The cATalyzing Podcast

"The ABCs of Leadership Development" with David Csillan, MS, LAT, ATC

Leadership involves more than giving orders. Effective leaders walk the talk. In this audio from his presentation, David discusses what he believes are the necessary qualities of leadership, presented through humor and his factual accounts.

Objectives:

1. Identify the various qualities of an effective leader
2. Understand how to increase productivity among the members of an organization
3. Become familiar with motivation techniques which promote volunteerism and teamwork

Bio: One of the most passionate athlete safety advocates you will meet, David Csillan is currently a part time athletic trainer with The Hun School in Princeton, NJ. David holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education with a focus on Athletic Training from Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey) and a Master's Degree in Athletic Training from Old Dominion University. Prior to The Hun School he served as an athletic trainer at Ewing High School in New Jersey since 1991. Additionally, he provided medical services for events like the TCS New York City Marathon and Special Olympics New Jersey. During his career, David played a pivotal role in advancing the athletic training profession. He was President of the Athletic Trainers' Society in New Jersey, helping the state pass legislation to award certificates and tenure to eligible secondary school athletic trainers. He also worked on transitioning New Jersey's Athletic Training Practice Act from registration to licensure. David co-chaired the NATA Inter-Association Task Force on Preseason Heat Acclimatization Guidelines for Secondary School Athletics and led New Jersey to be the first state to adopt these guidelines, and has presented on this topic through various media outlets. In 2018, he collaborated with multiple organizations to develop policies aimed at reducing secondary school athletic catastrophic injuries in New Jersey. He co-authored NATA position statements on exertional heat injuries and the prevention of sudden death in athletics. David held leadership roles in NATA District Two and currently chairs the NATA District Secretaries'/Treasurers' Committee, co-chairs the EATA '49 Club Committee and 75th Anniversary Committee, and serves as a reviewer for the NATA Journal of Athletic Training and on the Editorial Board for Training and Conditioning magazine. His contributions to the field have earned him induction into several Halls of Fame, including the National Athletic Trainers' Association, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey, and Ewing High School Athletics.

About Ryan Stevens/cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting:

"The Look & Sound of Healthcare Leadership" with Tom Henschel and Ryan Stevens

"Tips for Early Career Healthcare Professionals" with Ryan Stevens. This episode is audio from when Ryan was invited to provide an interactive presentation to the Texas Tech University Athletic Training Student Association in 2021, answering a number of questions centered around tips for new graduates / early career professionals. Thanks to Jordyn Poindexter for the invitation and for being a great moderator!

"Work-Life Wave" with Chris Flores, ATC

In this episode of The cATalyzing Podcast, we present the audio from a presentation Chris Flores, ATC gave to an audience of Athletic Trainers about what he calls "Work-Life Wave". While the audience is ATs, his stories and principles apply to healthcare team members across all professional settings. Many people talk about work-life balance however Chris does not believe there is a perfect balance in life - there are waves that go up and down. In this talk Chris teaches strategies and techniques to maneuver these waves towards helping you achieve personal and career success.

Chris's points of focus:

1. Teach people how to manage work, life and success

2. Teach people how to use the Wealth Wave to find balance in their life

3. Show the importance of creating structure for better time management.

"Head in the Clouds, Feet in the Dirt" - Anthony Cava and Ryan Stevens. In this episode of The cATalyzing Podcast, former RWJUH Somerset Hospital President and CEO Anthony "Tony" Cava joins Ryan Stevens for a conversation about leaders maintaining big picture thinking while at the same time staying grounded and understanding the challenges their team faces on a regular basis. We discuss:

• What does "Head in the Clouds, Feet in the Dirt" mean?
• Challenges leaders face when trying to keep in tune with the needs and challenges of the front line service providers
• Strategies for front line service providers thinking big picture while staying centered on their duties.
• Team dynamics to more effectively remain a unified front in terms of company vision, mission, and service delivery.
• Call to action on this topic to other leaders.

Tony's bio: With over 30 years of experience in healthcare administration, Anthony "Tony" Cava, MS, RPH, FACHE, is the former President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, part of RWJBarnabas Health. Under his leadership from 2015 through the end of 2022, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset underwent significant growth and renovations. In 2017, Tony oversaw the opening of the state's first hospital-based primary care center for the LGBTQIA community. Before joining RWJBarnabas Health, Mr. Cava held various hospital leadership positions, including Chief Operating Officer for Bayshore Medical Center and roles at Riverview Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, and St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital. He earned his bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from St. John's University College of Pharmacy in New York and a master's degree in Clinical Pharmacy and Administration from St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health. He is a registered pharmacist and a member of several professional organizations, including the American Society of Health System Pharmacists and the American College of Healthcare Executives. Apart from his healthcare responsibilities, he actively participates in various organizations, including serving on the Raritan Valley Community College Foundation Board and Finance and Investment Committee, NJHA Audit and Compliance Committee, and NJHA Healthcare Business Solutions Board. He is also involved with the Somerset County Business Partnership Executive Committee and SCBP Strategic Plan Committee.

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Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

"Selling your Passion" w/ Josh Jimenez, Andrew Nesbitt, & Ryan Stevens In this episode we explore the inspiring journeys of two exceptional individuals who turned their athletic training expertise into budding careers in sales. We delve into the captivating stories of these remarkable professionals who found a unique path to thrive beyond the boundaries of their original passion - now choosing to sell their passion. We discuss:

• The "why" behind Josh and Andrew transitioning into the realm of product support and sales
• Typical week/month/annual responsibilities for an athletic trainer working in a clinical product support and sales role
• Specific attributes from experience as an AT which has helped them be more effective in your their roles
• Areas they focus their professional development?
• Educational aspects from the world of product support and sales which would also benefit clinical athletic trainers to hone?
• Advice for any athletic trainers looking to make a successful transition into this area

Bios: Joshua Jimenez, ATC (jimenezjosh73@gmail.com) is a sales consultant for H-Wave. He attended Montclair State University for his athletic training degree and started his career as an athletic trainer in the secondary school setting, with clinical and industrial settings positions following that. Josh transitioned to working in the operating room as a Mako Product Specialist with Stryker that further led him to explore the world of medical devices. This led to his current position as a sales consultant with H-Wave, helping battle the opiate crisis and helping people get back to their life using an amazing product. His interests are in business, technology, and medicine. Andrew Nesbitt CSCS, USAW, EP-C, RPR (NesbittA95@gmail.com) is a clinical specialist in the neuromodulation division of Boston Scientific. He partners with pain management physicians, orthopedic surgeons, and neurosurgeons to treat patients suffering from chronic neuropathic pain. Andrew is a graduate of The College of New Jersey where he earned a bachelor's degree in exercise science and, after graduation, worked as a strength and conditioning coach in the high school, college, and private settings. He later went on to earn a master’s degree in athletic training and, prior to working at Boston Scientific, was employed as an athletic trainer at Bergen Catholic High School.  _______________________________________________________

Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

"Servant Health Care" - Tyler Knight & Ryan Stevens

In this episode, we'll explore the principles of servant leadership and how they can be applied to healthcare. Tyler and Ryan discuss real-world examples of servant leadership in action, and discuss how you can put these principles into practice in your own healthcare setting. Our goal is to help you become a more effective servant leader in healthcare. We believe that servant leadership is the key to providing high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. Join us as we explore the power of servant leadership in healthcare.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Our own definitions of "servant healthcare"
• Roadblocks interfering with an athletic trainer (or any other healthcare provider) truly providing servant healthcare
• Strategies for being a servant healthcare provider while avoiding compassion fatigue & burnout

About Tyler Knight, MS, ATC, CSCS, PES, CES Tyler is approaching a decade in Major League Soccer and is the Head Athletic Trainer and Rehab Coordinator at Charlotte FC. Before arriving in Charlotte, he worked with the USMNT in their build-up to the 2022 World Cup, with Real Salt Lake in the 7 years preceding that, and is University of Oregon and University of Alabama alum. In 2021, Tyler was a member of the Athletic Training Staff of the Year awarded by Major League Soccer. He currently serves as the Secretary for the Professional Soccer Athletic Trainers’ Society, where he previously functioned as the Vice President, and also sits on the MLS Education Committee where he desires to create a lasting impact in the Athletic Training and Sports Medicine profession. He has a passion to promote AT by serving others and seeking opportunities that highlight the skill sets, capabilities, and advancements of ATs. Despite his dedication to those around him and ambition to continually create avenues that emphasize personal and professional growth, Tyler is adamant the most important impact we can have in life is in the lives of those around us. He’s a Christian, husband to his amazing wife Hope, dog dad to their little man Tibby, godfather, brother, son, friend, and colleague.

