Practically Speaking: What is Your Why? How Did We Get Here, and Why Do You Care?
Guess who's back? Back again… We are excited to announce that Practical for your Practice (P4P) Season 5 launched this week! Your hosts are excited to kick things off with a reveal of this season’s theme. On P4P, we believe in the importance of relating to each as a behavioral health podcast community.
So in that vein, for Season 5 we will be asking our guests, “What is your why?” What drew them into the field of behavioral health and the specific slice of the field that they're in? Behavioral health provider origin stories if you will. And what better way to kick things off than to have your hosts disclose theirs.
Listen to the full discussion here: What is Your Why? How Did We Get Here, and Why Do You Care?
The truth is your hosts, all deeply passionate about providing evidence-based culturally informed behavioral healthcare, started out with dreams of being a veterinarian, computer scientist and a great American novelist. So what happened? A fascination with human behavior and chance. In this episode, as each of us review our background, we are struck by the shared experience of a winding career path and how opportunities taken truly shaped our behavioral health destinies.
Some lessons learned that shaped our “why”:
“Say yes to opportunities. Say yes to training opportunities, say yes to supervision opportunities, say yes to being on a committee…if it's not specifically in your wheelhouse or not your area of expertise, but you have an opportunity to learn or to grow or to get exposure to something…it'll still enhance some aspect of what you do.” (Jenna)
“Most things that went well in my career were unplanned because I said yes to trying new things…If you've tried something and it's just not working, you're not locked into that. I changed paths and got to where I am today. And I'm sure I'll change paths in some format moving forward, and I think that's a good thing. I think that's healthy.” (Carin)
“Sometimes the best thing to do is take a step into the unknown and try something different…don't be afraid to seize some of those opportunities when they appear.” (Kevin)
Tune in to hear more about your host’s origin stories, actionable intel about career paths and MOST importantly, we want to hear from YOU! What are you hoping to hear about in a future podcast? If something in this episode was striking to you and you want to share your “why” or your passion or even actionable intel for other folks in the field, we would love that as well! Leave a message on our speakpipe, https://www.speakpipe.com/cdpp4p We'd love to share it in a future episode.
Welcome to season 5!
Listen to the full discussion here: What is Your Why? How Did We Get Here, and Why Do You Care?
The opinions in CDP Staff Perspective blogs are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science or the Department of Defense.
Jenna Ermold, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist working as the Associate Director of Online Training, Technology and Telehealth for the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland.
Guess who's back? Back again… We are excited to announce that Practical for your Practice (P4P) Season 5 launched this week! Your hosts are excited to kick things off with a reveal of this season’s theme. On P4P, we believe in the importance of relating to each as a behavioral health podcast community.
So in that vein, for Season 5 we will be asking our guests, “What is your why?” What drew them into the field of behavioral health and the specific slice of the field that they're in? Behavioral health provider origin stories if you will. And what better way to kick things off than to have your hosts disclose theirs.
Listen to the full discussion here: What is Your Why? How Did We Get Here, and Why Do You Care?
The truth is your hosts, all deeply passionate about providing evidence-based culturally informed behavioral healthcare, started out with dreams of being a veterinarian, computer scientist and a great American novelist. So what happened? A fascination with human behavior and chance. In this episode, as each of us review our background, we are struck by the shared experience of a winding career path and how opportunities taken truly shaped our behavioral health destinies.
Some lessons learned that shaped our “why”:
“Say yes to opportunities. Say yes to training opportunities, say yes to supervision opportunities, say yes to being on a committee…if it's not specifically in your wheelhouse or not your area of expertise, but you have an opportunity to learn or to grow or to get exposure to something…it'll still enhance some aspect of what you do.” (Jenna)
“Most things that went well in my career were unplanned because I said yes to trying new things…If you've tried something and it's just not working, you're not locked into that. I changed paths and got to where I am today. And I'm sure I'll change paths in some format moving forward, and I think that's a good thing. I think that's healthy.” (Carin)
“Sometimes the best thing to do is take a step into the unknown and try something different…don't be afraid to seize some of those opportunities when they appear.” (Kevin)
Tune in to hear more about your host’s origin stories, actionable intel about career paths and MOST importantly, we want to hear from YOU! What are you hoping to hear about in a future podcast? If something in this episode was striking to you and you want to share your “why” or your passion or even actionable intel for other folks in the field, we would love that as well! Leave a message on our speakpipe, https://www.speakpipe.com/cdpp4p We'd love to share it in a future episode.
Welcome to season 5!
Listen to the full discussion here: What is Your Why? How Did We Get Here, and Why Do You Care?
The opinions in CDP Staff Perspective blogs are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science or the Department of Defense.
Jenna Ermold, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist working as the Associate Director of Online Training, Technology and Telehealth for the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland.