Champions of Wellness Podcast

For episode 27, we hear from several of the expert speakers who recently presented at the Champions of Wellness Virtual Summit 2021 about the advice they have for other wellness champions.

For episode 26, we talk with Jothi Dugar about categorizing chaos, maximizing individual potential, and controlling stress with energy management.

For episode 25, we talk with Dr. Kemia Sarraf about the mislabeling of physician burnout, intra-traumatic growth, and the weaponization of resilience.

For episode 24, we talk with advertising executive turned mental health expert Erika Ferszt about toxic productivity, mood induction, the power of creative content to impact the way we feel.

Creating a culture of well-being, improving workflow efficiencies, and promoting personal resiliency with Liz Ferron from VITAL WorkLife.

For episode 22, we talk with the stigma-fighting duo of Andrea Paquette and Jason Finucan about the need to eliminate stigma in our society and the steps we can take to normalize the treatment of mental illness.

We talk with Yotam Dagan about administering psychological PPE, implementing structured peer support, and his work training first responders on operational stress management.

It's episode 20! Today, we talk with Harpreet Chana about her first-hand experience with stress and burnout and the work she is doing with the Mental Wealth Academy.

For episode nineteen, we talk with Ashley Williams about the superpower of understanding our emotions, how mindfulness is not only achieved through meditation, and the role of self-regulation in improving emotional intelligence and well-being.

For episode eighteen, we talk with Dr. Mukta Panda about bringing humanity back to healthcare, finding the courage to be vulnerable, and the seven-point Oath to Self-Care and Well-Being.

For episode seventeen, we talk with Dr. Lyuba Konopasek about the role that educator development has in forming a culture of wellness in the workplace, and how leadership teams can ensure that medical institutions are mentally prepared for the unknown.

For episode sixteen, we talk with Danna Thomas about the impact that teachers have as first responders, how Happy Teacher Revolution has revolutionized educator well-being, and what leadership teams and educational administrators can do to support teaching staff coming out of the pandemic.

For episode fifteen, we talk with Dr. Amelia Bueche about the benefits of coaching for both physicians and leadership teams, and why connection is the key to health, longevity, and professional sustainability.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Brooke Griffin about the unique stressors that are specific to pharmacists, the qualities that make up a champion of pharmacy well-being, and recommended steps for leading a wellness team to promote pharmacy wellness.

For episode thirteen, we talk with Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas about how employers can address suicide prevention and severe distress, and why suicide prevention and mental health promotion are some of the most unaddressed cross-cultural and multi-generational social justice issues of our time.

In today's episode, we talk with Dr. Barry Rubin about the causes and impacts of burnout on clinicians and the patients they care for, the difference in distress levels among Canadian and United States nurses, and his recent research featuring data from over 400 physician, nurse, and allied health staff wellness surveys.

For episode eleven, we talk with John McMahon and Patrick McNally of the Well-Being Index about how a well-being survey should be used as a baseline for wellness programs, how to establish buy-in with leadership teams to assess employee distress levels, and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the mental health of healthcare professionals.

For our tenth episode, we talk with Dr. Jonathan Ripp about how the role of Chief Wellness Officer has evolved before and after the pandemic, why communication is an integral part of healing and sustaining your workforce, and the creation and purpose of the Office of Well-Being and Resilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

For episode nine, we talk with Dr. Bill Becker about Boundary Theory and the relationship between "work mindset" and "personal mindset," the impact of electronic communications monitoring on wellness, and how leadership can set expectations for promoting well-being.

For episode eight, we talk with Dr. Greg Hammer about the GAIN methodology and how to make it a daily practice, the organizational costs of allowing stress to build up, and how wellness tactics have changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Sarah Jockin and Tyler Micenheimer about developing specific interventions to identify and mitigate psychological stress among dentists.

For episode six, we talk with Dr. Adrea Wasilewski, a neuro-oncologist, assistant professor, and wellness director at the University of Rochester, about creating momentum with leadership buy-in and how the pandemic is moving clinician wellness forward.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Jeff Moody, a practicing urologist and burnout author, about leveraging technology, what is wrong with medical training, and how 'no' is a complete sentence.

For episode four, we talk with physician wellness champion and anesthesiologist Dr. Kevin Ng about developing an organizational culture of wellness from the top down.

In this episode, we discuss a few of the most impactful virtual summit highlights regarding wellness programs champions have implemented to support the needs of staff.

For this episode, we discuss a few of the most impactful highlights from our recent summit regarding the challenges healthcare leaders face, successes champions have found in promoting mental health, and where they see wellness heading in the next five years.

Welcome to the very first episode of the Champions of Wellness Podcast, the show for leaders focused on improving mental health and well-being in the workplace.