The Intervention Series
One situation, one expert, one thing to try before the week is out.
The flagship show. Each episode takes a single moment of transition — a first bad grade, a new manager, a child who has stopped talking — and works it through with someone who does this for a living.
The slate
Commissioned and being recorded. Each one lists the questions it sets out to answer — if yours is not here, add it to the board.
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1. The First Bad Grade
With an academic resilience coach
- Why does one grade feel like a verdict on who you are?
- What does a useful post-exam review actually look like?
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2. Role Shock
With an executive coach
- What is the difference between struggling and failing in a new role?
- How do you decode an ambiguous mandate in week two?
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3. When They Stop Talking
With a family systems therapist
- Is silence developmental or is it a signal?
- Why do side-by-side conversations work better than face-to-face?
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4. The Anatomy of Burnout
With an occupational psychologist
- Why does rest alone not fix burnout?
- What are the three components, and which one is yours?
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5. Money, Shame and the Spreadsheet
With a financial wellbeing coach
- Why does avoidance make financial anxiety worse?
- What is the one accurate hour that lowers it?
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6. Asking For Accommodations
With a disability and access specialist
- What are you actually entitled to?
- How much do you have to disclose?
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7. The Conversation After You Lost Your Temper
With a relational repair coach
- What makes an apology land rather than reopen it?
- Why does explaining yourself undo the repair?
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8. Loneliness Is Logistics
With a community psychologist
- Why does repeated exposure beat good conversation?
- What is the minimum viable social week?
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9. When Someone Mentions Self-Harm
With a clinical psychologist
- Does asking directly increase risk?
- What are the exact words to use?
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10. The Unstructured Future
With a career transition coach
- Why is the void after a structured decade so disorienting?
- How do you run a search without an externally set deadline?
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11. Boundaries With People Who Have Power Over You
With an executive coach
- What is the difference between a boundary and an ultimatum?
- How do you say no upward without damage?
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12. Grief Does Not Run to Schedule
With a bereavement counsellor
- Why do people in the same house grieve at different speeds?
- What does a workplace owe someone who is grieving?