{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"White Coat Black Sheep","title":"The Candor Code: What End-of-Life Care Taught One Nurse About Living Better ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4002,"description":"Angelina Rodriguez has been in rooms most people only read about. As a hospice nurse, HMO case manager, healthcare liaison, and now consultant, she has spent over two decades watching the healthcare system do what it does best — and what it fails to do completely.This episode opens with something unexpected: a story about grief. After losing her nephew to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and watching him die in pain, Angelina didn't step away from medicine. She walked straight into hospice care, where she spent years being the last kind presence in people's lives. The work was heavy, she admits, but it was also a privilege she doesn't take lightly.From there, the conversation goes places that might surprise you. Dr. Civelli and Angelina dig into the structural failures of hospital discharge systems, why families often leave without understanding their options, and what it actually looks like when a population takes its health seriously — contrasting Bakersfield's outcomes with communities like San Luis Obispo where the numbers tell a very different story.They also get personal. Dr. Civelli shares her own reluctance to be a patient, the wake-up call that finally got her into her mammogram, and why healthcare professionals are often the worst at taking care of themselves. Angelina talks about building Candor Consulting — a practice named after what the system rarely offers — and why joy, not revenue, is what actually drives her.The second half of the episode is a masterclass in human relationships: accountability partners versus people who just let you off the hook, the psychology of all-or-nothing thinking, parenting five children across a 23-year span, and the quiet complexity of the mother-daughter relationship from both sides of the table.Find Angelina at Candor Consulting — search \"Candor Consulting Bakersfield\" and she populates right through.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/r7Fg59MgUhATCba7AaSRKVP-0dmWKpcE4ZsKXb08Qjs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mOGVl/NmI3Yzg5ZDdlOGIz/NDcyYTdmZjY4ZDIw/N2E3NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}