The PositiVETy Podcast

#013 - When it comes to describing RVN Abigail McGougan, there is one phrase that immediately comes to mind - "A little ray of sunshine". Abby oozes positiVETy and inspiration, and is incredibly passionate about veterinary nursing - which is really quite remarkable, given how this particular career was not necessarily something she was destined to do.
After finishing high school, Abby embarked on a marine science degree, however quickly realised this was not for her. She then started working at City Farmers as a sales assistant, and it was in this role that she was introduced to veterinary nursing. And the rest, as they say, is history.
During this episode, Abby chats candidly about the importance of giving veterinary nurses a voice; how lifelong learning and being provided with the opportunities for up-skilling and continuing education is just as crucial for nurses as it is for vets; and how relationships that are built on trust go an incredibly long way in enhancing team culture and improving efficiency within the practice. With her motivational approach to goal-setting and her passion for education and training, this remarkable young woman is an absolute asset to our veterinary profession.
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#022 - Cordene Midgley is a multi-passionate veterinary nurse who has had quite the squiggly career. After discovering a passion for business and marketing during her time with Hill's Pet Nutrition, she then went on to obtain her MBA. It was during this time Cordene began to delve into the field of veterinary happiness, where she started to seek out the answers to the question - What are the factors that affect the happiness of veterinarians? (Spoiler alert: you can check out her research paper here https://doi.org/10.3138/jvme-2020-0033).
During the episode, Cordene sheds some light on a number of different factors that can contribute to veterinary happiness. She discusses how happiness is not the negation of unhappiness; how nurturing our areas of strength rather than trying to improve our areas of weakness can exponentially increase career satisfaction; the importance of community; and the very important concept that not all leisure activities are created equal.
As the co-creater of our 100 Days of Happy Challenge: The Veterinary Edition, Cordene also shares with us her challenge journey. She talks about how she now favours progress over perfection, and how the challenge has helped her to be kinder to herself and has allowed her to live a life that is closer to where she wants it to be.

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#20 - This week's special guests are two shining lights of our industry, both of whom have very different origin stories but share one commonality - a solution-driven approach to the sustainability of our veterinary profession.
Joel Nugawela and Rebecca Goldstein both started their veterinary journey together, as vet students at Murdoch University. Towards the end of his degree however, Joel came to the realisation that clinical veterinary practice was not for him, and made the difficult decision to leave vet school. Fast-forward almost a decade, add an actuarial degree and time spent doing all kinds of business-y things at Price Waterhouse and Cooper, he returns to our profession as the General Manager of Transformation and Operations Excellence for Greencross.
Rebecca's career has been a little more traditional yet no less varied, involving working abroad, a snowboarding season in the Canadian snowfields and the impressive achievement of passing the ANZCVS membership exam in small animal surgery. Like so many of us though, there came a point in her career where she started to look for something more; more responsibility, more opportunity for professional development and more of a challenge. Which is why she took the leap of faith and became Greencross's Regional Clinical Director for Western Australia.
The corporatisation of veterinary practice is a topic that divides our community, but in this episode, Joel and Rebecca share with us all the positive aspects to corporate practice and how it may very well be one solution that can significantly contribute to the future-proofing of our veterinary profession . From community engagement and client education to implementing strategies to promote the mental wealth of their team members, Greencross really is paving the way for sustainability and career longevity.
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As a professional woman, fertility is not often a subject that is brought up in conversation. After taking a short break while I was pregnant and then enjoying the early life of our gorgeous Daisy, we are officially back! And today, I am joined by my dear friend Katie Bateman, a Human Design coach, airline pilot, CEO, crazy cat lady and most special to us, our egg donor.
For the last two and a half years, Katie has been working with high-achieving women, supporting them in building positive and empowering mindsets by helping them understand their unique energetic blueprint with Human Design. Her goal is to help as many women as possible become masters at creating their most abundant, fulfilling and successful lives with more confidence and less stress.
During the episode, we speak about our fertility and egg donation journey, some of the similarities between the aviation industry and the veterinary profession, human design, and how embracing our own energetic blueprint can help us achieve greater success and abundance in our both our professional and personal lives.
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#017 - Pet loss is something we deal with almost every day in veterinary practice, but how often have you stopped to think about the actual grief journey your client is about to embark on? What about your own grieving process, as a veterinary professional? Because for sure we do grieve for our patients, those pets we become attached too, that aren't our own. And that is absolutely ok.
Tracey Woods has had a very long and successful veterinary nurse career, spanning almost 30 years (and it is far from over); and during this time she has connected with thousands of clients. Through her own experiences, both personal and professional, Tracey came to the realisation that there was so much more that could be done, to support clients that had suffered the loss of a pet. So, she subsequently went on to become a trained pet loss bereavement counsellor, discovering the Grief Recovery Method in the process, before starting her Perth-based business, Pet Eden.
Tracey is one very special veterinary nurse. She's a born cheerleader (and even has the t-shirt to prove it); and in this episode she shares with us some of her own personal experiences with pet loss grief, as well as some valuable resources and tools we can utilise in practice, to help our clients and ourselves, embrace the natural grieving process.
In the words of Queen Elizabeth II, "Grief is the price we pay for love." Now, isn't that the truth!
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