The YODPOD

Welcome to the first episode of our new YODPod Series! We start the series with two INCREDIBLE guests discussing 'The GP Life and Wellbeing Tips'... 👨‍⚕️ Dr Mike Banna: GP & Director of British Society of Lifestyle Medicine 👩‍⚕️ Dr Punam Krishan: GP, Senior Clinical Lecturer at Glasgow University & Media Doctor Hosted by YOD co-founders - Psychotherapist Chris Cherry 🍒 & D...

Welcome to this week's YODPOD with our very own YOD ambassador, Dr Tesh Amarasinghe! We are excited for you to listen to the brilliant and honest insights of Dr Tesh in conversation with YODPOD hosts Dr Dan Gearon, Dr Mark Seaman & YOD Psychotherapist, Chris Cherry.  Dr Tesh is a GP in Chelsea with a strong passion for improving doctors' life and a proud & valued ambassador for Y...

Hello and welcome to this week's YOD Pod.  We are very excited to bring you one of our inspirational Trustees, Dr Meenal Galal, as this episode's guest.  Dr Galal is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, with a past career in corporate investment banking as well as holding an MBA.  She is a huge advocate of mental health support for doctors as well as...

Welcome to this week's YOD pod.  We are very excited to bring you a discussion with the inspirational Sophie Grace Holmes who discusses her cystic fibrosis journey and her drive to reach some of the amazing challenges she has achieved so far. We discuss fitness, goal setting and mindset.  Hosting we have Chris Cherry our psychotherapist and co-founder at You okay, Doc? and joining him we have...

Hello and welcome to this week's YOD pod!  We are so pleased to host two of our new YOD ambassadors in this week's episode; Dr Ally Jaffee who will be starting as an FY1 in August and Dr Charlie Carey, who is just about to finish his first year as an academic doctor. Hosted by our brilliant YOD Psychotherapist & Co-Founder, Chris Cherry. In this inspirational episode, we explore:  Wh...

Welcome to this week's very special YOD pod! We are excited to bring you one of our idols, Professor Damian Hughes, co-host of The High-Performance Podcast alongside sports journalist, Jake Humphrey. Together they have interviewed so many of the greats - from Gareth Southgate, Rio Ferdinand, Matthew McConaughey, Ant Middleton, Tom Daley, Kelly Jones, Dina Asher-Smith, Sir Chris Hoy, Jonny Wil...

Hello and welcome to this week's tennis-themed YOD pod for our Wimbledon special to kick off Season Three of the YODPOD!  In this week's conversation, we are delighted to have Pascal Collard as our guest.  Pascal is a US Tennis coach who has coached Top 20 World Ranked players, was a director of the famous Saddlebrook Tennis Academy in Florida which has produced a number of World No.1s a...

Hello and welcome to this week's YOD pod.  In this weeks conversation with our host and resident You OKay Doc Trustee and therapist  Chris Cherry we have Dan, Jonny and Mark discussing thoughts, feelings and tips around changeover and moving between jobs in 2021. We hope you enjoy it.   It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this disc...

Hello and welcome to this episode of the YOD pod. In this episode, we have the edit of the You Okay, Doc? Microstep webinar on ''Optimising the Mind & Body of the Medic.  Three diverse and inspirational speakers join our resident psychotherapist Chris Cherry discussing how fitness, nutrition and mental coaching can help optimise the Healthcare Professional. Joining Chris Cherry we ha...

Hello and welcome to this episode of the YOD pod. In this episode, we have the edit of the You Okay, Doc? Microstep webinar on ''How to have a good day'' in the medical profession.  Resident psychotherapist Chris Cherry hosts a great discussion with Caroline Webb author of ''How To Have A Good Day'', leading thoracic surgeon Mr Coonar and YOD ambassador and...

Hello and welcome to this episode of the YOD pod.  In this episode, we have an edit of the first webinar we put on for the Microsteps series. Here resident psychotherapist and Chris Cherry from You Okay, Doc? speaks to the CEO of Mind Paul Farmer about how to revolutionise mental health for healthcare workers. The Microstep webinar series is brought to you by You Okay, Doc? In partnership with Fir...

Hello and welcome to this episode of the YOD pod. In this episode, we have the edit of the You Okay, Doc? Microsteps webinar on ''The Mental Health of our Medical Profession''.  In this discussion, we have resident psychotherapist Chris Cherry in discussion with Professor Dinesh Bhugra (a former president of the BMA), and Dr Jonathan Mutch (YOD ambassador and paediatric registr...

