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The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
This podcast talks about the challenges of Burnout, Balance, and the Burdens Healthcare Faculty Rarely Name and feel that they struggle through alone. This is for the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up — and deserve to be held, too.
Episodes
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Humility Trap: Owning Your Strengths Without Apology
Someone compliments you after a complex clinical save, an exceptional lecture, or high-stakes committee facilitation: "You were phenomenal in that meeting!"…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Zombie Burnout: Why Low Turnover Isn't What It Seems
This Halloween season, the scariest costume in healthcare isn't fake blood or a movie-set skeleton—it’s the polished mask of an exhausted clinician walking…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Unclenching the Wheel: White Knuckling and Practical Mindfulness
Have you ever been told that you are moving through your career like you are holding onto a steering wheel during a severe rainstorm? In this solo episode of…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Missing Cup of Coffee: How We Quietly Drop Our Joy
Have you ever sat at your desk at 3:00 PM with a dull, thumping headache, assuming it was screen fatigue, only to realize you simply forgot your second cup of…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Treating a Broken System: Beyond Resilience Modules with Dr. Neil J. Farber
Underneath every hospital balance sheet, staffing ratio, and access metric lies a heavy, invisible daily weight driving clinicians out of medicine: the erosion…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Beyond Grin and Bear It: The Art of Standing Up for Yourself
Have you ever actually learned how to stand up for yourself? Not advocating for a patient, a trainee, or a clinical protocol, but standing up for your own…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Vacation Firewall: Hustle Culture, Identity, and the Power of the Switch
What does it take for a high-achieving physician leader to truly stop checking email on leave? In this solo episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina Wheat…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Trailblazer Tax: Women in Medicine and the Burden of Legacy
September marks Women in Medicine Month, anchored by National Women in Medicine Day on September 17th. As we look back at historical pioneers like Dr…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Unlearning Independence: The Skill of Asking for Help
Did you ever actually learn how to ask for help? For most high-achieving clinicians and leaders, early academic ease created an automatic reflex loop: When…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Courageous Partner: Strategic Followership in Mid-Leadership
In healthcare, training programs, workshops, and titles are explicitly engineered to teach us how to lead. But almost nobody explicitly teaches us how to be a…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Efficiency Delusion: Why Leaders Need White Space
Look at your calendar right now. Is it an unyielding, multicolored game of Tetris filled with back-to-back clinic blocks, committee meetings, and evaluation…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Re-Entry Whiplash: Protecting Your Vacation Peace
In healthcare, we spend massive energy preparing for the handoff before taking time off. But when we return, we are immediately hit by the re-entry whiplash—a…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.The Posture of Steady: High Performance vs. True Wellness with Dr. Devina Wadhwa
In healthcare culture, as long as you are performing, achieving, and outwardly managing your responsibilities, the system assumes you are perfectly fine. But…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Milestone Trap: Reframing Time, Aging, and Expectations
Whether it’s a birthday, an anniversary, or an academic marker, major calendar milestones in medicine carry a heavy, unquantified hidden load. We are…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Stagnant Mirror: Knowing When to Leave Medicine Roles with Dr. Santina Wheat
Deciding whether to pivot away from a healthcare institution is a massive, unquantified hidden load. In medicine, a profession built on longevity and…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Moral Injury and Hidden Squeezes with Dr. Gita Balakumar
When a healthcare system demands absolute perfection but offers zero grace when you are hurting, clinicians experience something far deeper than simple…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Context Switching Tax: Setting Operational Boundaries
We often treat modern physician burnout as a time-management flaw, a scheduling hurdle, or a lack of personal stamina. But what if your exhaustion isn't a…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The July Reset: Lowering the Threat Defense on the Wards
July is the most exhilarating, volatile, and fragile month in the medical calendar. Across every inpatient floor and ambulatory clinic, the badges are brand…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Nervous System Capacity & Sustainable Regulation with Becca Mattie
