The Honest EP Podcast

Working with Mental Health as Physical Clinicians with a Mental Health EP

We chat with Matthew Wall, Exercise physiologist with a post grad in mental health and psychotherapy, currently working in an acute mental health hospital. Matt has an incredible way of talking through tough conversations and communicating in ways that blew our minds. 

There are definitely some great nuggets of information to takeaway that can be implemented immediately from this one. 

Topics: 

- 3 different drinks

- Matt's EP story and post grad 

- Helping within your scope with mental health

- Communicating during tough moments 

- What to say, how to say it and when to say it 

 

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What We Think Good Mentoring Looks Like

We chat about how we run our mentoring sessions with team.

Topics: 

- How we used to run it and what we learnt

- What tools we use

- What questions we ask

- What we spend our time on 

- Are their boundaries? 

 

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The Two Year Itchies

We chat about that itchy feeling people get when they've been working for about 2 years in a role. We see it all the time in healthcare, people feeling less than 100% in their workplace and wanting something new or wanting a change in career. 

Topics covered: 

- A Your Mates Brewing Larry Pale Ale 

- Reasons why people might feel like this 

- Questions to ask yourself if you are feeling like this 

- Conversations you can have with friends/mentors/managers

- Options available to you 

- How to help people feeling like this 

 

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What Does a Head of Exercise Physiology do?

Andrew asks Archie about his career so far as an EP in a private practice.

Topics covered: 

- How it progressed 

- How the role changed

- The best parts and the worst parts 

- The lessons and advice for others

 

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Invaluable Lessons for EPs and AHPs. Mindset, CPD, Pathways in Health with Luke Kane

We continue our chat with Luke Kane, CEO and Founder of MTP Health in Sydney. 

We discuss: 

- Mindset for becoming great clinicians 

- CPD Learnings 

- Career pathways 

- Communication 

- Lessons from two great healthcare business owners 

 

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Luke Kane Founder & CEO of MTP Health on Business, Growth in Healthcare and Everything PART 1

We chat with Luke Kane, Founder and CEO of MTP Health in St Leonards. 

We could have chatted for hours with Luke, so we did! 

Part 2 will be out next Monday. 

We cover: 

- 4 Pines Hazy Pale 

- Story of MTP Health + lessons from growing a healthcare business

- Risks, learnings and successes along the way 

- Training team

- Focuses for progressing your career 

 

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Christmas and End of Year Burnout

We chat about how we manage the end of year fatigue that hits us in healthcare and work in general and what its like from a business and a practitioners point of view. 

Topics Covered: 

- Our experiences of end of year fatigue 

- How we have changed what we do to manage 

- Recommendations for businesses preparing for the end of a year

- Recommendations for practitioners at the end of a year 

- A beer from somewhere 

 

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Biggest Mistakes We've Made in Healthcare

The biggest mistakes we've made in healthcare and what we've learned from them. Everyone makes mistakes as practitioners, mentors and as business owners, and it's a necessary part of growing. Here's hoping that listening to some of ours helps you out as well. 

Topics discussed: 

- Early career mistakes as practitioners and what we'd do differently 

-  Mistakes in trying to grow 

- Mentoring mistakes and learnings

- Mistakes in running a business

- A just ok GOAT lager 

- A bad Tony Robbins impression 

 

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Team Days and Retreats: Lessons from doing lots and lots of them

A Night with an Orthopaedic Surgeon: Register here!

 

A couple weeks after doing our whole team retreat, we reflect on running team days and retreats. 

Topics: 

- 4 Pines Hazy Pale Ale 

- Are team days worth it, how do I justify closing the clinic?

- Are retreats worth it 

- What has worked for us

- What hasn't worked for us 

- Good topics and shit topics

 

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Ethical Sales isn't Yucky and Here's Why

We talk sales in healthcare. What selling your service, providing your recommendation, understanding value. 

Topics covered: 

- A Mid strength lager

- Andrew's story of learning how to sell his service

- Understanding ethical sales 

- Why your mindset about money is important 

- Providing your best recommendation

 

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