The Emotional Tsunami

When you’re carrying the weight of everyone else—and no one’s carrying you.

You’re not just leading a school. You’re absorbing everything it feels.

Student trauma. Staff burnout. Parental aggression. Community instability.

You carry it with compassion—but there’s no space to put it down.

This is The Emotional Tsunami.

Where it Comes From ...

Absorbing staff and student distress

Emotional exhaustion without recovery

Escalating incidents of conflict and abuse

No space for your own wellbeing

“I go home emotionally wiped. I’m managing everyone else’s stress, but I can’t remember the last time anyone asked how I was doing.”

Principal, South Australia

What part of your role are you carrying alone—and what would it look like to let that go?

The Emotional Tsunami

This video talks about why leaders end up drowning in everyone else’s stress, and the hidden costs of carrying emotional burdens with no safety net. The question is, how can we overcome this and begin leading with strength, calm, and emotional clarity?

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Glorifying Overwork

In this video, I unpack patterns like mistaking visibility for value, equating sacrifice with care, and treating resilience as the endgame—all of which I had to unlearn to shift from overwork and into intentional, sustainable leadership.

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The Sustainability Myth

This video explores the dangerous lie too many school leaders tell themselves: that things will settle, that rest will come later, that this stretch of overwork is temporary. It rarely is. And the longer leaders try to lead through collapse, the harder it is to rebuild what burnout has already eroded.

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The Feedback Vacuum

This video explores the deeper crisis behind recruitment and retention: the growing perception that school leadership is impossible to sustain. As triage becomes the default, and system pressure continues to rise, even strong leaders are walking away—not because they can’t lead, but because the role no longer allows them to.

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