Grand Rounds

Danielle Powell runs a mentoring and leadership development at Skyline Community College that is the opposite of a cookie cutter approach.  She brings respect and awe to her cohorts of women as she demands that they see themselves as good enough and deserving of success.  This wraps season 2 of Grand Rounds...

Murriel was a forward [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_(basketball)] and center [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_(basketball)] in the Women's National Basketball Association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association] (WNBA) for eleven seasons. She played college basketball [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_basketball] for the University of Florida [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida], and was drafted in the first round of the 1998 WNBA Draft [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_WNBA_Draft]. She played professionally for the Washington Mystics [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mystics] and the Los Angeles Sparks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks] of the WNBA. She is currently an assistant coach at Georgia Tech, and her team went to the round of 8 in the NCAA tournament last month. Murriel speaks with us about the WNBA, support from the NBA players for the professional women, and the challenges in reconciling the differences between the male and female professional leagues.  The details about the experience for the female basketball players in San Antonio in juxtaposition to the male players in Indianapolis are unbelievable.  Yet Murriel has a superpower… her serenity.  She is adamant, “Women’s basketball is a great product and no matter what you do, you can’t disrupt us.”  Murriel’s pearls of wisdom include advice to “control the controlables,” which are our attitude and effort.

Join us for season 2 of Grand Rounds Podcast, Disruption. We welcome our brother, Adam Weiss.  He was a founding partner of Scout Capital, a hedge fund that closed in 2014.  Adam talks about Kindergarden disruption and financial disruption.  We tackle a conversation about gender and risk, competence and creative genius.  The urge to disrupt to destruct, and disruption for good.  We disrupt out of boredom, aggression, discomfort with authority, and in an attempt to solve a problem someone else should have been solving.  To some of us, the world doesn’t look right and we can’t resist meddling with it.

Dr. Purvi Parikh is a social media influencer, Allergist and Immunologist, and Covid Vaccine researcher and expert.  She has been a news correspondent for many outlets educating the public.  Join us to hear her wisdom.

Tony Adkins, PA-C, is a neurosurgery Physician Assistant at Children's Hospital Orange County.  This man embodies grace and care.  He has millions of followers on social media, as he dances with his patients and their parents through their journeys with trauma and cancer.  Follow him on Instagram, facebook, and TikTok at @t_malone3.   If you are looking for a bright spot in a tough year, this episode will not disappoint.