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Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
Medicine asks healthcare professionals to give everything — but who cares for the healers? On The Soulful Surgeon Podcast, plastic surgeon Dr. Lisa Hunsicker explores physician burnout, moral injury, and the deeper meaning of practicing medicine through honest conversations with healthcare leaders and personal reflections. This podcast is for doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals seeking to reconnect with purpose, resilience, and the humanity of medicine.
Episodes
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
When Two Shields Meet
What if the distance between two people isn't because they stopped caring...but because they're both protecting themselves? 🛡️ The Shield Series | An ongoing…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
How Do You Know It's Safe to Lay the Shield Down?
What if healing isn't learning that you'll never be hurt again...but learning to trust yourself enough to reconnect? 🛡️ Part of The Shield Series — an ongoing…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
What Is Your Shield Protecting?
What if your greatest strengths were built to protect something deeply valuable? Part of The Shield Series an ongoing podcast journey exploring the ideas…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Difference Between Boundaries and Walls
Healthy boundaries protect connection. Walls protect fear. 🛡️ Part of The Shield Series an ongoing podcast journey exploring the ideas behind Dr. Lisa…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
What Is Your Shield Costing You?
The greatest cost of your shield may not be what it's protecting you from...but what it's preventing you from experiencing. 🛡️ Part of The Shield Series — an…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
When Strength Becomes Armor
What if the very strength that helped you survive...is now keeping you from fully living? 🛡️ Part of The Shield Series — an ongoing podcast journey exploring…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Shield You Forgot You Were Wearing
The Shield You Forgot You Were Wearing 🛡️ Part of The Shield Series — an ongoing podcast journey exploring the ideas behind Dr. Lisa Hunsicker's upcoming book…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
How to Turn Life's Boulders Into Sand
What if resilience isn't about avoiding life's biggest challenges—but learning a different way to meet them? Life has a way of surprising us. Some days bring…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Day My Body Had to Cash the Checks I'd Been Depositing, Building Your Physiologic Bank Account Before You Need It
What if the greatest benefit of taking care of yourself isn't living longer—but being ready when life unexpectedly tests you? We often think of exercise…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Impossible Standard We Hold Doctors To
What happens when we expect physicians to be perfect in a profession where perfection is impossible? Every day, doctors make life-changing decisions under…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
Why Is Healthcare So Expensive If No One Is Getting Rich?
Why are patients paying more than ever while doctors, hospitals, and healthcare workers feel more financially strained than ever? Many people assume rising…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
Want to Help Doctors? Start Asking THEM What They Need
What if one of healthcare’s biggest mistakes is trying to fix physician burnout without ever asking physicians what they actually need? Across medicine…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Hidden Fear Driving Burnout in Healthcare
What if one of the biggest forces shaping healthcare today isn’t medicine at all—but fear? Healthcare professionals are trained to stay calm under pressure…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Doctor Who Survived a Brain Tumor and Changed Everything
How does your life change when you go from caring for patients to facing a life-threatening diagnosis yourself? Physicians are trained to stay composed, keep…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
When Modern Medicine Isn’t Enough to Truly Heal
What do you do when the tools of modern medicine don’t fully solve your patient’s problem? Many physicians enter medicine to heal, yet over time the healthcare…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
Why Chronic Stress Is Hijacking Doctors’ Brains
Have you ever walked into a patient room and suddenly felt like your brain stopped working? Many healthcare professionals operate under constant pressure—rapid…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
What It’s Really Like to Be a Nurse Today
What happens when a mother and daughter both choose nursing—and end up sharing the same calling? In this heartfelt episode, Dr. Lisa Hunsicker sits down with…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
When Success Stops Feeling Like Enough
What happens when you’ve achieved everything you thought you wanted—yet something still feels missing? Many high-achieving professionals reach a point where…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
Practicing Medicine With Intention
Are you living and practicing medicine with intention—or simply reacting to the demands placed on you? Healthcare professionals often move through their days…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
Why Doctors Can’t Do This Alone
What happens when the sense of community in medicine begins to disappear? Healthcare has always depended on collaboration, shared wisdom, and mutual support…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Relationship Doctors Often Neglect
What if the most important relationship in your life is the one you rarely stop to examine? Healthcare professionals spend their days caring for…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
Beyond the Five Senses in Medicine
What if some of the most important signals in medicine aren’t found in lab results or imaging—but in our awareness? Healthcare professionals are trained to…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
When Medicine Stops Feeling Like a Calling
What happens when the work you once loved begins to feel empty? Many healthcare professionals enter medicine with a deep sense of purpose. Over time, however…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Mental Weight Doctors Carry
How much mental weight are healthcare professionals expected to carry—and at what cost? Physicians and healthcare workers face enormous psychological demands…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
Why Doctors Ignore Their Own Health
Why do so many healthcare professionals ignore their own health—even when they know better? Physicians and healthcare workers spend their careers diagnosing…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
When the Healer Needs Healing
What happens when the people trained to heal others realize they also need healing? Healthcare professionals are often expected to be tireless…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
When the System Makes It Hard to Be the Doctor You Want to Be
What if the exhaustion so many doctors feel isn’t burnout at all—but something deeper? Many physicians feel exhausted by modern healthcare—but what if the…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Hidden Cost of Being a Doctor Parent
What does it really take to raise a family while practicing medicine? Physicians often carry the weight of demanding schedules, emotional responsibility, and…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
What Kids of Doctors Wish Their Parents Knew
What is it really like to grow up with a doctor as a parent? Physicians dedicate their lives to caring for patients, often working long hours under intense…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
When the Caregiver Suddenly Becomes the Patient
What happens when the person who has spent decades helping others heal suddenly finds herself on the other side of the exam table? Healthcare professionals are…
- Soulful Surgeon: The Healthcare Workers' Guide to Ending Burnout and Maximizing Wellness
The Moment Medicine Nearly Broke Me: A Surgeon’s Story
What happens when the doctor caring for everyone else quietly begins falling apart? Medicine asks healthcare professionals to carry enormous…