We frequently evaluate burnout as a simple time-management issue, a scheduling hurdle, or an administrative failure. But we rarely step back to analyze our…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Stagnation Tax: Why Leaders Must Hear No
In medicine, we are trained to avoid the word "no" at all costs. We view a rejection—whether it’s a denied grant, an unaccepted manuscript, or a rejected…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Data Over Drama: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Santina Wheat
You receive the email you’ve worked years for: an invitation to take over as clerkship director, chair a high-level committee, or lead a clinical division. But…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Shifting From Hero to Collective Identity with Dr. Nondumiso Makunga-Stevenson
The very traits that make you an exceptional clinician—absorbing complexity, carrying uncertainty, and working as a lone hero—can often act as a cage when you…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.The Expertise Tax: Moving From Hero to Host Leader
When you first clip on your ID badge, it feels like a suit of armor—proof that you belong in the room and have all the answers. But as you move into healthcare…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Beyond the Smile: Airway Health & the Private Practice Load with Dr. Maria Sokolina
While the "hidden load" is often discussed within hospital walls, the weight of private practice brings a unique set of challenges. In this episode, Dr…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Writing as a Healing Act with Dr. Carolyn Roy-Bornstein
In medicine, we are trained to be the witness—to hold the stories of our patients' pain and trauma. But what happens when that weight becomes too heavy to…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.The Self-Compassion Tax — Moving Beyond the Inner Tyrant
If you’ve spent the last two decades being the "best," you likely carry a hidden load that doesn't show up on a productivity report: the Self-Compassion Tax…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.From Heroics to Stewardship: Reclaiming Your Bandwidth with Dr. Stephen Cohen
In medicine, we often equate competence with the ability to "handle it all." But after three decades in the House of Medicine, Dr. Stephen Cohen has realized…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Burnout or Under-Resourced? Why High-Achievers Lose Their Edge with Kim Heintz
In medicine, we are trained to prioritize the mission over our own maintenance. We often dismiss brain fog, fatigue, and afternoon energy crashes as the…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Loyalty Tax — Should I Stay or Is It Time to Go?
In this solo episode, Dr. Santina Wheat tackles one of the heaviest "hidden loads" in medicine: the belief that institutional loyalty is the ultimate…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Reclaiming Physician Mental Health: Stand Up for Doctors with Kim Downey
In this powerful episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina Wheat welcomes Kim Downey, a fierce advocate for physician wellness. Following a personal journey…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Beyond the "Fix-It" Mindset: Redefining Professionalism and Parenting with Dr. Juhi Raizada
What happens when the "expert identity" that makes you a brilliant physician becomes a heavy burden at home? In this episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Whose Version of Success Are You Chasing?
Are you calibrating your worth to numbers that were never designed to capture your full contribution? In this episode, Dr. Santina Wheat explores the "Hidden…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Cost of Shrinking in Medical Leadership
n this episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina Wheat tackles a deeply uncomfortable reality in medical culture: the pressure to shrink. We’ve been trained to…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up."The Good Leader" in Medicine
We often talk about toxic leadership or absent leadership, but we rarely discuss the heavy, silent burden carried by the "Good Leader." This is the educator…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Using Feedback Without Making It Mean You’re Failing
In the house of medicine, we are trained to be experts. We master complex physiology and high-stakes procedures, but many of us were never taught how to master…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Medicine’s Respect Gap: The Hidden Load of Specialty Disrespect
Have you ever heard a student described as "too smart" for primary care? Or heard an admission dismissed as "soft"? In medicine, we often brush these off as…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.The "Powering Through" Myth: How Our Professional Culture Sabotages Our Metabolic Health
In the house of medicine, we often equate "professionalism" with the ability to ignore our own physical needs. We are trained to power through 24-hour calls…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Why Physicians Need Trauma-Informed Care: Redefining Resilience with Dr. Cynthia Chen-Joea
Is the "Hidden Load" of medicine weighing you down? In this episode of The Hidden Load, host Dr. Santina Wheat sits down with Dr. Cynthia Chen-Joea to pull…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Why You Snap at the People You Love After Work (And Why It’s Not Your Fault)