Tyler.Knight@CharlotteFootballClub.com | @tcknight22 _________________________________________ cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

"Creating your Opportunity: Setting Yourself Up for Success" - Audio taken from a 2019 guest lecture given to the Athletic Training Education Program of Kean University (New Jersey) by Ryan Stevens, MPS, ATC, CSCS. In this episode, Ryan shares lessons from his career journey centered around the theme of "creating opportunities" for yourself. Set yourself up for success with a proper focus on empathetic understanding, proactive planning, and owned experience. _____________________________________________________________________

cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

At times, life can be tough for people who work in the healthcare industry. Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Depression. Difficulty with balancing work and personal life. As healthcare and human service professionals, we are constantly lifting others up, and that can be draining. Are we remaining self-aware, and taking care of ourself? Sometimes when you feel stuck, it's tough taking that first step. What strategies do you choose when you need lifted up? Who are and what are your catalysts to help you break out? As we near the end of #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth (May), Ryan Stevens, MPS, ATC, CSCS discusses the importance of lifting ourselves up.

Own your feelings. Own your space. You got this.

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

"Work-Life Balance in Healthcare: Navigating Life's Ups and Downs" We have a guest host for this one! Karen Nguyen, a sports medicine / pre-physician assistant student at West Chester University (graduating May 2024) reached out to me a few months back to interview me about work-life balance for athletic trainers. It was a fantastic conversation, one I hope will resonate with all listeners. It's especially fitting that this episode is being released during May, Mental Health Awareness Month. Thank you Karen for the opportunity to share this message!

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

It's back! The 4th annual Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey Symposium recap episode! #ATSNJ2023. A special thank you to the ATSNJ Executive Committee for your support in this project! Check out this lineup! In this episode you'll get brief summaries of all presenters' key takeaways from the Symposium.

"NYSATA 2022 in 90" - Time for another content-packed cATalyzing ATs event recap episode - New York State Athletic Trainers' Association 2022 annual symposium recap. Ryan has conversations with all NYSATA 2022 presenters, plus outgoing NYSATA president Roy Flores. A special thank you to Roy Flores and Aimee Brunnell for the opportunity to collaborate.  

Arturo (Roy) Flores, MS, ATC - NYSATA Key Initiatives (nysatapastpresident@gmail.com) 

Amy Eisenhauer, EMT - Emergent Collaboration between EMS and Athletic Trainers (Amy.Eisenhauer@health.ny.gov) 

Jennifer M. Medina McKeon, PhD, ATC, CSCS and Patrick O. McKeon, PhD, ATC, CSCS - Let’s talk about the Head…of the Talus (Parts 1 & 2).  BONUS LINK to supplement this topic: The Ankle-Joint Complex: A Kinesiologic Approach to Lateral Ankle Sprains (jmckeon@ithaca.edu; pmckeon@ithaca.edu) 

James Pierre-Glaude, PT, DPT, ATC, OCS, CSCS - Cultural Competency in Healthcare (Education): How Your Provider’s Training Affects Your Health (james.pierre-glaude@stonybrook.edu)

Laura Purificato, MSPT - Therapeutic Management in the Active Client Presenting with Hip Dysfunction (therapeuticevolutionpt@gmail.com)

Rob Panariello MS, PT, ATC, CSCS and Angelo Marsella MA, ATC, USAW - An Athletic Performance Training Program Design for Lower Extremity Return to Play Testing (amarsella@professionalpt.com; rpanariello@professionalpt.com)

Frank J. Alexander, MS, ATC - Psychological Impact of Athletic Injuries (fa2366@cumc.columbia.edu)

Dana Barsalow OTR/L, MS, CHT - Ulnar Collateral Ligament Injuries of the Thumb (drharben@yahoo.com)

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

"Overhead Athlete Dynamic Warm Up - A Coaching Example" In this episode, experience an example of a dynamic warm up program geared towards overhead athletes (tennis, track & field throwers, baseball, softball, volleyball). This audio comes from a 2013 collaboration project between Ryan Stevens, MPS, ATC, CSCS and Ian Westermann of Essential Tennis. To compliment the podcast, check out the video segments below for a video of the movements and exercises Ryan is coaching.  While Ryan's approach to teaching dynamic warm up has been updated and adapted over the last decade, this particular system/progression in this episode is absolutely effective and will produce great results with your athletes. Shout out to Ian Westerman of www.essentialtennis.com for the original videos and the collaboration, as well as shout out to the mentors Ryan mentions in this episode who first influenced his implementation of this sort of warm up system: Paul Kolody (AT & Strength Coach in NJ), Robb Rogers (strength coach), Lee Taft (Speed & agility guru), Exos (previously Athlete's Performance - Mark Verstagen) Overhead Athlete Dynamic Warm Up pt 1 – Activation and Mobilization https://youtu.be/fNmFyPlOPeg Overhead Athlete Dynamic Warm Up part 2 – Dynamic Movement Prep https://youtu.be/FgcjRVxWBco Overhead Athlete Dynamic Warm Up part 3 – Power Prep https://youtu.be/7jNvq_BZ32Y

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

"ATSNJ in 60: 2022 Edition"

We are back!  For the 3rd year in a row, The cATalyzing Podcast is bringing you a recap episode of the key takeaways from the 2022 Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey annual symposium. This year's lineup was fantastic, with a solid mix of clinical, administrative, and  lessons. 

• NIL Rules Change: How it Affects Athletic Trainers - John Gallucci, Jr, MS, ATC, PT, DPT (President and CEO, JAG-One Physical Therapy)
• Recognition, Assessment, & Management of Long COVID - Daria Oller, PT, DPT, ATC (Physical Therapist and Certified Athletic Trainer, Pro-Activity)
• Interprofessional Collaboration in the Orthopedic Setting - Marc Mortellaro, PhD, ATC, OPA-C, OA-C (Certified Athletic Trainer, Columbia Orthopedics) & Christopher Cordero, MHA (Division Manager, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University, Irving Medical Center)
• Using VOMS for Concussion Management - Jaclyn Morrissette< PhD, ATC (Assistant Professor & Program Director, Athletic Training & Sports Medicine, William Paterson University)
• Key 2022 ATSNJ Initiatives - Jessica Springstead, EdD, ATC (ATSNJ President, Athletic Training Manager - Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center/RWJBarnabas Health)
• Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Athletic Trainer - Pete Koenegis, DAT, M.Ed, ATC (Certified Athletic Trainer, Northern Highlands Regional High School)
• Post-Professional Pathways and Clinical Specialization in Athletic Training - Christopher Servian, ATC, COF (Certified Athletic Trainer, St. Luke's University Health Network) & Daniel Dobrowolski, DAT, ATC (Resident Athletic Trainer St Lukes University Health Network)
• Common Foot Injuries - Mark Nathanson, DPM (Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, Rothman Orthopaedics)
• How to Promote Yourself for An Athletic Training Position Before and After Graduation - Michael Goldenberg, MS, ATC, NASM-CES (Athletic Trainer, The Lawrenceville School)

