Noggin

Storyteller, commentator second · 3 a week · 71% mapped

I help nurses who've burnt out build a second career without starting from zero. Ex-ICU, now a coach, still terrible at sitting still.

Whys

Why you do this: for yourself, for the people you help, and the beliefs underneath.

Gone quiet · last posted 7 weeks ago

The kid who organised the street

9 weeks

I was the one who organised the rounders games on our street. Teams, rules, who was goalie. I'd forgotten that until you asked. I think I've always needed to be the one who makes the thing happen.

Jo's second interview

never posted

Jo rang me from the car park after her second interview. She'd got the job. She said 'I didn't think I was allowed to want something else.' That's the whole thing, really.

Burnout isn't a personal failing

7 weeks

Burnout is a system design outcome. I'll say that until I'm blue in the face. Nobody burns out because they're weak, they burn out because the rota was built to break them.