Elite performance expert Rachel Vickery on linking breath with action, handling stress and building "awesome."

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EP 62: Rachel Vickery on Breath, Stress, and Performance

Oliver Finlay, PhD on helping teams build elite cultures of performance, defining the Finlay Coefficient, and much more.

EP 73: Dr. Oliver Finlay on Building Elite Culture

Dr. Mike Stone on the physiology of mastering or at least surviving the night shift, the commitment to serve on the frontline, and much more.

EP 74: Dr. Mike Stone on The Night Shift

Nathan Smith, PhD, joins the podcast to talk resilience, performance and health in extreme, high-risk, and wildly uncertain environments.

EP 77: Nathan Smith, PhD, on Resilience in Extreme Environments

Emergency physician and anthropologist Dr. Eve Purdy talks about building high performing teams and creating psychological safety.

EP 78: Dr. Eve Purdy on Building High Performing Emergency Teams

Chris Betram, PhD, on how to build stress-resistant learning, harness flow, and develop expertise that sticks the landing.

EP 79: Chris Bertram, PhD, on Flow and Learning

Dr. Alex Auerbach, director of wellness and development for the Toronto Raptors joins to talk about managing your environment for exceptional performance.

EP 81: Alex Auerbach, PhD, on Building Your Niche for Performance

ER doc, coach, and educator Rob Orman, MD, on the process of working with and leaning into hard things.

EP 82: Rob Orman, MD, on Identity, Work, and Process

Part II of a joint conversation with Dr. Scott Weingart from EMCRIT.ORG on what it takes for individuals and teams to perform at elite levels under extreme pressure. (Probably a good idea to listen to Part I at EMCRIT.ORG first!)

EP 86: Scott Weingart MD FCCM on Maximally Aggressive Care

A joint project with the Simulcast podcast - Dr. Victoria Brazil talks about her team's recent work on stress exposure simulation and training teams to perform under pressure.

EP 85: Victoria Brazil, MBBS, MBA on Stress Exposure Simulation

Dr. Drew Cathers, ER doc + flight physician, on critical teamwork, building learning organizations, and high-level flight medicine.

EP 88: Drew Cathers, MD, on Critical Teamwork and Flight Medicine

Paul Swinton, National Education Lead for the Scottish Air Ambulance Service and co-inventor of SCRAM™, on designing for crisis and fostering innovation.

EP 89: Paul Swinton on Designing for Crisis

Excellence doesn't happen by accident. Dr. Dan Dworkis on searching for and building excellence in crisis.

EP 90: Dan Dworkis MD PhD on Excellence in Crisis

Dr. Glenn Fox on the neuroscience of emotion, feeling, and decision making, the power of gratitude to transform performance, and much more.

EP 91: Glenn Fox, PhD, on Gratitude and Performance

Kim “KC” Campbell is a retired Colonel, serving in the Air Force for 24 years as a fighter pilot, a senior leader, and the Director of the Center for Character & Leadership Development at the Air Force Academy. She is the author of Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot’s Lessons on Leading with Courage. In this episode, we talk about training to perform under pressure, overcoming fear and chaos, and the power of storytelling in training the next generation of operators.

EP 92: Kim "KC" Campbell on Flying in the Face of Fear

Dr. Jen Wager is a pediatric anesthesiologist, an expert on human performance, and the founder and CEO of PROSPER, a team devoted to wholistic women's performance and helping women thrive. In this episode, we get into women's performance, how organizations can attract, develop, and retain high performing women, how to build environments that help women achieve, and so much more. You can find out more at www.weprosper.co

EP 93: Dr. Jen Wagner on Empowering Women to Prosper and Lead

Will Greenberg is a strength and conditioning/performance development coach, currently with the Buffalo Bills. Over the last 15 years, through diverse experiences in various sports, he has gained expertise in cultivating environments that allow athletes and teams to thrive.

In this awesome conversation, we talk about the power of compounding good training, treating every event like a rep, balancing tension and relaxation, leveraging scarce training resources, and growing elite cultures. We dig into what excellence looks like for a highly-resourced intact team focused on peak performance, and it's seriously cool.

