Provider Wellness Podcast

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  AI and Mental Wellness: What's Ahead 31.01.2026 1h 1min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode of The Provider Wellness Podcast, Matthew has a conversation with Dustin Dean. He is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Wellness Coach. They have a great conversation about AI and its implications on society, healthcare, and mental health services both positive and negative. Dustin has an AI coaching platform that he demonstrates during the episode that is fascinating and scary at the same time because of how good it is.&...
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  The Magician Physician! 18.12.2025 56min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Dr Brian Nguyen. He is a Physiatrist and Physical Rehabilitation Physician. He also uses the unique skill of magic to establish a rapport with his patients. They discuss how this can be an effective tool to create positive outcomes in his patients in addition to the importance of having an outlet outside of healthcare. Dr Nguyen is a professional magician, as well, so they discuss the process of train...
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  Beating Cancer and Summiting Everest 16.11.2025 1h 6min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode of The Provider Wellness Podcast, Matthew has a conversation with Sean Swarner. He is a double cancer survivor who has summited Everest, summited the famed 7 summits which is climbing the 7 highest peaks in all 7 continents. He then went to both the North and South Poles which completed the Explorers Grand Slam. Following this he did 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents. He completed all of these incredible human achievements while ...
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  Nurse Advocacy: A Discussion About the Current State of Healthcare 28.10.2025 1h

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Andrew Craig. He is an RN that has worked as a travel nurse and currently practices in Iowa. They first came in contact through his posts on LinkedIn where he engages in provocative online discussions regarding the current health of nurses in terms of burnout, working conditions, and safety. They discuss the current state of the healthcare system, nurse advocacy, and the state of health of the nursing workf...
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  Chief Wellness Officer, Dr. Jonathan Ripp 22.05.2025 47min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a discussion with Dr. Jonathan Ripp. He is the Chief Wellness Officer and Dean of Well-Being and Resilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Dr Ripp has authored many publications on the subject of healthcare provider wellness including many articles, a textbook, and National Academy of Medicine publications. They discuss the role of a Chief Wellness Officer, the culture of poor self-care in hea...
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  Psychological Therapy: Eliminating the Stigma 02.03.2025 1h 12min

  Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, Matthew has a conversation with Dustin Dean and Mick Myers. They are both Psych Mental Health Nurse Practitioners. They have a concierge psychology practice that operates uniquely where they offer their services together for each client through Telehealth. They provide both coaching and formal therapy depending on the needs of their clients. Matthew, Dustin, and Mick discuss the concierge paradigm in modern healthcare, the differenc...
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  Functional Medicine: Finding Health Through Prevention 31.01.2025 1h 4min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Darin Zimmerman and Laura Zimmerman. They are a married couple that have opened a functional medicine practice here in Maryland. Darin is an anesthesiologist and intensivist and Laura is an advanced practice nurse and nurse anesthetist. We discuss many topics in this episode like what is functional medicine, how they promote health and wellness in their patients, and how their practice is different than a t...
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  Substance Use Disorder: Recognition, Intervention, & Treatment 03.12.2024 1h 6min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Rodrigo Garcia. If you are a regular listener, you’ll recognize that name since Rigo has been on this show multiple times over the years. He is a Nurse Anesthetist and the CEO of Parkdale Center for Professionals, a treatment center for substance use disorder that is geared for the healthcare provider and professional worker population. Matthew wanted to have a discussion with Rigo about substance use disor...
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  An Ex-Nun, Gay, RN, Stand-Up Comedian... 30.10.2024 1h 7min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matthew has a conversation with Kelli Dunham. She is an RN and a stand-up comedian. They have a great conversation about the impact humor can have on both clinician and patient even in settings where one might not think humor has a place. They also discuss her history of being an ex-nun and how that experience shaped her life today. KELLI DUNHAM RN, BSN is a community health nurse, trauma-informed stand-up comic and storyteller and author o...
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  A Discussion with Dr. Z, A Triple Board-Certified Holistic Primary Care Physician 08.10.2024 59min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Dr Miriam Zylberglait. She is a triple board-certified primary care physician that emphasizes holistic care in her practice. She is also the author of The 3G Cycle of Life: The Secrets for Achieving Joy, Meaning, and Well-being. They discuss this transformative book and a link to purchase is in the show notes below. They have a great discussion on her background, practice, and the current state of hea...
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  Stress, Mindfulness in Nature, and Nurse Anesthesia Students 29.07.2024 59min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Dr. Allan Lovern. He is a nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner, and college professor at a nurse anesthesia training program. He recently defended his dissertation where he studied mindfulness in nature and how this intervention affects reported stress in nurse anesthesia students. Please check back often for more episodes pertaining to health and wellness for healthcare providers and caregivers. Please send yo...
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  Health & Wellness in Anesthesia Education 17.04.2024 51min

