February 4, 2025 • 12 mins
What if embracing risk is the key to breaking free from the trap of mediocrity and mastering the middle—where struggle meets success? In this episode, we challenge the common mindset in the Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) field, asking whether playing it safe truly leads to achievement—or simply holds you back. We explore the power of stepping into the arena, confronting fear and failure head-on, and using setbacks as stepping stones to growth. By embracing resilience and persistence, you’ll learn how to navigate the hardest part of the journey and unlock the potential for transformation. Join us as we guide you through mastering the middle and turning struggle into success.
We are immensely grateful to our partners— College of Biomedical Equipment Technology, A.M. BICKFORD, INC., UptimeServices, PM BIOMEDICAL, and Talent Exclusive—for their support in making this podcast possible. Their dedication to advancing the Healthcare Technology Management industry is truly commendable. For more information about their contributions and services, please visit their websites.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Most people live their entire lives stuck in
neutral, neither achievingvictory nor facing defeat.
You know why it's becausethey're terrified of stepping
outside the front door andrisking failure door and risking
failure.
They sit back, observe,criticize and condemn the ones
(00:28):
who dare to take action.
But let me tell you somethingthe sidelines are for spectators
, not champions.
You weren't built for the cheapseats.
You weren't designed to sitback and watch others shape the
world.
You were built to be in thearena, to take the hits, to fall
(00:52):
, to get back up and to keepmoving, because the real glory
doesn't come from avoiding risk.
It comes from embracing it.
This is your arena.
Whether you're troubleshootinga life-saving piece of equipment
or managing a fleet of criticalequipment in a hospital, this
(01:17):
is where you decide what you'remade of.
Htm professionals aren'tordinary and they don't get
rewarded for playing it safe.
You're here to lead, to solveproblems that others can't, and
to thrive in situations wherequitting will be the easiest
(01:37):
option.
Think about this Most peopleavoid defeat like it's the
plague.
They think safety equals peaceand comfort equals success.
(02:02):
Let me wake you up to the truth.
Avoiding defeat means you'realso avoiding victory, and when
you avoid both, you get stuck inthe worst place of all
Mediocrity.
Someone I respect once told meit's okay to be hated, it's okay
(02:25):
to be hated, it's okay to beloved, but the one thing you
never want to be is tolerated.
Simply existing is for cowards.
You might be asking what doesthis mean for me?
In HTM, it means everything.
In this field, you have twochoices you either play it safe,
(02:49):
fix what's easy and wait forthe day to end, or you become
the one who steps into the chaos, the one who takes on the
hardest challenges, because youknow that's where growth lives.
Victory doesn't come withoutlows.
You have long nights where theCT scanner won't respond, where
(03:14):
you'll be exhausted, frustratedand doubting yourself.
But the moments aren't signs toquit.
They're invitations to becomemore, to rise higher, to evolve.
Most people will ask what if Ifail?
They'll sit in their cubiclescreating scenarios of everything
(03:40):
that could go wrong.
But you, you're different.
You don't just think about whatcould go wrong.
But you, you're different.
You don't just think about whatcould go wrong, you think about
what could go right.
What if everything you'reworking toward finally pays off?
(04:09):
What if that one decision totry when others doubted you
turns into the greatest victoryof your life.
What if your willingness toface difficulty doesn't just
help you but transforms theentire healthcare environment
around you?
I need you to stop letting feardictate your moves.
(04:32):
Stop being scared of lookinglike a fool, because here's the
truth you have to be willing tobe a fool before you can be a
master.
No one starts at the top.
You don't leap to successwithout crawling through the mud
first.
Every great HTM professional,every innovator, every game
(04:56):
changer has looked failure inthe face and said I'm not going
anywhere.
You want mastery, you wantsuccess in this industry.
Then be willing to fall.
Be willing to feel like youdon't have all the answers.
(05:16):
Be willing to fix that brokenimaging device for the fifth
time, even when your mind isscreaming at you to give up,
because every failure is justanother brick in the foundation
of your future success.
Here's what separates the greatsfrom the rest.
(05:36):
When people fall, they quit.
When they face uncertainty,they down.
But the ones who win, thechampions of the HTM industry,
keep showing up.
(06:04):
When you're in the middle, whenyou're exhausted, doubting and
questioning everything you'redoing, that's when you have to
make the decision Will you stophere or will you push through?
Listen, the middle is wheremost people give up.
(06:25):
It's the hardest part of thejourney, because there are no
applause, no validation and noguarantees.
But the middle is also wherelives are changed.
It's where your persistencetransforms into results.
It's where greatness is born.
(06:50):
You don't need perfection towin, you just need persistence.
You're going to fall.
You're going to feel defeated,but let me tell you this Falling
isn't the end of the story.
It's the beginning.
Every time you fall and getback up, you're building
(07:12):
confidence.
You're proving to yourself thatyou can handle whatever life
throws at you.
You're becoming stronger,sharper and more valuable than
you ever thought possible.
So when you face setbacks in HTM, when the equipment you've
worked on for hours still don'trespond, don't you dare quit.
