Every meaningful conversation begins with someone feeling safe enough to tell the truth. For the past two and a half years, Work Stress Anxiety by ABGW has become that trusted space for thousands of listeners navigating the pressures of modern working life. As the podcast celebrates its 100th episode, surpasses 25,000 downloads, and embraces a refreshed identity, it marks an important milestone shaped by honesty, compassion, and genuine human connection.
More than a celebration of numbers, this moment honours the people who have shared their experiences, trusted the conversations, and helped create a podcast that continues to resonate with listeners facing the realities of workplace stress every day.
A Fresh Identity Built Around Honest Conversations
Originally launched as the ABGW Podcast, standing for Amazing, Brilliant, Gorgeous, Wonderful, the show has evolved alongside its listeners. The new name, Work Stress Anxiety, reflects the conversations Cheryl has become known for and makes it easier for people looking for practical support with workplace stress, work anxiety, burnout prevention, stress recovery, and emotional resilience to discover the podcast.
The podcast now introduces its renewed positioning:
Work Stress Anxiety | Burnout Prevention, Stress Recovery & Emotional Resilience for High-Achieving Women
Host: Cheryl Paris | Work Stress & Stress Recovery Expert
Hosted by Cheryl Paris, a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Stress Recovery Coach, and Work Stress Specialist, the weekday podcast is created for high-achieving women navigating work stress, workplace stress, work anxiety, emotional exhaustion, burnout, and the often inconvenient business of being human.
Every episode blends relatable stories, memorable metaphors, nervous system education, practical tools, and real-world workplace examples. Cheryl explores high-functioning anxiety, toxic workplace cultures, workplace conflict, sleeplessness, boundaries, job insecurity, burnout prevention, burnout recovery, and emotional resilience with warmth, honesty, and curiosity.
The podcast has earned the trust of its growing audience because it refuses to oversimplify difficult experiences. Each episode helps listeners understand why they feel the way they do, what prolonged stress does to the nervous system, and how small, realistic changes can support genuine recovery.
Helping People Make Sense of Work Stress
Many people living with anxiety at work or emotional exhaustion quietly believe they simply need to become tougher or more resilient. Work Stress Anxiety offers a different perspective by helping listeners understand that many stress responses are normal reactions to prolonged pressure rather than signs of personal weakness.
Drawing on professional expertise and everyday workplace experiences, Cheryl explains why people become stuck in cycles of overwhelm, overthinking, perfectionism, and constant responsibility. She encourages listeners to recognise unhealthy workplace patterns, build healthier boundaries, respond more calmly to stressful situations, and take practical steps towards burnout recovery and emotional resilience.
That practical, compassionate approach has helped the podcast grow steadily to more than 25,000 downloads, with listeners returning because they know they will find honest conversations grounded in real life.
A Growing Resource for High-Achieving Women
As Work Stress Anxiety reaches its 100th episode, Cheryl has also introduced a refreshed website designed to make the growing library of content easier to explore. A carefully curated collection of episodes provides an ideal starting point for new listeners, introducing the podcast’s central ideas while helping people quickly find conversations that relate to what they are currently experiencing.
Whether someone is dealing with workplace stress, burnout, work anxiety, emotional exhaustion, or simply wants to understand how the nervous system responds to pressure, the podcast offers a growing collection of practical, accessible conversations that people can return to whenever they need support.
About Cheryl Paris
Cheryl Paris is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Stress Recovery Coach, Work Stress Specialist, and Stress Recovery Expert. Alongside hosting the Work Stress Anxiety podcast, she runs HerGuru Hypnotherapy and Coaching, a Berkshire based practice supporting high-performing professionals experiencing work stress, workplace anxiety, overwhelm, emotional exhaustion, and burnout.
Cheryl specialises in helping people who appear capable and successful on the outside while privately feeling exhausted, anxious, over-responsible, or trapped in survival mode. Her work combines hypnotherapy, coaching, nervous system education, and psychotherapy-informed practice to help clients calm stress responses, reduce anxious overthinking, and make practical, sustainable changes without shame, pressure, or toxic positivity.
Through HerGuru, Cheryl offers hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety, workplace stress and burnout coaching, Discovery Sessions, one-to-one personalised support, the Emotional Survival System, and the 31 Days to Balance & Wellbeing programme. She works primarily with professional women and other high-performing adults experiencing work stress, burnout, emotional exhaustion, perfectionism, people-pleasing, sleep disruption linked to stress, and difficulty switching off after work.
Looking Ahead With Gratitude and Possibility
Although reaching 100 episodes and surpassing 25,000 downloads are meaningful milestones, Cheryl believes the greatest achievement has been building a community where people feel heard, understood, and supported. She is deeply grateful to every listener who has trusted the podcast, shared their experiences, and made these conversations part of their daily lives.
As this new chapter begins, Cheryl looks forward to continuing the journey with the same honesty, curiosity, and compassion that have shaped the podcast from the beginning. She warmly invites listeners to follow the podcast, leave a rating or review, and share their questions, experiences, or suggestions for future episodes. Most of all, she looks ahead with excitement for the conversations, discoveries, and possibilities still to come over the days, weeks, months, and years ahead.