  Send us Fan Mail Hey folks. So, after almost a year, I am back on the air with a great discussion with Hallie Evans and Crystal Hunnicutt, both of whom are Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and members of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology Health and Wellness Committee. We discuss the overall and continuing culture of poor self-care in the healthcare provider population and how to integrate and normalize wellness and self-care in our training programs. Fo...
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  A Paramedic's Perspective on PTSD 23.05.2023 58min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matthew has a conversation with Andrew Douglas. He is a retired Firefighter/Paramedic that has taken his experience with job-related PTSD and started a tech company to create an app to offer support and peer assistance to the fire, EMS, and police community. We discuss common causes of PTSD in stressful professions like healthcare, the different treatment options, different sources of support, and the culture that teaches providers that they shoul...
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  Health & Wellness Through Chiropractic Care 01.05.2023 1h

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Dr Amir Rashidian. He is a Chiropractor and author of 2 books about stress and the stress response. He owns a busy practice in the state of Maryland. The episode involves a discussion about chiropractic care, the benefits, both well-known and not well-known, and also the misconceptions that surround the practice. They discuss how the central nervous system affects all aspects of health and wellness an...
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  A National Healthcare Organization's Health & Wellness Committee: A Discussion with the Members 01.03.2023 1h 6min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matthew has a conversation with the members of the Health and Wellness Committee of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology. He speaks with Kathy Horvath CRNA, Donna Keeney CRNA, Kristine Tierney CRNA, and Sarah Forsythe SRNA. They are all Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists. They discuss the different stages of a career in healthcare based on the diverse range of years’ experience that this committee represents and how th...
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  Heal our Healers: A Discussion with this Organization's Founder 02.02.2023 1h 7min

  Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the 50th episode of The Provider Wellness Podcast. Thanks to all who have been listening and for your support! In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Rodney Overstreet. He is an advanced practice nurse, specifically a nurse anesthetist. He is a hypnotherapist and wellness coach that founded a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization support network called Heal our Healers which has grown quickly during this time of stress and burnout in the...
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  The Johns Hopkins Chief of Employee Well-Being: A Discussion With Dr Richard Safeer 18.01.2023 32min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Dr. Richard Safeer. He is the Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-Being at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He oversees the health and wellness of the 42,000 employees of The Johns Hopkins Medical System. He’s been working with Hopkins for 11 years. We discuss the current atmosphere within healthcare where burnout, stress, and personnel problems are now the norm. Plus, we go over how he is...
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  How Meditation can Benefit Health & Wellness: A Discussion with a Certified Meditation Teacher 28.12.2022 56min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, Matthew has a conversation with Ted Meissner. He is a meditation teacher and a Senior Mindfulness Program Manager for United Health Group. He is a certified instructor of MBSR, or Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. They have a conversation about how meditation works, how it can benefit health and wellness, and how one can be trained to practice and how to become a teacher. Ted's Contact Information: LinkedIn Profile Website: pre...
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  Breath Work and the Wim Hof Method for Overall Health and Wellness: A Discussion with a Breath Work and Wim Hof Instructor 09.12.2022 1h 3min

  Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I have a conversation with Shereen Yusuf. She is an engineer, health and wellness coach, breath work coach, and Wim Hof instructor. We have an informative discussion about breath work techniques and the Wim Hof Method and how these tools can dramatically improve one’s overall heath and well-being. We first met when she shared her extensive expertise and experience to the first Provider Wellness Symposium this past November, 2022. We...
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  Recapping This Year's Provider Wellness Symposium 22.11.2022 52min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode where I finally relaunch this podcast after being away since May, I have a discussion with Rodrigo Garcia. He is my business partner and co-founder of The Provider Wellness Symposium. We had our inaugural event this past November 4-6, 2022 at the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort in Austin, TX. It was a resounding success and we have been quite grateful for the feedback we have received from the attendees so far. We wanted to sit down and discuss...