(07:36):
You're not here to be average.
You're here to master thedifficult, to embrace the
challenge, to stand in the arenaand refuse to leave until the
job is done.
Stop thinking you needpermission.
You don't need anyone to tellyou that you belong in this
(07:58):
space.
You've already proven that byshowing up every day.
The world needs what you haveto offer.
The patients you'll never meetare depending on you the doctors
, the nurses, the hospital staff.
They're counting on you and,most importantly, your future
(08:23):
self is counting on you to rise,to persist and to win.
Let me leave you with a lessonfrom someone who embodied this
spirit better than anyone PatLynch.
Pat was more than a leader inthe HTM industry.
He was a pioneer, a mentor anda beacon of hope for countless
(08:47):
professionals.
He wasn't just known for whathe built, but for how he
inspired others to build.
His legacy wasn't in theequipment he fixed.
It was in the lives he touched,the people he mentored and the
standards of excellence he set.
I only met Pat Lynch once, at ameeting to get a Bowman
(09:11):
Association started.
It was in a small hospital inHammond, louisiana.
But the way he spoke at thatmeeting, you could feel his
passion, his pain, his successand his dedication.
He shared all of that with usat no charge.
He wasn't there for recognitionor rewards.
(09:33):
He was there to give, to teachand to uplift.
But what truly defines Pat'slegacy is something I didn't
even realize at the time.
He instilled something in methat I wouldn't understand until
years later.
That's the true essence of agreat legacy.
(09:55):
It doesn't just inspire you inthe moment.
It plants seeds that grow longafter the encounter.
Patton didn't achieve greatnessby avoiding difficulty.
He leaned into it.
He knew that the true impactcomes when you push past the
(10:16):
failures, take risks and do thehard things that others won't.
He put the legacy brick bybrick, challenge by challenge,
and never once allowed defeat todefine him.
His impact didn't end with hispassing.
(10:36):
It lives on through every HTMprofessional he inspired,
through every piece of equipmentbrought back to life and
through the lives saved becauseof his dedication.
And for those of us who crosspaths with him, whether for a
moment or a lifetime, we carryhis lessons with us, applying
(11:00):
them to our work, our lives andour own legacies.
So when you're tired, whenyou're frustrated and when
quitting feels like an option,remember pat lynch, remember the
way he lived and the legacy heleft and then ask yourself what
(11:24):
legacy will you leave?
Will you be the one who playedit safe or the one who stepped
into the arena and gaveeverything you had?
Here's the truth.
Most people will never knowvictory because they are too
(11:44):
scared of defeat.
But that's not you.
You're not here to play it safe.
You're here to make waves, totake risks and to leave a legacy
in the HTM industry that willbe remembered long after you're
gone.
So when you're tired, whenyou're frustrated, when you're
(12:07):
staring at the same problem forhours, don't back down.
Remember why you started,remember the lives you're
impacting and remember this thejourney will be hard, but the
reward will be worth it.
Most people live their entire lives stuck in
neutral, neither achievingvictory nor facing defeat.
You know why it's becausethey're terrified of stepping
outside the front door andrisking failure door and risking
failure.
They sit back, observe,criticize and condemn the ones
(00:28):
who dare to take action.
But let me tell you somethingthe sidelines are for spectators
, not champions.
You weren't built for the cheapseats.
You weren't designed to sitback and watch others shape the
world.
You were built to be in thearena, to take the hits, to fall
(00:52):
, to get back up and to keepmoving, because the real glory
doesn't come from avoiding risk.
It comes from embracing it.
This is your arena.
Whether you're troubleshootinga life-saving piece of equipment
or managing a fleet of criticalequipment in a hospital, this
(01:17):
is where you decide what you'remade of.
Htm professionals aren'tordinary and they don't get
rewarded for playing it safe.
You're here to lead, to solveproblems that others can't, and
to thrive in situations wherequitting will be the easiest
(01:37):
option.
Think about this Most peopleavoid defeat like it's the
plague.
They think safety equals peaceand comfort equals success.
(02:02):
Let me wake you up to the truth.
Avoiding defeat means you'realso avoiding victory, and when
you avoid both, you get stuck inthe worst place of all
Mediocrity.
Someone I respect once told meit's okay to be hated, it's okay
(02:25):
to be hated, it's okay to beloved, but the one thing you
never want to be is tolerated.
Simply existing is for cowards.
You might be asking what doesthis mean for me?
In HTM, it means everything.
In this field, you have twochoices you either play it safe,
(02:49):
fix what's easy and wait forthe day to end, or you become
the one who steps into the chaos, the one who takes on the
hardest challenges, because youknow that's where growth lives.
Victory doesn't come withoutlows.
You have long nights where theCT scanner won't respond, where
(03:14):
you'll be exhausted, frustratedand doubting yourself.
But the moments aren't signs toquit.
They're invitations to becomemore, to rise higher, to evolve.
Most people will ask what if Ifail?
They'll sit in their cubiclescreating scenarios of everything
(03:40):
that could go wrong.
