Titans of Healthcare
Titans of Healthcare
Podcast Description
Hosted by Justin Bellante, founder of Titan Placement Group, Titans of Healthcare is a podcast dedicated to highlighting the leaders, innovators, and changemakers making an impact in the healthcare industry. Each episode dives into the challenges and successes of healthcare leadership, recruitment, and community impact, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to drive meaningful change in healthcare.
From navigating workforce shortages to fostering community health, our conversations aim to inspire decision-makers, hiring managers, and healthcare professionals with action
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes such as healthcare leadership, recruitment strategies, community health challenges, and innovative workforce solutions. Episodes delve into topics like the importance of financial literacy for HR leaders, the mission-driven focus of Federally Qualified Health Centers, and trends in healthcare staffing, providing listeners with actionable insights and inspiring stories from industry experts.
Hosted by Justin Bellante, founder of Titan Placement Group, Titans of Healthcare is a podcast dedicated to highlighting the leaders, innovators, and changemakers making an impact in the healthcare industry. Each episode dives into the challenges and successes of healthcare leadership, recruitment, and community impact, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to drive meaningful change in healthcare.
From navigating workforce shortages to fostering community health, our conversations aim to inspire decision-makers, hiring managers, and healthcare professionals with action
In this episode of Titans of Healthcare, host Justin Bellante sits down with Dr. Santina Wheat—a family physician, program director, and certified career and life coach—who is on a mission to help healthcare professionals reconnect with their “why.” From her beginnings in community health to her current role training future physicians, Dr. Wheat shares a deeply personal journey through burnout, recovery, and reinvention.
She opens up about the moment she realized being constantly exhausted wasn’t just part of the job—and how that epiphany led her to build systems of support, both for herself and others in medicine. With warmth and wisdom, she outlines how mission statements, mentorship, and purpose-driven leadership can foster a healthier, more fulfilling healthcare workforce.
Key Takeaways
From Burnout to Breakthrough: Dr. Wheat candidly reflects on her own experience with burnout and how realizing she wasn’t alone helped spark her transition into coaching and systems change.
Mission-Driven Medicine: Helping healthcare professionals rediscover their purpose through personal mission statements allows for more aligned, joyful career paths.
Coaching as a Lifeline: Dr. Wheat’s coaching process helps clinicians move beyond survival mode—empowering them to set realistic priorities and reframe how they engage with their work and home life.
Leading with Compassion: As a program director, she emphasizes redesigning workflows and mentorship models to better support residents and faculty alike.
Whole-Person Strategy: A fulfilling healthcare career requires holistic alignment—including how time is spent at home, at work, and with family.
Group Coaching on the Horizon: Dr. Wheat is developing DIY coaching modules and launching a group coaching program to help more professionals reconnect with meaning and community.
Sound Bites
“It was hard for me to accept I was burnt out—I thought being tired all the time was just part of the job.”
“Your priorities change with the seasons of life. And that’s okay. What matters is that your actions align with what matters now.”
“When people reconnect with their purpose, even the hard days feel more meaningful.”
“As leaders, we have to ask—are we making decisions based on what our people actually need? Or what we think they need?”
Connect with Dr. Santina Wheat
🌐 Website: santinawheat.com
📺 YouTube: Santina Wheat LLC
📸 Instagram: @drtinawheat
💼 LinkedIn: Santina Wheat
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