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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul

Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul

Dr. Nicola De Paul

The Menders: Lead from Within podcast engages real-world healthcare leaders in conversation to explore innovative and emotionally intelligent approaches to addressing the most complex challenge facing healthcare leaders today: how to take better care of their people.
Each episode features thought leaders in healthcare innovation, inclusive leadership, employee engagement, communication strategy, and healthy organizational practices.

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - S3.E10. Pt 2: Give your YES to leading with courage with Dr. Lucy Houghton
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02/05/23 • 32 min

Lead with Courage to Create Collective Safety.

Courage is something we often ask of ourselves and our employees. To stand up for what's right. To be courageous and outspoken bystanders. To speak up when a mistake is about to happen.
But do we want our employees to have to use courage at work? We think so, but do we?
Or do we need to turn everything we think we know about courage upside down and then rethink the reality of the role courage plays in healthcare organizations?
Listen to find out:

  • Why leaders who model courage create collective psychological safety
  • Why you don't want your healthcare employees to need too much courage
  • How to build courage in yourself!

Bio: Dr. Lucy Houghton is a registered nurse, women's courage researcher, and board-certified wellness coach. She holds a Ph.D. Organizational Leadership & Human Performance and is the founder of Wyld Rootz (https://wyldrootz.com/). She is an award-winning speaker and the author of the Courage Cultivation Theory, the first of its kind specifically focused on how women summon their courage. And she is on a mission to ensure women have the training, tools, and support they need to claim their courage and create the life of their dreams.

If you’re doing the internal work to transform yourself as a leader to maximize your impact on your healthcare system – I want something more for you. That is precisely why I got into working with healthcare leaders and leadership teams in the first place.

Join me for a complimentary Leadership Strategy Session (https://forms.office.com/r/ZM6Q4h7q9k) where you’ll have a chance to consider your values and develop a strategy to realign your actions with your core values.

Contact me ([email protected]) if you have questions or want additional details about this free Strategy Session. And keep in mind...because of the very special nature of this mindfulness-based work, just a few seats are available each month!

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - S3.E12 Pt 2: Learning as an Inclusive Leader with Sarah Bettman

S3.E12 Pt 2: Learning as an Inclusive Leader with Sarah Bettman

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02/12/23 • 27 min

Learning as an Inclusive Leader.
If you’ve been wondering how to put your core values into practice and help your healthcare organization transition away from old habits and towards inclusive leadership values. Look no further.
Sarah Bettman shares practical ideas about how to align your healthcare system with deeply rooted diversity, equity, and inclusion values. She will challenge you to understand why it’s not enough to show up in pro-diversity spaces, like your town’s PRIDE parade, or to be a figurehead in your hospital's COVID tent. You must also be willing to learn from and be changed by these spaces.

Sarah Bettman is the principal consultant at Bettman Consulting Group. She works with leaders to develop workplace cultures deeply rooted in the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion that don't have a "check the box" vibe.

If you’re doing the internal work to transform yourself as a leader to maximize your impact on your healthcare system – I want something more for you. That is precisely why I got into working with healthcare leaders and leadership teams in the first place.

Join me for a complimentary Leadership Strategy Session (https://forms.office.com/r/ZM6Q4h7q9k) where you’ll have a chance to consider your values and develop a strategy to realign your actions with your core values.

Contact me ([email protected]) if you have questions or want additional details about this free Strategy Session. And keep in mind...because of the very special nature of this mindfulness-based work, just a few seats are available each month!

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - S3.E2. Pt2: Change the culture to support women leaders with Karla Cauldwell
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01/15/23 • 26 min

Change the Culture to Sustain Your Team.

Your people are watching you and taking your lead.
But as we all know, change is hard! And prioritizing self-care as a woman in healthcare leadership is not reinforced by our environment.
It's time to create environments that are built for real people.
Join Karla Cauldwell to learn how to make tiny changes to move in a values-aligned direction.
Listen to learn:

  • Why starting with small goals will take you further as a leader
  • What Karla finds so motivating about solving problems

Bio: Karla Cauldwell is an author, speaker, podcast host, and Live Your Best Life Coach. She brings her expertise in nursing and whole health education to her work, coaching healthcare leaders to improve their quality of life and model self-care for their teams.

If you’re doing the internal work to transform yourself as a leader to maximize your impact on your healthcare system – I want something more for you. That is precisely why I got into working with healthcare leaders and leadership teams in the first place.

Join me for a complimentary Leadership Strategy Session (https://forms.office.com/r/ZM6Q4h7q9k) where you’ll have a chance to consider your values and develop a strategy to realign your actions with your core values.

Contact me ([email protected]) if you have questions or want additional details about this free Strategy Session. And keep in mind...because of the very special nature of this mindfulness-based work, just a few seats are available each month!