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

"An Athletic Trainer's Guide to Understanding Chiropractors - a conversATion with Kevin Vieser, DC, ATC" There is no doubting the value that exists in intraprofessional collaboration. It is unfortunate that often there is "headbutting" which occurs between athletic trainers and chiropractors, and the most likely reason is a lack of understanding of what each side brings to the table. What better way to dive deep into understanding the world of chiropractic care than to speak with a dual-credentialed athletic trainer and chiropractor Kevin Vieser, DC, ATC. Dr. Kevin combines his life-long love for athletics and his passion for helping others into his profession as a Chiropractor and Certified Athletic Trainer. It was during his undergraduate years as an Athletic Training student at Springfield College where he witnessed the impact chiropractic care made on the recovery process of any injury that inspired him to want to do the same for the people he treated. Upon graduation from Springfield College, Dr. Kevin moved to the west coast to begin his studies at Palmer College of Chiropractic - West Campus in San Jose, CA. Not only did he succeed academically, he augmented his education with a wide range of professional experiences as a Certified Athletic Trainer, from youth athletes to Olympians while attending advanced extremity manipulation seminars nationwide. Currently Dr. Kev has his own practice in New Jersey, where his mission is simple: to provide the best care possible, to make it accessible, and to give patients the confidence in their ability to heal. Want to contact Dr. Kev?  More info can be found at www.drkevinvieser.com, and find him on instagram @_DrKev_

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

In this episode, Ryan Stevens interviews all presenters who took part in the 2021 Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey (ATSNJ) Annual Symposium, discussing the Key Takeaways each #ATSNJ2021 education session.

"ATSNJ: A year in NJ Athletic Training review + 2021 Goals" - Jessica Springstead EdD, ATC, ATSNJ Conference Chair and ATSNJ President Elect @ATSNJ & @speedracerAT

Incorporating Quadrupedal Movement Training into your Rehabs and Injury Reduction Programs with Jeff Buxton, PhD, Assistant Professor - Grove City College. In this episode we will discuss Jeff’s journey from coach to professor, hear about what got him interested in Quadrupedal Movement Training (QMT), and for what reasons he choose to do his PhD dissertation specifically on the effects of a novel ground-based movement training program on Functional Movement, Flexibility, Strength, and Endurance. We will learn about the main findings of his study, and discuss what ATs need to know when incorporating ground-based movements such as animal flow or any other body weight movement system, such as guidelines to determine a starting point, progressions, regressions, or lateralizations. How do we get the benefit of QMT for someone who isn’t comfortable getting on the ground, who has post-surgical CKC restrictions, post-injury tissue integrity limiting the amount of BW through the UE? How do you determine load and repetition volume when it comes to QMT?  Jeff shares his tips for ATs who wish to incorporate QMT into their rehab or injury prevention programs! Check out Dr Buxton's published research here -->  https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Abstract/9000/The_Effects_of_a_Novel_Quadrupedal_Movement.94204.aspx  Dr Jeff Buxton can be reached at buxtonjd@gcc.edu

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Fall Sports - are you ready to go? This audio comes from an interview Ryan Stevens, MPS, ATC, CSCS did for the 2020 Somerset County School Nurses Association in August, organized by RWJ Somerset Hospital. The audience of this interview was school nurses, however this should serve as a "check in" for athletic trainers to perform a self-audit where you are currently.  Much has changed since Athletic Trainers and School Nurses were last in school back in March, especially pertaining to sports participation. Ryan shares his experience in a hospital leadership and operations role over the last five months to serve as a reflection point for all who are in the midst of returning to fall sports or organizational activities now.  Ryan discusses the importance of establishing a COVID-19 Response team, who should be on it, and some goals to consider for this team. Additionally, Ryan answers the following questions.  What has changed with athletics pre-participation physicals in New Jersey?  What are the criteria for student returning to sports after recovering from COVID? What are some environmental, safety, facility, and logistical precautions which should be taken in preparation before the sports season for after school middle school and high school sports, as well as any in-person physical education classes which resume? What is the role that telehealth and telemedicine in the delivery of health care will play moving forward, and how should healthcare professionals be preparing for this? It is likely that student athletes are more at risk for injury now returning to sports vs previous fall seasons. Why is that, and what are some strategies that can reduce the risk of injury and overtraining upon return?

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Warning: Acting on the prompted self-reflection points and tips in this episode will change your career for the better. Be ready.  :-) Having the skill set to bridge the gap between one's knowledge and the application of that knowledge often can be the difference maker in job satisfaction, workplace effectiveness, and professional growth. As athletic trainers in all professional settings, therein lies a responsibility to take ownership of what we can control to grow ourselves professionally while representing our AT profession in a positive and productive manner. The purpose of this episode is to review a topic not discussed enough in our field: communicATion skills. Athletic trainers, you can greatly improve your effectiveness, influence, and relationships by placing a higher focus on self-awareness and verbal and non-verbal communication skills. With the increased importance of interprofessional collaboration, along with the ever changing need to be able to work with diverse populations, ATs must solidify the foundation of communication as it pertains to rapport and relationship building. Ryan unpacks the verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication , and shares how enhanced communication skills play in building positive rapport.  Learn ways to implement matching and mirroring strategies as a means to enhance understanding and message delivery. You are guaranteed to leave this conversation with some practical approaches for athletic trainers to enhance your relationships with administrators, athletes/patients/clients, coaches, parents, and co-workers to improve outcomes. 

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

With an ever-changing landscape in the provision of health care, now more than ever athletic trainers must understand proper implementation and utilization of telehealth and telemedicine strategies. This episode is a deep dive into all things telehealth and telemedicine, featuring J. Timothy Sensor, LAT, ATC of New Jersey. Tim shares what has fueled his passion for being involved with the development of AT legislature and practice/licensing acts, and from his awesome experience we will learn a ton!  The reality is, we as ATs have been practicing telehealth for years, but have we been doing it as responsibly? What exactly is the difference between telehealth and telemedicine, and what must you update in your physician-signed plan of care/standing orders to cover you? From a documentation standard, how should ATs be properly documenting and logging Telehealth/telemedicine occurrences, and what should we consider when choosing a platform to utilize? Tim and Ryan discuss the likely challenges an AT will face when implementing and utilizing telehealth/telemedicine? J. Timothy Sensor, LAT, ATC, has been working as an Athletic Trainer at the Overlook Medical Center for Concussion Care since 2014. He has been a partner with Safe Sports Training Consultants, LLC, since 2013. He had been the Chief Athletic Trainer and Chief Clinical Supervisor at Kean University in Union, NJ from 1983 to 2013. Prior to that he was the Head Athletic Trainer at Ramapo College from 1977 to 1983. He is currently on the NATA Research and Education Foundation Board as the NATA District Two Chair, a position he has held since 2016. He served as the President of the Athletic Trainers Society of New Jersey (1989-1991). Mr. Sensor has held positions in a multitude of committees with the New Jersey Medical Society, EATA, NATA, and at Kean University. Mr. Sensor was the chair of the NATA District Secretaries/Treasurers Committee, a member of the New Jersey Medical Society Committee on Medical Aspect of Sports, a member of the Kean University Board of Trustees’ Building, Finance and Audit Committee, and a member of the New Jersey Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board (PEOSH). He has also served on the Athletic Training Advisory Board to the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners since 2006. He was the Treasurer for NATA District Two from 1994-2000 and the Treasurer of the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association from 2002-2006. Any questions? You can reach Tim at jtimothys@comcast.net

