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Healthcare's MissingLogic

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Healthcare's MissingLogic is a podcast for healthcare leaders who are tired of wasting time, money and resources on the same reoccurring problems or fixes that fail. Life and business "besties" Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth have been supporting healthcare leaders for over 30 years as they strive to establish high performing and thriving work cultures. Join them and their guests each week as they examine and discuss the most pressing issues in healthcare using a Polarity Thinking™ lens.

Healthcare's MissingLogic is a podcast for healthcare leaders who are tired of wasting time, money and resources on the same reoccurring problems or fixes that fail. Life and business "besties" Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth have been supporting healthcare leaders for over 30 years as they strive to establish high performing and thriving work cultures. Join them and their guests each week as they examine and discuss the most pressing issues in healthcare using a Polarity Thinking™ lens.

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Healthcare's MissingLogic is a podcast for healthcare leaders who are tired of wasting time, money and resources on the same reoccurring problems or fixes that fail. Life and business "besties" Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth have been supporting healthcare leaders for over 30 years as they strive to establish high performing and thriving work cultures. Join them and their guests each week as they examine and discuss the most pressing issues in healthcare using a Polarity Thinking™ lens.

Language:

English

Episodes

#91: The Road to Well-Being: It's Personal and Requires Patience, Persistence, and Practice featuring Dr. Seena Haines

4/7/2021
It was so inspiring to interview and dialogue with Dr. Seena Haines about well-being. As we begin our interview, Seena shares with us her personal health professions journey, which leads to a brief discussion on how our experiences and stories inform who we are and what we do. Seena shares her passion for well-being began with her own personal struggles and the desire to pay it forward. She informs us that well-being is subjective and influenced by multiple factors including psychosocial...

Duration:00:45:06

#90: (Encore Episode) The Healthcare Leader as a Role Model for Self-Care: Caring for Yourself and Caring for the Team featuring Dr. Jeanne Roode

3/31/2021
One of the consistent messages we are hearing from overwhelmed leaders is they want to do more to care for their team, but they are neglecting themselves in the process. A leader’s well-being doesn’t have to be in competition with caring for the team. You can care for you and your team. Since this is such a prominent theme in our conversations with leaders today, we thought it would be appropriate to share this encore episode and interview with our dear friend and colleague Dr. Jeanne...

Duration:00:55:29

#89: (Encore Episode) A Personal and Professional Story about Clinician Burnout and Resilience featuring Dr. Miguel Paniagua

3/24/2021
When we did this initial interview with Dr. Paniagua we had no idea that within a few months we would be facing a global pandemic that would not only add to the stress and mental health challenges healthcare clinicians were already facing but would lead to a parallel pandemic. In this interview Dr. Miguel Paniagua shared his personal and professional story about burnout, clinician well-being, and resilience. The interview is as pertinent today as it was a little over a year ago. There are...

Duration:00:42:30

#88: Interprofessional Education and Practice Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow featuring Dr. Andrea Pfeifle

3/17/2021
In this episode we talk with Dr. Andrea Pfeifle, about the history and future of interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (IPCP), her experiences as a leader in today’s environments, and some of the barriers that have inhibited progress. Andrea shares her interprofessional journey and a little of how a special relationship with a young boy and his family ignited her love affair with interprofessional collaboration. She also tells how an invitation, from the Dean of...

Duration:00:58:02

#87 ENCORE Episode The Unsolvable, Unavoidable, and Indestructible Tension Between Health AND Economy & Individual Freedom AND the Common Good with Dr. Barry Johnson

3/10/2021
We didn’t think when we conducted this interview back in June of 2020 that we would still be facing significant challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. This episode is as relevant now as it was when we originally recorded it. During this episode we interview our dear friend and colleague Dr. Barry Johnson about two crux polarities/tensions we are facing as a nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The two polarities/tensions we discuss during the interview are Health And Economy...

Duration:01:06:26

#86 Helping Healthcare Heroes Heal from the Trauma of the Pandemic featuring Dr. Mark Goulston and Dr. Diana Hendel

3/3/2021
In this episode we talk with co-authors, Dr. Mark Goulston and Dr. Diana Hendel, about their book Why Cope When You Can Heal? How Healthcare Heroes of COVID-19 Can Recover from PTSD. In their book, Mark and Diana paint the picture of the “perfect storm for trauma” that is being experienced by healthcare workers today. In the interview Diana shares her perspective that healthcare workers are the grittiest, toughest, most resilient people in our society. But we are living in the downside of...

Duration:01:03:01

#85 ENCORE Episode: How to Make A Positive Difference in the World and Stop Making False Either/Or Choices featuring Dr. Barry Johnson

2/24/2021
We are thrilled to provide this Encore episode of our interview with our dear friend and mentor Dr. Barry Johnson. Barry is the author of AND: Making a Difference by Leveraging Polarity, Paradox, or Dilemma. Volume One: Foundations. AND is for people interested in making a positive difference in the world or in any part of their life as a citizen, a family member, or an individual within an organization. Volume One of AND covers the application of fundamental polarities from different...

