You may or may not realize you have been living and participating in the Part and Whole polarity your whole life! Your first lessons regarding part and whole occurred when you were a child, and you were learning to share with your friends. During the COVID-19 pandemic we have struggled with uncertainty, overwhelming amounts of change and we’ve felt stuck, drained, and protective of the things we value most. The tension of the Part and Whole polarity is showing up at the individual, family, team,...
Jan 06, 2021•26 min•Ep. 78
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about sleep and putting yourself first in 2021, our experience with being last in line, benefits of putting yourself first, and action steps you can take now to put yourself first!
Jan 04, 2021•14 min
“Just like water and food we need sleep, and so every time we lose it we jeopardize our own health and the health of others”- Dr. Linda D. Scott In this episode it was a delight to interview Dr. Linda Scott, the Dean of Nursing at University of Wisconsin-Madison about her research on nursing fatigue and the impact on safety. Early in the interview Dr. Scott shares she was motivated to embark on such important research when the To Err is Human was published by the Institute of Medicine in 1999 an...
Dec 30, 2020•52 min•Ep. 77
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about sleep and rest, why talk about sleep, why sleep is important, and how to get more!
Dec 28, 2020•20 min
The healthcare system is facing a potential dual pandemic and unprecedented challenges. The healthcare workforce is burned out and is now facing post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by the traumatic and psychological toll of the COVID-19 experience. Healthcare leaders have worked tirelessly to instill hope and support the essential workers while experiencing significant levels of stress and trauma themselves. Hospitals and healthcare systems are facing significant and unprecedented financia...
Dec 23, 2020•31 min•Ep. 76
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about giving and receiving, the interdependent relationship between the two, the benefits of both and the consequences you experience when you over focus on one and neglect the other.
Dec 21, 2020•17 min
In this episode we have the extreme pleasure of interviewing Ann Shepard, a Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer about her quest for work life balance. During the interview Ann shares how her journey began when she realized what she had heard and learned previously about work life balance wasn’t serving her. Ann reveals as she transitioned to working from home during the initial days of COVID she felt like she was working all the time and struggling to turn work off. This ...
Dec 16, 2020•37 min•Ep. 75
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about stress from extensive change in your life whether you choose to make the change or it happens to you and how to maintain balance in your life.
Dec 14, 2020•21 min
In this episode we interview a group of amazing healthcare leaders whom we have had the privilege of engaging with in our various coaching programs for healthcare leaders. These leaders come from a wide variety of backgrounds and locations, but they all share a common goal to be the best they can be at both work and home. During the interview, the group revealed their motivations for seeking work life balance included the desire to continue to grow and evolve on a personal level, new roles and c...
Dec 09, 2020•47 min•Ep. 74
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. This morning we are going to talk about the power of connection and community.
Dec 07, 2020•19 min
As healthcare leaders we know you are managing numerous changes and significant challenges while recovering from or moving through another COVID-19 surge. If you are like many of the healthcare leaders we talk with you are overwhelmed and overworked, stressed out, and you may even be experiencing “change fatigue”. While experiencing all of that, you are driven to support your team and community, which leads to the tug-of-war feeling between your desire to serve and support others and your own ne...
Dec 02, 2020•21 min•Ep. 73
This morning we are talking about establishing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle!
Nov 30, 2020•17 min
You probably already know that healthcare leaders need to be role-models for their teams. When it comes to well-being, leaders have a double burden to be a role model for both professional well-being and personal well-being. The leader and his/her team members will not achieve balance and resilience without taking dual action to achieve both professional and personal well-being states. Individuals struggling with professional well-being may experience overwhelm, disengagement, exhaustion, and mo...
Nov 25, 2020•25 min•Ep. 72
Welcome to Monday Morning Live with Tracy and Michelle. This is a live show we do from our Facebook page every Monday morning. We choose a topic and share what we've learned or our experience with it. Today's topic is well-being.
Nov 24, 2020•18 min
In this episode we interview our dear colleagues Ramona Cheek and Faith Roberts. Ramona is a Chief Nursing Officer and Faith is a well-regarded speaker and storyteller and is an Executive Director of Spiritual Care. These two met by chance at a picnic (you’ll have to listen to get the whole story). This chance meeting was the beginning of an amazing personal and professional relationship that has lasted the test of time. At the start of the interview Faith and Ramona share how they have kept the...
Nov 18, 2020•58 min•Ep. 71
This is our new Monday Morning Live Show! We've been wanting to do a Live Podcast Show for quite some time because we record our podcasts in batches and it makes it difficult to share what's happening in the world, with us, and the experiences we are having in real time. This has been an incredible year full of challenges and opportunities AND #WeAreInThisTogether. Our intention is to connect with you in a deeper way, share a little more of who we are, some of our experiences, what matters most ...
Nov 16, 2020•20 min
In this episode we interview Nancy Beale. Nancy is a business owner and a nationally recognized and award-winning nurse leader in health information technology (HIT) with a broad span of HIT experience across the healthcare industry. At the start of the interview Nancy shares her greater purpose for the adoption of technologies that have a positive impact on clinical practice and patient outcomes, and why that is the driver behind her work and her research. Nancy points out there are varying lev...
