Wellness expert and Harley Street clinic co-founder Gudiya Dagur Patel joins the On a Mission podcast to unpack why so many women feel exhausted, overwhelmed, reactive, and disconnected despite doing everything right.

This conversation will resonate with high-functioning women who are juggling work, family, health, and responsibility while quietly running on empty.

Gudiya works in health and wellness, yet her own life followed a familiar pattern. Constant pressure. Always coping. Always pushing. No obvious warning signs. Until a routine test revealed stage four kidney cancer with no symptoms.

From there, the focus turns to what actually drives burnout in women. Chronic stress. Emotional load. Hormonal change. Nervous system overload. Years of minimising what the body is signalling.

Menopause and perimenopause run through this conversation, including why symptoms are so often missed, misunderstood, or mislabelled as anxiety or depression, and why many women feel like they are losing control of their energy, emotions, focus, and resilience.

Alcohol, distraction, overachievement, and productivity are framed as coping strategies rather than personality traits, and the cost of never slowing down is laid bare.

If you are tired all the time, struggling to switch off, snapping more than you used to, feeling foggy, flat, or not like yourself, this episode will connect dots that are rarely joined.

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Key moments include:

✔ Why burnout disproportionately affects capable, high-performing women.

✔ How chronic stress shows up physically, emotionally, and hormonally.

✔ Early menopause and perimenopause signs many women miss.

✔ Why hormonal issues are often misdiagnosed as mental health problems.

✔ Cortisol, nervous system overload, and emotional volatility.

✔ Alcohol and distraction as common coping mechanisms.

✔ Why rest feels uncomfortable after years of over-functioning.

✔ What recovery actually looks like when stress has been long-term.

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