It Takes Heart

About It Takes Heart

It Takes Heart is a podcast about connection at the centre of Australian healthcare. Each episode brings together nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, leaders and changemakers to share real stories from their work, their communities and the healthcare system they navigate every day. From moments of purpose and pride to challenge and growth, these conversations explore the realities of caring for others and the people behind the profession. Co-hosted by cmr’s Samantha Miklos and Kate Coomber, It Takes Heart offers honest, human conversations that reflect the heart of the healthcare community and the difference it makes, often in ways that aren’t always seen or heard.

Publisher

Hosts Samantha Miklos & Kate Coomber

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jul 2024

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   54. What 40 Years in Healthcare Teaches You About Leadership with Tami Photinos

   What makes a great leader in healthcare? After more than 40 years in nursing and healthcare leadership, Tami Photinos knows it has very little to do with job titles. For her, it's about showing up, listening to your people and being willing to ask the questions others might be afraid to. With a career spanning everything from intensive care and midwifery to helicopter retrievals, Tami now leads one of Queensland’s busiest hospitals. She shares the lessons that have shaped her approach to nurs...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   53. Dr Damien Brown on the Rewards and Realities of Remote Medicine

   For Dr Damien Brown, becoming a rural doctor meant confronting a side of Australian healthcare few people ever see up close. From remote clinics and aeromedical retrievals to communities where distance, poverty and chronic disease shape everyday care, his career has revealed both the rewards of remote healthcare and the healthcare inequity that still exists across Australia. Damien joins It Takes Heart to share the journey from inner-city emergency departments to Doctors Without Borders (MSF)...

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   51. Why Nurse Fiona Chose Aged Care, and Never Looked Back

   There is a particular kind of magic in a resident's face lighting up over something as small as a shared joke or a genuine "are you okay?" For Nurse Fiona, that is the whole point of aged care. In this episode, we sit down with Fiona to talk about what it really looks like to lead with warmth, humour and presence in a sector too often misunderstood as easy, quiet work. Fiona takes us from her first placement through to agency nursing in London, navigating rigid hierarchies along the way befor...

Who has been a guest on It Takes Heart

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Nick Yim
• Nikki Wells
• Dr Juergen Landmann
• Fran Avon
• Dr John Buckley

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

93 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

90

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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