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If you are like many of the overwhelmed healthcare leaders we talk with you feel stretched beyond your capabilities on a day-to-day basis.    One of the ways you can have more energy, time and balance in your life is to establish boundaries.  In this episode we explore why it’s important to set boundaries, how boundaries can lead to resilience and balance in your life, and how they...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it.  This morning talk about setting boundaries, what we’ve experienced with boundary setting, why boundaries are about you and not other people, and some of our strategies for boundary setting.

If you are like most of the healthcare leaders we talk with, the past year was a year full of challenges and changes. It looks like based on what we have seen thus far in 2021 those challenges are going to continue for a while longer.    Some of those challenges and changes may have bumped up against some of your values, like maintaining your well-being, supporting your team(s), and conn...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it.  Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day and we are going to talk about dreams!  The dream we had  for our business when we launched it three years ago today, the values that guide us and the things we’...

It was a delight to interview Roberta Young about her article Being a Nurse in the Family.  Roberta explains what led up to co-authoring the article in My American Nurse in January of 2020 with her colleague Teresa Anderson.   During the episode we discuss these unique situations and how the experience can be leveraged to improve or change how one chooses to practice as a nurse.  Ev...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about not finding work life balance but creating it, why you won’t find it, investing in yourself, and how coaching can support you.

You may or may not realize you have been living and participating in the Part and Whole polarity your whole life! Your first lessons regarding part and whole occurred when you were a child, and you were learning to share with your friends.   During the COVID-19 pandemic we have struggled with uncertainty, overwhelming amounts of change and we’ve felt stuck, drained, and protective of the thin...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about sleep and putting yourself first in 2021, our experience with being last in line, benefits of putting yourself first, and action steps you can take now to pu...

“Just like water and food we need sleep, and so every time we lose it we jeopardize our own health and the health of others”- Dr. Linda D. Scott In this episode it was a delight to interview Dr. Linda Scott, the Dean of Nursing at University of Wisconsin-Madison about her research on nursing fatigue and the impact on safety. Early in the interview Dr. Scott shares she was motivated to embark on su...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about sleep and rest, why talk about sleep, why sleep is important, and how to get more!

The healthcare system is facing a potential dual pandemic and unprecedented challenges.  The healthcare workforce is burned out and is now facing post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by the traumatic and psychological toll of the COVID-19 experience.  Healthcare leaders have worked tirelessly to instill hope and support the essential workers while experiencing significant levels of...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about giving and receiving, the interdependent relationship between the two, the benefits of both and the consequences you experience when you over focus on one an...

In this episode we have the extreme pleasure of interviewing Ann Shepard, a Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer about her quest for work life balance. During the interview Ann shares how her journey began when she realized what she had heard and learned previously about work life balance wasn’t serving her.   Ann reveals as she transitioned to working from home during...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about stress from extensive change in your life whether you choose to make the change or it happens to you and how to maintain balance in your life. 

In this episode we interview a group of amazing healthcare leaders whom we have had the privilege of engaging with in our various coaching programs for healthcare leaders.   These leaders come from a wide variety of backgrounds and locations, but they all share a common goal to be the best they can be at both work and home. During the interview, the group revealed their motivations for seekin...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about the power of connection and community. 

As healthcare leaders we know you are managing numerous changes and significant challenges while recovering from or moving through another COVID-19 surge.    If you are like many of the healthcare leaders we talk with you are overwhelmed and overworked, stressed out, and you may even be experiencing “change fatigue”.  While experiencing all of that, you are driven to support your te...

This morning we are talking about establishing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle!  

You probably already know that healthcare leaders need to be role-models for their teams.  When it comes to well-being, leaders have a double burden to be a role model for both professional well-being and personal well-being. The leader and his/her team members will not achieve balance and resilience without taking dual action to achieve both professional and personal well-being states. Indiv...

Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle.  This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning.  We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. Today's topic is  well-being.

In this episode we interview our dear colleagues Ramona Cheek and Faith Roberts.  Ramona is a Chief Nursing Officer and Faith is a well-regarded speaker and storyteller and is an Executive Director of Spiritual Care.  These two met by chance at a picnic (you’ll have to listen to get the whole story).  This chance meeting was the beginning of an amazing personal and professional rela...

This is our new Monday Morning Live Show!   We've been wanting to do a Live Podcast Show for quite some time because we record our podcasts in batches and it makes it difficult to share what's happening in the world, with us, and the experiences we are having in real time.   This has been an incredible year full of challenges and opportunities AND #WeAreInThisTogether.   Our intention is to connec...

In this episode we interview Nancy Beale.  Nancy is a business owner and a nationally recognized and award-winning nurse leader in health information technology (HIT) with a broad span of HIT experience across the healthcare industry.     At the start of the interview Nancy shares her greater purpose for the adoption of technologies that have a positive impact on clinical pract...

To say these are challenging times is an understatement! How do you discern what is a priority when everything is a priority? When we recorded this episode there was no such thing as COVID-19.   As leaders you are working in face paced environments with increasing demands and at the same time attempting to address clinician burnout.  Now on top of all that you are finding yourself respon...

In this episode we interview Dr. Dan Weberg.  Dan is the Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health.  Dan is also the host of The Handoff Podcast , which focuses on critical topics in nursing that are usually not talked about.   Dan says, “You don’t have to be an innovator to lead innovation.”  At the start of the interview Dan shares how Trusted Health is like a combo of L...