The Well-Being Connector

Tyra Fainstad, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado where she is a primary care doctor and as teaching attending for Internal Medicine residents. She has a scholarship interest in learner-centered feedback, assessment bias, and psychologically safe educational environments. She is also a certified professional life coach and has created and co-directs an online group coaching program for physicians and trainees called Better Together Physician Coaching. Her p...

This episode features a special guest appearance by Omayra Mansfield, MD.Dr. Mike Rucker is an organizational psychologist, behavioral scientist, and charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association. He has been academically published in publications like the International Journal of Workplace Health Management. His ideas about fun and health have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, Vox, Thrive Global, Mindful, ...

Mallory Salentine, MD is a pediatrician and the Medical Director for Provider Well-Being for the Primary Care Group at Children's Wisconsin. She is also the Associate Medical Director for Provider Well-Being for the System of Children's Wisconsin, as well as a leadership coach and consultant.Connect or inquire about coaching on Linkedin: Mallory SalentineWebsite: www.salentinecoachingandconsulting.comThanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Being Connector at www.bethejoy.org...

Dr. Sisi Hu is a labor economist with a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford and postdoctoral training at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy and the National Bureau of Economic Research. She specializes in modeling disruption and risks in labor markets, and is passionate about protecting the welfare of workers in the healthcare industry. In her spare time, Sisi loves traveling, painting and salsa dancing.sisi@atalantech.comTiffany Chan, MA managed an engineering and...

Dr. Omayra Mansfield serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for AdventHealth Apopka, and she is also the Chief Medical Officer for the Physician Experience of the Central Florida Division of AdventHealth. She is Board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a Fellow with the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Mansfield completed her medical degree and Masters in Healthcare Administration at the University of Florida and her emergency medicine residency...

In this episode, Michael Brown, MD, long-running host of The Well-Being Connector, sits down with Roy Reid, APR, for a candid and insightful conversation about the past, present, and future of the podcast. Brown and Reid shared their respective backgrounds that brought them to well-being and the roles they've shared in the work they do everyday. Brown and Reid share their experiences with podcasting and its feasibility as a tool for conversations on well-being in the workplace, while highligh...

Arlen Moller is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cornell University (2000), and master’s degree and Ph.D. degree in social and personality psychology from the University of Rochester (2004 and 2007, respectively). His primary research interest involves promoting healthy lifestyle changes that last across multiple health behaviors. This work frequently involves using and d...

Sharee is a registered Psychologist, Executive Coach, Author and Meditation Teacher. She is the founder of Coaching for Doctors, Australia's first coaching practice dedicated solely to doctor development and in 2021 published her international best selling book The Thriving Doctor - How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working as a doctor.Sharee spends her days deep in coaching conversations with individual doctors and groups of doctors seeking to understand their goals, aspirations and cha...

Lara Hochman, MD is a Family Medicine physician and advocate for fellow physicians’ well-being amidst rising burnout and dissatisfaction. Her own experiences led her to discover the ways physicians lost autonomy, and how to reclaim their focus on helping patients. She founded Happy Day Health, a boutique physician matchmaking agency to match doctors with well run, physician-owned private practices where they can avoid burnout and enjoy practicing medicine again.Thanks for tuning in! Check out...

Dr. Joan McArthur-Blair, Co-President of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting is an inspirational writer, speaker and facilitator. She believes positive leadership matters in the world and all of her work is around enabling and fostering that generative possibility. Joan specializes in the use of appreciative inquiry and appreciative resilience to foster leadership development, strategic planning and innovative strategies for organizational and team development.Dr. Jeanie Cockell is a dynamic fa...

Dr. Kevin Hopkins has been a Staff Physician in the Department of Family Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic since 2005. Dr. Hopkins also serves as Primary Care Medical Director for Cleveland Clinic Community Care, the Cleveland Clinic’s primary care, population health institute. Over the past several years he has become a recognized leader and national speaker in the field of Caregiver burnout and ambulatory practice re-design and transformation. Dr. Hopkins has led the transi...

Dr. Paul DeChant is a thought leader to C-level executives pursuing organizational well-being. He is an authority on reducing physician burnout by fixing dysfunction in the clinical workplace. He is co-author of the book, “Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine”, speaks internationally, and blogs regularly at www.pauldechantmd.com.Dr. DeChant is an experienced physician executive with more than 25 years of clinical and management experienc...

Todd Richwine, DO is a family practice physician who serves as the Chief Medical Information Officer for the Texas Health Physicians Group. He also serves on multiple committees and boards within Texas Health Resources and Southwestern Health Resources.Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Being Connector at www.bethejoy.org/podcast.

Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a core researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College (1967), and her Ph.D. from Stanford University (1971), and has been on the Berkeley faculty since then. Maslach is the pioneer of research on the definition, predictors and measurement of job burnout. This work is the basis for the 2019 decision by the World ...

Angela Augusto is the Executive Director of Clinical Mission Integration at AdventHealth, a faith-based, non-profit health system serving communities in nine states. She is a driving force behind a compassionate and highly skilled clinical mission integration team, serving 60,000+ caregivers in hospitals, physician practices, cancer institutes, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities, and home health and hospice agencies, providing individualized, wholistic care—all in pursuit of one ...