Long Covid Podcast 202 - Michelle Irving - How Health Challenges Could Turn Your Work Into Authentic Leadership
We map a clear path from medical leave to meaningful work, sharing the five-stage Career and Chronic framework and the skills that turn lived experience into authentic leadership. Practical scripts, capacity tools, and boundary strategies make work humane and sustainable.
• What career means when health reshapes life
• The five stages: off-ramp, on-ramp, the new, test and redesign, authentic leadership
• Emotional skills for the bed-based phase
• Boundaries without apology or battle
• Baseline versus optimal capacity and how to communicate both
• Reducing emotional labour at work and home
• Why these skills create trusted, empathetic leaders
• The chronic economy and the future of human capacity at work
Links:
Our previous episode - the emotional map: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1835170/episodes/13541520
Connect with Michelle:
http://careerandchronicillness.com/
https://www.chronicillnessatwork.com/
Career and Chronic Map: https://www.careerandchronic.com/career-map
The Cocoon (when not working): https://www.careerandchronic.com/the-cocoon
Work & Leadership Series https://www.careerandchronic.com/chronicleadership (Feb 2026)
Ambition Program (discussed in episode) https://www.careerandchronic.com/ambition
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(music credit - Brock Hewitt, Rule of Life)
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