But you, you're different.
You don't just think about whatcould go wrong.
But you, you're different.
You don't just think about whatcould go wrong, you think about
what could go right.
What if everything you'reworking toward finally pays off?
(04:09):
What if that one decision totry when others doubted you
turns into the greatest victoryof your life.
What if your willingness toface difficulty doesn't just
help you but transforms theentire healthcare environment
around you?
I need you to stop letting feardictate your moves.
(04:32):
Stop being scared of lookinglike a fool, because here's the
truth you have to be willing tobe a fool before you can be a
master.
No one starts at the top.
You don't leap to successwithout crawling through the mud
first.
Every great HTM professional,every innovator, every game
(04:56):
changer has looked failure inthe face and said I'm not going
anywhere.
You want mastery, you wantsuccess in this industry.
Then be willing to fall.
Be willing to feel like youdon't have all the answers.
(05:16):
Be willing to fix that brokenimaging device for the fifth
time, even when your mind isscreaming at you to give up,
because every failure is justanother brick in the foundation
of your future success.
Here's what separates the greatsfrom the rest.
(05:36):
When people fall, they quit.
When they face uncertainty,they down.
But the ones who win, thechampions of the HTM industry,
keep showing up.
(06:04):
When you're in the middle, whenyou're exhausted, doubting and
questioning everything you'redoing, that's when you have to
make the decision Will you stophere or will you push through?
Listen, the middle is wheremost people give up.
(06:25):
It's the hardest part of thejourney, because there are no
applause, no validation and noguarantees.
But the middle is also wherelives are changed.
It's where your persistencetransforms into results.
It's where greatness is born.
(06:50):
You don't need perfection towin, you just need persistence.
You're going to fall.
You're going to feel defeated,but let me tell you this Falling
isn't the end of the story.
It's the beginning.
Every time you fall and getback up, you're building
(07:12):
confidence.
You're proving to yourself thatyou can handle whatever life
throws at you.
You're becoming stronger,sharper and more valuable than
you ever thought possible.
So when you face setbacks in HTM, when the equipment you've
worked on for hours still don'trespond, don't you dare quit.
(07:36):
You're not here to be average.
You're here to master thedifficult, to embrace the
challenge, to stand in the arenaand refuse to leave until the
job is done.
Stop thinking you needpermission.
You don't need anyone to tellyou that you belong in this
(07:58):
space.
You've already proven that byshowing up every day.
The world needs what you haveto offer.
The patients you'll never meetare depending on you the doctors
, the nurses, the hospital staff.
They're counting on you and,most importantly, your future
(08:23):
self is counting on you to rise,to persist and to win.
Let me leave you with a lessonfrom someone who embodied this
spirit better than anyone PatLynch.
Pat was more than a leader inthe HTM industry.
He was a pioneer, a mentor anda beacon of hope for countless
(08:47):
professionals.
He wasn't just known for whathe built, but for how he
inspired others to build.
His legacy wasn't in theequipment he fixed.
It was in the lives he touched,the people he mentored and the
standards of excellence he set.
I only met Pat Lynch once, at ameeting to get a Bowman
(09:11):
Association started.
It was in a small hospital inHammond, louisiana.
But the way he spoke at thatmeeting, you could feel his
passion, his pain, his successand his dedication.
He shared all of that with usat no charge.
He wasn't there for recognitionor rewards.
(09:33):
He was there to give, to teachand to uplift.
But what truly defines Pat'slegacy is something I didn't
even realize at the time.
He instilled something in methat I wouldn't understand until
years later.
That's the true essence of agreat legacy.
(09:55):
It doesn't just inspire you inthe moment.
It plants seeds that grow longafter the encounter.
Patton didn't achieve greatnessby avoiding difficulty.
He leaned into it.
He knew that the true impactcomes when you push past the
(10:16):
failures, take risks and do thehard things that others won't.
He put the legacy brick bybrick, challenge by challenge,
and never once allowed defeat todefine him.
His impact didn't end with hispassing.
(10:36):
It lives on through every HTMprofessional he inspired,
through every piece of equipmentbrought back to life and
through the lives saved becauseof his dedication.
And for those of us who crosspaths with him, whether for a
moment or a lifetime, we carryhis lessons with us, applying
(11:00):
them to our work, our lives andour own legacies.
So when you're tired, whenyou're frustrated and when
quitting feels like an option,remember pat lynch, remember the
way he lived and the legacy heleft and then ask yourself what
(11:24):
legacy will you leave?
Will you be the one who playedit safe or the one who stepped
into the arena and gaveeverything you had?
Here's the truth.
Most people will never knowvictory because they are too
(11:44):
scared of defeat.
But that's not you.
You're not here to play it safe.
You're here to make waves, totake risks and to leave a legacy
in the HTM industry that willbe remembered long after you're
gone.
So when you're tired, whenyou're frustrated, when you're
(12:07):
staring at the same problem forhours, don't back down.
Remember why you started,remember the lives you're
impacting and remember this thejourney will be hard, but the
reward will be worth it.
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