May 22, 2024
On top of being the GC in the healthcare sector, Nina Stamell
also works as a birth doula, supporting women and their partners in
the childbirth and postpartum journey. The wearing of both hats,
she has discovered, has broadened her perspective on what it means
to be an informed, considered in-house professional.
In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome
Doraisamy welcomes back MyHealth general counsel and company
secretary Nina Stamell to discuss her work in the healthcare sector
and what she enjoys about it, what it means to be a birth doula,
what she finds so meaningful about supporting women through the
birthing journey and how she approaches individual cases.
Stamell also reflects on how she balances her schedule as a senior
in-house professional and doula simultaneously, how lawyers can
sell the undertaking of such roles on top of their in-house duties
to workplace superiors, the main takeaways and transferable
professional lessons from her work as a doula to her role as a GC
and co sec, the importance of informed consent, finding pursuits
that are meaningful and rewarding, and why she’s a better legal
professional as a result of her work as a doula.