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 108: How to reduce overwhelm and market your business in a way that works for you with Chloe Morris of Pink Flamingo Marketing
Episode 108: How to reduce overwhelm and market your business in a way that works for you with Chloe Morris of Pink Flamingo Marketing
Spinning plates and trying to do all the things in…
Episode 107: Are you drowning in all digital opportunities in your life? The podcasts, articles, blogs, saved web pages, music...
Are you drowning in all the digital opportunities in your life? Podcasts (yes, including mine) articles and blogs, music, books (Kindle overwhelm), social media, YouTube videos, TED tal…
Episode 106: Is your life working for you?
Episode 106: Is your life working for you?
The old way - ignoring your body, disconnecting from your heart and over-using your mind - well, how's that working out for you?
The new way - l…
Episode 105: Have you had enough of working this hard to be happy?
Here's my rant about the long-standing narrative about sacrificing now to be happy later. We were sold a lie!
Want to join my upcoming masterclasses?
Thursday 17th February The Time For Y…
How to navigate career overwhelm with Jennifer Wheeler of The Career Progression Programme
Episode 104: Cutting through career overwhelm to find fulfilment in your work with Jennifer Wheeler of Career Progression
Join me as I chat to Jennifer Wheeler about peeling back the on…
Episode 103: Happy Imbolc - how are you? No, really?
How's your life going? Is it working out how you intended?
Here's my new phrase for the year:
I get to be myself AND have my dreams come true
How does that make you feel?
Neutral Noticing f…
Episode 102: Positive thinking adding to your overwhelm?
What to do when positive thinking is just adding to your overwhelm and one of the worst pieces of advice I was given.
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Episode 101: Are you disappointed with your start to 2022?
Are you feeling disappointed with the start to your year?
Want the fastest most effective way to turn your overwhelm into the joy, satisfaction and ease you're working so hard for? Book …
Episode 100: A Turn of the Year Pause - Pause to Dream 2022
The last in a special series: A Turn of the Year Pause
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🎙️ Welcome to Overwhelm is Optional
This …
Episode 99: A Turn of the Year Pause - Pause to Release 2021
The third in a special series: A Turn of the Year Pause
To get your free workbook to accompany this series please visit:
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Episode 98: A Turn of the Year Pause - Pause to Celebrate 2021
The second in a special series: A Turn of the Year Pause
To get your free workbook to accompany this series please visit:
🎙️ Welcome to Overwhelm is Optional
Thi…
Episode 97: A Turn of the Year Pause - Pause to Take Stock
The first in a special series: A Turn of the Year Pause
To get your free workbook to accompany this series please visit:
www.heidimarke.co.uk/pause
Want the fastest most effective way to t…
Episode 96: Christmas Overwhelm
Christmas Overwhelm - so many expectations! So many opportunities for overwhelm during the season of unexpected loveliness.
The upcoming special series of episodes to help you start the …
Episode 95: Struggling with Seasonal Overwhelm?
Struggling with Seasonal Overwhelm?
If you’re struggling with seasonal overwhelm and feeling like we’re hurtling through time and space at a faster and faster rate as the days get shorte…
Episode 94: Overwhelmed by your surroundings?
How are you affected by your environment?
In this week's episode, I discuss how your surroundings - noise, light, people etc can add to your overwhelm - or energise you.
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Episode 93: Feeling the pressure to postpone your life 'temporarily'?
The pressure you feel to keep ‘temporarily’ postponing your life is not coming from your external circumstances.
If you’re sick of wondering why you struggle to find the time and energy …
Episode 92: In celebration of having time for a cold
How do you react when you get a cold or other minor illness?
For years I had no time, it was a major inconvenience that through everything else out - and I got more and more of them.
I re…
Cutting through the overwhelm with the award-winning multi-million dollar entrepreneur Leonie Dawson
I had the absolute honour and pleasure of interviewing the amazing Leonie Dawson.
Leonie is an award-winning entrepreneur who has created $11M in 10 hours a week whilst being fully hers…
Episode 90: The Dietary Cheeseburger Episode
To the extent that not you believe that you can have such a thing as a dietary cheeseburger, determines whether or not you can have one.
This week’s episode continues with the theme of m…
Episode 89: Is the impossible what's actually possible for you?
What if the impossible is the possible for you?
And the possible is actually the impossible?
So, if like me, what you want - meaningful satisfying work AND health and great relationships …