Overwhelm is Optional
- This is the podcast for big-hearted, highly driven professionals who want their life back.
- Each week, we explore ways to gently rebel against the idea that overwhelm and exhaustion are just the price you pay for success. You don’t have to push through—it’s time to work with ease, reclaim your energy, and create the life you want.
- 💡 Meet Heidi Marke
I’m Heidi, a Coach, Teacher, Podcaster, and Author. Having painfully burned out—losing my career, confidence, health, and financial stability—I discovered a better way. Now, I quietly lead The Gentle Rebellion, helping you to:- Stop pushing through overwhelm.
- Redefine success on your own terms.
- Reclaim your time, energy, and life.
Thank you to purpleplanet.com for the music.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 228
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 48: Rant warning! Going round in circles and feeling disempowered? This is for you.
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Episode 47: With the incredible Neville Wright who turned 37p into £100 million
Neville Wright’s rags to riches story is inspiring - you can read it here in his book
‘The Answer is Yes, Now, What is the Question?’
But many rags to riches stories can feel impractical …
Episode 46: It's time to take overwhelm more seriously
Episode 46: It's time to take overwhelm more seriously
A gentle, but firm kick to encourage you to do stop wasting your life and do something about the overwhelm.
Create space amidst the …
Episode 45: With the inspirational Dan Warburton
Dan is a transformational coach who is known for enabling successful entrepreneurs who've hit a plateau to breakthrough, become inspired and take actions that created results they never…
Episode 44: Rebel and create your own morning ritual
Rebel and create your own morning ritual
You are unique. Noticing what works for you and what adds pressure and overwhelm is important, especially when it comes to how you start your day…
Episode 43: Polar exploration and surviving the overwhelm of home-schooling with Curtis Knapton
Episode 43: Polar exploration and surviving the overwhelm of home-schooling with Curtis Knapton
Curtis Knapton is an ordinary person doing extraordinary things
Apologies for the sound iss…
Episode 42: WARNING: READING THE NEWS CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH
Should the news carry a health warning like cigarette packets?
WARNING: READING THE NEWS CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH
Research shows this, which is why I, and many others, stopped rea…
Episode 41: Release and Celebrate 2020
Celebrating 2020
In this last episode of 2020 I want to pause to celebrate and release what has been good and not so good about my attempt at podcasting this year.
In March I decided to s…
Episode 40: The Problem with Mindset Work
The Problem with Mindset
Yes of course mindset matters and changing your mindset has the potential to change your life in exciting ways.
But you can’t just implant a positive mindset on t…
Episode 39: Where's your attention going?
Where’s your attention going?
Attention is such an important thing to learn to control that I thought I’d give you another practice to support you.
Includes a Neutral Noticing Attention P…
Episode 38: Resting is a rebellious act. So rest.
Rest as a rebellious act
Feeling overwhelmed and waiting to get through the backlog of things-to-do before you rest?
The mistaken belief that we cannot rest when we need to - just because…
Episode 37: How and why you should pause and celebrate
Not celebrating - pushing on through to whatever is next is a disaster for most of us leading to more overwhelm, more exhaustion and more unhappiness.
This episode discusses why it's imp…
Episode 36: How to find and strengthen your boundaries
How to find and strengthen your boundaries
Overwhelm is inevitable and optional.
Overwhelm robs you of your ability to focus, disconnects you from your heart and is the gateway burnout an…
Episode 35: How to Beat the Overwhelm with Danni Wade: practical tips & insights from one very busy woman
Beat the Overwhelm with Danni Wade
This episode is packed full of practical ways to manage and reduce overwhelm.
Danni is a wife and mum to 2 girls, works full-time as a Senior Sales Exec…
Episode 34: How thinking about death helps you live more fully
How contemplating death can help you live more fully now
Its remembrance day here in the UK and yes it’s a gloomy November with the days getting rapidly shorter and shorter. And yes ther…
Episode 33: For NHS staff to help with increased stress and sadness
A special episode for NHS workers to help with increased stress and sadness
This episode is inspired by a friend who works in the NHS who sent me a lovely email this week:
“Hi Heidi,
I ju…
Episode 32: Why managing your attention is awesome!
Episode 32: Manage your attention is more important than managing your time
First came time management and productivity hacks.
Then came energy management. But how does this work?
Get out …
Episode 31: Time is not the real reason
If you've been following this podcast for a while you'll know I have a brilliant method for getting you out of your head and into your body, connected to your heart and taking a much-ne…
Episode 30: Squeeze the benefits of meditation into your life with ease
Want to squeeze the benefits of meditation into your life but struggle to meditate?
Neutral Noticing is my powerfully simple method of condensed mindfulness meditation that squeezes into…
Episode 29: Stuck in ‘if/when/just get through’ mode?
Stuck in ‘if/when/just get through’ mode?
You work hard. You’re a nice person. Why is your life so hard?
You’re fed up with feeling increasingly tired, finding it harder to ‘just get thro…