Healthcare Provider Happy Hour Podcast

REPLAY - Originally released on Feb 8, 2022; I am joined by Dr. Joe Sherman, a practicing physician for over 35 years, a certified physician coach, an educator, and a former administrator. Joe guides organizations to shift outdated workplace culture into a collective leadership model and assists physicians in one-on-one coaching and group retreats to deliver quality care, succeed in leadership rol...

REPLAY - Listen in to one of our top episodes from 2022! Originally released on March 8, 2022: I am joined by Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, NC-BC, a Board-Certified Nurse Coach and among the first cohort of nurses to hold that designation. He offers holistic career development and coaching for nurses and healthcare professionals. We discuss how he got into nursing, how we can step out of our comfort zon...

REPLAY - Listen in to one of our top episodes from 2022! Originally released on February 1, 2022: I am joined by Marcie Resendes, Registered Nurse and Author of, ‘If The Brain Could Stop What The Eyes have Seen .’ Marcie shares her story of overcoming being diagnosed with PTSD, how she lives with it and manages it day to day. We also discuss methods of how we can protect ourselves against burnout,...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr. Annie White, Author of The Calm Code: Transform Your Mind, Change Your Life. Annie's mission is to help people lower their stress levels with actionable tips they can start using right away. We discuss Annie’s own personal story of applying her methods to overcome a difficult time in her life, why the typical advice for lowering stress doesn’t work and te...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Robert White, a Mentor to Entrepreneurs and Executives, a Speaker, Best-Selling Author and Leadership Trainer who focuses on integrating a heart-centered, result-oriented and transformational leadership approach to being more effective. Robert and I discuss the importance of not only professional development for healthcare providers, but also personal develop...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Silvia M. Dutchevici, President and Founder of the Critical Therapy Institute. Silvia and I will be discussing how power is addressed in the clinical setting and how healthcare providers actually analyze their own power.  A trained psychotherapist, Dutchevici, created critical therapy on perceiving a need for the theory and practice of psychology to reflect h...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Karen Furr, Founder and CEO of The Resilient Nurse Project & author of The Resilient Nurse. Karen and I discuss burnout and compassion fatigue in healthcare, how to identify the signs, and how to overcome it.  Karen is a Registered Nurse with a master’s degree in nursing education. She has over 15 years of experience as a nurse, which includes work in vas...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Janice Goldmintz, an advocate for seniors to have the highest possible quality of life, to discuss how we as healthcare professionals can best interact with our patients, their families, and caregivers, to empower them to be their own advocates of care.  Janice works with seniors, their families and health professionals to impart information on successful agi...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Barry Nicolaou, a passionate facilitator of organisational cultural synergy and Best Selling Author. In this enlightening conversation, we discuss why so many of us receive experiences that we don’t want, and how we can change our perspective to have a more positive outlook.  Barry's ability to locate and define his true purpose in assisting others began in 2...

In this week’s solo episode, I’m going to be discussing seven key questions to ask yourself and reflect on, both personally and professionally. Whether you’re not feeling fully fulfilled or just need to check in with yourself, these reflective questions will help you re-align yourself with what really matters.  Which is, you! Grab a pen & paper to complete this reflection alongside me as I als...

In this week’s solo episode, I’m going to be discussing the feeling of resistance and what it may be telling you. You can be feeling resistance even with good change, which can lead to a sense of uncertainty, self-doubt, or even imposter syndrome. But rather than ignoring these signs, I’m going to be sharing how you can lean into this feeling and actually learn from it. As I go through my own sens...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Bri Tartaglione, a Motivational Speaker, Certified School Counselor, Emotional Wellness Coach, business owner, and podcaster in the field of personal development and mental well-being.  Bri holds two master's degrees in School & Counseling Psychology from Columbia University and is working on completing her Advanced Certificate in Clinical Mental Health C...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Jessica Calzaretta, President of Insight Global Health. Insight Global Health is a healthcare staffing and services organization. They are part of Insight Global, an industry leader in staffing services across technology, accounting & finance, engineering, and healthcare. Jessica is responsible for all sales and recruiting, operations, and delivery to hun...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr. Susan Landers, author, speaker & retired neonatologist. Susan enjoys discussing physician burnout, how she got there, and ways to treat & recover from it. Susan is a retired neonatologist who worked full-time in the NICU for thirty-four years and raised three children to young adulthood. She served on the faculty of two medical schools, and served...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Amanda Kate: a Kinesiologist, Mentor, Life Coach, Mother, and more. While living the life most people would want, with a successful husband, 2 beautiful children, travel, and a nice house; Amanda was miserable and becoming more so as the years went on. She had started noticing physical signs that something wasn’t right, and then became chronically fatigued. O...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Scott Colby, owner of Say It with Gratitude. Scott has embarked on a path as an entrepreneur and speaker after leaving a career at a hospital, during which he never felt appreciated, and never knew his worth. After an eye-opening experience in Guatemala, during which Scott witnessed firsthand the power of gratitude even in poor living conditions, he launched...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Keith Harrison, a Police Officer in Toronto, and the founder of Tier Response Apparel, which highlights mental health conversations. We discuss his own journey of dealing with mental illness after trauma exposure in the field, what ultimately made him leave the force to work on himself, and how he found his way back. He shares resources and organizations avai...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Teresa McKee, CEO of Work2Live, a transformation and leadership coach, certified mindfulness meditation facilitator, and EFT practitioner. Teresa and I discuss her journey into the mindfulness space, tips & techniques on how we as healthcare providers can integrate mindfulness into our everyday lives to minimize stress and ultimately reduce burnout risk a...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Magic Barclay, a passionate functional health coach, the lead practitioner at Wholistic Natural Health Australia, and host of the podcast “A Magical Life; health, wealth and weightloss”. Magic’s life changed when she faced multiple life-threatening conditions. She then decided to find the root cause of her health issues, and that set her on a path of life cha...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Yvonne Heath, Canada's Proactive Living Consultant. Yvonne shares how we can teach people to Just Show Up for themselves and others so they are empowered and resilient when grief and life's challenges arrive. Yvonne was a registered nurse since 1988, who has worked in the United States and Canada in many areas including emergency, intensive care, chemotherapy...

In this week’s solo episode, I’m going to be going sharing my most recent reflective piece, titled; ‘What’s Going On In My Life?’ In it, I share the 4 key pillars I used to get started, and how I like to go about filling in each column, including; doing, not doing, being, and not being. By completing this exercise, I was able to pinpoint areas I wanted to focus on, and how these tactics can help l...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Valerie Mazziotti, a Life and Health Coach with 30 years of experience as a family practice Physician Assistant. She helps providers reduce burnout by discovering techniques to improve their communication & organization skills, create goals and find support & networking opportunities with their colleagues. By improving provider and patient satisfactio...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr. John Jurica, MD, MPH, CPE, a family physician with a long history of doing non-clinical work. John was part-time medical director for a family planning clinic and an occupational medicine clinic. He worked as part-time VP for Medical Affairs and full-time Chief Medical Officer at a nonprofit hospital south of Chicago, Illinois for 14 years (total). He lef...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Debra A. Woog, a Crisis Navigation Partner with 30+ years of experience as a leadership researcher, executive, and advisor. Debra’s career path has included conducting research at Harvard Business School, advising tech start-ups on People Strategy, and directing admissions and career development for the MIT dual-degree MBA program Leaders for Global Operation...

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr. Cristina Castagnini, a licensed Psychologist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist. Cristina has also recovered from an eating disorder herself, and now treats clients with eating disorders in her private practice. Coming from both the personal and professional perspective, she started a podcast, Behind the Bite, to help those who are struggling with d...