EP 94: Will Greenberg (Buffalo Bills) on Compounding Tension and Relaxation

Dr. Seth Collings Hawkins is an anthropologist, writer, and physician, double boarded in emergency medicine and EMS and specializing in wilderness medical care. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest University and the founder of the Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship, a program we will be talking about today. He’s also the editor of Wilderness EMS, the primary textbook for formal wilderness medical operations. He serves as a medical director or advisor for numerous organizations including NC Outward Bound, REI, the National Association for Search & Rescue, the US Forest Service, the National Park Service, multiple wildland fire medical support teams, and many others.

In this episode, we talk about experiential learning, working to be rather than appear to be, swarm teaming as both leader and follower, and much more.

For more lessons about performance when it matters most and applying knowledge under pressure from the emergency department and beyond, check www.emergencymind.com.

You can also find the Emergency Mind book: The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure at https://www.emergencymind.com/book

EP 95: Dr. Seth Hawkins on Wilderness EMS, Experiential Learning, & Walking the Walk

Kevin Cyr, LL.M., is a SWAT Commander with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a deep thinker about managing risk in complex, rapidly adaptive environments, and an overall epic individual. 

In this episode, Kevin talks about leading a SWAT team operating in high-threat environments, the absolute value of making a problem boring, critical factors in decision making, building decision-making leaders, and much, much more. It's legitimately a master class in operating under pressure with so much to learn

EP 96: SWAT Commander Kevin Cyr LL.M. on Operating with Asymmetric Risk

Gareth Lock, MSc, is a diver, an educator, and an expert in Human Factors and Non-Technical Skills. 

In this episode, we talk though the power of storytelling for learning, building a culture that grows from near misses and learns from mistakes and error, harnessing human and organizational potential, and so much more.

EP 97: Gareth Lock on Counter-Errorism

Matt Lavoie, critical care physician assistant, educator, and military medical instructor on building training systems that get the basics right in extreme pressure.

EP 98: Matt Lavoie PA-C on Fighting with What you Have

Psychologist and expert in selection and assessment Dr. Barb Thompson joins the podcast to talk about leadership development, the role of culture in elite performance, controlling the controllables, and much more.

EP 99: Barb Thompson, PhD, on Setting the Stage for Success

Dr. Chris Baugh talks about the design, implementation, execution, and tuning of multidisciplinary code teams in large hospital environments.

EP 101: Chris Baugh, MD MBA, on Building Multidisciplinary Code Teams

Linebacker Terrel Bernard talks about critical decision making at the line of scrimmage, learning from every repetition, what it takes to join a new team, and how to lead small groups at and away from the point of impact.

EP 102: Buffalo Bills Linebacker Terrel Bernard on Leadership on and off the Field

Dr. Roger Kneebone joins the podcast to talk about what it takes to become an expert, the inside view of walking the path to mastery, the value of working with thin materials on the verge of collapse, the links between trauma surgery and magic, and so, so much more.

EP 103: Dr. Roger Kneebone on Understanding the Path to Mastery

A talk given in Venice, CA in 2019 about lessons learned while training in Emergency Medicine that anyone can use in their daily life to improve how they think and act during times of crisis.

01: The Emergency Mind with Dan Dworkis, MD-PhD

An interview with Dr. Erik Anderson on the importance of compassion and humility in operating in high stress environments, ideas for working in low-resource rural emergencies, and moving fast and slow during the first minutes of a crisis.

02: Compassion and Humility with Erik Anderson, MD

Interview with Lieutenant Commander Andrea Austin, MD, from the Naval Trauma Training Center at USC + LA County about the importance of simulation and visualization training and pressure as a creative force.

03: Simulation, Visualization, and Pressure with Andrea Austin, MD

Sangfroid. Literally: "cold blooded," it' the ability to stay calm under pressure. In this episode, I talk about Sangfroid not as an innate talent but as a skill that each of us can develop, and about several ways we can start training sangfroid today.

04: Sangfroid | Bringing Cool to Chaos with Dan Dworkis MD-PhD

How to make better decisions under pressure, with world-class decision expert and former pro poker player Annie Duke: the power of the unexpected, looking for dispersion, and maximizing on our ability to rapidly update mental models.

28: Annie Duke on How to Decide Under Pressure

Lessons from emergency medicine and beyond about performing when it matters the most and applying knowledge under pressure.

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