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Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
On this episode of Another Dose, Dr. Candice McDonald and Robin Goldinger, RN, are joined by Chaplain Dr. David Mabry, Clinician Yvette Graham, LISW, Captain Dena Ali, and Advanced Paramedic Traci Van Deventer to discuss mental health and the EMS provider.
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Are some people more cutout for leadership than others? Do innate attributes make a leader, or can leadership be learned?
Join Seth Komansky, deputy director and chief of operations for Wake County EMS (NC), as he opens up to hostess Brett Lyle about his personal experiences and lessons learned. Chief Komansky shares stories about the book club they established to facilitate growth, explains why personal growth plans are crucial for team building and how decentralizing command benefits employees, leaders and agencies.
We discuss emergent leadership in the context of incident management and command presence, recognition primed decision-making and the value in being uncomfortable.
Seth explores management of varying personnel strengths and perspectives and shares the one quick, but critical question he asked, immediately, as he stepped into his titled leadership role.
Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.
The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!
Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email at brettlylecoaching@gmail.com or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube.
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
The Age of the Entrepreneur: Millennials, Resources, and Visions
Does age matter? Is age a barrier to your success, or is it the key?
Join Ryan Thorne, founder and chief executive officer of Thorne Ambulance Service (SC), as he opens up to hostess Brett Lyle about his experiences as a young entrepreneur and business owner who is making his way, building a successful private ambulance organization in South Carolina.
Ryan shares stories about his challenges and successes in securing initial funding and how his upbringing and prior EMS experiences helped shape his passion for the industry and his vision for the organization. Ryan reveals the exact moment he decided to start his own ambulance company, shares the philosophies and practices that he has adopted for his agency and offers solutions for how to self-educate and stay competitive.
We talk about our experiences in the industry as 20-year-olds and the transition to 30-something millennial leaders. We talk through the notion of “thick skin” and how the company you keep affects your mindset and resilience.
Ryan offers you a tip for learning technology and embracing social media in a day and age where connection, communication and instant feedback are expected, and he shares the key to his success as an #emergentleader thus far.
Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.
The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!
Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email HERE or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube .
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
On this episode of Another Dose, Dr. Candice McDonald and Robin Goldinger, RN, are joined by Dr. Allen Turner and Tiger Schmittendorf. Turner is a 23-year U.S. Coast Guard veteran and current NASA Emergency Manager; Schmittendorf is a firefighter and former emergency manager. Together they discuss the need and strategies for personal and organizational preparedness for EMS professionals to reduce the impact of disaster that hit home.
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Join Brad Pitassi, the assistant chief of City of Maricopa (AZ) Fire and Medical, as he shares his path to emergent leadership.
He discusses how prepping for law school turned into firefighting and a public information officer role, and how those communication and relationship building skills served as the foundation for his recent promotion to assistant chief of administrative services.
Chief Pitassi shares stories of success, but also one of failure following the fatal Yarnell Hill Fire. He explains how he has since used that lesson to become a stronger and more empathetic leader.
Brad explains his PIO mindset, how to manage the face of your organization and describes how investing in social equity strengthens community relations and empowers employees.
Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.
The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!
Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email HERE or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube .
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Monday Jul 27, 2020
JEMS Editor Emeritus A.J. Heightman talks with EMS visionary, researcher and educator extraordinaire Mike Taigman about living with stress and stress management in EMS, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mike and his wife Sascha recently released their insightful book “Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19.”
Mike Taigman is the leading expert in improvement science, resilience, and stress management at First Watch based out of Carlsbad, California. Mike’s broad experience helps him turn data into actionable information, helps teams build their resilience using our neuroscience-based ResilientFirst system, and teaches stress management techniques that can be used by anyone anywhere.
Mike facilitated the development of EMS Agenda 2050 a vision for EMS in America 30 years in the future. Inspired by the “people centered” aspect of Agenda 2050, Mike works with some of the world leading physicians and researchers to bring evidenced-based leadership, education and practices to the EMS industry. These practices help create organizations where employees are resilient, joyful, thriving, and providing compassionate care during long careers.
As a young street paramedic in Denver, Mike honed his clinical skills caring for patients and helping new paramedics learn to provide solid clinical care with kindness and compassion.
