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 and Petra introduce themselves and discuss:
  • Their professional and personal challenges to date, and the resulting insights and learning points
  • Their main motivation for starting the podcast
  • Which contents and topics are particularly important to them
  • Who they would like the podcast to be for and what will be so special about this show

How To Support Us:
We are happily funding this podcast ourselves to keep it independent. However, you can show your support by giving a donation towards a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues: https://galaxyvets.foundation/campaigns/mental-health-support-for-ukrainian-veterinary-professionals/

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is lending us a hand by helping us with editing our podcast episodes. More about VIN here.
We continue to happily fund all costs for this podcast ourselves but you show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues hosted by the Galaxy Vets Foundation

We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Want to find out more about host Petra? Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b

Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay

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. We firmly belief that learning to manage these resources well is key to a sustainable and enjoyable work life- but of course this is not always easy and so we are inviting guests who can share their own insights and experiences around resource management.

Our first guest is Steph Sorrell, European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine and RCVS Specialist in Feline Medicine. Steph has also completed the level 5 Diploma in Mental Health Awareness and Wellbeing and Mindfulness Champion training and is passionate about increasing the mental health in the veterinary profession.

Steph shares her own thoughts, insights and experiences about attention and attention control.

In this episode we discuss:

• How controlling our attention can improve the work we do, how we feel and our ability to reflect on our activities
• Ways in which attention has helped Steph to deal with her own personal and professional challenges
• The way in which attention can help us to process our emotions
• How we can learn to become more attentive

Where to find Steph Sorrell:
On the web:
https://themindfulvet.co.uk

On social media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-sorrell-02bb85164/
https://www.instagram.com/themindfulvetuk/
https://www.facebook.com/mindfullivingvet

Tuesday evening sessions 8pm BST (together with Petra Agthe):
The live sessions are currently paused as we are working on a YouTube channel with on-demand recordings.

Other resources you may find interesting:
Podcasts on the topic of attention:
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/finding-focus-and-owning-your-attention/
https://drchatterjee.com/johann-hari-on-how-to-reclaim-your-attention/

Interesting books on the topic
https://amishi.com/books/peak-mind
https://stolenfocusbook.com

Want to start meditating? Here are some of our recommendations for meditation Apps:

• Ten Percent Happier (Basic cour

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is lending us a hand by helping us with editing our podcast episodes. More about VIN here.
We continue to happily fund all costs for this podcast ourselves but you show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues hosted by the Galaxy Vets Foundation

We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Want to find out more about host Petra? Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b

Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay

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 Introduction to episode and about Marie

6:00 Importance of energy regulation

8:07 About energy management and change

10:42 Interconnection of energy management with awareness, time management and boundary setting

12:56 Why the term 'balance' can sometimes be unhelpful

14:56 Importance of boundary setting

17:25 Marie personal challenges with energy regulation, the importance of self-compassion, the effects of age and mindfulness

23:13 Additional tips and tricks: about honesty, work-life compartmentalisation and seeing ourselves as important enough

31:46 What intention and values have to do with energy management

33:12 Why the feeling of guilt often gets in the way and what to do about it

35:05 Quick and easy bits: delegation, and making things more efficient or fun

37:20 Building the skill of energy management

Where to find Marie Holowaychuk:
On the web:
Website: https://marieholowaychuk.com/
Podcast: https://reviving-vet-med.castos.com/
YouTube Channel: https://marieholowaychuk.com/youtube

On social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMarieHolowaychuk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marieholowaychuk/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarieholowaychuk/
Medium: https://drmarieholowaychuk.medium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrMHolowaychuk

How To Support Us:
We are happily funding this podcast ourselves to keep it independent. However, you can show your support by giving a donation towards a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary col

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is lending us a hand by helping us with editing our podcast episodes. More about VIN here.
We continue to happily fund all costs for this podcast ourselves but you show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues hosted by the Galaxy Vets Foundation

We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Want to find out more about host Petra? Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b

Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay

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 increase this finite resource, there are a few things that we can do to help us feel a little more in control. Our guest Karla Borland is a busy veterinary anaesthetist and competitive long-distance runner who has tried out a few things herself and is sharing her insights and experiences with host Petra Agthe.

