About The Catalyst: Sparking Creative Transformation in Healthcare
Welcome to The Catalyst Way—the podcast for women clinicians who want to get organized, reignite creativity, and flourish in medicine.
Hosted by Dr. Lara Salyer, DO, IFMCP, a physician, author, mentor, and Flow Research Collective-trained coach, this show is your weekly dose of practical strategies to help you flourish inside and outside the exam room.
Whether you’re drowning in admin work, feeling creatively stifled, or building a Functional Medicine practice from scratch, you’ll find real, actionable solutions in every episode.
✨ What You’ll Learn:
️✔️ How to beat burnout and reclaim time & energy with better organization, essential tools, and flow science
️✔️ Why creativity is a clinical intervention (and how to harness it!)
️✔️ Mindset shifts, intuition, and self-expression for a sustainable career
Expect short solo episodes packed with high-impact tips, plus occasional guest experts sharing their wisdom. Each episode ends with a ”Catalyst Question” to spark reflection and action.
🚀 Take the first step! Discover your burnout risk & creative strengths with the Catalyst Archetype Quiz → https://3nb09zv7070.typeform.com/archetype
Why Great First Visits Don’t Always Create Membership Patients
You had a GREAT first visit. The patient seemed excited about your approach.
And then… they disappeared. 👻
If this keeps happening in your membership or cash-pay practice, the problem may not be your pricing or your website. It might be what happens in the final few minutes of the visit—and immediately afterward.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 — Why great first visits can still fail to convert01:54 — Patients need reminders, not vague permission03:29 — The hidden question behind membership drop-off04:01 — Why autonomy is helpful—but not enough06:57 — The danger of open-ended follow-up13:10 — Build follow-up into your practice14:08 — A better metric for membership conversion16:10 — Is your messaging attracting the wrong patients?19:14 — Leadership ≠ being salesy
CATALYST QUESTION ✨
Where in your patient journey are you asking patients to figure out the next step when what they actually need is your leadership?
Links
Catalyst Rounds
Podcast Episodes Mentioned:
EP77: Are You Talking About Me? -- How to Make Feedback Your Friend
EP78: Putting the Me Back Into Metrics
EP111: Measuring What Matters: Designing Patient Transformation
Connect with Lara:
Website
The Catalyst Way
YouTube
Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
TikTok
Podcast production and show notes provided by The Catalyst Way
4 Sept 2026
Beyond the Label: Healing through Spirituality and Self-Love
What if healing asks us to look beyond the diagnosis—and at the whole person underneath it?
I sit down with naturopathic doctor and mental health advocate Dr. Christina Bjorndal for a deeply personal conversation about mental health and healing.
Dr. Christina vulnerably shares her own experiences with depression, suicide attempts, and an eating disorder, and how those experiences shaped the physician she became.
We explore her holistic “health house” approach and talk about why healing often requires us to hold seemingly contradictory emotions at the same time.
Chapters:
03:39 How we first met05:06 Dr. Christina shares her health journey08:37 The framework that Dr. Christina uses when working with patients16:16 Selfish vs. Self-Care21:55 Depression and Mania25:26 Medical Community and Bipolar Disorder29:36 The Trouble With Being Disconnected33:14 Three Wisdom Centers40:20 How Women Shrink Themselves
Connect with Dr. Christina Bjorndal, ND:
Website: drchristinabjorndal.com
Facebook: Dr. Christina Bjorndal
Twitter: @drbjorndal
YouTube: Christina Bjorndal
Instagram: drchrisbjorndal
Links for this Episode:
Catalyst Rounds: $33 Tickets for event on 9/16
Mental Health Resources
This episode includes a personal discussion of depression, suicide attempts, and eating disorders. If you or someone you love needs support, these resources may help:
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988 for free, confidential support 24/7. https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA): Screening tools, treatment resources, and free or low-cost support for eating disorders. https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/get-help/
SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov: A confidential resource for finding mental health treatment and support in your area. https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/locators
Connect with Dr. Lara Salyer:
Website: https://drlarasalyer.com
Shop: https://drlarasalyer.com/shop
Catalyst Kit: https://rightbrainrescue.com/p/catalyst_kit
Instagram: @drlarasalyer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drlarasalyer
Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlarasalyer/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLaraSalyer
TikTok: @Creativity.Doctor
Podcast production and show notes provided by The Catalyst Way Podcast.
21 Aug 2026
What Is Your Business Really Building?
Host Lara Pence guides practitioners to identify their core business model and align decisions with their desired life and values.
Inside a recent episode
Befriending Your Financials Can Decrease Burnout and Overwhelm
Published 24 Mar 2023 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Great advice. Absolutely. That's exactly what I did. I used alliteration as well when I was first beginning is Financial Fridays. And I forced myself to just look at the statements. I didn't quite understand them yet, but I knew that I needed to get myself used to this automatic process. And I can't tell you how awesome it is to find others in their zone of genius that love numbers that are, you know, the team that we have at Kickstart is amazing because they get so excited about numbers. And I'm just glad that they do because I have now given that hat to them and said, great. You take it and run with it. […]
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