Have you been feeling additional Stress as a healthcare provider lately? We have been seeing the toll this past year has had on the healthcare industry and the risk of Burnout as providers, so how do we manage this with more ease?

In this episode, I am joined by Brandi Heather, Canada’s Master of Play, leading the next frontier of creativity and Innovation. She is a mom, daughter, wife, business owner, artist, podcaster, and fierce advocate for Mental Health connecting authentically from lived experience. We discuss how incorporating play into your work can help healthcare providers reduce stress and avoid burnout during these difficult times.

Brandi is always unapologetically “In PLAY”. She loves to reintroduce adults to their Play FULL potential. Through a PLAY List of Signature Applied Play Experiences, she reminds us that some of our greatest skills are not on our resumes, we left them on the playground long ago. Showing adults how to be Play FULL unleashes a torrent of creativity and innovation, yields an outpouring of improved communication, employee engagement and empowerment and gives CEOs and Business Leaders the ability to harness the extraordinary potential in people.

Tune in to today’s episode to learn:

• What Play REALLY is
• How to tap into play, recognize it, and expand on it
• The benefits of play and how to find the right kind of “play” for you
• How she deals with resistance to play in the organization 
• Perfectionistic drive vs unstructured play

Grab your drink of choice and join the conversation!

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Jennifer George Author, Physiotherapist, Podcast Host

At the onset of my career as a Physiotherapist (PT) in 2007, I also became a caregiver to my chronically ill father. Throughout my career and caregiving, I saw both sides of the healthcare system – as a clinician and as a family member & caregiver – and I witnessed the gaps in communication between providers and patients. Walking into a medical appointment with my dad was always a psychological experience and quite often, his healing and our outlook was mainly impacted by the quality of the interactions.

When my dad died in 2018, I was inspired to write my first book, Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing, published in June 2019. I wrote this book with the intention to help healthcare providers enhance their communication skills and be able to communicate with patients in such a way that it would help their patients achieve their highest level of function, recovery, and independence. My book has received a few awards and was an Amazon Bestseller upon its launch.

In October 2019, I further launched my podcast, The Healthcare Provider Happy Hour. The purpose of my podcast is to support the well-being of healthcare providers so that they may create the best patient experiences and minimize their risk of burnout. I’ve released over 200 episodes to date and have had the opportunity to chat with like-minded people on a similar mission over the past three years from all over the globe.”