Main points discussed in this episode:
0:56 Introduction to episode

4:30 Karla's busy schedule

7:47 Karla's 3 key principles: Awareness of mortality, prioritisation, saying no when needed

10:19 Importance of good communication, importance of sustainability and acceptance of imperfection

19:00 Karla's tips on scheduling, email inbox system and making good use of little time pockets; connection between time, energy and attention; perfectionism revisited

24:56 Importance of allowing time for recovery

31:59 How to avoid procrastination

33:23 Where to find Karla, Conclusion and Preview on next episode

Other resources you may be interested in:
Podcast with Oliver Burkman about time management: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/oliver-burkeman-456
Website Oliver Burkman: https://www.oliverburkeman.com
How to say no: https://www.verywellmind.com/say-no-to-people-making-demands-on-your-time-3145025
Reducing perfectionism: https://www.verywellmind.com/overcoming-

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is lending us a hand by helping us with editing our podcast episodes. More about VIN here.
We continue to happily fund all costs for this podcast ourselves but you show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues hosted by the Galaxy Vets Foundation

We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Want to find out more about host Petra? Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b

Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay

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 you may want to listen to this conversation between host Petra Agthe and our guest Dan Tipney, who is an expert in human factors with experience in a variety of professions including sports, aviation, human healthcare and veterinary medicine. In this episode, Dan shares lots of interesting information all around the topic of delivering safe patient care - and about the fact that this can only be achieved, if we look adequately after our own physiological and psychological needs as individual and as teams.

Main points discussed in this episode:
0:57 Why our show is advertisement free
1:57 Introduction to this episode and introducing Dan
5:25 About the relationship between performance and wellbeing
10:51 Emotions, emotion regulation and how breathing techniques can help
28:30 Weakness or strength? The two ends of the extreme in the human factor discussion, and the effects of dehydration, insufficient rest and sleep.
36:51 Performance vs performing
39:47 Detachment from outcome
42:03 High performing veterinary teams
45:05 Where to find Dan, Conclusion and Preview

Dan's favourite resources on the topic:

• The high performance podcast: https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/podcast
• I am... with Jonny Wilkinson: https://i-am-with-jonny-wilkinson.simplecast.com/episodes
• Brené Brown - Dare to Lead: https://brenebrown.com/hubs/dare-to-lead/
  
  

Other resources you may be interested in:

• How breath-control can change your life- scientific review article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137615/
• Breathing exercise for stress: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/breathing-exercises-for-stress/

Where to find Dan Tipney and VetLed:
https://www.vetled.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/vetledteam/
https://www.facebook.com/VetLedteam/

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is lending us a hand by helping us with editing our podcast episodes. More about VIN here.
We continue to happily fund all costs for this podcast ourselves but you show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues hosted by the Galaxy Vets Foundation

We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Want to find out more about host Petra? Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b

Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay

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 knowing ourselves can be so powerful and how we may achieve a greater degree of self-awareness, so that we can be more in charge of our lives.

Our guest Clive Elwood is a specialist in small animal internal medicine as well as an executive coach and author of the book Leadership in Veterinary Medicine, and he has lots of insights, knowledge and experience to offer on the topic. In this conversation with host Petra Agthe we discuss many interesting aspects of self-awareness and related concepts, including:

0:57 Introduction to the episode and introducing Clive
2:59 Importance of self-leadership and self-awareness in leadership
7:50 Self-awareness, self-communication and self-compassion
12:31 The inner critic and self-compassion
15:20 Selves-awareness: looking beyond the one authentic self and allowing different identities and parts ourselves
19:17 Behavioural scripts: how to break out of habitual reactions
27:10 Loosening the grip on identity
30:16 How to increase self-awareness
35:43 Pitfalls and difficulties relating to self-awareness
37:20 A lesson from history
38:57 Where to find Clive and Conclusion

Clive's favourite books on the topic:

• Victor E. Frankl (2004) Man's Search for Meaning. Random House Group.
• Williams M , Penman D . (2011) Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world . London : Piatkus.
• Brené Brown (2015) Daring greatly : how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead. Penguin Life, London
• Siegel, D. (2011) Mindsight : transform your brain with the science of kindness. New York: Oneworld Publications.
• Van der Kolk, B. A. (2015) The body keeps the score : brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York, New York: Penguin Books.

