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Dr. Dana Cowles on Emergency Medicine, Fear, and Life-or-Death Decisions
Featuring Dr. Cowles as an ER physician, speaker, and founder of Cowles Emergency Services. Topics include emergency medicine, high-stakes decisions, rural staffing, end-of-life decisions, fear as a tool, helplessness, COVID-era medicine, poker, boundaries, and burnout.
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The Psychology of Purpose with Dr. Dana Cowles
Dr. Dana Cowles shares his unique perspective on fear, trauma, and finding purpose through his experiences in emergency medicine and philosophy. From surviving a traumatic car accident at age 12 to working the front lines in emergency rooms, Dr. Cowles challenges conventional wisdom about happiness and offers a compelling framework for building resilience through purpose rather than comfort.
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In Pursuit of Happiness Part 1
Challenging happiness as a primary life goal. Dr. Cowles frames happiness as temporary and argues people more fundamentally seek security and affirmation.
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Dana Cowles on That’s Right with Chris Voss
Over years of clinical practice, Dana noticed a recurring pattern among patients struggling with depression and psychological distress. He clearly expresses this distinction: “The opposite of depression isn’t happiness ... it’s purpose.”
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Mental Health 101: Men’s Mental Health with Dr. Dana Cowles
Featuring Dr. Cowles & focusing on men’s mental health awareness, emotional suppression, stress, stigma, self-awareness, resilience, support systems, and speaking up.
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ER Doctor Reveals: How Fear Actually Helps You Sell & Scale
Dr. Cowles’s emergency medicine perspective on entrepreneurship, sales, decision-making, and fear. Explore three types of fear, mind/body/spirit intelligence, and “done is better than perfect” style launch thinking.
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In Pursuit of Happiness Part 4
Dr. Cowles argues that the opposite of depression is purpose, not happiness. Explore using purpose, activities, hobbies, contribution, and community as practical pathways.
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Expy Award
Profound honor for this award, from a discussion with Chris Voss! That’s right!
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Stories of Triumph and Transformation
Our stories are our power. Each one a testament to resilience, triumph, and the profound transformations we undergo. This is why the Speaking 2 Impact & Change - Stories of Triumph and Transformation book anthology holds such importance in today's world.
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Dana Cowles: “Overcoming Fears”
Discover using risk, flight, and “what’s next” framing to move beyond excessive caution and complacency.
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Lecture on dementia
Dr. Cowles is a board-certified Emergency Medicine Osteopathic Physician with a dual degree in Philosophy. He brings clarity to history, a unique perspective and passion to life's purpose.
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Full lecture on the pursuit of happiness
Dr. Cowles argues that the opposite of depression is purpose, not happiness. Explore using purpose, activities, hobbies, contribution, and community as practical pathways.
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“My Doctor Hit Me Man!”
Dr. Dana Cowles discusses emergency medicine as the “Wild Wild West,” Costco stories, and aviation/pilot questions on the 2nd episode of S2 of the Speechless podcast.
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Using Fear as a Tool to Pay Attention in Life
Explore using fear as a tool, aviation parallels to emergency medicine, cockpit/ER decision-making, happiness vs. security/affirmation, and purpose as a response to depression.
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An Osteopathic Emergency Physician’s Perspective on Healthcare
Dana Cowles & Rob Oliver discuss osteopathic medicine, regional emergency medicine differences, patient-provider relationships, diagnostic judgment, staff tolerance, and health system issues.
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published works
Check out Dana’s latest author appearances
Our stories are our power. Each one a testament to resilience, triumph, and the profound transformations we undergo. This collection brings together voices that have endured, overcome, and now, finally, share their experiences with the world, uplifting others and offering invaluable insights. Featuring Dr. Cowles as a key co-author.
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A medical study that evaluated whether room-air pulse oximetry could help predict in-hospital complications among normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism.
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I don't make podcasts to inspire people. I make them so that the next time something hard happens, you already have a framework for it.
Dana Cowles, DO - on why he started the show