As a popular conference educator, author of more than 600 articles in professional journals, an associate professor in the graduate program in emergency health services management at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and an associate adjunct professor in the master’s program in healthcare administration and interprofessional leadership at the University of California San Francisco, Mike has focused on helping professionals save more lives, reduce suffering, and be more effective leaders.
As a consultant, Mike has worked with EMS, fire, and public health in 48 of the 50 states, most of the Canadian provinces, Israel, Palestine, Australia and throughout Europe. His expertise includes EMS street survival, patient centered leadership, effective quality/performance improvement, and resiliency. He holds a master’s degree in organizational systems and is frequently part of the faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Mike’s wife Sascha Liebowitz is an accomplished writer and author of “Living Every Minute of It,” a blog about living each day with patience, tolerance, kindness and love towards oneself and others. A former New York lawyer, Sascha now lives in California focusing on family, writing, and being of service to others. She holds a BA from Columbia College and a JD from New York University School of Law.
This episode of the EMS Today Show, and Mike and Sascha’s book “Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19,” will give you important tools to develop and maintain resiliency and get through this difficult time in your EMS career.
In a testimonial about the book, Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement said it best, “Managing … stress is a continual task for the healing professions—more challenging perhaps in the era of COVID-19, but, frankly, always with us.”
Dr. Berwick goes on to say that the book “draws on a wide library of science, teachings, and experience and distills it all into a readable and useful collection of practical, attractive techniques. Each one seems not only promising, but frankly, fun.”
His concluding remark really sums up why a book by Mike Taigman will be so helpful to emergency service personnel: “This book brings optimism and oxygen at a time when we badly need both.”
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
How do differences strengthen an organization? Or do they?
Join David Patterson, chief executive officer of Falck Rocky Mountain, Inc. as he opens up to hostess Brett Lyle about his experiences working for the USA division of an international organization.
David shares his story about an eye-opening experience at the European EMS Congress, talks through intercultural lessons learned and explains how he has used those lessons to strengthen his teams and himself, as a mentor and an emergent leader.
He offers solutions for agencies looking to grow internal leaders, advice to individuals on how to advocate for their own career progression and the key to a successful transition.
David recognizes the uniqueness of each person’s leadership journey, the value in the differences and leaves emergent leaders with words of encouragement for the future.
Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.
The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!
Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email to brettlylecoaching@gmail.com or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation on LinkedIn. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube.
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
In this special edition podcast, Jonathon Feit gives a talk to Harvard in Tech and the COVID Foundation about contact tracing. He uses three case studies involving Los Angeles County Fire; Harris County, Texas (Emergency Services District 48 and Cypress Creek EMS); and the Rio Rico Medical & Fire District in Arizona.
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
JEMS Editor Emeritus A.J. Heightman talks with Matt Zavadsky, chief strategic integration officer for MedStar Mobile Health Care (TX) and the present president of NAEMT, about some of the current issues impacting EMS agencies.
It’s an informative episode that touches on:
- The impact of COVID-19 on reduced call for service, reduced transports and increasing cardiac arrest volumes – and how it is affecting services operationally and financially;
- Reduced revenue and some novel, outside-the-box thinking on how to fill financial voids;
- The new era and occupation of contact tracers and how EMS agencies could deploy them and gain revenue for doing so. (State and county health departments have funding for these positions);
- The use of EMS Task Force Teams in Texas to test nursing home facilities and staff – and the impact it is having on reducing mortality;
- The proposed treatment-in-place legislation that was carefully crafted and already has more than 30 Congressional sponsors and hopefully will be attached to the next Congressional Relief Package from Congress (NAEMT, IAFC, AAA and others joined forces to present one united message);
- The need for EMS Agencies to work with their police departments to ensure crew resource management principals are in effect during patient interactions to ensure patients get the care they need – when they need it.
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
On this debut episode of Another Dose, Dr. Candice McDonald and Robin Goldinger are joined by Jack Sullivan, the director of training of the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association's Emergency Responder Safety Institute, and Ohio State Troopers Lt. Jeff Greene and PIO/Sgt. Ray Santiago. They discuss strategies for EMS professionals to reduce the risk of injury and fatality while working on the roadway.