Vet Mind Works Podcast
This podcast is for veterinary professionals who are looking for better ways of working and living. We discuss mind-sets, mind skills, behaviours and habits, which support sustainable performance and wellbeing in a challenging profession, and allow us to develop our own 'best veterinary self'. Podcast hosts Petra Agthe and Alison Collings (two vets with a long-standing interest in psychology and related disciplines) interview interesting guests, ranging from veterinary colleagues to psychologists, who share their knowledge, experiences and insights on specific subjects. Occasionally, we also schedule a 'rest and digest' episode in which we discuss and reflect on previous topics. This is a podcast for the whole veterinary community and we encourage listeners to provide feedback and enter the discussion! You can do this by sending us an email to [email protected]. We are happily funding this podcast ourselves to keep it independent.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 38
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
17. About Courage - with Scott Kilpatrick
Courage is something often associated with great bravery and heroism, but what if it was actually about something more subtle and quiet? What if it was a life skill for every day? In this episode, ho…
16. About being good enough - with Clive Elwood and Ruth Serlin
This is a deep dive into the topic of being good enough! Host Petra Agthe is exploring the topic with guests Clive Elwood and Ruth Serlin, who have many insights to share.
Timestamps:
00:00:56 Introduc…
15. All about Shame - with Professor Luna Dolezal
Today's episode is all about a delicate subject and deeply unpleasant emotion, namely shame. Shame can be a powerful driver of behaviours and attitudes in human medicine, impacting clinical practice,…
14. Self-compassion - with Ali Lambie
This is an episode about a very special skill, which may sound soft but has been shown to make us anything but soft or weak. Self-compassion has been shown to help us adopt a growth mindset, reduce f…
13. Food and Nutrition - with Ela Law
Welcome to our anniversary episode! We are so excited that the Vet Mind Works Podcast has been going for a full year. This episode is also very special, because it touches on many topics that we have…
12. Mindful Awareness - with Dr Carter Lebares
How can we stay human when we work in a challenging profession? And how can mindful awareness (= noticing our present moment experiences with curiosity and acceptance) help us in this process? How ca…
11. Confidence - with Rachael Paul
This is our first Vet Mind Works podcast episode with host Alison Collings! Alison is joined by Rachael Paul, owner of Simply Veterinary, a headhunting and coaching firm dedicated solely to the veter…
10. Job Diversification - with Andrew Ciccolini
How can we prevent getting tired of our jobs and losing the sparkle? Our wonderful guest Andrew Ciccolini works for two non-for profit organisations including the Galaxy Vets Foundation, and has a fe…
9. Hobbies - with Alasdair Hotston Moore
Although today's episode is perhaps a little more lighthearted, it is still important and relates back our most recent episode with Ebony Escalona on Identity (https://vetmindworks.buzzsprout.com/202…
8. Identity - with Ebony Escalona
Do you also introduce yourself to others with your job title, such as 'Hello, my name is XX and I am a vet/vet nurse/...'? Well, you may think again after this episode!
Having a sense of identity can…
7. Physiological Needs - with Dan Tipney
Let’s face it: we are often better at looking after others than we are looking after ourselves. But why is it so difficult to put our own proverbial oxygen mask on even when it comes to our basic phy…
6. Values - with Liv Oginska
Values - what could be a better topic at the start of a new year!? Values can serve as an 'inner compass' helping us to make sure that our life has direction, depth and meaning.
Join the conversatio…
5. Self-awareness - with Clive Elwood
The psychologist Carl Jung once said that “until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate”. In this episode we are taking a deeper dive and explore why k…
4. Performance and Wellbeing- with Dan Tipney
Are you interested in how to deliver the best care for our patients and applying our clinical skills to the best of our ability? And would you like to know what our wellbeing has to do with it? Then …
3. Time - with Karla Borland
Are you also struggling to find enough time to do all the things you need and want to do? You are certainly in good company as this is a phenomenon affecting most of us. And while there is no way to …
2. Energy - with Marie Holowaychuk
Join host Petra and our guest Marie Holowaychuk (Emergency and Critical Care Specialist, yoga and mindfulness teacher and coach) for an insightful discussion all around the topic of energy.
0:56 Intr…
1. Attention - with Steph Sorrell
Welcome to our very first episode with a guest! We are starting our podcast with a mini-series on the personal resources, which are essential for performance and wellbeing: attention, energy and time…
Prologue
In this episode you can find out more about the podcast and its founders.
Contents include:
- Brief summary of purpose of the show, its schedule and planned contents for future episodes.
- Monica, Alison …