It Takes Heart

Samantha Miklos, Kate Coomber

Booking Overview

An interview-led healthcare podcast focused on the people, challenges and innovations shaping Australian healthcare, typically featuring nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, healthcare leaders, founders and changemakers. Credible pitches include clinicians with distinctive career journeys, rural-health advocates, healthcare innovators, practice owners and professionals advancing access or patient care; booking difficulty is medium because strong subject-matter relevance and a compelling human story matter more than mainstream celebrity.

Metrics

Episodes: 53

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: Australia

YouTube: 23 subscribers

Instagram: 4.9k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@cmr.com.au

talent@cmr.com.au

ittakesheart@cmr.com.au

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Host

Samantha Miklos - Healthcare recruitment professional and co-host of It Takes Heart with Cornerstone Medical Recruitment.

Kate Coomber - Healthcare recruitment professional and co-host of It Takes Heart with Cornerstone Medical Recruitment.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Healthcare professionals, clinicians, nurse leaders, medical practice owners, healthcare founders and changemakers with substantial field experience, a distinctive career story or demonstrable impact on patient care and healthcare access.

Required Achievements:

Clinical or allied-health experience, Leadership in healthcare delivery or practice ownership, Founding or scaling a healthcare organization or service, Advocacy for healthcare access, equity or workforce conditions, A distinctive career transition or significant public-facing professional achievement

Recent Guest Discussions

Kate Chapman - Remote Area Nursing, Cultural Safety, Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Healthcare, Clinical Autonomy, Humanitarian Work And Gayle's Law.

Steph Moore - Nursing, Entrepreneurship, Imposter Syndrome, Building A Healthcare Brand, Working Clinically While Raising A Family And Supporting Nurses.

Jana Pittman - Career Reinvention, Elite Sport, Medicine, Women's Health, Public Pressure, Miscarriage, Stillbirth And Pregnancy Loss.

Wayne Lee - Medicine, Career Purpose, Burnout, Locum Work, Rural And Remote Healthcare, Practice Ownership And Imposter Syndrome.

Rolf Gomes - Rural Healthcare Access, Mobile Medical Clinics, Healthcare Equity, Specialist Services, Innovation And Building Trust In Remote Communities.

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Nursing, Rural Health, Medical Careers, Healthcare Leadership

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

It Takes Heart

52. Why Nurse Fiona Chose Aged Care, and Never Looked Back

September 15, 2026

There is a particular kind of magic in a resident's face lighting up over something as small as a shared joke or a genuine "are you okay?" For Nurse Fiona, that is the whole point of aged care. In this episode, we sit down with Fiona to talk about what it really looks like to lead with warmth, humour and presence in a sector too often misunderstood as easy, quiet work.Fiona takes us from her first placement through to agency nursing in London, navigating rigid hierarchies along...

51. BONUS EP: What Is FASD? Dr Sarah Jane Springer on Alcohol and Pregnancy

September 08, 2026

For International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day, Dr Sarah Jane Springer returns for this bonus episode as a DrinkWise ambassador, to talk about something she believes deserves clearer, kinder conversation: alcohol and pregnancy. Dr Sarah Jane discusses what FASD can mean for a child's development, why the messaging around alcohol and pregnancy has not always reached the people who need it most, and why she believes real change starts with clinicians creating a safe...

50. What It Actually Takes to Become a Remote Area Nurse with RAN Kate

September 01, 2026

Kate Chapman didn't finish school. She left in Year 8, became a nurse at 32, and built a career on one simple belief: people deserve the same standard of care no matter where they live or who they are. That belief has carried her from humanitarian work with Médecins Sans Frontières and the Red Cross, to Remote Area Nursing across some of Australia's most isolated communities. In this episode, Kate unpacks what Remote Area Nursing actually looks like day to day: the trust built one c...

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talent@cmr.com.au

ittakesheart@cmr.com.au

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