Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul

May 12 2023

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The Menders: Lead from Within podcast engages real-world healthcare leaders in conversation to explore innovative and emotionally intelligent approaches to addressing the most complex challenge facing healthcare leaders today: how to take better care of their people.

Each episode features thought leaders in healthcare innovation, inclusive leadership, employee engagement, communication strategy, and healthy organizational practices.

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Explore calling & what nourishes you in medicine with Adele Wang

May 12 2023 55 mins

Pay attention to the personal and organizational factors that erode well-being, drive burnout, and make strategic changes to nourish yourself and your team.“I’ve finally found my passion!” Not every day, my patients walk into my office smiling, but it’s delightful when it happens. I’d been working with this guy for a while, focusing on mindful self-awareness and kicking h

Earn trust by promoting autonomy with Dr. Mayan Bomsztyk

Apr 20 2023 30 mins

Earn employees' trust by giving them a life-giving workplace.I’d been waiting to catch the attention of my chief of staff all morning. I finally had her on my screen. With my headphones on, I didn’t notice the office door creak open until a glitter-encrusted wand was thrust in my face. I was mortified, but she responded graciously, “I have kids too.” COVID reminded us

Use Intuitive Eating to reprioritize yourself with Victoria Yates

Apr 15 2023 48 mins

If you’re a woman in leadership struggling to prioritize yourself, try Intuitive Eating as a first step to honoring yourself. You can't be the woman in leadership your people need you to be without prioritizing self-care.One of the things that women leaders mention is the difficulty they have prioritizing taking time for themselves, especially when that is not being encourag

Maintain your leadership presence in challenging circumstances with Miracle Laurie May

Apr 07 2023 56 mins

Lead with self-awareness and mindfulness to keep your leadership presence in difficult times. As a psychologist, much of my time is spent teaching people how to regulate their emotions. You could call this skill learning how to manage stress, distress tolerance, or create breathing space under pressure. Leaders need three skills to stay calm and maintain leadership presence in diff

Equip the next generation of diverse leaders with Dr. Nicole Torrence

Mar 25 2023 43 mins

Leaders Are Trained Not Born. It is time to include leadership development as a core component of healthcare training. Our trainees may have innate leadership skills and qualities, but leadership can also be taught. And as we work to create institutions that reflect our communities, we must equip trainees from diverse backgrounds with the leadership skills our organizations need. Y

Strengthen leadership capacity by reducing bias with Dr. Chamarlyn Fairley

Mar 25 2023 55 mins

Address structural bias to elevate underrepresented employees as leaders within healthcare organizations.There is a representation gap in healthcare leadership. People with diverse identities and historically marginalized tend to be underrepresented in the pool of applicants presenting for executive positions in healthcare organizations. Many things must change, including the struc

Engage your employees & improve your bottom line with Michele Thomson

Mar 18 2023 58 mins

Invest in employee engagement. You don’t have to compromise your bottom line to create a healthy workplace. You can create change in your healthcare organization when your employees have disengaged. It takes persistent effort, but it’s possible. And the time and energy you invest in employee engagement won’t negatively impact your bottom line. Not if you focus your resources

Use mindful leadership to address moral injury with Colleen Camenisch

Mar 11 2023 48 mins

Mindful leaders know that forcing mindfulness on their employees won’t solve burnout in healthcare. There is a common misconception about mindfulness popular with healthcare clinicians and leadership. We have gotten caught up in believing that mindfulness will help us be calmer, nicer, handle stress better, and recover from burnout faster. Mindfulness is a buzzword, and many hosp

Create employee engagement using internal messaging with Carley Trotman

Mar 04 2023 50 mins

Engage your Employees by Prioritizing Internal Communication.Carley Trotman is the founder of The CarTam Project. She’s a communication strategist, a cake lover, expat in the South of France. She brings a wealth of experience working with healthcare organizations on organizational communication and internal messaging to promote employee engagement. Carley started her company to l

Reduce physician workload by prioritizing administrative professionals with Amanda Forrester

Feb 25 2023 50 mins

Becoming a Voice for Change.Highly trained administrative leaders are becoming more challenging to find. But suppose you're lucky enough to hire someone like Amanda Forrester. In that case, you'll be able to transform your healthcare system by learning to prioritize the well-being of administrative professionals within your healthcare system.It is easy to forget that clin