Season 1
Jan. 22, 2024
#111: Navigating the Pendulum: Adapting to Evolving Veterinary Landscapes. With Dr Sam Bowden.
The last time we had Sam Bowden on the podcast, all everyone in the veterinary profession could think about was: 'too much work, not enough workers!' But 2023 saw some changes. The deluge of work turned into a more reasonabl…
Jan. 5, 2024
#110: Practice Good Medicine - The Rest Will Take Care Of Itself. With Dr Gary Turnbull
This episode is available as a video podcast on Spotify. Dr Gary Turnbull is a Director of The Lincoln Institute , a coach, speaker and facilitator in the fields of veterinary practice management and leadership, veterinary b…
Dec. 21, 2023
#109: Why Lifelong Learning Is Critical For Joy, Who Regulates The Regulators, and The Changing Face of Continuing Education. With Dr Zoe Lenard.
This episode is available as a video podcast on Spotify. In this episode, Dr Zoe Lenard shares with us the importance of continuous learning for a fulfilling veterinary career, both in technical and non-technical aspects. Sh…
Dec. 7, 2023
108: Married To The Vet Profession: Advice From (And For) Our Significant Others. With Regina Carey
Regina Carey is a coach, public speaker and special educator who works to help drive change within the veterinary and human healthcare professions. But in this interview we focus on another aspect of her life: she’s married …
Nov. 22, 2023
#107: Why Can't We Do It This Way? New Ideas On How To Bring More Joy To Veterinary Practice. With Dr Russel Welsh.
What would you say are the biggest stumbling blocks to a joyful career in veterinary science? The unfortunate reality is that there are many people in the veterinary profession who would not readily use 'joy' and 'work' in t…
Nov. 8, 2023
#106: Dr Crocker: Intentional Career Moves, Mastering Change Without Fear, And The Pros Of Vulnerability and Virality.
Have you ever found yourself in a moment in your career where you knew: ‘This is definitely not it. Something has to change!’ Dr Tannetje Crocker’s career is as multifaceted as a diamond, and just as brilliant, and in this e…
Oct. 31, 2023
#105: Work hard, play hard, be kind. (And think twice before you prescribe antibiotics!) With Dr Jane Heller.
Dr Jane Heller is the epitome of a mutlti-faceted vet career: she’s a Veterinary Epidemiologist with an interest is in infectious disease epidemiology, with particular reference to antimicrobial resistance and the potential …
Oct. 6, 2023
#103: 'The More You Tell People, The Less They’ll Remember': Learning To Teach. With Dr Toby Trimble
How much time have you committed over the course of your veterinary career to get better at teaching? I'm betting that for most of you, the answer is: not much. Why? Because we're not teachers, right? But maybe we need to th…
Sept. 27, 2023
#102: Resilience by Design: Mentors, Modelling, And Why Context is King. With Assoc. Prof. Sarah Guess.
How do we make 'resilience' more than just another buzzword and resilience training not just a box to tick for the HR department? Assoc. Prof. Sarah Guess is a specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine and Associate Profe…
Sept. 6, 2023
#101: The Antidote To Fear-Based Practice. With Dr Warwick Vale
Here's a little nugget of wisdom for you: 'Do what you can with what you have where you are.' I stumbled upon it a while back, and it's like a bite-sized version of stoic philosophy. It's a solid life motto, especially in th…
Aug. 31, 2023
#100: Feline Upper Respiratory Disease: Fundamentals, Pro Tips and a Review of What's New. With Dr Kath Briscoe and Dr Megan Braunstein.
I don’t know about you, but one of my least favourite things to see on my consult list is a cat with a snotty nose. The idea that my patient’s problem can be anything from a self-limiting mild disease to a serious and frustr…
Aug. 25, 2023
#99: Betterinary. With Dr Heidi Hulon.
Confession: sometimes I get tired of wellness discussions, with the constant barrage of advice on resilience and burnout prevention. Not because it's not important, but because it often feels like these conversations boil do…
Aug. 9, 2023
#98: Spirocerca Lupi: Unmasking The New Hidden Challenge for Australian Vets. With Professor Peter Irwin and Dr Gillian Tenni.
