The Veterinary Project Podcast

Brad Posehn rejoins the Veterinary Project Podcast for a strong Round 2! Brad Posehn is a graduate of the College of Kinesiology at the University of Saskatchewan. He has spent the last 11 + years training several athletes in the NHL, KHL, AHL, NLL, NCAA, as well as the National and Provincial level in various sports such as volleyball, figure skating, football, lacrosse, swimming, and golf. ...

Jamie Gruber is a former insurance executive who quit his high paying job to pursue his purpose of motivating and inspiring others to live their best lives.  A native New Yorker and Bostonian who now resides in Michigan, Jamie has become a real estate investor, podcast host, creator of the Emerge goal setting course and leader of the Ascend mastermind.  A high energy conversation that co...

Welcome to the Eggnogural Veterinary Project Podcast Holiday Roundtable! It's been a difficult couple years in the veterinary medicine industry. From staffing shortages to the unpredictable nature of the pandemic, to advances in how veterinary clinics are caring for animals and helping animal owners, there have been countless challenges we've faced as a result of our changing world.  In our f...

It's Round 2 with a previous guest of the show:  Dr. Tannetje Crocker! Dr. Crocker is a 2009 graduate from the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine. Upon graduation, she completed an equine focused internship in Southern California., then she worked as a solo equine ambulatory practitioner for three years before transitioning to small animal medicine. In our first conversat...

Dr. Danielle Alleman has been a small animal veterinarian since graduating from the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine in 2017. She is the owner and creator of Empathos Veterinary Wellness, a platform designed to help support the mental health and wellbeing of the veterinary profession through virtual events, speaking, career coaching, and more. Dr. Alleman also serves on the WSVMA Wellbeing C...

How you handle winter holiday schedules can create significant challenges from both the employer and employee perspective. Unlike other typical holiday times surrounding Canada Day / Independence Day, or Thanksgiving Day, the winter holiday season is especially important to most people and is filled with greater connotations around time spent with family, friends, and loved ones.  As a result...

Dr. Christine Beck has been in the animal industry for over 20 years, and is a successful business owner in multiple industries. She is a passionate visionary who just recently launched Waggle Mail, a filler-free subscription box for dogs and their humans that contains vet-curated information and products to support dog’s health and wellbeing, no matter their stage in life. Her vision is to build...

Dr. Brent Mayabb is currently the Global Chief Medical Officer for Royal Canin, where he’s responsible for being the medical liaison between Royal Canin and large multi-hospital veterinary practice groups around the globe. He joined Royal Canin USA back in May 2004 and has held many jobs in between, including roles in HR and Corporate Affairs, with responsibilities in areas as diverse as public re...

Dr. Jim Clark is an animal lover, entrepreneur, former multi-practice owner, clinician, and educator.   After working in general and emergency practice for more than 20 years, earning an MBA, and serving as an owner in four ER/Spec practices,  Dr. Clark joined the faculty of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 2010, assuming leadership of their Professional Skills curriculum. &...

Do you have a bucket list of things you want to do before you die?  In this week's episode, co-hosts Dr. Michael Bugg and Dr. Jonathan Leicht have some fun (in part thanks to Dr. Leicht's pre-show caffeine blitz) in this casual, coffee-cup conversation. Connecting to the reality that we will die helps us realize that we should make the most of our lives. What better way to do that than to lay...

What do you do when **** hits the fan? In this week’s episode, co-hosts Dr. Michael Bugg and Dr. Jonathan Leicht visit the subject of handling adversity in business. Chock full with personal vulnerability, this episode pulls back the curtain on handling adversity with commentary on: The real world responses to adversity for Dr. Jonathan Leicht in his Operational roles, including compartmentalizati...

Dr. Hilal Dogan completed veterinary school in 2015 at Massey University in New Zealand. During her final year of veterinary school, she was class president and launched the Veterinary Confessionals Project ( www.veterinaryconfessionalsproject.com ).  After graduating she moved to Maui, Hawaii where she worked as both an emergency DVM as well as a General Practitioner for 3 years. In 2017 she...

Dr. Jordan Woodsworth is a general veterinary practitioner and PhD candidate, and part of the Wellness and Preventive Medicine team at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine’s Veterinary Medical Centre.  She is a 2008 graduate of the WCVM and joined the staff of the VMC in 2012 to start the Wellness and Service Learning programs.   Jordan’s diverse professional interests include comm...

