🎙️ MAKE HEALTHCARE GREAT AGAIN – PODCAST SHOW NOTES

Episode: The Courage to Become the Leader Healthcare Needs Today

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Episode Summary

In today’s episode, I talk about a truth many people feel but rarely say out loud:
Healthcare fails or succeeds based on one thing—leadership courage.

I share real stories from my own career, including the moment I realized courage wasn’t loud or dramatic… but simple, human, and absolutely essential for patient safety, team trust, and system performance.

We explore how fear-based leadership manifests in everyday healthcare, its impact on staff morale and patient outcomes, and why leaders at every level...emerging, new, and seasoned...require support to cultivate courage in real, practical ways.

If you’ve ever felt scared to speak up, scared to lead, or scared to grow into your next level of leadership… this episode is for you.

• Why healthcare leadership requires courage every single day
• How fear spreads through teams (and courage stops it)
• A real story from the frontline that shaped how I lead
• Why new and emerging leaders often feel unprepared
• How courageous leadership improves retention, performance, and patient care
• The simple truth about courage: it starts small
• How you can rise into the leadership healthcare needs right now

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• build trust

• create safer teams

• reduce burnout

• improve performance

• lead with courage and clarity

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KEY WORDS:

healthcare leadership, courage in leadership, patient safety, team culture, burnout, retention in healthcare, healthcare transformation, leadership training, emerging healthcare leaders, psychological safety, healthcare systems, Diane Gudmundson

Episode Title:
Speak Up and Be Heard: 3 Truths for Healthcare Leaders Who Feel Ignored

Show Notes:
This episode is for every healthcare leader—formal or informal—who’s ever felt like their voice didn’t matter.

Maybe you’re trying to lead change in your unit, or you’ve got a bold idea your director keeps brushing off. Perhaps you’re exhausted from trying to motivate a team that simply isn't responding. You are not alone.

In this real, honest episode, I share:

• A behind-the-scenes moment from my talk at the Canadian College of Health Leaders in Victoria, BC

• Why being heard in healthcare is harder than it should be

• The 3 truths every leader needs to know if you want your ideas to stick

• And how to lead up, across, and down — even without a fancy title

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🎙️ Episode Title:

Transformational Leadership Is the New Medicine

What if the real cure for what’s broken in healthcare isn’t in a pill bottle… but in how we lead?

In this bold and truth-telling episode of Roots of Change, Diane Gudmundson pulls back the curtain on why burnout, bureaucracy, and broken systems won’t heal with more top-down strategies or hollow policies. Instead, she makes the case for a new prescription: transformational leadership.

With personal stories from the field, grounded insights, and her signature grassroots wisdom, Diane invites you to explore how real change happens—from the inside out.

Whether you're a clinic owner, policy shaper, or rebel-spirited nurse looking for something more, this episode will challenge, inspire, and call you to lead differently.

• Why the system is tired—and so are the leaders in it

• What most healthcare leadership gets wrong (and how to fix it)

• The hidden epidemic of moral injury and spiritual fatigue

• A real story of grassroots leadership in action

• Why listening is the first step to truly leading

• What Diane will be sharing LIVE at the CCHL conference in Victoria

• 📬 Read the full October Newsletter: Roots of Change – October Edition

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• 📲 Connect with Diane on LinkedIn: @DianeGudmundson

“You can’t lead people you haven’t listened to.”

Are you a healthcare leader who's tired of surface-level fixes?
What does transformational leadership mean to YOU?

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