OnTopic with Empathia
Welcome to OnTopic by Empathia, a podcast dedicated to overcoming challenges in times of uncertainty. We’ll be talking to industry experts from a wide variety of fields to explore the issues of the day and steps individuals and organizations can take to become more resilient. Whether it is delivering a high-value employee assistance program or responding to a crisis in your organization or community, Empathia brings competence, compassion and commitment to those who need it most. Find out more about Empathia at www.empathia.com.
Episodes
July 24, 2024 • 42 mins
Deborah Needham returns to continue emphasizing the importance of empathy in healthy communication. This time we dive deeper into the tools you can use to help others through traumatic experiences, as well as regulate ourselves. We learn more about why we react to others the way we do and how we can use that information to better understand and communicate with others. Deb shares improved techniques to handle emotionally charged si...
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July 10, 2024 • 31 mins
Knowing how to use and control empathy is a powerful tool in both your professional and personal life. Empathy holds our relationships together and helps us better understand others, as well as ourselves. Founder of Crisis Optimist Coaching and Consulting, Deborah Needham, expands on all the ways empathy can help others and the importance on controlling your empathy in order to properly assist those in need. Through her experience ...
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June 26, 2024 • 31 mins
Leadership can often be an isolating position - as the sole decision maker, you don't often have all the variables in front of you to make the best decision for you and your team. Kelly sits down with Erin Peterson for Part Two of their conversation about finding self-confidence in leadership by diving into methods for generating more confident decision-makers and the six key takeaways every leader should lean into when it comes to...
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June 12, 2024 • 30 mins
Being a confident leader is a difficult task. It's not always clear which direction is the right way to go, and many leaders tend to struggle with balancing the expectations of success against the passion of their employees. Professional Leadership Coach Erin Petersen joins the podcast to talk about the value of self-confidence in leadership, and how learning to communicate more effectively with employees at every level can not onl...
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May 29, 2024 • 60 mins
Service Dogs are highly-trained canines that are taught to performs specific tasks for individuals or groups of poeple with various types of disabilities. Few know them better than Jeff Anderson - as the founder and CEO of Rebuilding Warriors, a 501(c)3 non-profit that provides service dogs to veterans all across the country, Jeff has been handpicking, evaluating, and training service dogs for over 12 years. That's why he's joining...
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May 15, 2024 • 34 mins
It takes more than good intentions to overcome an addiction - just ask Dr. Ted Carroll. Today, he's a practicing licensed mental health counselor and a national certified counselor with a Ph.D in Counselor Educationa and Supervision, but he's also a recovering addict - an ongoing journey that he says he'll be on for the rest of his days. But believe it or not, it's not all downsides.
In Part Two of his conversation with Rick, Dr. C...
In Part Two of his conversation with Rick, Dr. C...
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May 1, 2024 • 37 mins
Imagine your brain being hijacked. Your actions, thoughts, and cravings are out of control. You crave something so badly that you'll do whatever you can to quench it, but you can never have enough willpower to overcome this urge. You may be an addict.
It takes more than good intentions to overcome an addiction - just ask Dr. Ted Carroll. Nowadays, he's a hypnotherapist, licensed mental health counselor, and a national certified cou...
It takes more than good intentions to overcome an addiction - just ask Dr. Ted Carroll. Nowadays, he's a hypnotherapist, licensed mental health counselor, and a national certified cou...
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April 17, 2024 • 29 mins
If you or a loved one are struggling, help is available. Speak with someone today by dialing 988 in the United States or by contacting your respective Suicide Crisis Hotline.
UPLIFT is a yearly work-out day that strives to raise up the CrossFit community so that those who have lost, those who have survived, and those who want to support one another can have an outlet to come together. In Part Two of their conversation with Rick Hoag...
UPLIFT is a yearly work-out day that strives to raise up the CrossFit community so that those who have lost, those who have survived, and those who want to support one another can have an outlet to come together. In Part Two of their conversation with Rick Hoag...
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April 3, 2024 • 30 mins
If you or a loved one are struggling, help is available. Speak with someone today by dialing 988 in the United States or by contacting your respective Suicide Crisis Hotline.
Suicide is a challenging topic. Each year, millions are affected by it around the globe, but the stigma around it proves challenging. In Part One of a two-part conversation, Mark and Sarah Moss sit down with Rick Hoaglund to talk about their personal experience...
Suicide is a challenging topic. Each year, millions are affected by it around the globe, but the stigma around it proves challenging. In Part One of a two-part conversation, Mark and Sarah Moss sit down with Rick Hoaglund to talk about their personal experience...