Other resources you may be interested in:

• Genpo Roshi A guided meditation through your interiors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n22a1Hf4rjk

Where to find Clive:
Website: https://trelliscoaching.co.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-elwood-frcvs-b7aba216/
Twitter: @cliveelwood
Clive's book Leadership in Veterinary Medicine:

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is lending us a hand by helping us with editing our podcast episodes. More about VIN here.
We continue to happily fund all costs for this podcast ourselves but you show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues hosted by the Galaxy Vets Foundation

We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Want to find out more about host Petra? Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b

Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay

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 conversation between host Petra Agthe and our guest Liv Oginska, who explore some important questions and facts around this topic, including:

0:57 Introduction to this episode and introducing Liv
3:30 What are values and why are they important?
9:14 How our values get shaped
12:21 General vs situational values
18:28 How working with values can sometimes bring up difficult emotions
22:02 Values as a basis for wellbeing, fulfilment and growth
23:34 How to gain clarity about our values
28:29 Differentiating our own values from those imposed by society/other people and how to deal with conflicting values
34:17 Other pitfalls and challenges with values
40:05 Values and flexibility
41:55 Values, strengths and flow
46:16 Liv's favourite resources on the topic of values
47:23 Where to find Liv and Conclusion

Liv's favourite resources on the topic:
Podcasts:
https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com
https://stevenbartlett.com/the-diary-of-a-ceo-podcast/
Book:
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown: https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/

Where to find Liv:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivia-oginska-dvm-mrcvs-pgcertsas-mapp-53b345200/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vetgonereal/ and https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/humansavvy/
Website: https://behumansavvy.com

We are happily funding this podcast ourselves to keep it independent. However, you can show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues: https://galaxyvets.foundation/campaigns/mental-health-support-for-ukrainian-veterinary-professionals/

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is lending us a hand by helping us with editing our podcast episodes. More about VIN here.
We continue to happily fund all costs for this podcast ourselves but you show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues hosted by the Galaxy Vets Foundation

We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Want to find out more about host Petra? Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b

Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay

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 physiological needs, and why is it so important that we do? These are just some of the questions that we are exploring in the conversation between Dan Tipney and host Petra Agthe. Dan Tipney is an expert in human factors with experience in a variety of professions including sports, aviation, human healthcare and veterinary medicine, and he is a returning guest on our podcast. In this episode, Dan draws on personal experiences as well as scientific background knowledge to help us bridge the gap of knowing what we should do and actually doing it by discussing many different aspects including:

0:56 A thank you to our listeners
1:23 Introduction to this episode and introducing Dan
2:44 Bridging the gap between knowing and doing of self-care
5:37 What is so important about looking after our physiological needs
8:51 Interconnection between physiological needs, emotional state and rational thinking
11:54 Our brains explained: Threatening situations and roles of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex
17:32 Understanding our challenges and focusing on the things we can control
24:00 System vs individual factors of control
25:48 Petra and Dan give personal examples of avoiding the threat state by taking control
29:52 Additional things which can help us to close the gap between knowing and doing: moving from immediate returns to long-term rewards, changing behaviours by making use of triggers, and preplanning
37:28 Overcoming barriers to self-care by seeing caring for ourselves as caring for others
41:57 About time pressures and a balanced approach to resilience
44:58 Dan's favourite resources on the topic of physiological needs
46:23 Where to find Dan and Conclusions

You may also be interested in:
Vet Mind Works Podcast Episode 4: Performance and Wellbeing - with Dan Tipney

Dan's favourite resources on this topic:
Wellbeing resources from Guys and St Thomas' Hospital: https://www.guysandstthomaseducation.com/projectsleep-looking-after-your-wellbeing/
HALT campaign resources from Vetled: https://www.vetled.co.uk/halt
Why we Sleep by Matthew Walker: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295665/why-we-sleep-by-walker

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is lending us a hand by helping us with editing our podcast episodes. More about VIN here.
We continue to happily fund all costs for this podcast ourselves but you show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues hosted by the Galaxy Vets Foundation

We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

Want to find out more about host Petra? Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b

Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay