Episodes

  • #120 – Appreciative Inquiry (how to listen to your team)

    #120 – Appreciative Inquiry (how to listen to your team)
    May 2 2025
    Want to work on changing things? Want to learn about your team and listen better? Interested in a pretty good pathway to do that? Appreciative Inquiry is process of: In this podcast, we’re gonna walk through Appreciative Inquiry and Theory U and how these 2 organizational development processes meld together to create a powerful tool […]
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    34 mins
  • #119 – Psychological Safety & Just Culture

    #119 – Psychological Safety & Just Culture
    Apr 26 2025
    Yo yo! Today, we close out our 3-part series on systems thinking with this episode on psychological safety & just culture. Part 1 (Episode 117) introduced systems thinking & high reliability organizations. Part 2 (Episode 118) walked through resilience engineering, safety differently and synesis. Part 3 (this episode) threads these topics together with psychological safety […]
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    36 mins
  • #118 – Resilience Engineering, Safety Differently & Synesis

    #118 – Resilience Engineering, Safety Differently & Synesis
    Apr 20 2025
    This is Part 2 of a 3 part series on organizational development – how we work and live together as teams in healthcare so we can do our best work, master our craft, take amazing care of patients and actually enjoy the work we do. (no big deal) In the first part (Episode 117), we […]
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    30 mins
  • #117 – An Intro to Systems Thinking and High Reliability Organizations

    #117 – An Intro to Systems Thinking and High Reliability Organizations
    Apr 13 2025
    Yo! This episode introduces the concepts of systems thinking and high reliability organizations. It’s the first part in a 3 part series. Part 2 is gonna dive into resilience engineering and safety differently. Part 3 is all about psychological safety and just culture. These 3 shows unpack crucial intel for front-line providers, equipping them to […]
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    46 mins
  • #116 – What Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation has to do with Systems Thinking

    #116 – What Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation has to do with Systems Thinking
    Mar 22 2025
    On the corner of Skyland Drive and 23 in a little town called Sylva in Western North Carolina, sit’s PJ’s gas station. One hot summer day back in 2005, I was filling up the tank in a convalescent transport van on my very first day as an EMT-Basic. That’s the most basic, entry-level certification of […]
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    24 mins
  • #115 – The NBCRNA MAC Program: How CRNAs Recertify

    #115 – The NBCRNA MAC Program: How CRNAs Recertify
    Feb 24 2025
    Hey y’all! First of all: thank you to those of you who have subscribed to the website and get these posts right to your email inbox. That’s all that happens: the podcast is free and subscription to the show just means you get the content straight to you as soon as it’s live. I never […]
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    34 mins
  • #114 – Leadership: how to get stuff done

    #114 – Leadership: how to get stuff done
    Feb 17 2025
    This podcast is for leaders, clinicians, residents & students who need to get wildly important things done. It’s about how to prioritize when so much of your work seems important. How to find balance when so much seems to be coming at you. How to get started at achieving your biggest goals. This episode will […]
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    38 mins
  • #113 – Sabbatical in Spain with Matt Moody, CRNA

    #113 – Sabbatical in Spain with Matt Moody, CRNA
    Feb 9 2025
    Matt & Alison Moody took a year off of working as CRNAs to live and travel in Spain with their then 4-year old daughter. This is part of that story. The two were living and working as CRNAs in Asheville, North Carolina when they caught the idea to take a year off of work and […]
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    1 hr and 38 mins