Hello and welcome to this episode of the YOD pod. In this episode, we have the edit of the You Okay, Doc? Microstep webinar Part 1 of Military Vs Medicine.  In his first webinar of two, our host and psychotherapist Chris Cherry is joined by Professor Neil Greenberg.  Drawing on Professor Greenberg's extensive background and understanding of military psychiatry we discuss the opportunities the...

Hello and welcome to this week's YOD pod.  In this weeks conversation with our host and resident You OKay Doc Trustee and therapist  Chris Cherry we have Dan, Greg and Mark reflecting on last year, chatting about the current COVID wave with thoughts of good year ahead as the vaccine roles out. It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in th...

Hello and welcome to this episode of the YOD pod. In this episode, we have the edited version of the first You Okay, Doc? webinar series that ran between June and July in 2020.  Here we have acclaimed therapist, author and MBE awarded Julia Samuel reflecting about confronting grief, loss and change in today's world with founding  Trustee and psychotherapist Chris Cherry. The Huddle Webinar se...

Hello and welcome to this episode of the YOD pod. In this episode, we have the edit of the You Okay, Doc? Microstep webinar on ''COVID-19 and mental health: The Medic within the medical system''.  The response to the COVID -19 pandemic has shaken the world and had a massive impact on each of us within the healthcare setting here we discuss some of the factors affecting healthca...

Hello and welcome to this week's YOD pod.  In this weeks conversation with our host and resident You Okay Doc Trustee and therapist  Chris Cherry we have Dan, and Mark discussing the You Okay Doc Microstep webinar series so far. Teamwork was certainly a standout theme.  We chat about some of our own thoughts and highlights and what some of the things we have taken away from some of the amazin...

Hello and welcome to this week's YOD pod.  In this weeks conversation with our host and resident You OKay, Doc? trustee and therapist  Chris Cherry we have Dan, Jonathan and Mark discussing what led them to their current career specialities and some of the highs and lows in those choices.  I hope you enjoy it. We have another exciting webinar series and we hope you'll join us in that too...

Welcome to episode 15 of the YOD pod.  In this episode, we start to discuss what we see burnout as and some of our thoughts and feelings around this.  It's a big topic and we just skimmed the surface on our own opinions of it with insight from host Chris Cherry.  We have another exciting webinar series coming soon and we hope you'll join us in that too, please check out our website and I...

 Welcome to episode 14 of the YOD pod!  We are going back to the feeling of guilt, but in this episode, we also talk about it as an important emotion and some of the positive aspects around guilt.  We recorded this a little while ago when a lot of hospitals still had COVID rotas and just after Guilt part 1, so if you have not yet had the chance to listen to that one please check it out.  We have a...

Welcome back to the YOD pod, its episode 13.  In this podcast we welcome fellow ambassador and paediatric registrar Jonathan to the conversation. In this podcast Jonathan, Dan and Mark chat to Chris Cherry about their working week as doctors. Along the way, we start to consider mindfulness and how it could benefit us.   It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and vi...

Welcome back to episode 12 of the YOD pod.  Chris is back in the steering wheel and we are discussing shift patterns as a doctor and some of the ways Dan and Mark have adapted to them including some of impacts working shifts have on doctors.   Shift work, their effects and sleep are areas we hope to expand on in the future.  We hope you enjoy it     It is worth noting that this is a conversational...

Welcome to episode 11 of the YOD pod.  This week is slightly different and we are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of You Okay, Doc?  In this podcast Founder Dan Gearon and Founding trustee Chris Cherry reflect on how and why the charity was set up, how it has evolved and a small sneak peak at what's ahead.  We've really evolved over the last year and look forward to being bigger and b...

Welcome to episode 10 of the YOD pod.  In this week's podcast we are discussing changeover.  Changeover is a huge part of starting our journey as doctors and then after the first one, we experience similar events as we move between jobs and training programmes.  Here we discuss a few of our thoughts on when we first started as doctors and a few tips for changeover.  To everyone starting out o...

Welcome to episode 9 of the YOD pod.  This week's podcast is a discussion on the last of the ''Emotional and Mental Health in the age of the virus''  webinar series in which we reflect on some of the thoughts and topics brought up by esteemed cardiothoracic surgeon Mr. Aman Coonar on the webinar and some of the things we took away from this.  We called this podcast sangfro...