TCN Talks

In this podcast guest host, Janelle McCallum, interviews TCN’s Dr. John Morris, Pulmonologist & Serious Illness physician about the most important things to know about COVID-19 today. By popular request, he is now available to a wider audience as he brings data and wise clinical discernment to the complicated topics regarding COVID and vaccinations.  His background in critical care and palliat...

In this podcast, Chris interviews Dr. Rebecca Heiss, PhD, and CEO/Founder of icueity, LLC.  Rebecca is a stress physiologist and uses her background in science to create a space for women to become the leaders they were meant to be and to realize and live their purposes beyond the fear, stress, and anxiety that tends to take them off course.  In this podcast, Chris discusses with Rebecca her progr...

Guest: Keith Taylor, the founder of strengthafterstroke.com In this podcast Chris interviews Keith Taylor .  Keith was a thriving businessman and then had a huge curveball thrown his way as he had a stroke.  Keith was struggling during that time with his cause and purpose because the aftereffects of the stroke upended his life and his career.  Now several years later Keith has turned that challeng...

In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Janet Bull whom he  has worked with throughout much of his career at Four Seasons.  In this podcast Dr. Bull reviews innovations, she is most proud of and what she learned from them throughout her illustrious career in hospice and palliative care.  Dr. Bull also shares a creative thinking framework:  Ideation, Inspiration, and Implementation which all of us can...

In this podcast Chris interviews Meridith Elliott Powell who is an internationally known business strategist, keynote speaker, and award-winning author with expertise in business growth, sales, and leadership strategies.  She has just released her new book Thrive:  Strategies to Turn Uncertainty to Competitive Advantage .  In this podcast Chris discusses Meridith’s new book and how this book appli...

In this podcast Chris interviews Patrice "Patti" Moore, APRN, MSN President and Founder of The Watershed Group.  This is a podcast all hospice leaders and staff would benefit from listening to.  Patti is the bridge between the Pioneer Generation of leaders who helped lead hospice from its infancy in the 1980’s into the present day leaders like Chris and others.  From this unique perspect...

In this podcast Chris interviews Dawn F. Landry who recently wrote about her “care coaching” (her self-defined term about caregiving) journey in her first book ARMORED.  Dawn and Chris graduated high school together 33 years ago in rural, south Louisiana.  In this interview Dawn shares her unique wisdom and experience having been a Corporate Executive Coach and having gone through several health b...

In this podcast Chris interviews Christine Lau RN, LCSW, APHSW-C.  They talk about a frequent challenge hospice and palliative care staff face now that our industry is 40+ years old which is – “We were friends and now I am their leader.”  Christine shares from her experience through almost 20 years of going from staff level positions in multiple disciplines and growing into leadership positions ho...

In this episode of TCN Talks, Lara McKinnis brings together her training in psychotherapy, music therapy, and somatic therapy in a beautiful way.  Chris and Lara discuss what is going on with our hospice and palliative care team members in terms of trauma.  Lara unpacks that we all have these “shadow” parts of us that are underlying and further that we are indoctrinated not to digest and process t...

In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Rohini Kanniganti furthering two prior podcasts where we discussed what is going on with our healthcare workers out of care and concern for them dealing with the strains the pandemic has brought on.  Dr. Kanniganti brings her wisdom, presence, and thoughts around compassion, self-compassion, and mindfulness.  Dr. Kanniganti believes these three states of being...

In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Elizabeth Burpee, a Hospice and Palliative Medicine who also works in Research with Four Seasons.  We continue to see staff stressed and some even describing what they are experiencing in hospice and palliative care as burnout.  Dr. Burpee was already researching prior to COVID via Project Echo what is occurring in the hospice and palliative care field and thro...

In this podcast Chris Comeaux interviews Dr. John Morris, Pulmonologist and Hospice & Palliative Care physician about the COVID vaccine.  Dr. Morris has conducted several informational webinars for hospice and palliative staff throughout the TCN network.  Here is a common comment we have heard after those webinars, “Staff was concerned and not planning on getting the vaccine and after the webi...

In our initial TCN Talks podcast Chris interviews John Locke.  John is with DHG where he heads up their executive coaching program.  John has unique experience and training in the area of applying learning from how high performance athletes take care of themselves to perform at a higher level.  Surprisingly there is simple applicable wisdom that hospice, palliative care, and serious illness profes...