Managing and Preventing Burnout With Leslie Cornwell, CNM: Episode 187
Managing and Preventing Burnout With Leslie Cornwell, CNM
Because I spent over 13 years focused solely on the chiropractic profession, and over 5 years of those 13 focused specifically on women in chiropractic, I wasn’t aware of how high burnout is in so many of our like-minded professions.
As I have more and more conversations (and also looked at peer-reviewed research articles on the topic), I’ve been surprised to learn that we chiropractors aren’t alone.
People who work as care providers are at high risk of burnout. People who work in healthcare are at an especially high risk of burnout. And women who work in these professions AND have children are likely at an even higher risk of burnout.
Burnout is so much more than just not feeling excited about your work any more. It’s the final phase of General Adaptation Syndrome–the Exhaustion Phase. Burnout can have a serious impact on not only a person’s earning potential but also their long-term health.
In this episode of the podcast, Leslie Cornwell shares about her own experience with burnout in the midwifery profession, how she created a more sustainable business model and why she helps others in the profession with this as well.
In this episode about managing and preventing burnout, we talk about:
- The variety of academic degrees and career paths available within midwifery and how to know which options to choose
- Why Leslie chose to become a Nurse Midwife
- How state laws affect the practice of midwifery in the US
- The challenge of balancing patient care and a health life as a modern-day midwife
- The big mistakes that Leslie made early on in her career, and why there’s a 6-year gap between two of her kids
- Why the pandemic is contributing negatively to the rate of overwhelm and burnout in the midwifery profession
- How midwives, chiropractors, and hands-on practitioners of all kinds can avoid burnout and build sustainable businesses
- The difference between just adding things to your to-do list and true self-care
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Meet our Guest: Leslie Cornwell
Becoming a midwife has been a life long dream. I didn’t realize that this wonderful profession would lead me down the path of business. I have found over the years that midwives need to understand business, accounting, financing, marketing, negotiating, and so much more to be successful in today’s health care system. I love supporting women. By being able to participate in leadership roles and create amazing private practices, I can support midwives just as much as the pregnant women they care for! I am passionate about women’s empowerment and women business ownership. We can serve families best with independent successful midwifery practices.
I have had over 17yrs experience in health care. I have worked in hospitals, birth centers, and home settings. I have worked for large non-profit hospitals, small community hospitals, privately run birth centers, hospital owned birth centers, and my own home birth / birth center practice. Being able to understand the business and financial side of midwifery has really shown me how much easier a midwife practice can be profitable and successful in today’s health care ever changing climate.
Let me help you start your own or improve the current midwifery practice you are struggling with. I have years of billing, accounting, contracting, business plan writing, and midwifery clinical expertise to make your midwifery practice thrive no matter what stage it is in! Whether you want a small home birth practice, large birth center practice, or booming hospital midwifery practice, I can provide guidance, support, and resources to make your midwifery practice dreams a reality!
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