Supergivers Podcast with Jesse Johnson

Alex Coren is the co-founder and chief innovation officer of Wambi, an employee recognition platform for health care environments powered by the voices of patients and their families.

While Alex was the Director of Patient Experience at a company caring for catastrophically ill, medically complex patients within multiple acute-care hospitals, it was her responsibility to ensure patients and their families had the best possible experiences during their stay. Through her observations, she realized that patient satisfaction was highly dependent on interactions with caregivers. At the time, Alex also discovered that caregivers at each of the facilities shared that there was poor morale, which influenced their energy levels. In addition, administration was beginning to connect its poor caregiver job satisfaction with turnover and how this impacted patient care and their bottom line. In an attempt to improve satisfaction among caregivers and ultimately patient experience, Alex met with caregivers across each of the facilities to understand the root cause of this lack of engagement, and it became clear that it was mainly due to not feeling appreciated for their hard and life-changing work. This is when Alex decided to create and build a caregiver recognition system that would service to increase engagement, improve morale, and ultimately provide better caregiver-patient experiences.

Under Alex’s vision, Wambi was created to emphasize the incredible impact that caregivers’ compassion can play within the patient recovery process. Alex believes that integrating the voices of patients, families, caregivers, and administrators into a seamless positive feedback loop will successfully bring compassion back to the forefront of healthcare.

As the Chief Innovation Officer, Alex conceived of and developed the technology powering Wambi. She oversaw UI design, wire-framing, branding/ graphic development, and testing/ iteration, and worked closely with David Jones, Wambi’s Chief Technology Officer, to bring her vision to fruition. Alex’s dream for Wambi is to infuse mindfulness and compassion into the healthcare industry by recognizing compassionate care, all in hopes to elevate patient and family experiences.

Michael Welp is the co-founder of White Men as Full Diversity Partners (wmfdp.com), an organization that seeks to build awareness, skills, and, ultimately, equity within the power of white maleness. He has authored the book Four Days to Change and has produced a Ted Talk about white advocacy.

In this episode, Michael shares about his journey in owning his own white maleness as well as the important opportunity white men have today to make a big impact in the world.

What exactly is "whiteness" and where did it come from?! What can be done about it in this world today?

Since 2001, Tad Hargrave has been wrestling with and exploring the complicated and thorny mess that is whiteness, white privilege and white guilt.

Between Sept 2004 – Feb 2006, Tad dedicated himself to learning his ancestral language, Scottish Gaelic, in both Nova Scotia and Scotland. He can speak Gaelic pretty well now. He also runs a blog called Healing from Whiteness as well as a Facebook group of the same name. He is a co-founder of the Nova Scotia Gael's Jam and co-starred in Canada's second Gaelic language film The Fiddler's Reel.

He does improv comedy semi-professionally, co-runs Edmonton’s progressive community building network TheLocalGood.ca, foundedstreetcarshows.com, indigodrinks.ca, socialyogiyeg.com, and the Jams program of yesworld.org. He speaks Scottish Gaelic and helps to run novascotiagaelsjam.com and is also a huge Doctor Who nerd.

Tad currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, in the local indigenous language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy (Beaver Hill) and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan (Beaver Hill House) and his ancestors come primarily from Scotland with some from the Ukraine as well. He is drawn to conversations around politics, history, ancestry, healing and how those all intersect.

Is our current therapeutic model limited? Do we, as clients, have the chance to create community while we heal and develop? These are some of the questions my guest, Alysa Romano, founder of Home Wellness PDX addresses in this interview.

Scarlett Lewis is a mom who lost her 6 year-old son, Jessie, in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Listen in for an incredible story of courage and heart that has her on a path to revolutionize social-emotional learning in schools across the world.

Anna Twinney is an animal communicator and natural horsemenship trainer who has dedicated her life to raising awareness of the magic and importance of wild horses. In this episode, we discuss everything from her learning as a young unarmed British police officer to the politics of mare's urine and why you should care about all of it.

In this episode, idea platform speaker coach, Nathan Eckel shares about his experience interviewing many of the best and most successful Ted speakers out there. He shares about the power of courage, voice, and believing and refining your idea worth spreading.

Learn how one man founded a non-profit that has been changing the lives of young folks for 10 years. Ian discusses the power of music, community, and more centrally, how acknowledgment can completely change the course of someone's life.

Laura Haug is an amazing healer, but she's also just like you - a person trying to make her way through a stimulating world. Listen in and you can learn how your sensitivity can be a strength and how you can be both sensitive and healthy in today's world.

Sarah Corbett is a Craftivist - that's right, she combines art with powerful social messaging. Her campaigns have created legislative change in both the U.K. and Spain, and her approach can be used by anyone, any time, anywhere. Listen in and learn how you can do activism with respect, creativity, and influence.