it and ways to overcome it, participants were writing about their experience with burnout/ worklife balance etc in the chat box. I read many comments that rang true with my...