When change saturates the system.

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When change keeps stacking up, the system doesn’t just get busy, it saturates.

We often talk about change fatigue, but rarely pause to name what’s really happening underneath it.

When capacity is exceeded, change starts to collide. Exhaustion sets in, the brain shifts into survival mode, and capable, committed people begin to struggle - not because they’re resistant, but because the load has become too much.

In this episode, Penny Ward explores why it’s often not the change itself that overwhelms us, but the cumulative load it creates - the thinking, emotional adjustment, decisions, uncertainty, and effort required to keep things together at work and in life.

You’ll hear:

• how healthy load tips into change saturation

• why work and life changes collide and drain capacity

• what happens in the brain and nervous system when load exceeds capacity

• what actually helps reduce load, restore capacity, and make change possible again

Because change doesn’t fail on intent.

It fails when the system runs out of capacity.

And if we want change to work at work and in life we have to design for human capacity, not just organisational ambition.

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