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Know your worth, show your worth, own your worth. Advocacy is a domino effect which starts with you as an individual, which spreads to impact our entire profession. In this episode, Ryan is joined by Alisha M. Pennington, MS, ATC, and they discuss the importance of self-advocacy for ATs and why we must master this concept. What are the potential outcomes of positive self advocacy? What happens if you go about it leading with your "ego"?  In what ways can positive self-advocacy enhance your compensation and your overall outcomes with your job duties? What are some specific strategies to self-advocate, and why must an AT be self-aware of their advocacy to avoid potential pitfalls which build walls instead of bridges.   Alisha is the founder and owner of ATvantage, an athletic training service company, which she started in 2012 after she completed her undergraduate education in athletic training at Florida State University and her masters in Kinesiology at California State University - Fullerton.  She recognized a need for advocacy and education of athletic trainers to potential clients, especially in California where the profession lacks licensure. While growing the company, Alisha has worked with USA Beach Volleyball & USA Water Polo, traveling domestically and internationally, and is an athletic trainer on the television show Biggest Loser. In her education and advocacy efforts, Alisha saw the need to share information in a public capacity, so she started a podcast in 2015 aimed at educating athletic trainers about the intersection of business and athletic training, and now her podcast is a BOC approved provider for CEs, which she gives away for free.  Alisha speaks across the country to students, athletic trainers, and educators about the business aspects of athletic training, including a feature presentation at NATA in 2018 titled “Principles of Per Diem Work: Liabilities & Legalities” which was later published by the NATA as a Best Practices document, with Alisha as a primary author.  An active volunteer in the profession since 2013, she serves in various capacities across several committees and is currently the District 7 Chair on the Public Relations Committee and a member of the Private Practice/ Emerging Settings committee within the Council on Practice Advancement. You can contact Alisha at Alisha@theATvantage.com and can find more information about her at www.theATvantage.com

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Job Seeking and Interview Tips for Athletic Trainers - a conversation with Stephanie Gehman, LAT, ATC, CEAS With changes in our economy, staffing models, and increased healthcare needs stemming from a COVID-19 world, as an athletic trainer there's a chance you are looking for new or expanded opportunities this summer to advance your career. In this episode, Ryan and Stephanie unpack a number of key points pertaining to the process of applying for and interviewing for a new job, as well as the transition process from your "old" job to your "new"job.  We discuss the importance of branding yourself, especially through your resume and cover letter. How are you searching for opportunities?  Once you get that opportunities, how do you nail the interview?  And let's say you nail that interview, what should you do next after the interview? If you get offered the job, and accept, how do you make that transition professionally? Stephanie believes we're in a critical period for the athletic training profession as we work to expand our involvement in the healthcare world, and a big part of that is influencing others to give you that opportunity. Given this circumstance, our profession needs more and better leaders than ever before. We owe it to ourselves and those who come after us to reject complacency and accelerate growth.  Showcase this passion as you seek your next opportunity! Stephanie has been an athletic trainer for over 10 years, with primary experience in the secondary school setting and in athletic training administration. In her current role as Athletic Training Supervisor for Coordinated Health (a part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network), she provides leadership to a large team athletic trainers across numerous secondary school, collegiate, and advanced practice settings. Stephanie graduated with honors from Messiah College with a BA in Athletic Training.  Following graduation, she worked for several years in Central Pennsylvania at Cumberland Valley HS, the School District of Lancaster, and Lancaster Mennonite. Stephanie joined Coordinated Health in 2013 to serve Liberty High School before moving into an Athletic Training lead lead, starting her administrative career. Stephanie lives in Quakertown, PA with her husband and three active sons. You can reach Stephanie at Stephanie.Gehman@yahoo.com if you'd like to pick her brain!

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

During times when conflict arises and influence is necessary, the ability to leverage your own personal power can be the difference maker in the outcomes you achieve. As an athletic trainer, it is important to differentiate positional and personal power.  Kevin emphasizes the personality traits of civility and compassion and how those traits can be used to develop personal power and leadership qualities in the athletic training profession. KB shares his strategies to effectively communicate and function as an influential contributing member of the athletic department team.  He also discusses strategies to promote an environment of civility and compassion in the athletic training clinic. This talk was originally given at the 2019 RWJBarnabas Health "We Matter Too" Athletic Trainer Personal Development Symposium.  A 1997 graduate of Gettysburg College, Kevin Briles has been practicing as a licensed athletic trainer in New Jersey for 22 years. Kevin has served as District Athletic Trainer and Assistant to the Athletic Director at the Delsea Regional School District since 2004. Previously, he served as Director of Athletic Training Services for Kessler Memorial Hospital for six years. Along with his duties at Delsea, Briles has served as an athletic trainer for the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association championships in swimming, indoor and outdoor track, and wrestling at the District, Region, and State tournament levels. Furthermore, he has also served as site manager for wrestling weight certification as a master weight assessor and as a member of the NJSIAA’s Sports Medicine Advisory Committee. In addition to his secondary school responsibilities, he has served on athletic training staffs at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Atlantic Cape Community College, and serves as an adjunct clinical instructor/preceptor at Rowan University. Within the Athletic Trainers’ Society of New Jersey, Briles currently serves as President and sits on the Secondary Schools Committee. In addition to being a member of The New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Briles, is the recipient of Gettysburg College’s Romeo Capozzi Award, The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Athletic Training Service Award, and The Gloucester County Police Chiefs Association's Civilian Service Award. Kevin can be contacted via email at KBriles@atsnj.org or KBriles@delsearegional.us

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

The mistreatment of our black & brown brothers & sisters, both intentionally & untintentionally, is unacceptable. #BlackLivesMatter There is no "inferior" race, nor is there an inferior ethnicity/religion/sexual orientation/gender identity. While many say "all lives do matter", right now our priority as a world is taking care of those who feel/are treated as though theirs do not. The road to unity & elevATion of those who have been held down starts w/ personal reflection & personal choice. We must make a choice to admit there is injustice, acknowledge the pain, empathetically listen, & compassionately care better. We are ONE team as a human race. The problem is while many people SAY that, too many people do not LIVE that. People struggle w/ unintentional bias that has been cultivated throughout our lifetime because of our upbringing/surroundings/experiences. Because of our emotions, we "react" instead of "respond". We need to realize that sometime we have to take a breath before we speak. Sadly, our black & brown sisters & brothers in this world "cannot breathe." We can be something more, something greATer. Change will come through ownership of personal power, utilized in a productive way, NOT a destructive way. We are all capable of building our personal power, and more importantly we are all capable of SUPPORTING/EMPOWERING personal power in our black & brown sisters & brothers. Own your space. Be growth-minded. See yourself from the balcony. Reach out to those who feel they don't matter. AcT with empathetic purpose. Together we will make an impAcT towards finally changing the world. #BlackLivesMatter #WeAreOneTeam #SpreadLove

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Obstacles create opportunities. Everybody faces battles, curve balls, unexpected twists during their life and career journey.  It is how you respond and persevere through these obstacles which matters in dictating your long-term outcomes.  In this episode, Dr. Abrutyn and Ryan discuss Dr Abrutyn's story of perseverance and passion and discuss how adversity influences growth. How does mindset play a role in response to adversity, and based on chosen mindset what are the possible outcomes of someone facing adversity? What is the importance of demonstrating passion in healthcare, and how does demonstration of passion by a healthcare professional impact patient care and career growth? What are some things that can sidetrack “passion” along the way? Lastly, what are some tips for athletic trainers to maximize their relationships with physicians?

