The Veterinary Life Coach® Podcast with Dr. Julie Cappel

On this episode of the podcast Dr. Cappel spends time with her good friend Karlene Belyea who is the Chief Culture Officer at Mission Veterinary Partners. Karlene was the CEO of the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association for 15 years and is a national speaker in the areas of communication and hospital culture. Dr. Cappel and Karlene spent time together working on the general board and the executive board of the MVMA. The interview was recorded in Karlene's office where they had an interesting and detailed conversation about the life of a Chief Culture Officer.

On this episode of the podcast Dr. Cappel discusses self-coaching. She compares some coaching recommendations from Joseph Luciani who wrote "Self-Coaching" and Brooke Castillo who runs "The Life Coach School". Both techniques involve understanding how facts/circumstances are neutral. By examining your thoughts you can change the way you react, think and feel. This episode is an overview of these ideas and how to start using coaching and self-coaching to change your life.

On this episode of the podcast Dr. Cappel talks about becoming a servant leader. It is important to learn the skills to be a strong leader in any position that you hold in your organization. She discusses that servant leadership means being willing to trust the team and keep an open mind. She talks about creating the mission and culture of your organization to build a cohesive team and serve them with strength and love.

On this episode of the podcast Dr. Cappel talks about what it means to learn about yourself and begin to formulate a plan for your life. She uses the life wheel and personality profiling as examples of how you can begin to become more aware of your thoughts and feelings. Self-awareness is a skill that brings more purpose and success to your life and can start you on the way to creating a more life balance.

On this episode of the podcast Dr. Cappel talks about how to listen well and gives us some techniques for active listening. She talks about how to keep an open mind in the exam room with clients and how to understand the facts of a conversation in order to make your client feel important. Listening is one of our most important relational skills and works to make friends, family and coworkers feel more accepted and valuable.

On this episode of the podcast we talk about the lessons that we can learn from our clients. Dr. Cappel talks about James Harriott and his love for this profession and how we can focus on the fun experiences that clients present to us. Through our entertaining clients and patients we can learn to better appreciate and love the fabulous job that we get to do everyday.

In this episode of the podcast Dr. Cappel talks about "upper limit thinking" and how to stop our brain's tendency to want to sabotage our success and happiness by putting up roadblocks like worry, self-doubt and negativity. Dr. Cappel discusses a book that she read called, "The Big Leap" by Gay Hendricks and how Gay proposes that we overcome our upper limit thinking by recognizing why we get in our own way on the path to success.

On this episode of the podcast Dr. Cappel talks about the focus that our profession has on compassion fatigue and how she wants us to change the narrative. The discussion involves why healing professionals experience negative feelings and how we can concentrate on taking better care of ourselves. By focusing on the present moment we can embrace our profession and regain our love for our work.

On this episode of the podcast Dr. Cappel discusses your morning routine and how it can positively or negatively affect your day. She encourages you to develop a better morning ritual by adding an extra hour to your morning. This will lead you to less anxiety and a more productivity.

In this episode Dr. Cappel talks about staying present in the exam room when clients bring us frustration and challenges.