Your Business is Not an Emergency Room {Ep 225}

About this episode

Darleen Redman discusses the misconception that business demands the same urgency as emergency healthcare, drawing from her extensive experience in the field.

Send us Fan Mail Your phone buzzes, an email lands, a client updates a project, and suddenly your chest tightens like something is on fire. I know that feeling, and I’m here to say it plainly, your business is not an emergency room. After more than 30 years in healthcare on the frontline, I’ve seen what real emergencies look like, and I’ve also seen how easy it is to bring that same adrenaline-fuelled urgency into entrepreneurship where it doesn’t belong. I talk about the hidden cost o...

People in this episode

Host: Darleen Redman

Topics covered

• business urgency
• entrepreneurship
• healthcare experience
• work-life balance
• stress management

Keywords

• business
• emergency room
• entrepreneurship
• stress
• healthcare
• urgency
• adrenaline

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