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In this episode we interview Ellen Reed.  Ellen is a Gestalt Therapist and Nurse Psychotherapist and she’s the author of Someone to Watch Over You:  Finding Your Strength Within.  

The book is for people interested in overcoming challenges by finding the strength and resilience that lies within them. 

Ellen shares she was inspired by the patient experiences she had early in her career and by the encouragement she received from staff, peers, and other leaders.  When she was diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer a few years ago, she recognized it as a crisis and realized it was important to express her thoughts and feelings before it was too late.   

In her book, Ellen encourages readers to find or redefine themselves and learn what their engaging qualities are and who they want to surround themselves with.   

In the interview we talk about how Dr. Barry Johnson developed the Polarity Map™ following a Gestalt Therapy session with a client.  Ellen conveys her experience with using Polarity Thinking™ and her perspective regarding the freedom that comes with accepting polarities as an essential part of life.  Ellen believes Polarity Thinking™ crystalizes where you are placing your energy. 

During our interview with Ellen we explore the challenges that people have faced because of the COVID-19 pandemic and how individuals can practice resilience during this time.  

Ellen shares her experience with being resilient as a cancer survivor.  We talk about thoughts, feelings, and actions and the relationships between them, as well as the power of staying in the present moment. 

We discuss the power of communication and the role and importance of awareness, and how communication impacts and influences relationships.  We all have choices, and it starts with deciding who you want to be. 

We close the interview with Ellen reading the be your OWN Best Friend mantra she has included in the book.  We can tell you how wonderful the mantra is, but you’ll have to listen to hear it for yourself!

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https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

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In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

In today’s episode we explore the states of Doing and Beingfrom 40,000 feet.   

The state of Doing is associated with accomplishment, competence, knowledge, skills, analysis, and performance.  

We think it’s safe to say (based on personal experience J) as a leader you’re probably achieved excellence in many of these characteristics of doing, or you wouldn’t be a leader! 

These are challenging times both at work and at home for many healthcare leaders.  Many of you are just trying to keep your head above water as you address massive and frequent changes.  And if you’re a high achiever, like most leaders, you highly value doing or action! 

 The problem is, you may not be aware that Being is equally as important as Doing and there’s an interdependent relationship between the two that directly impacts the outcomes you desire.  Doing and Being is one of the tensions in Pillar 2 -Managing Tensions of the Dynamic Balance Effect that we help healthcare leaders learn to manage and leverage over time. 

As Elkhart Tolle says, “Doing is never enough, if you neglect being”.  

In the episode we also discuss the relationship between Being, identity and goals.  We explore how and why your identity, as a way of Being, has a significant impact on goal achievement. 

We share some examples of how shifting our approach and prioritizing Being before Doing makes a significant difference in achieving goals. 

Leveraging Doing and Being is an essential competency for any healthcare leader who wants to make a difference.   

If you are one of those healthcare leaders who wants to make a difference we don’t have to tell you twice to listen to this episode!

Visit the show notes here for more:

https://www.missinglogic.com/new-podcast

Celebrate with us!  Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts!

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.

If you found value in this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Our mission is to start “a movement” of leaders who address the chronic challenges in healthcare through a Polarity Thinking™ lens!  If you're the kind of leader wants to help others, share this with your peers.

OTHER RESOURCES YOU MAY ENJOY:

We invite you to join our private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook.  The group provides a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis.  To join Click here.

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

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.   

Barry shares Volume One of AND that represents an enhancement of the evolving polarity theory and modifications to the Polarity Map® based on learnings over the past 18 years since the publication of Barry’s first book.   This volume covers the application of fundamental polarities from different system perspectives and how different polarities show up in the brain.   

Volume Two will be released in a few months and will cover the application of the polarity phenomena and creates awareness of the many caring bright people using Polarity Thinking™ in numerous different disciplines around the world.   

During our interview with Barry we explore how Both/And thinking overcomes resistance to change and polarization and is an essential step in making a difference. 

Barry encourages readers to start with the chapter that resonates with them most after reading the introduction.   We’ve all been living with this phenomenon our whole life, so at some level what is in the book will make sense because of your life experience. 

Barry shares with us his thinking behind the intentional design of the book and how the chapters build on each other culminating with making a difference and taking care of self. With the book near completion at the onset of COVID-19, he has  two editorial chapter additions at the end of the book specific to the pandemic,  including Health AND Economy and Freedom AND the Common Good.  