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March 20, 2024 • 33 mins
Keeping your mental health in check can be difficult in any profession, but it's particularly challenging in the emergency services and first responder communities. Often it's not the trauma that may be experienced on the clock, but rather the lingering effects of those traumas that can truly damage the toughest employees in any organization. Following up from last week's discussion on First Responder Mental Health, Dr. I. David Da...
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March 6, 2024 • 30 mins
First Responders can suffer a variety of on-the-job hazards, but some of the most dangerous effects may not be visible to the naked eye. Dr. I. David Daniels is a life member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs and served over 30 years in Fire Rescue Emergency medical and emergency management organizations in three states. He also served two terms as a member of the National Safety Council Board of Directors and was the...
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February 21, 2024 • 27 mins
Millions of Americans suffer the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder every year, but what can be done? LMFT Therapist Therese Sorrentino returns to OnTopic to talk about home remedies, self-diagnosis, and the therapies she's used in her own practice to encourage healthier habits and more wholesome mindsets during the coldest season of the year.
Whether it's delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or ...
Whether it's delivering a high-value employee assistance program, student support, or ...
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February 7, 2024 • 22 mins
Have you ever found yourself feeling down in the winter? The days are shorter, the temperatures lower, and without some sunshine, things may start to look a little bleak. Seasonal Affective Disorder, or S.A.D. as it's more commonly known is a real condition, and millions of Americans are affected by it every single year. Rick invites LMFT Therapist Therese Sorrentino onto the show to talk about Seasonal Affective Disorder - where i...
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Episode 25: Healing Through Forgiveness with The LOVE > hate Project Founder Buck Blodgett, Part Two
January 24, 2024 • 31 mins
For a lot of us, Forgiveness can often feel impossible. Some trespasses may feel too great; some decisions too large to ignore when it comes to truly letting go. For Dr. Buck Blodgett, it's not so much an obligation, but a choice - you either choose to forgive, or you choose not to, and then you continue down the path that choice created. It's a core tenet of his book, 'A Message from Jessie', and a founding principal behind his or...
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Episode 24: Healing Through Forgiveness with The LOVE > hate Project Founder Buck Blodgett, Part One
January 10, 2024 • 38 mins
Content/Trigger Warnings: This episode contains content including the death, violence, and sexual crimes from 2min30sec to 7min30sec and from 20min30sec to 22min. Listener Discretion is advised.
It's easy to forgive the smaller trespasses in life - the occasional slip-up or minor accident often pale in comparison to some of life's greater challenges. Some of us may not even embrace forgiveness in the traditional sense, opting instea...
It's easy to forgive the smaller trespasses in life - the occasional slip-up or minor accident often pale in comparison to some of life's greater challenges. Some of us may not even embrace forgiveness in the traditional sense, opting instea...
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December 27, 2023 • 27 mins
How much of our brains are dedicated to remembering old jingles and theme songs? Why do certain songs make us so emotional? And most importantly - can Music Therapy work for just about anybody? Following up from Episode 22, Rick Hoaglund returns to the studio with Nancy Dexter-Schabow to talk about just how valuable Music Therapy can be as a tool for communication with nonverbal clients, by activating the various parts of the brain...
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December 13, 2023 • 26 mins
Have you ever heard the expression, "Music is good for the soul? "Turns out, it's good for your mental health too! Whether you can carry a tune or not, Music Therapist Nancy Dexter-Schabow says that every one of us has a song in their heart and that everybody, even the hard of hearing, can learn and grow through the benefits of music therapy. That's why she's sitting down with host Rick Hoaglund for a two-part conversation on the n...
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November 29, 2023 • 28 mins
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise - or at least it would, if so many of us weren't suffering from sleeping disorders. In their follow-up from last week's conversation on the effects of sleep on mental health, host Rick Hoaglund and Dr. Rajesh Balagani dig into sleeping disorders - why they happen, how they affect us, and what we can do to curb the trend - before diving into REM cycles, therapeutic...
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November 15, 2023 • 31 mins
When you go to bed, are you one of the lucky people can simply turn off the lights and drift into dreamland? Or are you, like millions of other Americans, struggling to fall asleep? In Part One of this Two-Part exploration into Sleep and it's effects on Mental Health, Dr. Rajesh Balagani explains why sleep is so important on a biological level to our larger wellbeing, and how a few simple steps can start to curb poor resting habits...
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November 1, 2023 • 43 mins
Is it better to run, hide, or fight? When it comes to responding to an active shooter, there's drills, strategies, and even testimonials that you can train on, but Dr. Schoenfeldt says that teaching's the real secret. Following up from last week, Kelly dives back into active shooter response management with Dr. Mary Schoenfeldt, an emergency management professional with experience going back to responding to Sandy Hook in December ...
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