Season 4
Episodes
Leadership Essentials - Meeting Adversity with Resilience
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
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
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
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
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
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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Christine Spadafor, JD — Adaptive Leadership
Christine’s career path has taken her from bedside nurse to law school to consultant to the boardroom. She helps businesses and institutions navigate and prepare for change, no matter the source of the disruption --...
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Nii Darko, MD, MBA, FACS — Outside the Box
Dr. Nii Darko, son of Ghanian immigrants, was inspired to pursue a medical career by TV shows like Doogie Howser and Trapper John, M.D. But his life as a physician felt lacking in comparison to the Hollywood version....
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Joe Safdieh, MD — Educating Physician Educators
When Dr. Joe Safdieh was interviewing for his medical residency, he knew he wanted to teach, and he was surprised that when he disclosed his aspirations, interviewers would “look at me like I had three heads.” After...
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W Brad Johnson, PhD — Mentorship Mastery - Why and How Men Can Better Mentor Women
By now, most of us know that the research is conclusive -- organizations and institutions are better all around when they’re diverse, all the way up to the C-suite. Women and minorities are good for the bottom line,...
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Gunisha Kaur, M.D. — Medicine with a Mission-Oriented Mindset
Dr. Gunisha Kaur works with people who are in vulnerable places. She works as an anesthesiologist, attending patients in the OR during surgical procedures. She also works with forcibly displaced individuals --...
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Helen Riess, M.D. — Why Empathy Matters
At a time when physicians and medical clinicians are burdened with higher patient loads, technological changes, increased regulation, and always-on schedules, who has the time and energy for adding empathetic...
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