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - S3.E4. Pt 2: Model respect to build team players with Natalie Lamberton

S3.E4. Pt 2: Model respect to build team players with Natalie Lamberton

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01/15/23 • 23 min

Self-awareness and respect are the keys to building relationships in healthcare.
Learning to command respect by being yourself is so much more powerful than trying to be someone you're not as a leader.
Let go of the "leadership" persona and learn from Natalie Lamberton as she shares how she has learned to use being herself to model respect for her people. Being yourself empowers your team members to be themselves and allows you to act with intentionality to build resilient teams.
Listen to find out:

  • Why it's her dream for every person in her hospital to say, "I take care of patients"
  • What she does to lower the power differential and promote healthy team functioning
  • How she came to understand the gravity of her words and actions as a CEO

Bio: Natalie Lamberton is the CEO of Denver Springs Behavioral Health Hospital and co-author of The Emerging Leader: A field guide.

If you’re doing the internal work to transform yourself as a leader to maximize your impact on your healthcare system – I want something more for you. That is precisely why I got into working with healthcare leaders and leadership teams in the first place.

Join me for a complimentary Leadership Strategy Session (https://forms.office.com/r/ZM6Q4h7q9k) where you’ll have a chance to consider your values and develop a strategy to realign your actions with your core values.

Contact me ([email protected]) if you have questions or want additional details about this free Strategy Session. And keep in mind...because of the very special nature of this mindfulness-based work, just a few seats are available each month!

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - S3.E6. Pt 2: Who you are as a leader boosts your team's performance with Dr. Sahana D'Silva
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01/22/23 • 25 min

Who You Are Determines Your Team's Outcomes.

Who you are as a whole person contributes to your team's effectiveness and ability to perform at the highest levels. Leaders who care about themselves and their people have a more significant impact on the world.
We can fake it for a while, but long term, we can't fake who we are. And our whole selves need attention. When we're willing to be vulnerable and invest in bringing our whole selves to our leadership responsibilities, we leave an indelible impact on our teams and the world.
Listen to find out:

  • How having an emotionally intelligent and self-aware leader impacts team outcomes
  • Why the best leaders focus on managing themselves first
  • What you can do to help your team identify what is unique about them as you lead

Bio: Dr. Sahana D'Silva is an Integrative Psychiatrist and Transformational Leadership Development Coach. She coaches physicians in effective communication skills and she co-founded Tree of Life Soul-Centered Wellness (https://tolsoulwellness.com/).

If you’re doing the internal work to transform yourself as a leader to maximize your impact on your healthcare system – I want something more for you. That is precisely why I got into working with healthcare leaders and leadership teams in the first place.

Join me for a complimentary Leadership Strategy Session (https://forms.office.com/r/ZM6Q4h7q9k) where you’ll have a chance to consider your values and develop a strategy to realign your actions with your core values.

Contact me ([email protected]) if you have questions or want additional details about this free Strategy Session. And keep in mind...because of the very special nature of this mindfulness-based work, just a few seats are available each month!

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - S3.E7. Pt 1: Use neuroscience basics to sustain yourself as a leader with Dr. Mary Rensel
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01/28/23 • 23 min

Learning Neuroscience Basics is Essential for Women Leaders.

Neuroscience sounds complex, and it is, but the fundamentals of neuroscience come down to caring for your brain in the simplest ways.
Have you ever stopped to think about how your brain health impacts your ability to do your job as a leader in healthcare? Maybe you have, maybe you haven't.
Take a moment to consider your brain's basic needs (food, water, sleep, rest) and you'll find that caring for your brain creates a healthy platform for growth, networking, learning, and the ability to lead others gracefully.
Listen to find out:

  • How neuroscience and networking go hand in hand
  • Why you need to pay attention to your neuroscience needs and create an environment that helps others do the same
  • How you can create stronger social networks that will help you feel supported in every stage of your career

Bio: Dr. Mary Rensel is a neuroimmunologist and the founder of Brain Fresh (https://www.brainfresh.org/). She is also a productivity guru and keynote speaker focusing on resiliency, burnout, & gender in medicine.

If you’re doing the internal work to transform yourself as a leader to maximize your impact on your healthcare system – I want something more for you. That is precisely why I got into working with healthcare leaders and leadership teams in the first place.

Join me for a complimentary Leadership Strategy Session (https://forms.office.com/r/ZM6Q4h7q9k) where you’ll have a chance to consider your values and develop a strategy to realign your actions with your core values.

Contact me ([email protected]) if you have questions or want additional details about this free Strategy Session. And keep in mind...because of the very special nature of this mindfulness-based work, just a few seats are available each month!

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - 22. Explore burnout as a functional medicine challenge with Dr. Khara Jefferson
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09/01/22 • 56 min

For Menders’ episode 22, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Khara Jefferson, a functional wellness consultant and the owner of KAJ Wellness. I found this conversation fun and joyful, and I hope you feel the same way!

Khara brought her functional medicine perspective and her history as an emergency medicine practitioner to our conversation. She shared her current approach to helping people move towards gut health, or as she says, to go from “toilet hell to feeling well.” Khara shared that changing how she interacts with patients has allowed her to get more joy out of her clinical work and keep herself sustainable.