This past weekend in the homeland of co-hosts Dr. Michael Bugg and Dr. Jonathan Leicht it was Thanksgiving weekend, so a Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian listeners out there! With that in mind, it felt appropriate to share some thoughts on the subject of gratitude.  In this episode, we share some of the things we're currently grateful for, while also providing tactical ways you can work...

Dr. Kate Baker grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and completed her DVM at the University of Tennessee in 2012. She then completed a rotating internship and Clinical Pathology residency and became board certified in 2016.  Dr. Baker currently works as a veterinary educator and diagnostic clinical pathologist. She is the founder of the highly active Facebook group Veterinary Cytology Coffeehouse,...

How do you look at discipline? In this episode, co-hosts Dr. Michael Bugg and Dr. Jonathan Leicht become Doctors of Discipline, sharing their insights on the principle of discipline and how to use it to achieve results in your life. It's certainly not easy, and there are plenty of struggles associated with discipline, but as our hosts share, adopting it as a part of who you are is key to long-term...

How can we become better decision makers? In this week's episode, Co-Hosts Dr. Michael Bugg and Dr. Jonathan Leicht discuss the skill of decision making. Both personally and professionally, we are required to make decisions in all sorts of situations. This tactical conversation amongst our co-hosts covers: Is decision making a learned skill or something you're born with? What is decision fatigue a...

Dr. Meredith Jones is an emergency veterinarian and co-founder of the Veterinary Financial Summit, a financial conference and online community for veterinary professionals. She is a self-professed “money nerd” who attends financial conferences and reads about personal finance in her spare time. In 2016, she completed training to become a financial coach and founded the Debt-Free Vets Facebook grou...

Dr. Phil Zeltzman is a traveling board-certified surgeon in Pennsylvania. He is a serial entrepreneur with a severe case of Shiny Object Syndrome, international speaker, consultant, columnist, blogger, podcaster and a ridiculously long list of other fun stuff. He is the co-founder of the Vet Financial Summit, which is an online community and financial conference that is coming up on September 18-1...

This ISN'T an episode about ball hockey (sorry if you were hoping it was)! Dr. Michael Bugg reflects on lessons he's learned over the course of a 10 year ball hockey career, which most recently returned a milestone moment with his team's winning the championship at the Canadian National Ball Hockey Tournament. In this episode, Mike takes 7 lessons from the hockey rink and connects them to life in...

Dr. Ashley Bourgeois is a board-certified veterinary dermatologist passionate about providing practical knowledge to general practitioners to help itchy pets!  She completed her bachelor’s degree at Iowa State University and graduated from the University of Missouri’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 2010. She then completed a one-year small animal internship at Purdue. Upon finishing her in...

Coming to you from the beautiful city of Calgary at Co-Host Dr. Jonathan Leicht's newly up-and-running Bridgeland Veterinary Clinic! Recorded in fitting fashion from one of the Clinic's examination rooms, Jonathan and Michael chat face-to-face about Jonathan's top 5 tips - and lessons learned - for opening a new veterinary clinic.  They are as follows: Location, location, location! Build a pl...

Becky Taylor has been dedicated to her career as a Registered Veterinary Technologist for over 25 years. In that time, she has worked in mixed animal practice, in education, and in corporate veterinary medicine. She has participated in hundreds of CE opportunities, sat on national and provincial boards and considers herself a lifelong learner.  A pinnacle of this learning was in 2016, when Be...

Building off our previous episode on “The Cashflow Quadrant: How Do You Make Your Money?”, this week's episode covers the subject of generating passive income. When making the transition from the left sides of the Cashflow Quadrant (Employed [E] and self-employed [SE]) to the right side (Business Owner [B] and Investor [I]), money can be earned "passively" if done right. What does this really mean...

Dr. Sarah Montgomery, Ph. D. is the Founder of Peace Within Mindfulness and is a leading advocate for and teacher of Mindfulness for veterinary medicine. Sarah is a Certified Mindfulness Educator who has practiced Mindfulness since 1999.  She is an Education professor with over 20 years of experience in K-12 and higher education, and has published peer-reviewed research and given national pre...