When did sitting in your car too exhausted to go inside become normal?
If you've ever finished a full day and realised you spent it responding to everything whilst thinking about nothing, you're not alone. Retail manager burnout has reached crisis levels, with happiness across UK retail falling to 58% in 2025.
In this episode, I explore:
Four things steadier retail managers do differently:
Where technology can actually help: voice transcription, automated reporting, AI-flagged patterns, not to do more, but to create thinking space.
One practical step: Track just one day this week (a 'normal' workday). Not to judge yourself, but to see where your time goes. Then ask: if I could give one hour back to myself, where would I want it to go?
Because retail manager burnout isn't something you solve with a podcast episode. But you might notice one pattern. One place where your attention is going that it doesn't need to. And that might be enough to shift something.
Did anything resonate with you from today's conversation? I'd love to know, particularly where you're losing or reworking thinking time in your calendar.
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