125: Performance or Wellbeing? With Dr. Dave Nicol
Description
Why do veterinarians keep burning out?
In this episode of the Veterinary Leadership Success Show, I’m unpacking why so many great people in our profession are burning out, and what we can learn from elite athletes about how to fix it.
Because in sport, training hard every day is a fast track to injury. Yet in vet med, we do exactly that - long hours, relentless pressure, and no real recovery. Then we wonder why everyone’s limping.
I’ll walk you through how to think like a coach - setting the right dose of work, building rest into the plan, and checking in before things start to snap. We’ll talk about how to balance intensity with recovery and why emotional fuel is every bit as important as physical energy.
Episode Outline:
00:00 – Performance or wellbeing? (You can have both.)
01:00 – Lessons from the track: what sport can teach vet med
03:00 – Running slow to go fast
06:00 – The four factors of performance: volume, intensity, rest, and fuel
10:00 – When teams “train” too hard and start to break
13:00 – Building resilience, not fatigue
16:00 – Check in before they burn out
18:00 – Fuel, rest, and emotional recovery
20:00 – Your leadership training plan for a healthier team
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