Vets of Australia, meet Spirocerca lupi, a parasite that's been flying under the radar for a while now in Northwest Queensland. But as you'll learn in this episode, is well worth adding to your DD list. To make the introduct…
July 21, 2023
#97: The Compassion Conundrum: Is Empathy to Blame for Our Emotional Burnout, and Adjusting Your Experience Through Neuroplasticity. With Dr Olga Klimecki.
Join us as we explore the concept of compassion fatigue from a fresh perspective. We take a closer look at the underlying mechanisms behind the terms commonly used when we talk about sustainable careers. While empathy and co…
July 9, 2023
#96: The Day You Didn't Die. With Dr Doug Mader
Dr Doug Mader is a triple board-certified veterinary specialist and has been a veterinarian for nearly four decades. He is an internationally recognized speaker, has written three best-selling medical textbooks, and numerous…
June 24, 2023
#95: The True Value Of Your Time: Side Hustles, Investing, Mindfulness and Empathy for Vets and Entrepreneurs. With Dr Mike Bugg.
Introducing Dr Mike Bugg. Mike graduated from veterinary school in 2008 and started his career as a mixed animal veterinarian. However, he soon realised the importance of having multiple sources of income and saw other veter…
June 12, 2023
#94: Beyond the disease: The Emerging Field of Veterinary Palliative and Hospice Care. With Dr Shea Cox.
Dr Shea Cox is a global leader and subject matter expert in veterinary hospice and palliative care. She’s certified as a Pain Practitioner, a Hospice & Palliative Care Veterinarian and a Pet Loss Professional. With a focus o…
May 26, 2023
#93: Reasonable residencies, success through self-knowledge, and filling buckets. With Dr Anna Dengate.
Have you ever considered, or are considering specialising, but you are put off by the journey of becoming a specialist? Usually the path to specialising means putting almost everything else aside for 3-5 years. But what if t…
May 9, 2023
#92: Cushing's: Diagnose like a pro, and treat it like you mean it. With Dr Sue Foster.
Who feels like Cushing's is a nice disease to diagnose and manage? Like, how often do you feel like your hyperadrenocorticism patients are really doing REALLY well? My guess is: not that often. This episode will change that.…
April 28, 2023
#91: Human savvy: Navigating relationships with colleagues, work and ourselves. With Dr Olivia Oginska.
Our guest for this episode - Dr Olivia Oginska, has made it her mission to help us have better relationships, both in and outside of work. Olivia Oginska is a veterinarian, speaker, positive psychology coach, a certified wor…
April 9, 2023
#90: The life changing effect of valuing yourself and your services, and how to get better at it. With Dr Olivia James.
Many of us struggle with attaching a dollars-and-cents value to this ‘fixing animals’ thing that we do for a living. We tell ourselves stories about how our work is a labor of love, about ethics and about the noble nature of…
March 31, 2023
#89: Live recording: The jaundiced cat, and rethinking liver diagnostics. With Prof Jill Maddison.
This episode from our clinical series is brought to you by Elanco , makers of the broadest range of parasiticides including Advocate, Milbemax, Seresto and Credelio Plus. "The question about the biochemistry is really intere…
March 8, 2023
#88: Okay vet, exceptional outcomes: fresh thoughts on leadership and motivation, with Dr Andrew Ciccolini.
Dr Andrew Ciccolini is a Medical Director at the National Mill Dog Rescue , a non-profit that rescues and rehomes discarded breeding dogs, and also the Director of Non-Profit Initiatives at Galaxy Vets. His background includ…
Feb. 21, 2023
#87: Breakdown to breakthrough, and how the blockchain and AI and will change veterinary science. With Dr Steve Joslyn
Dr Steve Joslyn is a specialist veterinary radiologist and tech enthusiast with more than two decades of experience consulting for referral, teaching, and general practice hospitals on four continents. Steve is highly regard…