If you’re a podcast listener like me, you probably have subscribed to a lot of different podcasts. You get a recommendation from a friend or colleague, somehow you hear about a new podcast on a topic of
interest, so you search for it and subscribe. At least that’s what I do. It results in being way oversubscribed. Let’s be honest, you can only listen to so many different podcasts regularly whether on your commute, when you’re working out, or walking the dogs.
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the This Week Health channels. I subscribe to all three – Newsroom, Community, and Conference. I am a regular listener of the Daily News shows on Newsroom to keep up and because they are nice and short – about 10-15 minutes each except for the Monday show. I listen to many of the Community Town Hall interviews and humbly note that I’m one of the hosts committed to doing one a month. My interviews so far this year have included John Glaser, Kisha Hawthorn, Lisa Stump, Scott MacLean, and Pamela Arora – leaders in our industry you probably recognize.
Since it’s conference season, Bill Russell and his team at This Week in Health have been doing the Interviews in Action series again – 10-15 minute interviews with many health IT leaders which can be found on the Community channel.
If you want to keep up and learn from others, check them out and encourage your team to listen as well. As in past years, Bill will be doing the end of year highlights shows – they are a great way to introduce others to these podcasts. There will even be one with all the Town Hall hosts covering highlights from our interviews this year. And as Bill has done every year for the past 5 years (congrats Bill on an awesome 5 years!!), we can count on tweaks to current channels and maybe some new programs in the coming year.
Back to the oversubscribed challenge and a bit of a diversion. I admit that I took a break from my This Week Health listening over the past week to binge listen to “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra”. If you care about what’s happening politically in our country, are concerned about right-wing extremism, and want to learn about a similar time in our history, check it out. It is 8 episodes well worth your listening time. I say it’s a “must listen podcast” if that’s a thing.
I recently pledged to myself as we move into the next election cycle, that I am going to make some adjustments for my own mental health. I will continue to read and stay informed. That will include the daily newsletter I subscribe to and highly recommend from Heather Cox Richardson, a professor of American history. “Letters from an American” is a newsletter about the history behind today’s politics. But I will limit how much TV news coverage I watch and try to stop Twitter “doom scrolling”. Listening to the Ultra podcast was a part of staying informed and learning from history.
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