In the interview Barry also conveys how the polarity of Part and Whole is the starting point for the book and explains why this provides a foundation for all the polarities discussed in the book.  We also talk about the essence of the Part and Whole polarity and how it can be used as a frame for looking at specific challenges such as clinician burnout.   

Barry shares learning about polarities is easiest when you work from the smallest system up.  So, beginning with polarities that have meaning for you as an individual enables you to see quickly how the same polarity is applicable across other levels of the system.  

We close the interview with conversation about misdiagnosing polarities as problems and how leaders pay a price twice when this occurs.   

If you want to make a positive difference in the world, this book will be a game changer for you! 

Enjoy the episode!

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We invite you to join our private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook.  The community provides a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis.  To join Click here.

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

In this episode we interview Heather Graham.  Heather is a licensed clinical social worker, an expert in mental health in the workplace, and certified employee assistance professional.   

During our interview with Heather we explore the complexities of what we are experiencing currently with the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and racial injustices.

Heather reminds us that we are experiencing more than just the pandemic and the uncertainty associated with it but also it’s been an unusual and unexpected year of social unrest, racial injustice, and catastrophic fires.  In addition, it’s an election year in the United States, which naturally includes a lot of debate and decisiveness.   

Heather points out that many of the reasons this is such a difficult time is that our standard ways of coping with stress including social interaction, sporting events, movies, going out, or our ways of distracting ourselves aren’t available to us.   

This is challenging because we must find new ways of coping or dealing with the fear and anxiety of the unknown or lack of a sense of safety at a time when we are under tremendous stress.     

Another point Heather brings out is there is “no escape” from the pandemic, and we discuss the impact this has on all of us.  No matter where you go you can’t forget about it.  It’s an unseen presence in our lives and communities and seeing masks everywhere we go is a constant reminder.   

In the interview Heather also conveys her thoughts and reflections on the potential for a parallel pandemic because of the trauma, overwhelm, burnout, and moral distress being experienced by the frontline clinicians.  

We discuss the importance of taking care of the healthcare workers.  As Heather says, “they have to be 100% to give 100%”. 

We talk about the risks of healthcare clinicians developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how PTSD can develop because of multiple exposures to trauma.  

We close the interview with conversation around what healthcare executives can do to create a supportive workplace culture during this time.

This is a very enlightening and informative interview, but you’ll find that out when you listen!

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.

We invite you to join our private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook.  The community provides a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis.  To join Click here.

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

In this episode we interview Renwick Brutus.  Renwick is an entrepreneur, business consultant and motivational speaker. We begin our interview with our guest Renwick Brutus, talking about this key question, “What right do you have to deny anybody the opportunity to benefit from who you are, what you know, and what you do?”. 

As a leader and entrepreneur, Renwick helps individuals and teams identify and use more of their potential to increase performance and results. He  guides individuals to be irresistible to their organizations, customers, and the market-at-large.  On top of all that, Renwick provides investment and wealth management guidance to individuals.   

Renwick’s philosophy is, “Too many of us are programmed to follow paths that are not congruent with our natural interests and strengths.  We are not aware of the wide, open spaces around us in which we can express who we are.  All of us deserve to find our rightful place, to live joyfully, and to excel”.  

During our interview we discuss with Renwick the world’s response to George Floyds death. Renwick shares his perspective that the visual imagery of George Floyd’s killing was worth 10 million words because it enabled the world to see the magnitude of the negative attitudes and treatment that has persisted toward black people.  It also brought systemic racism to the forefront of consciousness in a way no words or complaints could.  

Renwick shares his personal experience with racism and how he chooses to respond to it.  He also acknowledges that many people opposed to racism are doing their part to systemically crush it, and many are working quietly to stamp out racism and this gives him the sense that he is not alone.   

In the interview Renwick also conveys his thoughts and reflections on how others who want to can learn, understand, and stamp out injustices and systemic racism.  

We close the interview with conversation about leadership during these times. 

Renwick’s wisdom is profound.  Listen and find out for yourself!

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.

We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis.  To join Click here.

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

Why is it important for healthcare leaders to live a balanced life? 

The stress and strain on the healthcare workforce is unprecedented and is taking a significant toll on a work force that was already experiencing burnout or was on the verge of it before the COVID pandemic.  

