Dr. Alexandra Swenson-Ridley
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Practice ownership without the performance mask.
The Rooted Health Practice Podcast is a reflective business-and-wellbeing show for healthcare practice owners who look successful but feel depleted. Dr. Alex Swenson-Ridley uses her own practice story to connect leadership choices, identity, nervous system strain, and sustainable work.
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The Rooted Health Practice Podcast sits in the uncomfortable space between outward success and private depletion. It is built for healthcare practice owners who have learned how to care for others, manage a schedule, hire a team, and keep moving, but have not always been taught how to lead themselves. Dr. Alex Swenson-Ridley brings the material close to the ground. She talks about building a practice, billing at a high level, carrying a team, buying a building, and still reaching the point where the accomplishment did not feel the way it was supposed to feel. That tension gives the show its shape. The episodes are less interested in quick business hacks than in the identity patterns underneath business decisions. Self-worth becomes a practical topic. Boundaries become operational. Burnout becomes a signal that the current structure may be asking too much of the person inside it. The show also spends time with legitimacy, especially the pressure to look like a real practice while still wanting a business that fits a real life. Dr. Alex Swenson-Ridley’s examples are specific: sharing space in another office, creating a family-friendly clinic, questioning traditional office models, and noticing how stress can show up in everyday coping habits. The tone is warm and searching. It can be repetitive in a useful way, circling an idea until the emotional logic becomes clear. Leadership is framed as both internal and external: how a practitioner handles patients, staff, relationships, and the private nervous-system cost of carrying responsibility. The show is especially resonant when it challenges the fantasy that ownership automatically creates freedom. It keeps asking what the practice is for. It also asks what the owner needs in order to remain whole while building it. Listeners looking for aggressive growth language may find it too slow. Those who want a more honest vocabulary for exhaustion, achievement, and redesigning work around capacity will likely feel seen. At its core, this is a show about making a practice less performative and more livable.
Made for: Healthcare practice owners, practitioner-entrepreneurs, and purpose-driven leaders who are wrestling with burnout, identity, staff leadership, boundaries, and the emotional cost of success. It especially suits listeners who want reflective business guidance rather than hustle-driven advice.
What sets it apart: The show treats practice management as an inner-leadership problem as much as an operational one. Its strength is the combination of candid practice-owner stories, organizational-development language, and a slow attention to what success feels like inside the person who built it.
The Rooted Health Practice Podcast is a reflective, evidence-informed conversation space for practice owners and purpose-driven leaders who are outwardly successful—and quietly exhausted. Hosted by Dr. Alex Swenson-Ridley, this podcast explores the practice beneath the practice: the inner leadership, nervous system patterns, values, identity shifts, and unspoken emotional dynamics that shape how we lead, work, and live. Each episode bridges inner growth and outer success, blending lived experience, positive psychology, trauma-informed leadership, and practical insight to help you build a business—and a life—that actually feels sustainable. This is not hustle culture. It’s not quick fixes or…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dr. Alex Swenson-R-Ridley connects healthcare practice decisions to the self-worth, boundaries, and coping patterns shaping the person who makes them.
The Rooted Health Practice Podcast follows Dr. Alex Swenson-Ridley into the decisions beneath healthcare practice ownership. Much of the show works as a solo reflection, connecting business structure with self-worth, personal capacity, professional boundaries, and the pressure…
A million-dollar practice becomes your case study in why success can still feel like a trap.
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A reflective look at how practice identity and legitimacy are shaped from the inside.
The episode does well when it ties organizational legitimacy, identity, and decision-making to the realities of building a practice. Dr. Alex Swenson-Ridley brings practice experience together with the PhD lens in a way that gives the conversation a clear vocabulary without…
A grounded look at how leadership, self-worth, and regulation show up in everyday relationships around a practice.
The episode treats relationships as a useful test of leadership, tying how a practice owner shows up with staff, family, and patients to self-worth, nervous-system regulation, and working genius. Dr.
A grounded look at healthcare practice ownership, boundaries, and building a business that fits the rest of life.
The episode traces Dr. Alex Swenson-Ridley as she considers how a practice built to help people can still leave its owner feeling boxed in. It links well-being, self-worth, and leadership to the harder work of naming what she wants her practice and life to look like, then…
A plainspoken reflection on self-worth and the habit of underplaying legitimate success.
Dr. Alex Swenson-Ridley begins with a delayed recording after getting sick, then turns that disruption into a careful look at how owning a practice can invite self-doubt, self-limiting habits, and the reflex to shrug off praise.
A candid conversation about adult ADHD and heart-centered healing that leans on lived experience rather than tidy answers.
Lou O'Connell talks through adult ADHD, his military background, and the long habit of staying busy as a way to cope. The conversation stays close to ordinary behavior: distraction, overwork, and the impulse to explain things away, before moving toward the harder work of getting…
Creative lives, community care, real talk.
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This episode broadens the foundation of the rooted practice into relationships.
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This episode explores why healthcare practitioners start their own practices and how understanding well-being, particularly through the eudaimonic path, can prevent burnout and lead to fulfillment in business and life.
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This episode introduces the podcast's focus on helping leaders overcome burnout by connecting with heart intelligence and inner growth.
Host interviews Catherine Brooks about her new book 'Sirens' and the heart-driven journey of writing it.
An interview with a mental resilience mentor about emotional self-regulation and heart-centered leadership for entrepreneurs.
The host discusses the superficiality of gratitude and encourages deeper, heart-centered leadership and self-compassion.
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The host discusses her enrollment in a positive psychology program and explores how accessing positive emotions like love and gratitude can impact heart health and leadership.
Lou O'Connell traces a life shaped by bereavement, including the death of her brother at age 2 and a mother who died when she was 13, then connects that history to adult ADHD diagnosed only about three years ago.
An interview with a HeartMath certified coach about leading from the heart, blending personal stories and practical insights for entrepreneurs.
Host Alex Swenson-Ridley interviews Diane Allen about achieving flow state and leading with heart, blending personal stories with practical insights for entrepreneurs.
Host Alex Swenson-Ridley interviews Andrea Bezek-White about tuning into intuition and leading from the heart instead of the head.
Host Alex Swenson-Ridley interviews Catalina Milan about transitioning from physical therapy to emotional healing and leading from the heart.
The host shares a personal story about a challenging road trip to Alaska, using it as a metaphor for navigating life's difficulties with heart and resilience.
This episode features a conversation with Lata Hamilton, a change leadership expert, discussing how to break free from traditional work structures, based on her experience tripling her salary through career switching and leading organizational transformations.
This episode features an interview with Irene Sim, an executive leadership coach who helps women overcome systemic gender biases and become authentic leaders by sharing her own journey breaking through glass and bamboo ceilings.
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This episode features an interview with Michelle DeKeyser, a mama empowerment coach, discussing how mothers can transition from people-pleasing to self-love and build authentic connections while balancing personal and family life.
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This episode features a conversation with Kathy Batista, a burnout coach for midlife women, discussing how to navigate midlife transitions by tapping into values and strengths to create purpose and joy.
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