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June 27, 2025 Hi, Karyn. I’ve been following your posts for a while and I know you write about burnout. I’m not there yet. But sometimes it feels like a real possibility. It doesn’t seem to matter how organised I am or how early I get started, sometimes I just can’t get on top of…

June 13, 2025 Karyn, help! I’m finding this situation tricky to handle, mainly because I can understand both sides of the conflict. I have a large mixed team although there’s a small majority of women. Coming up to school holidays I always start hearing the whingeing from single women about the mothers in the team:…

May 30, 2025 Dear Karyn I saw a post of yours a while ago about procrastination and I was sure I’d saved it but now I can’t find it. I know procrastination’s a pretty stupid thing to get stuck with and I’ve tried a range of different strategies. I really like ‘the one thing’ concept…

March 14, 2025 Hi Karyn, saw your feisty post about men not standing up to male violence. I work in a heavily male-dominated industry with some really terrific men (bosses, colleagues and clients). But still, stuff goes on and it’s as if they don’t even see it. If I acted, yelled or bullied the way…

February 28, 2025 Hi Karyn. As you know, I’m about to start a new role that I’m really excited about. It’s aligned with my values and will give me both the stretch and the recognition of my expertise I didn’t have in my old job as well as an opportunity to make a huge difference…