Thursday, July 25, 2024

Be vulnerable to be stronger person:: Listen to the Doctor Joseph Stern

My intended message to your audience is that you're a stronger, better person by allowing yourself to be vulnerable. https://youtu.be/OOT4Rx9nd6g You connect more meaningfully with patients and also with yourself. And you need to get rid of I needed to get rid of that burden, what I thought was protecting me that wasn't to develop a closer connection with people. And it's been a, quite a long process. There's a really good book by a woman named Susan David called Emotional agility. And what she says in the book, which I think is true, is that life's beauty is inseparable from its fragility, if you are going to those points of contact those those points of meaning, and we tend to shy away from those we tend to, you know, substitute technology or substituted treatment instead of that connection. That's where that's where the real beauty and, and, and wonder of life is. And so, I would say that that process of developing emotional agility is is a kind of a lifetime work. It's not easy, but you always have to kind of be true to yourself and and be willing to go to places that you ordinarily aren't entirely comfortable going ----- Watch the rest of this interview with Dr Joseph Stern here https://youtu.be/9B8Nu_9JwCg Listen to the interview on the podcast, Your Intended Message here https://yourintendedmessage.podbean.com/e/the-language-of-love-loss-and-compassion-dr-joseph-stern/ Listen to Dr Joseph Stern on your fav podcast app here, episode 87 https://yourintendedmessage.com/ ----- Joseph Stern is a partner in the country’s largest neurosurgical group practice, Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates, and practices neurosurgery at the Moses H. Cone Hospital, the flagship hospital of Cone Health in Greensboro, North Carolina. Despite being a talented neurosurgeon, Joseph D. Stern, MD (“Jody”) learned more about the devastation of terminal illness after his beloved younger sister Victoria developed leukemia than his formal medical training ever taught him. Previously, he maintained a detached relationship with his patients by focusing on science and logic, but Victoria’s treatment and subsequent death caused Jody to move toward meaningful, direct, and honest communication to provide more compassionate treatment. He poses the question: How can physicians maintain connection but also not become consumed by grief? GRIEF CONNECTS US: A Neurosurgeon’s Lessons on Love, Loss, and Compassion brings together multiple perspectives through patient stories, treasured photographs, and Victoria’s deeply personal journal entries to form a rich narrative that prioritizes humanity and empathy. Victoria was the type of patient who was driven by positivity throughout her battle with leukemia. As inspiring as her hope was, her reticence to talk about death left her family blindsided and unprepared when she passed. Then with the sudden passing of her husband just a year later, leaving their two teenage boys without parents, it sparked a realization for Jody: that death needs to be discussed more in everyday life, so that when each of us eventually meets it, the practical details don’t get in the way of mourning ----- Your Intended Message is the podcast about how you can boost your career and business success by honing your communication skills. We’ll examine the aspects of how we communicate one-to-one, one to few and one to many – plus that important conversation, one to self. In these interviews we will explore presentation skills, public speaking, conversation, persuasion, negotiation, sales conversations, marketing, team meetings, social media, branding, self talk and more. Your host is George Torok George is a specialist in communication skills. Especially presentation. He’s fascinated by the links between communication and influencing behaviours. He delivers training and coaching programs to help leaders and promising professionals deliver the intended message for greater success. Connect with George www.SpeechCoachforExecutives.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgetorokpresentations/ https://www.youtube.com/user/presentationskills