Hello Reader, Happy Mother's Day weekend, friend. This week's episode came to you live from Sedona, Arizona — and it felt like the right place to have a conversation we don't have often enough. I sat down with my colleague, co-coach, and friend Gillian Faith — healthcare leader, coach, and fellow mom — and we just... talked. About the real stuff. The spinning plates. The relationship that gets the least attention until it starts to crack. The moment your kid gives you completely unfiltered...
9 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, There's a conversation you've been putting off. Maybe it's with that attending whose style grates on you every single shift. Maybe it's your department chair, a colleague who crossed a line, or a dynamic on your team that everyone feels but nobody names. You know the one. And every day you don't have it, you tell yourself some version of the same story: This is just how medicine is. It's not worth the fallout. I'll deal. But what if staying silent wasn't protecting you — what if...
14 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, Dr. Cindy Van Praag described something in this week’s podcast conversation that most physician mothers feel but rarely name out loud. Every day, you put on the doctor mask. Competent. In control. Confident. And people believe it — because you are those things. Then you get in the car, pick up the kids, and put on the mom mask. And somewhere underneath all of it, there’s a version of you that hasn’t just been in a long time. No mask. No role. Just you. Cindy asked: Wouldn’t it...
23 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Hi friend, Before we get into this week's content: I need to ask a favor: We've been nominated for the Women Podcaster's Awards in the Category: Coaching Podcast. Please vote for us! Link here: https://www.womenpodcasters.com/awards-voting?sc=396724049f9a8ce9021e1c8cdc1f085042458da13 Six weeks after her first-ever surgery, Fedna Morency, PA-C, was on call for four facilities with one PA and one surgeon. Her knee didn’t have full range of motion yet. She was scared. She was not...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, You’ve Put in the Hours. But Are You Actually Growing? There’s a clinician you’ve probably worked with at some point. The one who reads the room before anyone else. Makes the hard calls calmly. Communicates in a way that lands — with patients, with colleagues, even in the middle of chaos. Here’s the question I keep coming back to: Did they get that way just by putting in the years? Or was something else going on beneath the surface? This week, Klaus and I dug into one of the...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, If you went into healthcare to help people — and somewhere along the way, forgot to extend that same care to yourself — this episode is for you. I sat down with Dr. Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, a pediatrician, writer in residence, and educator at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency Program, whose work sits at the intersection of medicine, narrative, and human flourishing. She's also a nurse of ten years before she became a physician — which gives her a perspective on healthcare...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, What If the Real Prescription Is Caring About the People You Lead? Think about the best leader you've ever worked with. Picture them clearly. Now ask yourself: did they care about you — not just professionally, but personally? I'd be willing to bet the answer is yes. And Dr. Josh Hartzell, retired Army Colonel, faculty physician, certified executive coach, and author of A Prescription for Caring, has asked that question of hundreds of healthcare leaders across the country. He...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Hello Reader, You step into a new role. Maybe it's a charge nurse position, a department director seat, or a system-level executive chair. Either way, the pressure lands fast. Everyone is watching. You want to make your mark. So you get moving. You solve problems. You introduce yourself by showing what you can do. But what if the most powerful thing you could do right now is to stop — and listen? That's the central insight from this week's episode of the Transforming Healthcare Coaching...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, A few years ago, if you met me right after the pandemic was loosening its grip on the world, I was not a podcaster. I definitely knew I was a critical care physician who happened to have some ideas about coaching, because I just finished coach training. And Klaus really wasn’t sure either. And yet, here we are at episode 100! I’ll be honest - back then, I’d never really used YouTube aside from random tutorials on how to fix something around the house. The thought of being on...
2 months ago • 3 min read