David Abrutyn, MD is an orthopedic surgeon for Summit Medical Group who is fellowship trained and board certified in Sports Medicine. His specialty is the nonoperative and operative treatment of shoulder and knee injuries. David's passion and focus are on tissue preservation, anatomic restoration and healing, and minimally invasive surgery, with a surgical practice focus on the treatment of the shoulder and knee with a primary emphasis on advanced arthroscopic and reconstructive procedures. David is currently the medical director of the Athletic Training service line at RWJ Somerset Hospital and team orthopedic surgeon for the Somerset Patriots Baseball Club and Immaculata High School Athletics in Somerville, NJ. He is also actively involved in the treatment of athletes from many Skyland High School Athletic Conference, and is the former team physician for Sky Blue Football Club (FC), New Jersey’s women’s professional soccer team and the Long Beach Ice Dogs, a minor league hockey team based in Long Beach, CA. Dr. Abrutyn championed and implemented the Joint Surgery Center at RWJ Somerset Hospital in Somerville, NJ, a comprehensive, patient-centric total joint replacement program that is nationally recognized the the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval. Dr. Abrutyn is passionate about athletics, fitness, and prevention, and his goal is to try to establish realistic expectations, educating his patients about their conditions and treatment options, which allows them to partner with him to achieve the best possible outcomes. Dr. Abrutyn sees patients in Bridgewater and Warren, NJ. For more information call 908-685-8500 of visit www.smgortho.com; David can be reached at dabrutyn@smgnj.com

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Working in "helping fields" can have significant stress and emotional effects on the providers themselves, inherently interfering with the efficiency, health and well-being, and overall functioning of these providers. It is incumbent upon providers to be selfish, putting themselves first, to sustain a fulfilling and rewarding life while remaining passionate about their work. It is important for athletic trainers to understand the benefits of practicing mindfulness. This talk will address issues related to the practice of athletic training and include the introduction of compassion fatigue, the negative effects of burnout, provide tools for healthy coping, and includes practical examples and practices that athletic trainers can integrate into their busy schedules. In this episode, Dr Pete Economou sheds some light on this topic with audio from a symposium presentation he delivered at the 2019 RWJBarnabas Health Summer Athletic Training Personal Development Symposium. Pete J. Economou Ph.D., ABPP was trained in counseling psychology and is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University in the graduate school of applied and professional psychology (GSAPP), also serving as the associate chair for the Applied Department. Dr. Pete is the founder of a clinical practice specializing in Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT), he is licensed by NJ and NY to practice psychology, and he is board certified in CBT. Dr. Pete has conducted research in several areas including: multicultural psychology, evidence-based treatments (mainly third wave CBT), Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues, and learning challenges related to executive functioning. He is an active member of state and national psychology associations, has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Sports Psychology since 2014, and is a contributor to media outlets and social media. Lastly, as a student of Zen Buddhism, Dr. Pete has been studying at the Morning Star Zendo with Robert Kennedy, Roshi for several years, which has translated into his mindfulness practices offered through the third wave CBT theories. Follow and connect with Dr. Pete on Twitter and Instagram at @OfficialDrPete.

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

An Athletic Trainer's chosen mindset is crucial during these different and, in many ways, difficult times. Athletic Trainers have always had to demonstrate calmness and composure during the emergency situations we deal with in our professional settings. Are we still demonstrating that calmness and composure during these times? In this cATalyzing Podcast for ATs episode, Chris Flores, ATC joins Ryan Stevens to discuss how athletic trainers are "built for this".  Also discussed are some coping strategies to keep calm during difficult times and effective daily planning and productivity strategies.  In having to be adaptable, what are some other ways athletic trainers can use the skill sets we already possess in a different way to be productive and showcase value in the ever-changing work post-COVID? Chris and Ryan get into this. Chris Flores, ATC is the owner of FLO Fitness, Co-creator of the Rooted Rehab Certification, Adjunct Professor at Kean University and the former Head Athletic Trainer for Westfield High School. During his 8 years there he discovered many of the same issue that most athletic trainers face trying to manage long hours, family life and personal success. This lead him to creating the FLO-OSOPHY Mindset Program. Chris believes you can have it all in life as long as you define what that means to you. If you want to reach out to Chris for more information, he can be reached out at FloFitness@gmail.com and online at www.flofitnessbh.com.

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

During these difficult times, many athletic trainers are finding themselves struggling financially or in situation where their financial situation may change quickly in the next few months.  Maybe you've lost your job. Maybe your hours have been cut. Maybe you are concerned about your own health or your family member's health.  We need to make some difficult yet purposeful decisions centered around money management and planning.  The cATalyzing Podcat is bringing you audio in this episode from a talk that Matthew Shade, M.Ed, LAT, ATC gave last summer centered around identifying your financial planning personality and behaviors, how to build a budget, and how to plan for short-, mid-, and long-term goals to avoid pitfalls. Matt showcases his emotions during this talk, as he hopes that his story inspires you to have hope for your future in the event that things are unexpectedly tough for you right now.  Matt Shade, M.Ed, LAT, ATC graduated from West Chester University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Athletic Training, then served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer while completing his Master Degree of Education at The College of New Jersey in 2006. Matt’s career has consisted of working in the interscholastic setting as a Certified Athletic Trainer at New Hope Solebury High School, Delaware County Christian School and Gwynedd Mercy College. He also worked in the office setting as a physician extender before advancing into administrative roles as a sports medicine supervisor with ATI Physical Therapy and athletic director at Girard College and William Tennent High School. Throughout his career path, Matt developed a passion for educating and mentoring athletic trainers. This passion lead to him pursuing a career path as Financial Representative with Northwestern Mutual in 2018. Since this audio was recorded in 2019, Matt has expanded his financial planning practice and now operates his business through Independence Planning Group. With the support of his wife, Staci, Matt enjoys spending his free time watching and coaching his sons, Jacob and Jonathan, in their sports. Want to reach Matt? matthew.shade@ipgroup.info *The audio from Matt's presentation re-purposed for this podcast is property of RWJBarnabas Health*

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

As Certified Athletic trainers, we are often the “go to”, the “handle everything” and the “be everywhere” person. We typically put everyone else first. During a time of crisis, this is likely even more the case.  As we find ways to navigate this COVID-19 pandemic, we also have to remember to take care of ourselves. In this episode I am sharing the audio from a presentation that Sandy Lynch Massi, MA, LAT, CCISM gave last summer at the annual RWJBarnabas Health "We Matter Too" Athletic Trainer Summit.  Sandy is the NATA "ATs Care" District 2 Representative. In this talk she presented ways to help Athletic Trainers recognize when you may have neglected yourself for too long and how to create a plan to get you back to your best. She discusses mental health self-assessment, recognizing when you need to make your mental health a priority, strategies for creating your own mental health Emergency Action Plan, and ways to advocate for yourself as part of the plan.

Sandy has been a certified athletic trainer and career firefighter/EMT for over 18 years and is an instructor with the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. She is certified in Critical Incident Stress Management and has participated on the Mercury Critical Incident Response Team, a peer support team for first responders since 2002, currently serving as director. Sandy, along with another peer from NJ, helped organize one of the first peer support teams for athletic trainers in America. Serving as the District 2 representative to the NATA ATs Care Committee,  this position tasks her with coordinating team development, training and requests for service in NJ, PA, DE and NY. Additionally, Sandy is an instructor at the Emergency Services Training Center in Westhampton, NJ. where she teaches EMT and Firefighter courses. Sandy is a Mom to 9 year old Jackson, two pit bulls and a cat. She is married and lives in Delran. While currently sidelined after ACL reconstruction, she enjoys half ironman triathlons and running marathons. Connect with Sandy at lynchATC@yahoo.com

About ATs Care: The ATs Care program is designed to offer crisis management training opportunities for athletic trainers dealing with the aftermath of a critical incident or who is having difficult dealing with challenging times personally. The mission of the ATs Care Committee is to aid ATs and AT students who have been through a critical incident by utilizing a peer-to peer-system to assist, monitor and encourage these individuals to seek initial support through state or regional ATs Care teams. https://www.nata.org/membership/about-membership/member-resources/ats-care

