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The Entangled Health PodcastThe Pitfalls of Urgency (For Communities): When Speed Erodes TrustIn this episode, we shift the lens from organizations to communities. When institutions move quickly communities often experience something very different:Listening fatigueExtractive storytellingBroken feedback loopsPolicy and operational choices that don’t reflect their needsStory-driven strategy does not require slowness. In fact, it will make you faster, more efficient, and more impactful, just without the pitfalls of urgency.--🔗 Stay ConnectedTake the Quiz → Discover where your organization most needs storytellingLet's connect on LinkedInLean more about how we can work together at https://madisonmurphybarney.com/ent...
2026-03-1812 minThe Entangled Health PodcastThe Pitfalls of Urgency (For Organizations): When Moving Fast Undermines TrustIn this episode of The Entangled Health Podcast, we explore the hidden cost of urgency inside organizations.In public health, philanthropy, nonprofits, and health systems, urgency is often rewarded. Grant deadlines. Political pressure. Board expectations. Media cycles. The need to show impact now.But urgency and strategy are not the same thing.And when it comes to storytelling, community engagement, and trust-building, urgency can quietly undermine the very outcomes we’re trying to create.In this episode, we unpack the difference between speed and urgency.Story-driven strategy can move qu...
2026-03-0419 minThe Entangled Health PodcastFrom Conversation to Constellation: How a Single StoryLab Session Becomes a Five-Year StrategyWhat happens when an organization carves out 2-3 hours for genuine conversation about storytelling? In this episode, we explore the StoryLab session: a structured visioning process that meets organizations exactly where they are and helps them see where storytelling could take them. We break down the four lenses of listening that shape every session (listening, capacity, budget, and operations), explain how assessment transforms into actionable vision, and make the case for why strategy built on deep understanding outlasts strategy built on assumptions. Whether you're considering a partnership or simply curious about what intentional storytelling infrastructure looks like, t...
2026-02-1829 minThe Entangled Health PodcastThe Swiss Cheese Model of Public Health: Why Story Is the StructurePublic health doesn’t fail because we’re missing one solution.It fails because we keep treating complex systems like they can be fixed in parts.In this episode, I introduce the Swiss Cheese Model of Public Health—a frameworkfor understanding why health outcomes depend on multiple, imperfect layersworking together, and why people keep falling through the cracks when those layersaren’t aligned.Those layers include:Access to responsive care and servicesAn ecosystem of community support and opportunityPolicies and practices that truly see and serve usA healthy, abundant...
2026-02-0428 minThe Entangled Health PodcastStorytelling for Rural Health Equity: A Conversation with Chelsey CanavanIn rural communities, the standard metrics often miss what matters most. So how do health organizations build trust and make the case for their work when the data tells an incomplete story? In this episode, I sit down with Chelsey Canavan, my client at the Center for Advancing Rural Health Equity at Dartmouth, to explore how storytelling has become central to their work. We discuss why rural health settings demand different approaches, demystify storytelling for health and justice orgs, and trust building through story. Whether you work in health equity, rural health, or any setting where numbers alone can't...
2026-01-2136 minThe Entangled Health PodcastWhy You Should Hire the Doula to Do Your Strategy WorkWhat if the best strategic mind for your organization isn't the one with the sharpest certainty—but the one most comfortable in the unknown? This episode explores why doula skills are strategy superpowers, and why the work of birth and the work of story are fundamentally the same.🔗 Stay ConnectedTake the Quiz → Discover where your organization most needs storytellingLet's connect on LinkedInLean more about how we can work together at https://madisonmurphybarney.com/entangled-healthReach out with questions and inquiries at mbarney@entangledhealth.com
2026-01-0733 min
It's All PoetryWhat an "entangled" web we weave (with M. Barney)Two-Spirit Shoshone and Hoopa doula, writer, and public health storyteller Madison Murphy Barney joins Nicole to explore entanglement as intimacy, responsibility, ancestry, and hope. And why none of us were ever meant to do this alone.In This Episode, You’ll Discover…How codependency and connection aren’t the same thingWhat quantum physics reveals about collective responsibilityWhy caring for your small corner of the world actually mattersHow ancestors, children, and mushrooms are all part of the same webFurther ResearchSubscribe to M’s Su...
2025-12-1843 minThe Entangled Health PodcastBefore & After Storytelling: How Organizations Transform When They Truly ListenMost health and justice organizations still treat storytelling as a commstask—something you gather for a campaign or report. But when narrative becomespart of the organizational body, everything shifts.In this episode, we explore the real Before → After transformation that happens whenorganizations start to deeply listen, center lived experience, and build story into theirstrategic infrastructure.We cover:Increased health-seeking behaviorsStronger and more responsive programsHigher staff retention and satisfactionDeeper patient–provider connectionA powerful bank of evergreen advocacy toolsExpanded funding opportunities driven by commun...
2025-12-1726 minThe Entangled Health PodcastDoing Communications Differently: A Conversation with Dorian JohnsonToday’s guest is Dorian Johnson — a health communicator, strategist, and storytellerwhose work challenges the traditional, top-down ways public health has been taughtto “message” to communities. Instead, Dorian pushes us to see communication asrelationship, as accountability, and as a form of practice that must be rooted inlistening.Together, we explore:What traditional health communications gets wrongStorytelling as a tool for connection across powerCommunity engagement that is real—not performativeDoing communications differentlyThe future of public health communicationsThis conversation is warm, honest, an...
