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USING YOUR ARMOR
In this podcast Chris interviews Dawn F. Landry who recently wrote about her “care coaching” (her self-defined term about caregiving) journey in her first book ARMORED. Dawn and Chris graduated high school together 33 years ago in rural, south Louisiana. In this interview Dawn shares her unique wisdom and experience having been a Corporate Executive Coach and having gone through several health battles and caregiving experiences with her husband Daran. Due to these unique circumstances of events and life experiences, Dawn weaves her gift of storytelling, her coaching tools, and her experience as a caregiver into an incredible working guide and memoir that benefits caregivers everywhere, including in the hospice and palliative care world. Join us.
Our Guest
Dawn F. Landry
Dawn F. Landry is an award-winning and respected business professional. She has spent over half of her 28-year career in Houston's corporate real estate industry, excelling in business development and marketing leadership positions within the region's largest economic development organization, as well as international commercial construction companies. In February 2017, Dawn founded Authentizity, LLC, as an independent B2B growth strategist and a Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach to provide consulting, training, and coaching services that optimize technical teams' engagement and productivity.
In 2020, she authored, self-published, and released her bestselling book, ARMORED. ARMORED is a memoir, a love story, and ultimately a practical leadership guide to managing crisis on your own terms. Equipped with her leadership and technical services career, and with strategic thinking and communication abilities, Landry successfully supported her husband, Daran, through three major life-threatening illnesses. Unconventional, imperfect, determined, yet humorously self-aware, Landry proves that by leaning into our individual backgrounds and capabilities, we all have the power within us to courageously motivate and be an advocate for those under our charge.
ARMORED is available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/author/dawnflandry, as well as at www.dawnflandry.com. URL: www.authentizity.com and www.dawnflandry.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-landry-2a66b48
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authentizity and https://www.facebook.com/Armored2020
Twitter: @authentizity
Instagram: @armored_book and @dlandry101
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WE WERE FRIENDS, NOW I AM YOUR LEADER, NOW WHAT?
In this podcast Chris interviews Christine Lau RN, LCSW, APHSW-C. They talk about a frequent challenge hospice and palliative care staff face now that our industry is 40+ years old which is – “We were friends and now I am their leader.” Christine shares from her experience through almost 20 years of going from staff level positions in multiple disciplines and growing into leadership positions how truly embracing a paradigm of servant leadership, setting some rules or boundaries, open and honest conversations, and utilizing role descriptions all are part of how to be successful in this transition. This is a great listen for staff and leaders throughout the hospice and palliative care industry. Join us.
Our Guest
Christine Lau, RN, LCSW, APHSW-C
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IMAGINE THAT THE PAIN IS THE DOORWAY
In this episode of TCN Talks, Lara McKinnis brings together her training in psychotherapy, music therapy, and somatic therapy in a beautiful way. Chris and Lara discuss what is going on with our hospice and palliative care team members in terms of trauma. Lara unpacks that we all have these “shadow” parts of us that are underlying and further that we are indoctrinated not to digest and process these parts. But, if we do process them, then the journey has a positive and powerful influence on us and how we show up in all aspects of our life. TCN has begun to refer to this as the “Art of showing up.” How we show up has always been a challenge; however, we continue to learn just how much COVID has exposed all the ways we have not been dealing with the parts of us that we don’t want to see. This is a great discussion regarding how each of us can go where society and tradition have told us not to go, our emotions and our body. By exploring that territory, the pain truly can be the doorway to healing. Healing our deeper wounds has the potential to transcend every aspect of our life, far beyond our work as hospice and palliative care professionals.
COMPASSION, SELF-COMPASSION, MINDFULNESS
In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Rohini Kanniganti furthering two prior podcasts where we discussed what is going on with our healthcare workers out of care and concern for them dealing with the strains the pandemic has brought on. Dr. Kanniganti brings her wisdom, presence, and thoughts around compassion, self-compassion, and mindfulness. Dr. Kanniganti believes these three states of being are being essential to healthcare workers living their cause and purpose, not just now due to the pandemic, but at all times due to the nature of the work in healthcare and especially for hospice and palliative care workers. Just listening to Dr. Kanniganti has a calming effect on you, the key is where does that come from? And how do we harness that wisdom for daily presence in our roles? Hint: it is not about doing more stuff and it has something to do with institutionalized love.
Our Guest
Dr. Rohini Kanniganti
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Resiliency, Hope, and Gratitude are the Answer
In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Elizabeth Burpee, a Hospice and Palliative Medicine who also works in Research with Four Seasons. We continue to see staff stressed and some even describing what they are experiencing in hospice and palliative care as burnout. Dr. Burpee was already researching prior to COVID via Project Echo what is occurring in the hospice and palliative care field and through that research sees that Resiliency is the key. She shares strategies and resources that are making a difference for many in the field. She also shares how hope and gratitude are key to the path of resiliency.
Our Guest
Elizabeth K Burpee, MD, Four Seasons Hospice
and Palliative Medicine Research & Clinical Physician
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RESOURCES:
CAPC
https://www.capc.org/covid-19/emotional-ppe/
ELNEC
https://www.aacnnursing.org/ELNEC/COVID-19
TEND
https://www.tendacademy.ca/
Grief website
https://grief.com/
Tiny Survival Guide
https://traumastewardship.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Survival-Guide-PDF.pdf
Covid Vaccine - Straight Forward Answers
In this podcast Chris Comeaux interviews Dr. John Morris, Pulmonologist and Hospice & Palliative Care physician about the COVID vaccine. Dr. Morris has conducted several informational webinars for hospice and palliative staff throughout the TCN network. Here is a common comment we have heard after those webinars, “Staff was concerned and not planning on getting the vaccine and after the webinar by Dr. Morris staff were asking how do I move forward to get the vaccine?” In this podcast Dr. Morris gives straight forward answers regarding why it is important to get vaccinated. He also debunks several myths being passed along via social media and the internet. Feel free to share this podcast with family and friends.
Our Guest
John S. Morris MD, FAAHPM
TCN Chief Medical Officer Palliative Care
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From Burnout to Breakthrough
In our initial TCN Talks podcast Chris interviews John Locke. John is with DHG where he heads up their executive coaching program. John has unique experience and training in the area of applying learning from how high performance athletes take care of themselves to perform at a higher level. Surprisingly there is simple applicable wisdom that hospice, palliative care, and serious illness professionals can apply to their daily lives to maintain their edge and live their cause and purpose which is timely, relevant information due to the challenges COVID have brought all of us working in healthcare.
Our Guest
John A. Locke, MBA, ACC, DTM
Executive/Leadership Coach
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP
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