Nov 11, 2020•45 min•Ep. 70
To say these are challenging times is an understatement! How do you discern what is a priority when everything is a priority? When we recorded this episode there was no such thing as COVID-19. As leaders you are working in face paced environments with increasing demands and at the same time attempting to address clinician burnout. Now on top of all that you are finding yourself responsible for leading your organization through the unprecedented times with COVID-19. All of this comes at a time wh...
Nov 04, 2020•21 min•Ep. 69
In this episode we interview Dr. Dan Weberg. Dan is the Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health. Dan is also the host of The Handoff Podcast , which focuses on critical topics in nursing that are usually not talked about. Dan says, “You don’t have to be an innovator to lead innovation.” At the start of the interview Dan shares how Trusted Health is like a combo of LinkedIn and Match.com for nurses. Dan points out Trusted Health’s goal is to “be the single source for nurses to manage their...
Oct 28, 2020•48 min•Ep. 68
In this episode we interview Dr. Richard (Ric) Ricciardi. Ric is currently the 33rd President of Sigma, the international honor society of nursing. Dr. Ricciardi has declared his intention to “infuse joy” into healthcare and nursing during his time as the President of Sigma. At the start of the interview Ric reminds us that it is important to think about joy and gratitude every day. In the interview Ric also conveys his thoughts and reflections on how people today tend to focus on what they don’...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 67
In this episode we interview Ellen Reed. Ellen is a Gestalt Therapist and Nurse Psychotherapist and she’s the author of Someone to Watch Over You: Finding Your Strength Within . The book is for people interested in overcoming challenges by finding the strength and resilience that lies within them. Ellen shares she was inspired by the patient experiences she had early in her career and by the encouragement she received from staff, peers, and other leaders. When she was diagnosed with metastatic o...
Oct 14, 2020•53 min•Ep. 66
In today’s episode we explore the states of Doing and Being from 40,000 feet. The state of Doing is associated with accomplishment, competence, knowledge, skills, analysis, and performance. We think it’s safe to say (based on personal experience J) as a leader you’re probably achieved excellence in many of these characteristics of doing, or you wouldn’t be a leader! These are challenging times both at work and at home for many healthcare leaders. Many of you are just trying to keep your head abo...
Oct 07, 2020•29 min•Ep. 65
AND is for people interested in making a positive difference in the world or in any part of their life as a citizen, a family member, or an individual within an organization. Barry shares Volume One of AND that represents an enhancement of the evolving polarity theory and modifications to the Polarity Map® based on learnings over the past 18 years since the publication of Barry’s first book. This volume covers the application of fundamental polarities from different system perspectives and how d...
Sep 30, 2020•58 min•Ep. 64
In this episode we interview Heather Graham. Heather is a licensed clinical social worker, an expert in mental health in the workplace, and certified employee assistance professional. During our interview with Heather we explore the complexities of what we are experiencing currently with the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and racial injustices. Heather reminds us that we are experiencing more than just the pandemic and the uncertainty associated with it but also it’s been an unusual and unexpe...
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 63
In this episode we interview Renwick Brutus. Renwick is an entrepreneur, business consultant and motivational speaker. We begin our interview with our guest Renwick Brutus, talking about this key question, “What right do you have to deny anybody the opportunity to benefit from who you are, what you know, and what you do?”. As a leader and entrepreneur, Renwick helps individuals and teams identify and use more of their potential to increase performance and results. He guides individuals to be irr...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 62
Why is it important for healthcare leaders to live a balanced life? The stress and strain on the healthcare workforce is unprecedented and is taking a significant toll on a work force that was already experiencing burnout or was on the verge of it before the COVID pandemic. If you are like most healthcare leaders, you are already being called upon to address these challenges and are feeling the call to support your team. The truth is, as the leader, you are their first line of support. How prepa...
Sep 09, 2020•48 min•Ep. 61
Why is it important for healthcare leaders to build resilience now? Clinicians and leaders were already burned out, or on the verge of it, prior to the COVID pandemic. There is concern that the strain and burden being experienced by essential healthcare workers may lead to a dual pandemic. The truth is their leaders are their first line of support. We know how much you want to support them and how concerned you are about their well-being AND you are experiencing significant challenges and stress...
Sep 02, 2020•48 min•Ep. 60
Almost every aspect of our lives has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It’s easy to see that the struggle with all that change is real, isn’t it? The truth is it’s not the change people are struggling with; it’s the loss or lack of stability. In this episode, we explore a unique combination of strategies that you may or may not realize can help you find or create some stability in your life. While the changes may lessen over time, change will never fully disappear or go away. You might ...
Aug 26, 2020•29 min•Ep. 59
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else” – Yogi Berra Have you ever experienced this? You have a sense of the direction you’re headed but you aren’t clear what your destination is? Once you do have clarity on the desired destination you begin to feel the tension between where you are now and where you want to go. Establishing a strategic plan with a polarity lens can help you establish action steps that enable you to leverage the tension between where you want to go ...
Aug 19, 2020•26 min•Ep. 58
In today’s episode, we interview Tim Arnold. Tim is the author of The Power of Healthy Tension: Overcome Chronic Issues and Conflicting Values. The inspiration to write a book came after moving from corporate to being the executive director of a homeless shelter. Tim’s hope in publishing the book was to share with other providers and people in healthcare who are working in challenging territory, but are committed to making difference, that this lens of Polarity Thinking™ is not just interesting,...
Aug 12, 2020•51 min•Ep. 57
