Self-awareness

Nobody actually believes that answer, and it raises a real red flag.

Self-awareness is exactly what they're testing for, and that response proves you have none at all.

Cliche number two, I'm a perfectionist.

Interviewers have heard it a thousand times before.

And and their real life retelling or recounting of what it's like to be in the community and what they notice from other guys, the new guys that come in and just kind of what they witness as men do this work and as they collaborate together, as they get accountable too.

Now, two things that I don't publicly talk about with the program yet, although I should be doing this more, I don't know why I haven't, is we have two aspects of the program that we've added in the One of it is we have a program called the Self-Aware Army.

That is our breathwork membership.

It is month to month.

Today, Dr. Bunin serves as professor of medicine and health professions education and is also the co-founder and chief architect of All Levels Leadership.

And finally, Jess is also a certified executive coach and the author of a brand new book, From the Inside Out, How Self-Aware Leaders Build Trust and Transform Healthcare.

Her work focuses on self-awareness, trust, communication, and leadership in some of healthcare's most difficult moments.

Jess, welcome to the show.

And all the listeners, please pay attention because you just got a master class in how you can shift a culture to be supportive and hold people accountable at the exact same time.

And so that's way upstream, right, of what we're talking about.

So why is the book titled Self-Aware? Talk about the self-aware component relative to trust and transforming health care.

Well, the book is divided into three sections.

What follows is an extraordinary lecture from Iago about what it means to be human.

I could do an entire episode of this show based on this little section, and I would call it the Iago Guide to Self-Awareness.

He talks Rodrigo down from the metaphorical window ledge with a mix of humor and compassion.

"If I can't love Desdemona," Rodrigo says, "there's no point in living." Perhaps you can start, Iago suggests, by loving yourself.