If you are like most healthcare leaders, you are already being called upon to address these challenges and are feeling the call to support your team. 

The truth is, as the leader, you are their first line of support.   

How prepared are you to carry this responsibility and burden?   

We know how much you want to support them AND you are experiencing significant challenges and stress, too.   

Have you already noticed the toll these pressing challenges are taking on you?   

Without a way to maintain balance in your life between work demands and personal and family needs, you will experience unintended, negative consequences over time.  

In this episode, we explore a unique combination of essential elements that you may or may not know can help you achieve life-long work life balance.  These three essential elements are part of our Dynamic Balance Effect Framework™ that we leverage to help healthcare leaders develop balance and resilience in their work and personal lives. 

How you define balance can impact your ability to achieve and sustain work life balance.  During the episode we discuss the concept of dynamic balance and how to embrace and leverage the tension between work and home.    

Meg Wheatley states, “Relationships are all there is.  Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else”.  We talk about the significant role healthy relationships at work and home play in establishing work life balance.  

You may or may not realize how powerful you are when you leverage your strengths. The third element we discuss is mastering your strengths and leveraging the strengths of others during difficult or challenging times.  

Have you begun to realize how these three essential elements (managing the tension between work & home, cultivating healthy relationships, and leveraging your strengths) can help you establish work life balance, yet?   

When you listen to the podcast, you will see why this combination of elements is a game changer.

You may or may not know that the doors to our NEW 5- Day VIRTUAL Work Life Balance Bootcamp for Healthcare Leaders are OPEN!!  If you want to experience more joy, live with intention, and add value at work and establish work life balance easily and effortlessly, then this bootcamp is for you.  

Click here to learn more, but HURRY the doors close at MIDNIGHT on Friday, September 11th!

Celebrate with us!  Feedspot ranked Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast #38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts!

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

Why is it important for healthcare leaders to build resilience now? 

Clinicians and leaders were already burned out, or on the verge of it, prior to the COVID pandemic.  

There is concern that the strain and burden being experienced by essential healthcare workers may lead to a dual pandemic. 

The truth is their leaders are their first line of support.   

We know how much you want to support them and how concerned you are about their well-being AND you are experiencing significant challenges and stress, too. 

In this episode, we explore a unique combination of strategies that you may or may not know can help you develop resilience during these unprecedented times.  These three strategies are part of our Dynamic Balance Effect Framework™ that we leverage to help healthcare leaders develop balance and resilience in their work and personal lives. 

When you are always putting others first, it can have a negative impact on your well-being and resilience.  During the episode we discuss the importance of taking care of self and others and putting your own needs first.  Yes, you need to put yourself first!  

Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati, states “What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens”.  We talk about the significant role stories and beliefs play in our ability to be resilient.  

The third strategy we discuss is the power of habits. You may or may not realize that 95% of what we do is based on habit.  It’s easy to see, if 95% of our actions are based on habit, then it’s essential to be aware of our habits and to leverage habits to make our most effective actions automatic and easy, isn’t it. 

Have you begun to realize how these three strategies can help you put yourself first and develop resilience, yet?   

You may not realize the significance of the strategies until you listen to the podcast and learn more.  It’s there waiting for you. 

Other Podcast Episodes on Taking Care of Self and Others: 

Episode # 6  The Holy Grail:  Managing Taking Care of Self AND Taking Care of Others

Episode #14  Are You Sacrificing your SELF for OTHERS?

Episode #35  What’s the secret to becoming a thriving and resilient healthcare

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You may or may not know that the doors to our 5- Day VIRTUAL Work Life Balance Bootcamp for Healthcare Leaders  is OPEN!! If you want to experience more joy, live with intention, and add value at work and establish work life balance easily and effortlessly, then this bootcamp is for you.  Click here to learn more!

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

Almost every aspect of our lives has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic began.  

It’s easy to see that the struggle with all that change is real, isn’t it?   

The truth is it’s not the change people are struggling with; it’s the loss or lack of stability.   

In this episode, we explore a unique combination of strategies that you may or may not realize can help you find or create some stability in your life.   

While the changes may lessen over time, change will never fully disappear or go away.  You might not have realized yet that you need both stability and change in your life and that’s why it’s essential to strengthen or create stability in the midst of all this change.  We talk about how the tension between change and stability shows up and how to use it to your advantage. 

The Dali Lama says, “Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values”.  In the episode we talk about how values provide an anchor during times of change that keeps you from drifting or being swept away the currents of change. 