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

These are unprecedented times which we are facing. How are you as an athletic trainer playing a role in our response, care, and preparations to the Coronavirus pandemic? Besides hopefully taking mindful advantage of valuable time with your family as able during times of quarantine, in what ways are you making the most of your downtime to better set yourself up for future success? In this episode, Mike and I discuss the how athletic trainers can still be involved, along with purposeful professional tips for making the most of your downtime if you need to remain working with your organization.  Michael Prybicien, MA, ATC, CSCS, CES has worked as an athletic trainer in a variety of different venues with patients of all ages and skill sets. Mike is currently employed as an athletic trainer at Passaic High School in New Jersey, serves as Vice President of Operations for Sports Safety International, and also is an adjunct professor at William Paterson University in Wayne New Jersey. He is both an athletic trainers society of New Jersey distinguished service award recipient and a Hall of Fame inductee. Additionally Mike is a New Jersey state coaches association Hall of Fame inductee. He is author of numerous book chapters, abstract articles, and journal articles that specializing in sports emergency care, and prevention, recognition, and management. Michael received the two bachelor of science degrees from Penn State University and his master's from Kent State University in Ohio. Mike can be reached at mikep@atsnj.org, and Ryan can be reached at catalyzingpodcast@gmail.com

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Get ready - this is an episode unlike any other cATalyzing Podcast episodes before!  Ryan attended the 2020 Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey annual convention and business meeting, and he's bringing you the key takeaways (along with a slew of live-tweets via @cATalyzingATs and #ATSNJ2020).  In this episode, there are 11 short segments featuring all of the presenters, along with the ATSNJ President and President-elect. One definitely cannot do this fantastic two-day event justice with a 60 minute podcast, but we tried our best! Below is the lineup, topics, and email addresses in case you wish to reach out for further questions! Thanks to the ATSNJ leadership for their support. This episode will definitely be #cATalyzingATs! Kevin Briles - ATSNJ Key Updates and 2020 Initiatives (kbriles@atsnj.org) Jessica Springstead - Making ATSNJ Conference Happen (jspringstead@atsnj.org) Doug Mann, DPE, ATC - Vitamin D Deficiency & its Relationship to Injury, Gender, Race, and Sport Season (mannd@rowan.edu) Jeff Konin, PhD, ATC, PT, FACSM, FNATA - Cannabis as an Intervention for Patient Care (DrJeffKonin@gmail.com) Steve Barandica, MEd, ATC, EMT - What you Need to Know Your First Year as a Professional (barandicas@atsnj.org) Doug Stringham, MS, LAT, ATC - How to Best Build and Utilize your Tool Box (stringhamde@gmail.com) Drue Stapleton, PhD, ATC, CSCS - Movement Quality and Athletic Performance: Does it Matter? (dstapleton@rider.edu) Bradford Tucker, MD - Clinical Efficiency of Intra-articular Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Tx of Knee OA (bradford.tucker@rothmaninortho.com) Darryl Conway, MA, LAT, ATC - Take A.C.T.I.O.N.: Opioid Overdose Education, Prevention, & Management (datc@umich.edu) Scott Dankel, PhD - BFR: Safety, Application, and Efficacy (dankel47@rowan.edu) William Gallagher, MD - Current Concepts in the Office Based Tx of the Concussed Athlete (william.gallagher@rothmaninortho.com) Visit www.ATSNJ.org for more information on the Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey!

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

This year Ken Cieslak, DC, ATC, CSCS was a featured presenter at EATA, where he led an EBP workshop on using directional testing and postural provocation to enhance assessment of lower back disorders. In this episode we get nerdy and highly clinical as Ken and I recap the session and discuss the key takeaways! Ken has been in the field of athletic training for over 29 years. A 1989 graduate of the Kean College athletic training program, he also completed his doctor of chiropractic degree in 1995, graduating as valedictorian of his class at Life University. Since 1997 he has been employed as the Teaneck high school athletic trainer in addition to having a chiropractic practice in Bogota, New Jersey. Ken is a preceptor in the Montclair State University AT program. He is the northern regional representative for the ATSNJ and has served as the nominations chair for the past four years, as well as serving as a volunteer review were for the NATA convention proposal review committee. He has been fortunate to lecture on a variety of topics, including presentations at in 2018 NATA meeting and the National Strength and Conditioning Association meeting in 2018. to check out tens presentation from EATA, click this link to access the PDF of the PowerPoint. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fiv_pLYkaouT_UBQz56DXmPMXxUcA3Nh/view?usp=drivesdk

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

With National Athletic Training Month (#NATM2020) coming up in March, this is a good time for all athletic trainers to be thinking about ways you can promote yourself as a healthcare professional and your profession to other stakeholders and community members who are potentially touched by athletic training. This year's theme is "Athletic Trainers are #HealthcareInAction", and one way of taking action is to promote yourself and your profession to gain increased exposure and understanding for those you help with your expertise. This episode is an example of one way you can do that. Last year David Borchardt, ATC and Ryan Stevens, ATC had the privilege of being interviewed on a television show by physician Dr. Douglas Ashinsky, where the athletic training profession was discussed. Ryan is the manager of athletic training, Physical Therapy, and Fitness for RWJ Somerset and Hamilton hospitals, and David is director of athletic training for Rutgers University Athletics. This audio is property of RWJBarnabas Health and was repurposed for this podcast. Original video link here: https://youtu.be/ZDwcZebz9h8

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

At different points of our professional careers, most athletic trainers dabble in per diem work, either as an independent contractor or through an employer. Per diem athletic training is a fantastic way to build experience, grow your network, add additional income, and establish foundations for future jobs. When it comes to working as a per diem athletic trainer, it is not as simple as just showing up and providing excellent care. In this episode, Ryan Stevens sat down with K. Ellis Mair, founder of Go4Ellis, to discuss her journey and "all things per diem", many aspects which any athletic trainer at any level needs to consider when working in this capacity.  Ellis Mair graduated from Penn State University in 2009 with her Bachelors in Kinesiology in the Athletic Training Option. She worked in the Secondary School setting where she was the head athletic trainer for Monsignor Bonner High School.  She began working per diem work in 2010 with NXTsports.  In 2011, she was brought on as the Participant Health and Safety Consultant for NXT.  In 2013, she attended Boston University where she worked as a graduate assistant and staff athletic trainer.  Upon obtaining her Masters in Health Education from BU, she returned home to Philadelphia to become the Director of Participant Health and Safety for the largest youth lacrosse company in the country.  In 2016, Ellis had an idea to streamline and professionalize the per diem setting.  She and a few colleagues decided to create Go4Ellis.   Currently, Ellis is the Co-Founder of Go4Ellis, the athletic training app that links athletic trainers with per diem work opportunities.  She is the Chair of the National Athletic Trainers' Association Youth Sports Work Group.  Ellis currently sits on the Board of Directors for Schema and the Fishtown Neighbors' Association.  Her garden was named a 2019 Garden of Distinction by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.  She currently lives in Philadelphia and is a proud dog momma to a labrador and mastiff. You can reach Ellis at Ellis@go4ellis.com and at www.go4ellis.com.

