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Growth Edge - A Leadership Podcast

Growth Edge - A Leadership Podcast

Hosted by: Laurie Baedke

A leadership podcast sharing insights from peak performers and top leaders on stepping outside of your comfort zone, overcoming adversity, and growing personally and professionally in order to achieve success.

Episodes

David Smith, PhD - On Mentorship, Allyship, and Being a Good Guy

Season #5 Episode #6

On this week’s episode of the Growth Edge podcast, I sit down with author, professor, and researcher @David to discuss mentorship, sponsorship, allyship, and advancing equity and inclusion in the workplace.   We dig...
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Stonish Pierce, MHA, FACHE - Allyship in Action

Season #5 Episode #5

Stonish Pierce is an accomplished healthcare executive, and long-time colleague who joins me for an important conversation about allyship in action. He shares practical and actionable steps that leaders can consider...
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Jasmine Marcelin, MD, FACP - On Unconscious Bias and Being an Upstander

Season #5 Episode #4

Dr. Jasmine Marcelin is an infectious disease physician, a leader in her organization, an award winning educator, national speaker and lecturer, and active mentor. In this week's episode, we step into a hard, but...
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Tiffany Love, PhD, FACHE - Being the Change

Season #5 Episode #3

Dr. Tiffany Love is a hospital COO, a nurse leader, a healthcare executive, a speaker, educator, and mentor, and a tireless champion for change and excellence. In this week’s Growth Edge podcast episode, we consider...
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Ronn Johnson, PhD - Assessing and Addressing Racism in Law Enforcement and Leadership

Season #5 Episode #2

In this week’s episode, I chat with Dr. Ronn Johnson about assessing and addressing systemic and structural racism in law enforcement. Dr. Johnson is a clinical psychologist, a Professor in the department of Clinical...
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Dan DeBehnke, MD, MBA — COVID’s Effects on Our Healthcare Systems

Season #5 Episode #1

Dr. Dan DeBehnke is an emergency care physician who became a health system CEO and now is an advisor to executives of healthcare systems. Needless to say, the last couple of months he’s been monitoring the effects of...
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Leadership Essentials - Meeting Adversity with Resilience

Season #4 Episode #15

Whether it’s a global pandemic, the loss of a loved one, a devastating clinical outcome, divorce, or other major life stressor, everyone experiences some form of adversity during their lives. It’s really not a matter...
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Lillian Erdahl, MD — On Speaking up and Being Heard

Season #4 Episode #14

The theme of communication winds through Dr. Lillian Erdahl’s childhood and adult life. As a child, she loved to perform, act, and deliver messages to a crowd. As an adult, being a surgeon has brought with it roles...
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Cortney Baker, EdD — Identifying and Walking in Your Purpose

Season #4 Episode #13

Dr. Cortney Baker is a mom, CEO, author, podcaster, and an inspiration to professional women. She had some rough patches early in life, but by taking ownership of her journey, she skipped out on playing the victim,...
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Jason Mizell, MD — Preparing Physicians for Financial Freedom and Wellbeing

Season #4 Episode #12

Dr. Jason Mizell understands first-hand how puzzling and overwhelming finances can be to physicians. After all, in school their courses include very little, if any, business or financial material. When the handsome...
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Qaali Hussein, M.D. — Being the Change

Season #4 Episode #11

When Dr. Qaali Hussein’s family fled war-torn Somalia in the ‘90s, she experienced trauma first-hand. Today as an trauma surgeon, helping patients through life-changing events is what she specializes in. Mending and...
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Christine Spadafor, JD - The State of Gender Parity in the Boardroom

Season #4 Episode #10

Christine Spadafor is with us again. This is part two, so if you missed part one last week, make sure you listen to that episode too. This week Christine and I dig into one of her topics of expertise -- gender issues...
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