The Overwhelmed Vet Podcast
Learn how to tackle the overwhelm, difficult clients (and colleagues!), emotional toll, high expectations and the general craziness we all experience in vet med.
Your host Gunila Pedersen is a Small Animal Veterinarian working in ER and also a Master Certified Life Coach. She burnt out after owning her own clinic, and managed to find the way back through life coaching.
Today she shares insights, relatable topics, tactical advice and the tools and inspiration that will help you fall head over heels in love with vet med again just as she did.
Episodes
57 episodes
Ep. 57: Truth delivered kindly. Interview with Koryn Greenspan, grief counsellor
Why is it that so many owners have a bad experience at the vet around the passing of their pets, and end up putting in a complaint or sharing their frustration on the internet?You may think owners get mad because we were not go...
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Ep. 56: How to get over rejection
How do you deal with being rejected?Head high, a shrug, and on to the next thing?Or do you get upset, retreat and struggle to move on?Whether you’re putting yourself out there for a new job, a promot...
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Ep. 55: DO something
If you work in Vet Med, then you can’t sit around and wait for things to get better - for you to magically FEEL better.The time to do something is now, and in this episode I explain why. I recommend listening...
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Ep. 54: Should you stay or should you go?
One of the things that wear us out the most is being stuck in confusion and indecision. Should I stay or leave this job? Should I even stay in vet med?The reason it's so hard to make a decision is because dee...
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Ep. 53: Interview with Ceri Lewis: When your brain tries to kill you - the episode that could save your life.
How do you get back from rock bottom twice in your veterinary life?How do you even HIT rock bottom twice?As a veterinarian, we know that we have a much higher suicide rate than other professions, and we intellectu...
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Ep. 52: How to get things done
People always ask me how I get so much done and my first thought is always “huh? I don’t do that much, do I really?”. But YES, I DO, and I think it’s time I share how I get things done with almost no stress (I can’t say ze...
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Ep. 51: How to know if you’re in burnout.
Spoiler alert: It’s much easier to realise once you’re OUT of it and can look back.So from that place, I want to give you the 11 top clues that I wish I had paid attention to when I was in burnout, so I could have gotten out ea...
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Ep. 50: The biggest time consumers of them all
Do you feel you’re in a toxic treadmill of constant things to do that never ends?Do the words “I’ll just quickly …” or “I’m quite busy …” or “I can’t right now, I’ve got a lot to do…” pass your lips more often than not?...
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Ep. 49: Interview with Alexandre Contreras: Find your why and never stagnate.
Ever felt like you are trapped and stagnating in vet med? Well Alex hasn’t, because through his 20 year career as a Miami veterinary technician he has kept challenging himself and found innovative ways to grow in every way...
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Ep: 48: We have not evolved quickly enough
You may think you should be better at coping with vet med. I’m here to tell you you shouldn’t, and exactly why.Ever heard about Urlugaledinna? Me neither, but in this episode you’ll find out who he is and why it’s important. Al...
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Ep. 47: How to overcome your past
Ever experienced this? You:had a bad experience with a client yesterday, and today you wake up full of dread and anxious about going to workhad a bad bleed during a bitch spey and now you panic every time y...
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Ep 46. Success in vet med: it’s not what you think.
There will come a point in your life when you look back and suddenly think “Am I successful?”Likely - your brain will say “no”.It will compare you to other people, and find you lacking.Success is not...
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Ep. 45: When you’re also the victim
Vet Med is no dance on roses.It’s incredibly rewarding. We make a huge difference to a LOT of animals and their owners.AND - when things go wrong, they can REALLY go wrong. There are more victim...
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Ep. 44: I wish I didn’t react like that
Getting a message from work, or a dreaded email from the Royal College can make our anxiety shoot through the roof in seconds.Is it WRONG to feel anxious and defensive about messages that we didn’t really want to receive?
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Ep. 43: Say your opinion and don’t play small
How significant are you?When you play small and fail to say what you really want, and stand up for yourself, you become insignificant.When you’re insignificant, your patients lose out on your valuable insight and ...
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Ep. 42: What if you’re wrong?
I opened the kennel and the dog face planted on my trainers. Oops.We had had a busy ER shift and I had finally gotten around to check on this impatient: A labrador that had been referred for out of hours analgesia and fluids be...
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Episode 41: Living the life YOU want TO LIVE
Two vets at completely different points in their lives - one burnt out after 10 years in practice and wanting to leave at all costs but staying because it’s the thing everyone expects.The other one absolutely loving life, has r...
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Ep. 40: Pets vs Babies - a NICU nurse reveals how to cope when the stakes are high
Ever thought you couldn’t cope in vet med?Between being understaffed, having patients coming in with no warning, upset and frustrated pet parents…Now imagine doing the same job, but with teeny premature babies!
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Ep. 39: How to become more confident
When you lack self confidence, life is so much harder!You struggle with feedbackYou worry about what other people think about youSelf doubt constantly creeps up and spoils your day....
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Ep. 38: How to overcome a mistake
Making a mistake is never fun, no matter how big or small.You can NOT 100% avoid making mistakes in this profession, because we’re doing new things everyday, often in a rush and with different people.So what can y...
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Ep. 37: The 3 things you MUST do to get your motivation back
Why do some people seem to be so motivated, and I just feel like staying in bed and not going to work again? Or at least THIS work?There are SO many reasons to feel unmotivated in vet med - but also so many to STAY motivated!
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Ep. 36: Let them be wrong about you
My client left her job and was STILL obsessed with her manager's opinion of her.Why do we get so worked up when we’re unfairly judged?And why does other people’s opinion matter so much to us?Working ...
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Ep. 35: Live coaching on the go!
Vicky is a vet nurse struggling to find time for everything out of work.She jumped on the opportunity as an email subscriber to get an hour of intensive coaching!In this podcast episode you’ll get an idea of how y...
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