Teaching Humanity Remotely with Dr. Mindy Shaw

In this brief episode, Dr. Shaw's commentary relates to a recent hospital stay that her disabled son went through. She perceptively discusses how the quality of workers and service personnel is divided into three groups... the small percentage who are terrible at what they do, the vast majority who are great, and a tiny minority who are extremely special.  That handful of special people are the North Stars of the experience, and what makes them special is that they truly partner with the patient and their families.  They have no arrogance or condescension about what they do; they do what they do out of service.  In the hospital specifically, those who work from a place of ego won't be good partners, and those who don't will appreciate and nurture the partnership that exists between someone needing to heal and their skill set.

In this brief episode, Dr. Shaw discusses what it means to be "in right action."  She begins with the premise that right action leads to right results and that wrong action cannot possibly lead to right results.  She then takes the conversation into illustrative examples from her career as an educator.  She acknowledges and promotes the understanding that some actions are a match with others and some are not, and she emphasizes that if something is not a match, it's not a big issue.  She concludes by saying that she is always working at being her best, and if she's not a some point, she simply forgives herself and moves on.

In this brief episode Dr. Shaw shares a phrase that came to her and it's the title of this podcast, "Care Before Crisis" Intervention.  It's word intervention that's the key to that phrase... we are accustomed to crisis intervention, but care intervention would be a whole new novel approach.  To treat someone or yourself with care BEFORE a situation reaches crisis is a good samaritan way to show up to yourself and others.  Yes, there are hard times, but we can de-escalate things before there's a crisis by caring.

In this super-brief installment of the series, Dr. Shaw puts forth one of her favorite recommendations for success in life... she says, "don't give up, show up."  She rounds out that advice with some additional detail and some added perspective on what that means, but in essence this podcast has a simple and direct message.

In this brief but insightful episode, Dr. Shaw puts forth the notion that how you treat yourself is mirrored in how we treat others AND how the world treats us as well.  She shares some real life examples and some of her personal experiences, and she points out that sometimes it's counterintuitive to behave in the manner that serves us best.  She also reminds us that observing yourself is incredibly valuable in helping to establish how you want to be and how you want your life to unfold.