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Who is on your team? How do you cultivate those relationships?  What does shared accountability look like?  As athletic trainers, inter-professional collaboration is critical for success. We have to think about the "team" we surround ourselves with, anyone who directly or indirectly plays a role in the holistic high quality care and safety of the people you serve. In this conversation, Kevin Briles and I dive deep into the concept of "CreATing your Team".  Kevin discusses who he considers as key players on his team, and we discuss effective and succesful approaches to positive team dynamics. As you further develop your supportive team in 2020, take these tips to heart. A 1997 graduate of Gettysburg College, Kevin Briles has been practicing as a licensed athletic trainer in New Jersey for 22 years. Kevin has served as District Athletic Trainer and Assistant to the Athletic Director at the Delsea Regional School District since 2004. Previously, he served as Director of Athletic Training Services for Kessler Memorial Hospital for six years. Along with his duties at Delsea, Briles has served as an athletic trainer for the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association championships in swimming, indoor and outdoor track, and wrestling at the District, Region, and State tournament levels. Furthermore, he has also served as site manager for wrestling weight certification as a master weight assessor and as a member of the NJSIAA’s Sports Medicine Advisory Committee. In addition to his secondary school responsibilities, he has served on athletic training staffs at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Atlantic Cape Community College, and serves as an adjunct clinical instructor/preceptor at Rowan University. Within the Athletic Trainers’ Society of New Jersey, Briles currently serves as President and sits on the Secondary Schools Committee. In addition to being a member of The New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Briles, is the recipient of Gettysburg College’s Romeo Capozzi Award, The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Athletic Training Service Award, and The Gloucester County Police Chiefs Association's Civilian Service Award. Kevin can be contacted via email at KBriles@delsearegional.us

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

We're going way back in this throwback episode. Back when I had hair :-). A little while after I moved to New Jersey, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Ian Westermann, founder of EssentialTennis.com, to create a series of videos on injury prevention and performance enhancement for tennis players.  In this podcast episode, we are going to get clinical with some tips you can use both with injury rehab and injury reduction programs, as I share the audio from three of these video segments. In my session with Ian, we review jumping and landing mechanics as a precursor to beginning plyometric training, base deceleration and change of direction skill drills as a precursor for advanced speed, and lower extremity sequence progressions that I have used in the "Performance" realm, with the purpose of injury reduction and performance enhancement. agility, and quickness drills, and complementary lower extremity strengthening exercises such as the single leg squat, single leg RDL, and mini band walking.  Essential Tennis was an idea born of enthusiasm and frustration. Ten years ago, Ian was a teaching pro, feeding balls to club players who didn’t really want to work much on their games. They just wanted an instant fix. Ian, however, wanted to teach students truly motivated to improve their skills. So where did he find them? In his basement. Or, on his computer in his basement, to be more precise. The Internet is where he discovered a growing community of players who simply couldn’t get enough tennis instruction. His kind of people. From the get-go, Essential Tennis has been pioneer in the digital instruction space. It adopted YouTube early on. Now it’s the top tennis instruction channel with more than 102,000 subscribers. It currently offers some of the web’s most comprehensive digital courses. And its distinctive teaching methodology employs a system of progressions designed to improve student play, step by step. The results are undeniable. Video Links to match podcast audio: Jump / landing techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khKmLE6_NGQ&list=PLd3pNx1_T0wiMLxAEdjeSLIgmp0okgFGx&index=9 Deceleration & Agility Skills progression:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcx6ngxdkc8&t=5s Hip and lower extremity strength progression to complement deceleration and agility training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWtThtD4sR0&t=3s  *audio from videos posted with permission of Ian Westermann and EssentialTennis.com*

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Athletic trainers (and all other healthcare practitioners for that matter) have a responsibility to provide care in a manner best suited for the person in need of that care. We work daily with highly diverse populations, and often times there may be instances of subconscious bias and unintentional pre-judgement potentially affecting the way we interact and the clinical decisions we make.  The "Golden Rule" of "treat others the way you wish to be treated" is outdated...it's now the Platinum Rule of "treat others the way they wish to be treated, best suited for them." Having an empathetic approach to cultural competency and a strong understanding of how to foster equity and inclusion in your workplace while mitigating bias can be there difference between effective outcomes and broken rapport. Consider this podcast your Diversity, Inclusion, & Cultural Competency 101 course!  Joining Ryan Stevens on this episode is Paula Guitierrez, MHA, CPTC, the Director of Diversity & Inclusion and PROUD Family Health at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset (RWJBarnabas Health).  She has over 10 years of healthcare experience which includes work at NJ Sharing Network - an organization responsible for the allocation of organs and tissues for transplant. Her experience also includes work at NY Presbyterian/Weill Cornell as the Transplant Administrator for the Liver and Kidney/Pancreas Transplant division. A native of Englewood, New Jersey, she went on to graduate from New Jersey Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Seton Hall University with a Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration. In 2017, she received the Early Careerist Award from the NJ Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Paula has knowledge in the design and implementation of programs and strategies that foster diversity, equity and inclusion; such as mitigating unconscious bias in hiring and promotion, mentoring, employee resource groups, diversity target setting and other inclusion practices. She has also been instrumental in the expansion of PROUD Family Health, NJ’s first LGBT primary health care center affiliated with a major hospital system. In August 2019, she was appointed as Director of PROUD Family Health where she provides day-to-day operational oversight and programmatic growth. Paula, as a Civil Rights Commissioner for Bloomfield Township, NJ, serves as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University’s School of Health and Medical Sciences and sits on the board of directors of the American College of Healthcare Executives NJ Chapter. Her hobbies include travel, dining and hiking with her dog. You can reach Paula at Paula.Gutierrez@rwjbh.org Resources referenced in the podcast: https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/index.htm https://www.glaad.org/resourcelist https://www.hrc.org/

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

We as ATs have a very important duty.  If we want the future of our profession to be even better than we have it currently, we must provide effective and impactful mentorship for the athletic trainers of the future. There is a purposeful approach to this.  It's always going to be a valuable conversation when you combine a conversation with an NATA Hall of Famer, a former ATSNJ President, and host Ryan Stevens!  Ryan had the opportunity to sit down with Tanya Dargusch, LAT, ATC and Eric Schwartz, MS, LAT, ATC, who collaborate as the two athletic trainers serving Washington Township High School in New Jersey. It is no secret Tanya and Eric have done an outstanding job in mentoring future athletic trainers through preceptor affiliations with Rowan University and a successful Washington Township High School Student Aide program. We get deep into it in this episode! Tanya Dargusch, a graduate of Central Michigan University, has been Washington Township's AT since 1988. Before arriving at WTHS, she was one of the pioneers of industrial athletic training with her work at Walbro Corporation.  Highly involved in many NATA committees and special interest initiatives throughout her career, Tanya is a nationally know public speaker in AT. She has many amazing accolades, including being a member of the NATA Hall of Fame, the NJ State Scholastic Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and ATSNJ Hall of Fame.  She is a winner of the NATA Service Award, EATA Scholastic Athletic Trainer Award, and the ATSNJ Distinguished Service Award,   Eric Schwartz, a graduate of East Stroudsberg University and The College of New Jersey, has been an AT at Washington Township since 2011.  A former ATSNJ President, Eric has been honored with the NATA Athletic Trainer Service award, ATSNJ Distinguished Service Award, and the NJSIAA Service Award. Also highly active in our profession, Eric has previously served on the Executive Council, Governmental Affairs, Secondary School, and Public Relations committees of the ATSNJ. He currently serves as the president of the NJ Athletic Training Political Action Committee board of directors.  Want to connect with Tanya and Eric? Tdargusch@comcast.net  |  eschwartz@wtps.org

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Advocating for the athletic training profession is more important now than it has ever been. Athletic Training profession recognition is at an all-time high. Our profession continues to move in a positive direction, and we as ATs must own our space and own our profession if we wish to continue to see this growth and enhance our value and brand recognition. In this crossover episode, Ryan Stevens was the featured guest on the Athletic Training Chat Podcast. In this episode, Joel Luedke (host of AT Chat) interviewed Ryan on topics such as the personal growth of ourselves as athletic trainers, interprofessional collaboration, and advancing our profession. This audio was originally published on the #ATChat Podcast (repurposed with permission of Joel Leudke). Athletic Training Chat is a podcast which highlights the profession of athletic training, with the goal being to create a platform for any athletic trainer to share their personal story and their perspective on the impact that athletic training can have.  ATChat discusses topics close to each interview guest, and each episode includes the "ATChat 5" question segment. Athletic Training Chat supports and showcases the people that do amazing work for a profession that helps so many. www.athletictrainingchat.com  |  www.clinicallypressed.com Twitter: @ATCchat  | Instagram: AthleticTrainingChat  | Facebook: Athletic Training Chat

