TCN Talks

In this powerful conversation, hospice pioneer Barbara Karnes joins TCNtalks / Anatomy of Leadership to unpack with Chris Comeaux what truly happens in the final days of life—and what healthcare professionals often miss. 

Drawing from over four decades of bedside experience, Barbara shares how hospice care began as a movement outside the traditional medical model, rooted not in treating disease, but in caring for people and the...

What if your leadership challenges aren’t about skill—but about your story?

In Part Two of The Secure Leader: How Attachment Styles Shape Leadership, Dr. Jaime Goff dives deeper into how your past experiences, internal narratives, and emotional triggers shape the way you lead today.

This episode moves beyond awareness into transformation—helping leaders understand how to rewrite limiting leadership stories, regula...

What if the greatest barrier to effective leadership isn’t a lack of skills—but a lack of self-awareness?

In Part One of this powerful conversation, Chris Comeaux sits down with Dr. Jamie Goff, executive coach and author of The Secure Leader, to explore how deeply our leadership is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves.  Drawing from her background in psychology and leadership development, Dr. Goff challenges the traditional focus...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping healthcare—and hospice leaders cannot afford to ignore its impact.  In this episode of TCNtalks / Anatomy of Leadership, host Chris Comeaux continues his conversation with hospice leader and AI innovator Ernesto Lopez to explore how artificial intelligence is beginning to transform the hospice industry. 

Drawing from nearly 15 years of operational experience, Lopez explains why hospice ne...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering healthcare—but what does it actually mean for hospice leaders?

In this episode of TCNtalks / Anatomy Of Leadership, host Chris Comeaux sits down with Ernesto Lopez, Founder and CEO of 1520 AI, to explore the real impact of AI in hospice care.  Ernesto brings a rare perspective as a registered nurse, healthcare executive, and AI founder, combining decades of hospice leadership exp...

In Part Two of “Love Hurts: Leadership, Quality, and the Future of Hospice & Palliative Care,” leaders from the GeriPal podcast and TCNtalks / Anatomy of Leadership, continue a thoughtful discussion on the most pressing issues facing hospice and palliative care today.

The conversation explores how waste, fraud, and abuse in isolated cases can tarnish the reputation of an entire field—even when the majority of providers deli...

This episode explores the future of hospice leadership and hospice quality through a collaborative discussion between the TCNtalks and GeriPal podcasts.

TCNtalks host Chris Comeaux and co-host Cordt Kassner join forces with Dr. Eric Widera and Dr. Alex Smith of the GeriPal Podcast , leaders in palliative care and hospice innovation discuss emerging quality measures, data-driven hospice analytics, research challenges, and the leader...

In Part Two of Be Where You Are: Leadership, Caregiving, and the Courage to Pause, Carla Davis reflects on a transformative year away from executive leadership—one shaped by caregiving, reflection, and rediscovering her deeper purpose.  What began as a pause became a profound reaffirmation of calling.  Carla shares how stepping out of the day-to-day demands of leadership gave her clarity around stewardship, alignment, and the respo...

In this powerful episode on hospice leadership and healthcare leadership development, Carla Davis, Executive in Residence at Cressey & Company, shares what she learned after taking an intentional executive sabbatical to care for her mother. 

This conversation explores the intersection of caregiver resilience, leadership and burnout, and rediscovering identity beyond professional titles. For hospice professionals and those servin...

Part Two – Is Your Ladder Leaning Against the Wrong Wall? | Richard Mobley on Leadership and Calling

In Part Two of this powerful conversation, Richard Mobley dives deeper into what happens when success no longer satisfies — and how leaders can unknowingly climb the wrong ladder.

After decades of corporate advancement, Richard reached a season of fatigue and uncertainty.  What followed wasn’t a dramatic “eureka” moment, but a squiggl...

What if you spend decades building a successful career—only to realize you were climbing the wrong ladder? In this episode of TCNtalks / Anatomy of Leadership, executive leadership coach Richard Mobley, Founder and Principal of the Seven Four Group, Inc. and the Be Far More! System, joins Chris Comeaux to explore one of the most important questions leaders face: What comes after success?

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In Part Two of Unlocking Leadership Potential Through Self-Awareness, Coach Sherry Winn challenges leaders to look beyond strategies and performance metrics to examine the internal patterns, beliefs, and identity that ultimately shape their impact.  This powerful continuation moves from awareness to transformation—showing how lasting leadership growth begins within.

Coach Winn unpacks how mindfulness helps leaders recognize exc...

In Part One of this conversation, Chris Comeaux is joined by leadership coach, former Olympic athlete, and longtime collegiate coach Sherry Winn for a deeply personal and practical exploration of leadership that begins from the inside out. Sherry challenges traditional, performance-driven leadership models by naming self-awareness as a true leadership superpower, sharing how it transformed her own life—from depression and despair t...

What gets measured shapes how patients experience the final chapter of life.  In Part Two of Measures That Matter: How Better Metrics Can Transform End-Of-Life Care, hospice and healthcare leaders explore how focused, meaningful metrics—not check-the-box measures—can improve quality, reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, and strengthen value-based end-of-life care.

Hosted by Chris Comeaux, President & CEO of Teleios, and Cordt Ka...

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At the end of life, quality matters—but too often, the metrics used in hospice and palliative care fail to reflect the care patients and families actually experience. 

In Episode One of Measures That Matter: How Better Metrics Can Transform End-of-Life Care, TCNtalks / Anatomy of Leadership explores why fewer, clearer quality measures are essential for reducing variability, improving p...

In Part Two of Protecting Patients at the End of Life: Why CON Still Matters, host Chris Comeaux continues the conversation with two of the nation’s most respected hospice policy leaders—Paul A. Ledford, President & CEO of the Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association, and Tim Rogers, President & CEO of the Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina.

This episode moves beyond regulatory theory and into...

Protecting Patients at the End of Life: Why CON Still Matters / Part ONE

Certificate of Need (CON) laws are among the most debated—and misunderstood—regulatory frameworks in healthcare. In this timely Part One conversation, host Chris Comeaux is joined by two of the most respected voices in hospice policy and advocacy: Paul A. Ledford, President & CEO of the Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association, and Tim Rogers, Pres...

In Part One, organizational behavior scholar Colin M. Fisher dismantles the myth of the lone genius, showing that performance is shaped less by individual talent and more by the groups people belong to. He reframes leadership around social norms, group dynamics, and collective context—arguing that leaders often misdiagnose performance problems by focusing on people instead of the group system they operate within.

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In this episode of Anatomy of Leadership, host Chris Comeaux is joined by Colin Fisher, professor, researcher, author, and jazz trumpeter, to explore what decades of research reveal about how groups really work—and why so many teams struggle to reach their potential.

Drawing from his book The Collective Edge, Colin challenges the myth of the “lone genius” and reframes leadership as a discipline of design.  Instead of motiv...