Mayo Clinic Employee Experiences

In this episode, you will hear Curt, an IT Senior Analyst/Programmer, and Molly, an Experience Education and Training Advisor, discuss their experience as a Mayo Clinic patient and their journey to becoming a Mayo Clinic employee.

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In this episode of Mayo Clinic Employee Experiences, you will hear from the Mayo Clinic Employee Experiences Podcast team as they look back on the previous 49 episodes. The podcast team consists of colleagues in Human Resources coordinating the podcast participants, episodes and recording including Sarah Shtylla, Dani Budahn, Tom Jorgenson, and Chelsea Bladen Babin. The podcast production is supported by Rick Andresen from Media Support Services. The podcast team greatly appreciates all those who have participated, listened and recommended this series. 

In this episode, you will hear Amy, a financial counselor, and Melissa, an Associate Specialist in research, discuss their experiences on being the first in their family to graduate from college. Amy shares her perspective of being the first to graduate not only from college, but high school as well. She also talks about being a single mom and going back to college as an adult. Melissa talks about how her pursuit of education inspired her mom and a diagnosis has instilled even more intrinsic motivation. Both agree that educational opportunities have transformed as time has progressed. 

In this episode, you will hear Evy, HR advisor, and Danielle, senior program coordinator, share their experience of homelessness and food insecurity. Evy grew up in California and shares her story of moving from home to home while taking care of her siblings. Evy also shares how she put herself through college and grad school and worked at top companies to become financially secure and now, as a new employee at Mayo Clinic, she is working by choice. Danielle talks about living in 26 places by the time she was 26 years old and how she left her unsafe home at the age of 16 to live with a friend. Danielle didn’t recognize until later in life that she had experienced sheltered homelessness. Both share their journey of navigating life and how the support of friends helped them survive.  

Two types of homelessness experiences:  

According to Britannica.com, sheltered homelessness are individuals who spend the night in emergency shelters or in transitional, or temporary, housing. Unsheltered homelessness are individuals who sleep on the streets, in cars, in abandoned buildings, or in other places not intended for human habitation. 

Food insecurity is defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a situation of "limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways".