Category Archives: Healthcare

Brad Rocked the Texas House

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Brad recently spoke with the leadership team of a large hospital in Tyler, Texas.   Mary Mother of Francis Hospital asked Brad to make them laugh— but more importantly — teach a seminar about how levity, lightheartedness and even humor can have a positive impact on health care and on leadership. Check out this testimonial…

I Killed at Kaiser Palliative Care Department

Ok. That’s not funny. Yes it is. Well… it depends. Humor is relative. (No, I don’t mean your relative is funny. I mean that what is funny to some people in some circumstances isn’t funny to others, and that’s OK.) I recently spoke in Colorado for the Kaiser Permanente Palliative Care department. We had nurses,…

I’m Supposed to Eat *%$^@!! What?

I was flattered to speak at a diabetes forum in Canon City, Colorado recently.  I love my job as a speaker.  And I love being a Colorado Speaker because I live here.  (Yay, no airplanes today!) But this one was personal:  my daughter has Type 1 Diabetes.  This is a big deal, requires constant vigilance,…

Beer, Death, and Sex | Brad Speaks to Hospice Folks

I recently had the good luck to speak the the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s national conference in Denver, Colorado.  They convention had a couple of thousand people, but my audience had about 800 caregivers. I always enjoy my job, but this keynote speech was a treat.  Because it was personal.  As you’ll see…