Jessi Gold: How Do You Feel?

Jessi Gold: How Do You Feel?

Author: ON Chart January 30, 2026 Duration: 41:03

In this episode, Dr. Jessi Gold, psychiatrist and Chief Wellness Officer at the University of Tennessee, discusses burnout and mental health stigma that continues to challenge healthcare workers as they seek help. She shares lessons from her book How Do You Feel? One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine and explores the unspoken struggle of healers in maintaining humanity in a field that they chose because of its humanity in the first place.


Host: Le Nguyen (Instagram: @le_nguyenzzz | LinkedIn: @lenguyen)


Host: Tremayne Ansani (Instagram: @tremayne.y.a | LinkedIn: @tremayneansani)


Guest: Jessi Gold (LinkedIn: @jessigold)


Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessi-gold-md-ms-14844bb/

https://drjessigold.com/how-do-you-feel-book-by-jessi-gold-md/

https://drjessigold.com/about-jessica-jessi-gold-md-ms/

https://drjessigold.com/academic-talks/

https://uthsc.edu/faculty/profile/?netid=jgold11


ON Chart is a quiet space for curious minds, a place where the lines between scientific inquiry and daily life blur and then beautifully reconnect. Each episode starts with a simple observation-a pattern in nature, a common human behavior, a technological quirk-and gently unfolds it, layer by layer. Hosted by its creator, the podcast moves at a thoughtful pace, favoring depth and clarity over quick takes. You'll hear explorations that feel like conversations, where complex ideas from fields like psychology, biology, or physics are woven into the fabric of ordinary experience. It’s less about delivering headlines and more about understanding the mechanisms behind them, asking how a chart of data or a graph of trends can tell a deeper story about who we are and how we live. This is for anyone who has ever looked at a graph and wondered about the lives behind the points, or who finds quiet fascination in the measurable rhythms of the world. Tune in to ON Chart for a grounded, insightful journey through the numbers and narratives that shape our reality, one thoughtful episode at a time.
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