The YODPOD

The YODPOD comes from You Okay, Doc?, a charity with a straightforward mission: change how the medical profession thinks about mental health. The host is Tom Mitchell, which might surprise you, because he's a former England Rugby 7s captain and Olympic silver medallist, not a doctor. But that outside perspective turns out to be an asset. Tom brings a performance athlete's understanding of pressure and mental resilience to conversations with wellbeing experts, healthcare professionals, and industry leaders across 58 episodes and six seasons. The discussions are biweekly and tend to run 40 to 50 minutes, long enough to get past surface-level answers. A standout episode features Kate Beed remembering her colleague Liz and talking about suicide and grief with devastating honesty. Others tackle career changes from medicine, redefining work-life balance, and what it actually means to thrive rather than just cope. The show earns its 5.0 rating by refusing to be preachy. It doesn't lecture junior doctors about self-care or suggest they just need more yoga. Instead, it puts real people in front of the microphone to share what broke them, what helped, and what they wish they'd known earlier. The charity backing means there's no commercial agenda, just genuine concern for healthcare workers' wellbeing. For any junior doctor who's struggling quietly or knows a colleague who is, The YODPOD is the kind of podcast you listen to and realize you're not alone in feeling overwhelmed.