OnTopic with Empathia

How does a community recover from a devastating natural disaster? Where do businesses get started again? How are homes rebuilt? And when do families start healing? In this follow-up episode, Christchurch earthquake survivor Jolie Wills joins Rick Hoaglund once again to talk about how her community responded to the devastation, and how her own experiences would go on to shape her career in disaster response and leadership orientation in times of crisis.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com.

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On Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Christchurch, New Zealand in what would go on to be the country’s fifth-deadliest natural disaster. Homes were lost, businesses destroyed, local monuments demolished and families were devastated by the rampant destruction that roared forth from the earth. And nobody knows it better than Jolie Wills, who not only served with the Red Cross in responding to the earthquake but also survived the event herself with her husband and children when their own house was nearly toppled that fateful day. In Part One of this two-part interview, Jolie joins host Rick Hoaglund to talk about just how devastating the Christchurch earthquake was, through the eyes of somebody who was on the ground, on the day, and for every day after.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com.

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Following her cancer treatment, Jessica Storm was excited to get back to the usual hustle and bustle. With a new baby at home, normalcy would've been a welcome routine, if not for a fateful call from her oncologist when she discovered that her cancer journey was far from over. In this follow up from Part 1, Jessica talks through discovering a tumor in her brain, and the entirely new set of challenges that came soon after.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empathia-inc

Bad news is never easy to hear, especially when it concerns the ones you love. But when you receive a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, what do you do? That's what Jessica Storm faced when she was diagnosed with breast cancer while 28 weeks pregnant, along with the flurry of challenging decisions and difficult moments that followed. That's why she's sitting down with Kelly Parbs to tell her story, talk through her treatments, and inspire others who may also find themselves in a similarly challenging situation.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empathia-inc

You may have heard of swatting before - the act of calling high-level police forces on others with false accusations of impending violence - but where did it come from, and how did it start? Is it dangerous? And most importantly, what can be done about it? Rick Hoaglund sits down with Jill Sanchez, employee assistance program counselor with over 25 years of experience performing critical assistance for people involved in traumatic incidents to talk about the rise of this strange phenomenon, and how we can all take steps to help those of us affected most by these terrible incidents.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empathia-inc

Last time on OnTopic, Trauma-Informed Care Coordinator Scott Webb talked to Rick about the Six Principles of Trauma-Informed Care, a new approach to professional engagement that involves peering into a complete picture of any individual’s entire life and the traumas that have shaped their behavior since. But how does an organization start to implement trauma-informed care? What are the best practices? And can any organization simply start on a whim, or is trauma-informed care limited to healthcare and educational workplaces? The answers might just surprise you.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com.

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Does adversity in childhood affect a person's health long-term? Organizations across the United States have developed a new way of understanding and managing employees - trauma-informed care - but does it really work? Rick Hoaglund sits down with Scott Webb, trauma-informed care coordinator at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison to talk about the six principles of trauma-informed care and how executives, managers, and even employees can utilize a variety of available tools to help.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com.

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If so many Young Adults suffer mental health issues, what's the solution? Is there a 'fix' for such a widespread problem? How do individuals start to tackle an unseen issue in their communities Professional counselor and psychotherapist Bill Mulcahy returns to talk about developing twelve key coping strategies to help any adult, young or old, and how putting emphasis on community-oriented programs might be the most important solution of them all.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com.

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Over 48% of Young Adults say that they experience mental health issues in their daily lives, but what exactly does this mean? Are new adults today more deeply affected by the world around them? What are the causes for the hopelessness and despair many feel? And how does the newer generation’s deeper connection to technology affect them? Kelly Parbs sits down with licensed professional counselor and psychotherapist Bill Mulcahy to get to the bottom of just what’s causing so much anxiety, stress, and general fatigue in young adults today – and what we can do to change it.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more at https://www.empathia.com. https://www.empathia.com.

Support Bill Mulcahy:

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empathia-inc

Compassion Fatigue affects millions of caretakers around the world, but what can be done about it? Philip Chard digs into the solutions that have proven effective in organizations around the country, for both the personal and the professional, to reveal how activities as simple as singing in the car can help to bolster emotion and stem the physical and mental problems that can come with Compassion Fatigue.

Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, OnTopic with Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most.

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