Another strategy we discuss that can help with creating stability in your life is to set goals.  Yes, you can set goals during times of chaos and crisis!  We talk about re-evaluating and restructuring goals to align with current realities as a method for creating some stability. 

Just imagine if you could begin to thrive and not just survive during this time!  It is possible!  

Listen NOW and open the door to the possibilities.

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.

Celebrate with us!  MissingLogic Podcast has been ranked by Feedspot number 38 out of the top 55 healthcare leadership podcasts to follow!

You may or may not know that the doors to our 5- Day VIRTUAL Work Life Balance Bootcamp open next week!  If you want to experience more joy, live with intention, and add value at work and establish work life balance easily and effortlessly, then this bootcamp is for you.  Click here to join the interest list and we will let you know when the doors open!

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else” – Yogi Berra 

Have you ever experienced this?  You have a sense of the direction you’re headed but you aren’t clear what your destination is? 

Once you do have clarity on the desired destination you begin to feel the tension between where you are now and where you want to go. 

Establishing a strategic plan with a polarity lens can help you establish action steps that enable you to leverage the tension between where you want to go and where you are currently. 

Using a polarity lens helps to identify any interdependent pairs of values present in the plan that you are not recognizing and avoid unintended consequences of over emphasizing some values to the neglect of others.  As an example, if you include recruitment in your strategic plan and don’t also include strategies for retention, you will experience unintended consequences over time.   

Using a polarity lens and assessment process supports vigilant monitoring of outcomes over time.  Together these approaches keep organizations moving in a positive or virtuous cycle toward their greater purpose and enables timely course correction as needed. 

Listen to this episode to learn how applying a polarity lens to the strategic planning process can give you a more comprehensive approach and support you in achieving sustainable results. 

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.

If you are interested in learning more about our Healthy Healing Organization Framework or using a Polarity Assessment™ in your strategic planning process, go to [email protected]to schedule a call with us.  We’d love to learn your story and see if we can be of service.

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.

In today’s episode, we interview Tim Arnold. Tim is the author of The Power of Healthy Tension:  Overcome Chronic Issues and Conflicting Values.  

The inspiration to write a book came after moving from corporate to being the executive director of a homeless shelter.  Tim’s hope in publishing the book was to share with other providers and people in healthcare who are working in challenging territory, but are committed to making difference, that this lens of Polarity Thinking™ is not just interesting, it’s not just helpful, it’s foundational. 

Tim shares in his first year as executive director of the homeless shelter he thought constantly “I don’t know what I would do had I not had this understanding these tools, this perspective”. 

Tim says his exposure to Polarity Thinking™ was not by chance. He went to get a business tool and instead the training he received opened-up a brand-new chapter to living and experiencing life at a different level.   He describes the first day of training with Dr. Barry Johnson like this  “when Barry started to talk I had this sense inside me to pay attention because this is bigger than you can imagine”.   

Tim believes so much in Polarity Thinking™ that he tells his readers at the beginning of the book, you are going to be all in on this, or you might as well close the book now. 

We wonder if you recognize that people are already familiar with polarities or tensions.  Most people experience them on a daily basis, they just haven’t been given the language to describe it or the space to manage and leverage them.   

It’s easy to see that recently we’ve been living in a world where we choose sides, pick our tribes, and think either/or, is it not? It is frustrating to live in this binary world because we know it doesn’t work.  You may not know people don’t have to give up their values or perspectives, but they can expand them.  Tim’s greatest hope is that that the next generation realizes this and chooses different approaches. 

You may or may not have already realized, The Power of Healthy Tension:  Overcome Chronic Issues and Conflicting Values is a gift full of insights and possibilities.   

We could tell you the same holds true for this interview, but we will let you discover that for yourself! 

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, we may use your question on a future episode.

We have opened a private Resilient and Balanced Healthcare Leader Community in Facebook to provide a safe space for healthcare leaders to connect, support each other and share their experiences during this time of crisis.  To join Click here.

In this podcast, business leaders navigate the challenges of high-pressure jobs, tackling burnout, micromanagement, and decision fatigue while honing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities to strengthen their leadership identity. Through discussions on leadership development, stress management, conflict resolution, and time management, listeners gain insights into achieving work-life balance, overcoming the struggles of being overworked, and fostering personal growth in the ever-evolving workplace.