And finally, we explored how she might take a functional medicine approach to examine the root causes of distress in our healthcare system. The excellent news is that Khara believes we can create transformation, but it will involve all of us fully committing to the process.

Listen to find out:

· How her own experience with a chronic illness impacted her journey into the field of medicine.

· Why she sees helping our patients understand the “how” of change as more crucial than telling them “what” they need to change.

· And why she believes everyone should be equipped with skills to conduct a rapid quality improvement project.

I hope this conversation inspires you to take care of yourself and take the time to find the root cause of distress on your team or in your system.

My favorite quotable moment from this episode!

“When a whole bunch of people are doing a whole bunch of the same things, it’s a ripple effect...and if you start by putting a whole bunch of little bitty things into place, eventually those little things become big things, and those big things will become huge things. That’s how we improve healthcare, but it can’t be just me. And it can’t be just you. It has to be a whole bunch of like-minded people.”

Dr. Khara Jefferson (Menders, episode 22)

Additional Resources:
Find Dr. Khara Jefferson at https://www.kajwellness.com/

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - Ask for feedback to disrupt turnover with Dr. Nicola De Paul

Ask for feedback to disrupt turnover with Dr. Nicola De Paul

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06/12/22 • 24 min

Healthcare leaders can ask for feedback from their staff by using local well-being surveys to respond to the crisis of clinician burnout and turnover in our healthcare system.
It is fabulous that many healthcare organizations are tuning in to the challenges that clinicians are experiencing related to systemic burnout and systemic causes of turnover. But recognizing that there is a problem is not sufficient and sometimes leaders lack clarity about what their clinical employees need and how to respond.
Taking the time to use a simple tool such as a well-being survey can help healthcare leaders make significant progress toward identifying and addressing their employees’ needs for systemic support.
And, as always, thank you for listening!
Additional Resources:
Organizational Support
Healthcare providers’ perceived support from their organization is associated with lower burnout and anxiety amid the COVID-19 pandemic - Reitz (2021) -
From PLOS ONE: https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259858
The Role of Perceived Organizational Support in Mental Health of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study - Chatzitoffis et al. (2021) -
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.707293
Physician Burnout
Sara Berg - Practice Management & Physician Burnout- https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/physician-burnout-which-medical-specialties-feel-most-stress
Program Evaluation & Study Design
Real-world program evaluation, Funderburk & Shepardson (2017) - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28617014/
Wellness Programs

Michelle Barton - Stop framing wellness programs around self-care - https://hbr.org/2022/04/stop-framing-wellness-programs-around-self-care

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - 31. BONUS Meditation on Gratitude & Joy

31. BONUS Meditation on Gratitude & Joy

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11/23/22 • 7 min

Connecting with loved ones over the holidays can be a beautiful way to sustain and nourish ourselves. But these times can also be challenging and bring up difficulties related to past losses, interpersonal conflict with family and colleagues, overworking, and exhaustion.
Taking a moment to connect with gratitude and joy during beautiful and challenging times is a powerful way to sustain our momentum as leaders.
Here is a link to Jack Kornfield's Meditation on Gratitude and Joy - https://jackkornfield.com/meditation-gratitude-joy/
Enjoy!

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul - Follow the map to reclaim your courage with Dr. Lucy Houghton

Follow the map to reclaim your courage with Dr. Lucy Houghton

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02/05/23 • 56 min

You can reclaim your courage, all you need is a map.

Courage shows up in places of pain, transition, challenge, and uncertainty! And while women are not socialized to be courageous, we are born into spaces that demand courage and leadership.
Did you know that boys keep a steady level of courage as they age, but girls don't? Girls lose their courage (at least for a while) and tend to build it back in middle age.
Let's skip the early loss of courage and follow Dr. Lucy Houghton, Courage Cartographer, as she teaches us how to reclaim our courage as leaders.
Listen to find out:

  • Why leaders who model courage create collective psychological safety
  • Why you don't want your healthcare organization to need too much courage
  • How to build courage in yourself!

Bio: Dr. Lucy Houghton is a registered nurse, women's courage researcher, and board-certified wellness coach. She holds a Ph.D. Organizational Leadership & Human Performance and is the founder of Wyld Rootz (https://wyldrootz.com/). She is an award-winning speaker and the author of the Courage Cultivation Theory, the first of its kind specifically focused on how women summon their courage. And she is on a mission to ensure women have the training, tools, and support they need to claim their courage and create the life of their dreams.

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Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul currently has 67 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Resilience, Mental Health, Medicine, Podcasts, Diversity and Healthcare.

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The episode title '30. Healing burnout & moral injury through radical community with Dr. Dave Kopacz' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul is 40 minutes.

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Episodes of Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of Menders: Lead from Within with Dr. Nicola De Paul was released on Apr 11, 2022.

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