Duration:00:58:41

#84 The Importance of Creating Healthy Workplaces That Bring Out the Best in People featuring Moe Carrick

2/17/2021
Would you like to lead or work in a healthy work environment? Eliminating toxic work cultures and replacing them with healthy work environments is no small feat but it’s something we share a passion for with Moe Carrick the author of Bravespace Workplace. It was such a pleasure to talk with Moe. In the episode she speaks about her experiences in creating Bravespaces, what makes a workplace toxic and how workplace toxicity hurts the individuals within the environment. We also talk about...

Duration:00:57:59

#83 ENCORE Episode: New Lens and New Day: Stop Solving the Same Problems Over and Over Again

2/10/2021
Do you ever wonder why you keep experiencing and solving the same problems over and over again? Every day feels like Ground Hog Day! If you are like other healthcare leaders who are excellent and well-regarded problem solvers, you’re frustrated and a little embarrassed. Well, we were too! Good news- you’re in the right place if you want to leave that all behind! In this encore of our very first podcast episode, we share our story, how we were “mad as hell” and how we chose to stop the...

Duration:00:25:54

#82 Our Healthcare Future: The Complexity, Challenges, and Constraints featuring Susan Dentzer

2/3/2021
It was a pleasure to talk with Susan Dentzer about the important work she is doing at the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University, the complexity of healthcare, and some of the challenges the healthcare system and leaders are facing today. Areas of focus for the Center have been health system transformation and specifically the transition from volume to value payment, biopharmaceuticals, medical products/devices, global innovation, and most recently health...

Duration:01:08:28

Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 2.1.21

2/1/2021
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning talk about identity, what we mean by identity, why identity matters when it comes to work life balance, and what three identities influence your work life balance.

Duration:00:16:28

#81 Setting and Keeping Boundaries: The Secret to Preventing Overwhelm and Becoming a Thriving and Resilient Healthcare Leader

1/27/2021
If you are like many of the overwhelmed healthcare leaders we talk with you feel stretched beyond your capabilities on a day-to-day basis. One of the ways you can have more energy, time and balance in your life is to establish boundaries. In this episode we explore why it’s important to set boundaries, how boundaries can lead to resilience and balance in your life, and how they are a form of self-care. Continually adding more to your plate and not taking anything off results in stress and...

Duration:00:26:16

Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 1.25.21

1/25/2021
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning talk about setting boundaries, what we’ve experienced with boundary setting, why boundaries are about you and not other people, and some of our strategies for boundary setting.

Duration:00:16:58

#80 Supporting Mindful Choices, Polarity Intelligence™ and Personal Alignment with the Dynamic Balance Effect™ Framework

1/20/2021
If you are like most of the healthcare leaders we talk with, the past year was a year full of challenges and changes. It looks like based on what we have seen thus far in 2021 those challenges are going to continue for a while longer. Some of those challenges and changes may have bumped up against some of your values, like maintaining your well-being, supporting your team(s), and connecting with others. You may have even experienced some moral distress having to make decisions that are not...

Duration:00:27:17

Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 1.18.21

1/18/2021
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day and we are going to talk about dreams! The dream we had for our business when we launched it three years ago today, the values that guide us and the things we’ve learned along the way and in the past year.

Duration:00:18:33

#79 Navigating the Rough Waters of Being a Nurse When a Family Member is Ill featuring Roberta Young

1/13/2021
It was a delight to interview Roberta Young about her article Being a Nurse in the Family. Roberta explains what led up to co-authoring the article in My American Nurse in January of 2020 with her colleague Teresa Anderson. During the episode we discuss these unique situations and how the experience can be leveraged to improve or change how one chooses to practice as a nurse. Even though the conversation centers on nurses’ experiences, we acknowledge other clinicians also have similar...

Duration:00:52:34

Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 1.11.21

1/11/2021
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about not finding work life balance but creating it, why you won’t find it, investing in yourself, and how coaching can support you.

Duration:00:16:42

Episode #78: Looking at Healthcare and the COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Part and Whole Lens

1/6/2021
You may or may not realize you have been living and participating in the Part and Whole polarity your whole life! Your first lessons regarding part and whole occurred when you were a child, and you were learning to share with your friends. During the COVID-19 pandemic we have struggled with uncertainty, overwhelming amounts of change and we’ve felt stuck, drained, and protective of the things we value most. The tension of the Part and Whole polarity is showing up at the individual,...

Duration:00:25:45

Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle 1.4.21

1/4/2021
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about sleep and putting yourself first in 2021, our experience with being last in line, benefits of putting yourself first, and action steps you can take now to put yourself first!

Duration:00:14:23

Episode #77: Insights on Nurse Fatigue, the Impact on Nursing and Patient Safety, and What You Can Do with Dr. Linda D. Scott

12/30/2020
“Just like water and food we need sleep, and so every time we lose it we jeopardize our own health and the health of others”- Dr. Linda D. Scott In this episode it was a delight to interview Dr. Linda Scott, the Dean of Nursing at University of Wisconsin-Madison about her research on nursing fatigue and the impact on safety. Early in the interview Dr. Scott shares she was motivated to embark on such important research when the To Err is Human was published by the Institute of Medicine in...

Duration:00:51:38

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