# Fork in the River: Leadership, Loneliness, and What Healthcare Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Company Towns Featuring Lisa Prior, EP 248

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Podcast: [Thriving Practice with Tracy Cherpeski](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thriving-practice-with-tracy-cherpeski-3530340)
Published: 2026-04-08T08:05:00+00:00
Episode link: https://tracycherpeski.podbean.com/e/fork-in-the-river-leadership-loneliness-and-what-healthcare-can-learn-from-the-rise-and-fall-of-company-towns-featuring-lisa-prior-ep-248/
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## Resource

What if your practice is one of the last true neighborhoods your patients have access to? In this episode, Tracy Cherpeski sits down with Lisa Prior — leadership and change consultant and author of the forthcoming Rubber Avenue: When Work Was the First Neighborhood — for a conversation that reframes where practitioner burnout really comes from.

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