

Explore The Space
Mark Shapiro MD
Examining the interface between healthcare and society, with thought leaders from across the spectrum.
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Sep 13, 2021 • 39min
MedLasso S2, E8 with Special Guest Jessica Shapiro
“Get amongst it!”
“MedLasso” is back and we’re ready to jump into Ted Lasso season 2, episode 8. The intro voice from Explore The Space Podcast and my wife Jessica Shapiro joins us and this is absolutely epic. I think you’ll particularly like her answer to the question of purchasing premium Ted Lasso merchandise!
Please join in the conversation on Twitter, and tag your tweets with #MedLasso
Check out the archive of “MedLasso” here and get caught up!
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
#MedLasso, #TedLasso, #kindness, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #lockerroom #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Sep 6, 2021 • 42min
MedLasso S2, E7 with Special Guest Angela Weyand
” You didn’t realize I was so controversial!”
“MedLasso” returns this Labor Day to jump into Ted Lasso season 2, episode 7. This was a heavy episode, Dr. Angela Weyand joins us to help break down how we’re feeling, what’s to come, and what is the preferred cake to eat while watching Ted Lasso.
Please join in the conversation on Twitter, and tag your tweets with #MedLasso
Check out the archive of “MedLasso” here and get caught up!
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
#MedLasso, #TedLasso, #kindness, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #lockerroom #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Aug 30, 2021 • 36min
MedLasso S2, E6 with Special Guest Shikha Jain
“It’s really powerful to see the love you put into people come back to you”
“MedLasso” is back to dive into Ted Lasso season 2, episode 6. I’m joined by Dr. Sayed Tabatabai and our special guest Dr. Shikha Jain. We go deep on “Woman Up!” and how we need to look out for the well-being of our friends and colleagues who are relentlessly positive.
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Please join in the conversation on Twitter, and tag your tweets with #MedLasso
Check out the archive of “MedLasso” here and get caught up!
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
#MedLasso, #TedLasso, #kindness, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #lockerroom #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Aug 27, 2021 • 42min
Sapphire Stubbs On Naomi Osaka, Mental Health & Inclusive Language
“Sometimes you just need to feel passionate about something”
Sapphire Stubbs is the Director of Marketing & Sponsorships for Racquet Magazine. She joins us on the eve of the US Open and just after Racquet released an incredible new issue guest edited by Naomi Osaka to cover how this incredible collaboration took place, how centering mental health & creativity has a powerful impact, and her own incredible story.
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
Links
Sapphire Stubbs on LinkedIn
#tennis, #mentalhealth, #Racquet, #NaomiOsaka, #upstanding, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Aug 22, 2021 • 31min
MedLasso S2, E5 with Special Guest Jessi Gold
“We’re cheering that we are trying, and we are trying to help each other ”
“MedLasso” is back in the wake of the amazing Ted Lasso season 2, episode 5. I’m joined by Dr. Sayed Tabatabai and our special guest Dr. Jessi Gold. We go deep on why Ted Lasso’s resonance with health care professionals continues to grow, the importance of community and finding joy, and then we go “In The Locker Room” to answer some big questions about the show!
Please join in the conversation on Twitter, and tag your tweets with #MedLasso
Check out the archive of “MedLasso” here and get caught up!
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign – a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more.
Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/.
#MedLasso, #TedLasso, #kindness, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #lockerroom #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Aug 20, 2021 • 39min
Shantanu Nundy On Having a Vision
“We’ve got to give ourselves permission to have a vision, to dream a little bit”
Dr. Shantanu Nundy is a primary care physician and Chief Medical Officer at Accolade who joins Explore The Space to discuss his new book “Care After Covid”. We dive into why it’s important to have a vision and articulate it, unlocking skill sets around speaking out, and what the future can look like.
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/.
Key Learnings
1. The importance of still being in clinical practice while writing a book like “Care After Covid”
2. Why leaving “Disruption” out of his book was such an important move
3. How to unlock the skill set around speaking out
4. Giving yourself permission to lay out a vision
5. The moment when healthcare happens
6. What is required to drive a vision
7. The importance of being comfortable calling out solutions
#leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Aug 14, 2021 • 22min
MedLasso S2, E4
“I want to be in that world so bad!”
“MedLasso” is back with a quick turnaround after Sayed and I watched “Ted Lasso” episode 4 of season 2! Had to do it, the episode was amazing, we had to talk about it and some some Premium Content out there for all of you to enjoy. Spoiler alert if you haven’t watched episode 4 season 2 yet.
Join our conversation on Twitter using #MedLasso, it’s a great place to all come together. Enjoy!
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign – a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more.
Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/.
#MedLasso, #TedLasso, #kindness, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #lockerroom #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Aug 9, 2021 • 35min
MedLasso S2, E1-3 Wrap-Up
“I feel like I have this connection to a lot more people who are going through the same thing that I am”
“MedLasso” is back! We are 3 episodes into season 2 of “Ted Lasso” and it’s been incredible. Dr. Sayed Tabatabai and I jump in with both feet around why this season and episode 3 are resonating so deeply with doctors, nurses and healthcare workers as the Covid pandemic ramps back up again. We also introduce a new segment “In The Locker Room” where we cover some key questions, this will be a future home for us to bring guests on “MedLasso”
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign – a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more.
Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/.
#MedLasso, #TedLasso, #kindness, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #lockerroom #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Jul 27, 2021 • 38min
Michelle West On Doing Hard Things
“Be safe & have fun. That’s it. That’s all I said. Be safe & have fun.”
Michelle West does hard things. Things like finishing her 4th Badwater 135, one of the toughest foot races in the world. She dealt with 50 degree temperature swings, dust storms, wind, sleep deprivation and myriad other challenges to complete the race. She rejoined Explore The Space Podcast a few days after finishing to discuss her remarkable insights on doing hard things.
Check out Michelle’s previous appearances on Explore The Space Podcast here
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/.
Key Learnings
1. Seeing the record breaking heat in Death Valley before the race
2. The incredibly difficult conditions at the start of the race
3. Carrying chaos forward and starting something hard
4. Finding enjoyment as an exercise in mental toughness
5. Compartmentalization as a tool to move through prolonged challenges
6. Dealing with physical discomfort while trying to maintain mental toughness
7. Why Michelle trusts her legs
8. Hallucinations in the desert
9. The sadness when it’s all over
10. Michelle’s incredible approach to building a high-functioning team
11. Relentless forward motion!
#Badwater, #ultrarunning, #marathon, #DeathValley, #mentaltoughness #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship

Jul 16, 2021 • 33min
MedLasso Season 2 Preview
“It felt like we were being pulled out of the dark and shaken awake again”
Welcome to “MedLasso”, a limited Explore The Space Podcast series looking at the wonderful TV show “Ted Lasso” & why it has resonated so deeply, particularly with viewers who work in healthcare. Dr. Sayed Tabatabai joins Explore The Space Podcast as co-host; this first episode we look back on the show as a whole and season 1 in particular.
Stay tuned for more episodes of “MedLasso” over the next few months as season 2 of “Ted Lasso” roles out. We’ll have fun, laughs, special guests, and barbeque sauce!
Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts.
Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com
Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more!
Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow
Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is “Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19”
Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE.
Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign – a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more.
Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/.
#MedLasso, #TedLasso, #kindness, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medical, #student, #resident, #fellowship


