Burnout is one of the most talked-about topics in healthcare — and still one of the most misunderstood. In this SNACK episode, Miranda Dorta turns the mic around and puts Tracy in the hot seat for an unscripted conversation about what burnout prevention actually requires. Not the surface-level version. The real one.

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Tracy breaks down why the self-care checklist approach misses the mark, how practice ownership compounds burnout risk in ways that employed providers rarely face, and why real prevention is a structural decision — not just a personal one. She also shares where most practice owners skip the prevention work that costs them the most long-term, and what to do right now if you're already in the thick of it.

This conversation is built on research, grounded in Tracy's CME-based content, and refreshingly practical — no platitudes, just real frameworks for building a practice that doesn't burn you down.

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What if your practice is one of the last true neighborhoods your patients have access to? In this episode, Tracy Cherpeski sits down with Lisa Prior — leadership and change consultant and author of the forthcoming Rubber Avenue: When Work Was the First Neighborhood — for a conversation that reframes where practitioner burnout really comes from.

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Lisa grew up in Naugatuck, Connecticut, the world's first rubber town, and has spent years researching how the collapse of company towns and community institutions has quietly shifted an enormous emotional burden onto frontline healthcare providers. She shares her father-in-law's remarkable story of standing up for 750 retirees' medical benefits, why she believes we're at 'a fork in the river,' and what a new social contract between work and community could look like.

This one went places we didn't fully expect — and it's exactly the kind of conversation that helps practice owners understand why this work matters so much, and how to sustain it.

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What if burnout isn't really about overwork — and has more to do with being stuck at the wrong altitude?

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In this solo episode, Tracy introduces the Altitude Shift: the skill of moving, on purpose, between zoomed-in execution and zoomed-out vision. It's the practice that sharpens your decisions, protects you from burnout, and keeps you connected to the reason you built your practice in the first place.

You'll hear the story of Dr. M — a thriving solo practice owner who couldn't remember the last time she wasn't in firefighting mode. Tracy shares the two altitudes, why most bad decisions come from the wrong one, and a simple audit you can use before any significant choice. She also gets into the neuroscience of why slowing down isn't optional — and the daily practices she architects into her own life to keep the horizon in view.

If you've been running on will power, feeling reactive, or sensing that you've lost the thread of what you're building — this episode is for you.

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