STS News, Fall 2022 — The highly anticipated new season of The Resilient Surgeon is underway, featuring game changers in the high-performance and wellness space, including a professor of leadership at Harvard Business School, a performance coach, and a psychiatrist. This provocative STS podcast series aims to help surgeons be their best selves inside and outside of the operating room.
“The choice of guests featured this season parallels a paradigm I developed called ‘Best Self Pie,’” said Michael A. Maddaus, MD, host of The Resilient Surgeon. “I prefer the term ‘best self’ to the word wellness because it is an intuitive and personal reference point that we all have, if we are aware enough."
The first piece of the “pie”—individual habits and activities such as sleep, diet, exercise, gratitude, and connection with others—were covered in the first season of the podcast; whereas the additional pieces—self-awareness, purpose, and connection at work and home—will be tackled in Season 2 of The Resilient Surgeon, which began airing in late August.
The episodes will be released biweekly with a lineup that includes:
- Brad Stulberg: author of The Practice of Groundedness discusses being successful without crushing the soul (self-awareness and habits)
- Marcus Buckingham: world expert on engagement at work and the author of Love + Work provides a master class on finding purpose by embracing our "wyrd" (self-awareness and purpose)
- Amy C. Edmondson, PhD: professor of leadership at Harvard Business School and author of seven books discusses psychological safety and its crucial role in performance, creativity, and wellbeing (all four)
- Paul M. Conti, MD: psychiatrist who specializes in mental illness and the impact of life stressors breaks down the epidemic of trauma and how it impacts lives in ways that people may not even realize (self-awareness)
- Christine Porath, PhD: professor at Georgetown University and author of Mastering Community offers insights on the critical role of being valued and respected in the workplace (connection)
Additional guests will include Rich Diviney, Brian R. Little, PhD, and Steve Magness.
Subscribe to Surgical Hot Topics via your favorite podcast app, or find the episodes at sts.org/podcast. Social media postings about the series will include the hashtag #BeYourBestSelf.