How Good Can It Get
How Good Can It Get is a podcast for ambitious leaders, founders, and creatives who are ready to move beyond burnout, hustle culture, and surface-level success. Hosted by Bree Johnson — former law firm executive turned leadership thinker and creator — this show explores what it really takes to heal work wounds, reclaim personal power, and build a life where success and fulfillment coexist. Through thoughtful conversations and solo reflections, each episode examines the intersection of work, wealth, worth, and well-being, offering grounded insights on leadership, identity, nervous system regulation, career transitions, and the hidden emotional costs of modern ambition. This is not productivity advice or performative self-help. It’s a deeper inquiry into how we work, why we strive, and what it means to lead with clarity, integrity, and self-trust. If you’re navigating burnout, redefining success, or questioning the systems you’ve been asked to perform within, this podcast offers a quieter, wiser path forward. Tune in weekly and subscribe to explore how good life — and leadership — can truly get.
Episodes
Something big is coming. Bree is pulling back the curtain on what the How Good Can It Get? team has been quietly building behind the scenes — and it might be the most exciting thing this podcast has ever produced.
New guests. New series. Conversations so good she almost cr...
We've regulated. We've rewired. Now it's time to take your agency back. In the final installment of the Work Isn't Working series, Bree introduces the third step of the Work Recovery Method: Reclaim.
This episode is an honest look at the "good enough" zone so many high-ach...
Most of the rules running your life were written before you were old enough to question them.
In this episode, Bree introduces the second step of the Work Recovery Method — REWIRE — and breaks down the invisible operating system underneath all of our behavior: ...
When work stops working, the instinct is to think harder, plan faster, and do more. But what if the doing is exactly what's keeping you stuck? In part four of the Work Isn't Working series, Bree introduces the foundational step most high achievers skip entirely: regulation.
What happens when the thing you built your entire identity around disappears? In this episode of Work Isn't Working, Bree gets personal — sharing how the intoxicating elixir of career success quietly consumed her identity through her twenties and into her thirties, until the whole thing came crashing down and forced her to ask the hardest question: Who...
Part of the Work Isn't Working series on the How Good Can I Get? podcast
In this episode, host and former employment attorney digs past the surface-level conversation about workplace stress to expose the measurable, documented ways chronic work pressure is harming your body, reshaping your brain, and eroding your relationships.
From elevat...
New Series: Work Isn't Working...And It's Not Just You Episode #1
Burnout gets all the attention — but what if it's not actually the root problem? In this episode, host Bree Johnson digs into why treating burnout like a time management or resilience issue keeps you stuck i...
What if the life you've been working so hard to build is actually getting in the way of living it? In this personal episode, Bree reflects on a cultural conditioning that keeps so many of us perpetually future-focused — always planning, optimizing, and preparing — while the richness of ordinary life quietly slips by.
Influenced by the recent passing of her 94-year-old grandfather, Bree shares an honest and vulnerable look at the m...
Spring isn't just a season change—it's an invitation. Q1 has been rough for many of us. Work let us down. The world felt heavy. We carried burdens that weren't ours to carry. But what if you could give yourself permission to let it all go and start fresh?
Business is unusual and it's not just you that sees it. The work machine is operating exactly as designed. In this episode, Bree challenges the belief that burnout, exhaustion, and disillusionment are personal failures, revealing instead how modern work systems are built on extraction.
This conversation reframes the “rat race” and our pervasive work hard until retirement conditioning — and invites a different way of living and work...
In this episode, Bree Johnson reflects on the instability many people are feeling in 2026—from rapid AI-driven changes in work to political volatility and the growing sense that systems we once relied on are less predictable.
When structures feel unstable, the nervous system naturally searches for certainty. That uncertainty often shows up as irritability, anxiety, or a constant sense that something is “off.”
Looking to history, ph...
In this deeply personal episode, Bree Johnson shares the third major lesson from the “Winter of 2026”: the incredible power of community rooted in service.
What began with a phone call from a grieving teacher — and a devastating story involving a young student — became a catalyst for Bree’s immersion into community care work across Minnesota. Through rapid mobilization, fundraising, storytelling, and connection-building, Bree disco...
What happens when the map you’ve followed your entire life suddenly disappears?
In this conversation, Bree talks with writer, speaker, and podcast host Heather Morgan to explore what it really looks like to move through a major life reset — divorce, career change, identity loss, and rebuilding from the ground up.
Heather shares her journey from Fortune 500 strategist to creator of Wandering the Wild Mess, a platform devoted to self...
Why Courage Isn’t Fearlessness—It’s Action in the Face of Fear
In this powerful second lesson from the Winter of 2026 series, Bree Johnson explores what courage really looks like when life feels unstable, overwhelming, and uncertain.
We’re often taught that courage belongs to the bold, the confident, the fearless.
But real courage?
It’s feeling scared out of your mind… and choosing to move forward anyway.
In this episode, Bree shar...
In this deeply personal episode, Bree shares the first lesson from the Winter of ’26: learning that she had been too quiet.
After years of compartmentalizing herself to “protect” her growing business, Bree reflects on what it cost her—and her community—to edit her voice, soften her truth, and outsource her authenticity in the name of success. She opens up about leaving the employment law firm she co-founded, building Executive Unsc...
What if the leadership skills we’ve been taught to develop are no longer the ones that matter?
In this episode, Bree Johnson co-hosts with Andrea Tessier to name what many leaders are quietly feeling as we move toward 2026: the old playbook is breaking down.
Strategy isn’t enough. Performance is no longer sustainable. And certainty is gone.
Together, they explore what leadership actually requires in this next chapter—inner steadine...
There’s a quote I keep returning to: Some years are questions, and some years are answers.
For me, 2025 was an answer year.
Not because everything was easy but because the growth was undeniable. In this episode, I share five lived lessons from a year that asked me to stop negotiating with myself, simplify radically, experiment with contentment, trust the timing of the universe, and listen to my intuition more deeply than ever befor...
The holidays have a way of amplifying what we’ve been carrying all year.
In this brief year-end episode, Bree explores why resentment often shows up during the holidays—and why it’s not a personal failure. Drawing on Brené Brown’s research, she unpacks how resentment is frequently rooted in unmet needs and unspoken envy, especially for rest, ease, and space.
This episode invites listeners to stop judging resentment and instead list...
We’ve been sold the wrong story about wellbeing.
- It’s not that leaders don’t care enough.
- It’s not that they aren’t resilient enough.
- And it’s definitely not that they need one more productivity hack.
The real problem?
Leaders are hemorrhaging energy trying to control things that were never theirs to manage in the first place.
In this episode, I break down the single biggest barrier to wellbeing I see across founders, pe...
Popular Podcasts
Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Building on the belief that a deeper understanding of the natural world enriches all of our lives, host Steven Rinella brings an in-depth and relevant look at all outdoor topics including hunting, fishing, nature, conservation, and wild foods. Filled with humor, irreverence, and things that will surprise the hell out of you, each episode welcomes a diverse group of guests who add their own expertise to the vast world of the outdoors. Part of The MeatEater Podcast Network.
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.