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Now more than ever, it is important for Certified Athletic Trainers to promote wellness and injury/illness risk abatement in our communities. This is a powerful way to showcase our expertise in a way that educates, outside of the normal "setting" we are typically seen in.  Doing so increases brand awareness of our profession, our employer, and ourselves and helps to showcase the value you bring as an AT. A key way to do this is via interprofessional PR collaboration on media platforms such as social media videos, podcasts, radio interviews, and tv interviews.  This throwback episode serves as a thought-provoking example of how Steven Weintraub, DO and I collaborated for the RWJBarnabas Health "RWJ Health Talk" show.  This audio was taken from our January 2018 TV interview (media is property of www.rwjbh.org). Steven Weintraub, DO: Dr. Weintraub is a board-certified physician specializing in sports medicine. He completed medical school at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, then completed a family practice residency at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), followed by a fellowship in sports medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Dr. Weintraub is a clinical assistant professor at RWJMS and maintains memberships in the New Jersey Osteopathic Society, the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He serves as a team physician for local schools, including Freehold Regional Schools, Howell High School, Freehold Township High School, Colts Neck High School, and Trenton Thunder. He is the consulting sports medicine physician for Monroe High School and St. John Vianney High School. Catch the original video of this interview courtesy of RWJBarnabas Health here - https://youtu.be/TO97LzUsMWM 

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

A key part of success in any injury rehab program or risk abatement program is the ability for the athletic trainer to build rapport and cultivate ownership and accountability in their patients. in this episode Ryan Stevens and Harold Gibbons discuss how they have built this ownership in those they have worked with. Guest bio: Harold Gibbons believes in each person's ability to take control of their lives, and his purpose as a coach is to elevate exercise as an empowering tool to enrich the quality of life of the Ninjas at Mark Fisher Fitness and his personal clients. In his time at MFF he's started the Motivation and Movement LAB series of continuing education event for fitness professionals and the Trainer-In-Residence mentorship for fitness coaches to experience MFF's environment for several months at a time. He runs MFF's Program Design Team, writing personalized exercise programs and group training classes for over 800 of New York City’s most ridiculous humans. This unique experience has lead to a nuanced understanding of how we blend progressive exercise strategies and contemporary coaching concepts to create the most empowering experience for clients of all ages and ability levels. His latest passion project is the MFF Explorers Club to encourage our community to get outside and explore the natural world as much as possible. You can find him at www.HaroldGibbons.com, on social media as @Harold_Gibbons, and out in the woods mountain biking!

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

In this bonus Athletic Trainer Clinical Quick Tip episode, Ryan Stevens discusses a strategy for when providing healthcare/injury consultations while working community events or "screenings" to make a lasting impression on someone in the first 5 minutes. He also shares some advice for when your care recommendations differ from those that someone has worked with previously.

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

A certified athletic trainer who also doubles as a financial planner. You don’t find those too often! Matt Shade, M.Ed., LAT, ATC is that guy. Time to be inspired by a story and once again get reflective. On this episode, host Ryan Stevens has a conversation with Matt where they talk everything from financial challenges athletic trainers face at various stages of their life and tips for seeking promotions to advice for managing your budget at your school or workplace.  Matt graduated from West Chester University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Athletic Training. He then served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer while completing his Master Degree of Education at The College of New Jersey in 2006. Matt’s career has consisted of working in the interscholastic setting as a Certified Athletic Trainer at New Hope Solebury High School, Delaware County Christian School and Gwynedd Mercy College. He also worked in the office setting as a physician extender before advancing into administrative roles as a sports medicine supervisor with ATI Physical Therapy and athletic director at Girard College and William Tennent High School. Throughout his career path, Matt developed a passion for educating and mentoring athletic trainers. This passion lead to him pursuing a career path as Financial Representative with Northwestern Mutual in 2018. With the support of his wife, Staci, Matt enjoys spending his free time watching and coaching his sons, Jacob and Jonathan, in their sports. Connect with Matt on facebook and LinkedIn

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Prepare to get deeply reflective. Brian and Ryan discuss why we need to "slow down to get ahead". Brian shares his personal growth story, and presents a case for why athletic trainers need to develop the team and patient "community" (and how they can).  Brian Nguyen (pronounced "win") is the owner/founder of Elementally Strong-a company cultivating greater connection to ourselves and our clients. He is a NASM Master Instructor and member of the Under Armour Training Team. Brian is a former Athletic Trainer & Strength Coach for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars and AFL's Los Angeles Avengers, and is the athletic performance/fitness coach and positive influence to 2017’s highest-paid actor, Mark Wahlberg. He also may be the only AT out there with acting experience - he has his own IMDb page!  Follow him on IG: @dragonmasterbri Contact: Brian@elementallystronglife.com

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Michael and Ryan discuss the value in integrating rehab and fitness training principles, and share reasons why athletic trainers need to collaborate with fitness professionals more often. Michael is the owner of Integrative Rehab Training LLC, and is a certified athletic trainer with 25 years of experience. He is also a certified clinician through the Postural Restoration Institute®. An internationally recognized presenter and consultant, he is co-author of books and chapters as well as articles in multiple professional journals and mainstream publications. Follow him on social at @mjmatc, or reach him at michael@mjmatc.com.

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

Thom and Ryan discuss why athletic trainers should invest in improving public speaking skills, career/life growth strategy, and the importance of a proper mindset.  Thomas Plummer is the founder of the National Fitness Business Alliance, and is author of the 9 best selling business books in the history of the fitness industry. He is an internationally acclaimed presenter and consultant, and is considered by many to be the most influential person working in the fitness industry today.  Connect with Thom at www.thomasplummer.com, and like his facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/ThomasPlummerFitBizGuru/   

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!

On this *Preview / Podcast Introduction*, the host (Ryan Stevens, MPS, ATC, CSCS) gives you the “why” behind the launch of this podcast, background information, and what to expect from the episodes! Certified Athletic Trainers…own your career. Sharpen your saw to enhance your life. Pursue mastery to elevATe your career. Own your space to make an impact! Q: Why listen to the “cATalyzing Podcast?” A: This podcast is my way of giving back to the profession I love (athletic training) by sharing conversations and stories to help you enhance your quality of life, “sharpen your saw”, pursue mastery of your craft, and recognize and achieve your potential! Q: Who is this Podcast for? A: The primary audience is Certified Athletic Trainers.   Others who will benefit: Sports medicine, physical therapy, and fitness professionals. What to expect: “shop talk” style conversations between Ryan Stevens, MPS, LAT, ATC, CSCS and other professionals / topic experts: – specific content area gurus (i.e. business, public speaking, leadership, communication, etc) – athletic trainers – physical therapists – fitness professionals – physicians 

Host: Ryan Stevens, MPS, LAT, ATC, CSCS

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cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting Leaders face challenges with team dynamics in a rapidly changing healthcare, wellness, fitness, and sports business landscape, hindering collaboration and impacting the service you provide. As a coach, I guide teams to enhance positive team dynamics, shared leadership, and a fulfilling workplace culture. Imagine improved morale, trust, effective communication, enhanced collaboration, and continuous learning leading to retention, growth, and service excellence. cATalyzing Coaching & Consulting is your guide to creating an Awesome Team!