2025-12-0343 minThe Entangled Health PodcastListening to Complexity: Why Simplifying Health Breaks RealityWe’re taught to simplify things, but what if simplicity in our work creates a false reality? In this episode, we explore how embracing complexity leads to more effective, human-centered strategy. Learn why storytelling isn’t just a communication tool—it’s how we return to truth, design from reality, and create programs that actually serve.🔗 Stay ConnectedTake the Quiz → Discover where your organization most needs storytellingLet's connect on LinkedInLean more about how we can work together at https://madisonmurphybarney.com/entangled-healthReach out with questions and inquiries...
2025-11-2615 minThe Entangled Health PodcastInterdependence Is Infrastructure: Building Health Through RelationshipsBridges and roads aren’t the only infrastructure that matters. In this episode, we unpack how lasting health and justice are built through relationships, trust, and story. Hit play to explore the concept of “relational infrastructure,” the role of community wisdom in system design, and how organizations can shift from service delivery to true ecosystem building.🔗 Stay ConnectedTake the Quiz → Discover where your organization most needs storytellingLet's connect on LinkedInLean more about how we can work together at https://madisonmurphybarney.com/entangled-healthReach out with questions and inquiri...
2025-11-1217 minThe Entangled Health PodcastThe 5 Pitfalls of Organizational Storytelling—and How to Avoid ThemFrom extraction to hero narratives, explore the most common storytellingmistakes organizations make—and the practices that build trust instead of eroding it.🔗 Stay ConnectedTake the Quiz → Discover where your organization most needs storytellingLet's connect on LinkedInLean more about how we can work together at https://madisonmurphybarney.com/entangled-healthReach out with questions and inquiries at mbarney@entangledhealth.com
2025-10-2921 minThe Entangled Health PodcastWeaving Story Into What You Already DoLearn how to integrate storytelling into existing operations to avoid overwhelm, increase impact, and make strategy sustainable—plus a look inside my Story Lab Sessions.🔗 Stay ConnectedTake the Quiz → Discover where your organization most needs storytellingLet's connect on LinkedInLean more about how we can work together at https://madisonmurphybarney.com/entangled-healthReach out with questions and inquiries at mbarney@entangledhealth.com
2025-10-1518 minThe Entangled Health PodcastStorytelling Is Strategy: Building Futures That Actually WorkDiscover how grounding organizational strategy in lived experience creates buy-in, trust, and transformation that data alone can’t deliver.🔗 Stay ConnectedTake the Quiz → Discover where your organization most needs storytellingLet's connect on LinkedInLean more about how we can work together at https://madisonmurphybarney.com/entangled-healthReach out with questions and inquiries at mbarney@entangledhealth.com
2025-10-0122 minThe Entangled Health PodcastWhat is Entangled Health?Discover what becomes possible when we listen to complexity in health and justice organizations.🔗 Stay ConnectedTake the Quiz → Discover where your organization most needs storytellingLet's connect on LinkedInLean more about how we can work together at https://madisonmurphybarney.com/entangled-healthReach out with questions and inquiries at mbarney@entangledhealth.com
2025-10-0127 minThe Entangled Health PodcastTrailer: Welcome to the Entangled Health PodcastThe Entangled Health Podcast explores what is possible when we honor story as strategy. The show is hosted by Madison Murphy Barney, a public health storyteller and strategist. With her Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Madison has worked with federal ministries of health, leading hospitals and healthcare systems, billion-dollar foundations, teaching hospitals, and large nonprofits to operationalize storytelling initiatives.Each episode of The Entangled Health Podcast weaves together story, strategy, and systems change. You’ll hear how organizations can use storytelling to:Build trus...
2025-09-2402 min
The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained233. Embracing Our Medicine: A Conversation with Two Spirit Sister Madison Murphy BarneyIn this episode, Madison Murphy Barney, a two-Spirit Hoopa and Shoshone sister, author, doula, and public health storyteller, discusses the significance of the two-Spirit identity, historical roles, and the importance of maintaining cultural traditions. Madison delves into personal experiences growing up in North Dakota, the impact of indigenous boarding schools, and the generational transmission of pride and cultural knowledge. She also talks about the nature of stewardship, reconnecting with one's ancestry, and practical ways to slow down and embrace a more connected, mindful lifestyle. Highlighting the importance of personal and collective healing, Madison's insights offer deep wisdom and helpful...
2025-08-0854 min
LeaderReadyCastEpisode 71: Madison Murphy Barney on Storytelling for Resilience and RecoveryEpisode 71: Madison Murphy Barney on Storytelling for Resilience and Recovery by Harvard NPLI
2025-01-2332 min
Queen Flow the Podcast135. $75k In 3 Days Inside The Revolution with Madison BarneyWe’re back! Today I sit down with my client Madison Murphy-Barney - Storytelling Expert, Author, Doula & Health Equity Consultant to chat about closing $75k IN 3 DAYS within weeks of joining The Revolution 🥳Tune in now to get the skinny on:🔥$75K In Just 3 Days: Exactly how it happened and how the Revolution supported Madison in making more than she made in all of 2024 in her company in only 3 days 🔥The Unique Magic of The Revolution: Why the focus on strategic smarts, energetic elevation, monetizing and marketing the part of you that can...
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