Ever wonder why you can be the most patient person in the hospital, but lose your temper the moment you walk through your front door? In this episode of The…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Loneliness in Medicine: A Hidden Epidemic
Loneliness in medicine is often treated as a personal failing, but in reality, it is a structural byproduct of a healthcare system that prioritizes efficiency…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Reframing Time Management in Healthcare
If you feel like you’re drowning in administrative tasks, it’s likely not a time-management problem—it’s a Hidden Load problem. In this solo episode, Dr…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Navigating Neurodiversity in the Medical Field
Neurodiversity affects roughly 20% of the population, yet in the medical field, it remains a heavily misunderstood and often hidden load. In this episode of…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.The Hidden Load of Financial Stressors
In this episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Tina Wheat sits down with Dr. Elisa Chiang to tackle one of the most taboo topics in medicine: Money. From the "hidden…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Reframing Quitting Day in Healthcare Leadership
In this episode, Dr. Santina Wheat discusses the concept of 'Quitting Day,' which typically occurs in early January when many people abandon their New Year's…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Care for Yourself While Managing the Struggling Learner
This episode is the perfect antidote to the "perfectionist culture" that defines medical training. For SEO, we want to target medical education, psychological…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Navigating the Complexities of Imposter Syndrome
Do you ever feel like you’re one mistake away from being "found out"? Despite years of training and clinical success, many physicians—particularly…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Don't Be Afraid to Ask For Help
Even the most effective leaders need a support system. In this episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina Wheat is joined by Mary Remon, a licensed counselor and…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Bending, Not Breaking: A New Perspective on Resilience
This episode is the perfect companion to your "Balance Board" and "Recovery" episodes. Because "Resilience" is often used as a weapon against physicians (to…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Navigating Identity in Medicine
Are you the same person in the breakroom as you are at the dinner table? For many medical educators and leaders, there is a sharp—and exhausting—divide between…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Navigating Burnout and Moral Injury
This is arguably your most important episode for SEO and professional impact. The term "Moral Injury" is currently trending in medical circles as a more…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.The Power of Genuine Gratitude
We’ve all received the "performative" thank-you note or the superficial shout-out during a staff meeting. While well-intentioned, these often fall flat in the…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Courage in Advocacy
We often feel like cogs in a massive, unchangeable machine, but the truth is that the medical system only evolves when those within it speak up. In this…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Rediscovering Purpose in Healthcare
In the daily grind of administrative burdens, charting, and high patient volumes, it’s easy to lose sight of the "why" that led you to medicine in the first…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
Recovery has to be a today thing.
In the high-stakes world of healthcare, we are taught how to perform, how to endure, and how to sacrifice—but we are rarely taught how to recover. In this…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Reflection: Moving Beyond the Checkbox to Something Real
In medical training, "reflection" is often treated as just another box to check—a tedious requirement rather than a tool for transformation. In this episode of…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Self-Advocacy: Finding Your Voice in a Changing System
As healthcare professionals, we are world-class advocates for our patients—but we are often the last people we stand up for. In this episode of The Hidden…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Boundaries without the Guilt: Protecting Your Energy in Healthcare
In the high-pressure world of healthcare, saying "yes" is often seen as a badge of honor—but at what cost? In this episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Common Yes, Normal No!
In the medical world, we are conditioned to believe that exhaustion, boundary-blurring, and self-sacrifice are just "part of the job." But in this episode, Dr…
The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.Finding Balance in Chaos
We’ve all been told to chase "Work-Life Balance," but for healthcare workers, that perfect 50/50 split often feels like a myth. In this episode of The Hidden…
- The Hidden Load: For the educators and leaders in medicine who hold everyone up.
The Hidden Load Trailer
Welcome to The Hidden Load. The podcast for the educators and leaders in medicine. We will tackle the hard topics and help you conquer your chaos and get to…