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ResetMDFeb 21, 2024
Dr. Alicia Shelly - "Mindshift & Become the Person You Want to Be"
Dr. Alicia Shelly is a Board-Certified Internal Medicine / Obesity Medicine physician with Wellstar Medical Group in Douglasville, GA, outside of Atlanta. She is the host of Back on Track: Achieving Health Weight Loss. She is a fitness enthusiast and have completed 6 marathons and was training for an Ironman 70.3 at the time of our recording! She is also an author of Made for More: Physician Entrepreneurs Who Live Life and Practice Medicine on Their Own Terms.
In this episode, Dr Shelly tells us about her lifelong struggle with weight and what combination of strategies helped her along the way and things that have been speedbumps. In addition to walking the talk, she wants to help others.
She is working to balance life in order to live to the fullest with purpose. She shares her thoughts on how to become the person you want to be!
Top 3 Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
This is not always!
You are not alone!
Enjoy your life and live your passion.
You can find her at:
Website: drshellymd.com
YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCk_jXPTVHuYWD4d_Ri6ce5A
Twitter/Instagram: drshellymd
linkedin.com/in/alicia-shelly-535685175
https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Shelly-MD-109288878073798
Instagram: www.instagram.com/drshellymd
Dr. Julie La Barba - "Tipping Points, Tradeoffs, and a Timeout"
University of Texas Long School of Medicine.
Growing up in an Italian produce family taught Dr. La Barba the
value of fresh food and the power of gathering families in the
kitchen. This fostered her professional commitment to childhood
nutrition and public health advocacy for the underserved.
From public health roles as lead health consultant for the H-E-B
Body Adventure Exhibit to founding Medical Director of CHEF
(Culinary Health Education for Families) at The Children’s Hospital
of San Antonio, she empowered families to make delicious,
satisfying meals with affordable ingredients that won’t break the
bank or require gourmet cooking skills.
A wife and mother of 4, she currently hosts the Paging Dr. Mom
Podcast for moms in medicine who feel like they’re on call 24/7
regardless of their work arrangement. With guests ranging from
doctors and coaches to chefs and authors she hopes to create a
community of women lifting each other up one actionable step at a
time.
In this episode, we discuss her path into medicine and the different ways she has made a difference. Along the way, despite her love of medicine she has determined that medicine will not love you back.
Always on the lookout for wonder, she discusses her resets and lessons where she is clear on her priorities and where she wants her impact to be.
Listen in for some laughter and deep insight like "the prize for a pie-eating contest is more pie." I won't reveal the other nuggets scattered throughout!
Dr. Corrine Menn - "What's the point of beating cancer if I can't do what I want with my life?"
Dr. Corinne Menn is a board certified OBGYN and North American Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner, with over 20 years of experience caring for women.
She has a special interest in areas often neglected in women's health: perimenopause and menopause and the unique needs of female cancer survivors and those at high risk for breast cancer.
In this episode, Dr Menn shares her story of multiple resets, which starts with her diagnosis of breast cancer as a 28-year-old OBGYN resident. We discuss her path to motherhood, finding her niche as a physician, and all the pearls she learned along the way. She encourages others to keep the door open in their careers and to give themselves the gift of time.
"Choose what works for you in the moment."
She is both a patient advocate and a physician education advocate who hopes to dispel medical misinformation by getting the science out there on social media and her website www.drmenn.com
Find her on IG @drmennobgyn where she has over 40,000 followers!
Dr. Nahille Natour - "Keeping an Open Mind"
Join us today as we listen to Dr. Nahille Natour, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) whose passion is to inspire her clients to achieve balance in their lives. She serves professionals who are looking to transform their lives, careers, businesses, and relationships. As a board-certified OB/GYN, she has experience in many practice settings and has personally and successfully worked through physician burnout.
She shares her story of burnout and how coaching helped her to define her career goals and pivot in her career to a job as a hospitalist OB/GYN that ultimately allowed her boundaries between her professional and personal life that have been welcome. During that journey she also explored and has become a very active and successful coach for other physicians.
She reminds us of several pearls on today’s episode:
- Three keys to balance include defining your priorities and values, nurturing your relationships to help fill your cup, and allowing for time for personal growth, reflection and rest.
- It’s okay to make your career what you want, keep an open mind and make change where possible if it isn’t meeting your goals.
- Know that there is a way to get “unstuck” if you are feeling unfulfilled.
For time efficiency, try her “F.A.R. Rules”—File it, Act on it, or Recycle it.
See her website www.inspiringbalancecoaching.com for details and you can contact her at nahille@inspiringbalancecoaching.com.
Enjoy!
Dr. Maggie Kang - "The Difference Between Pain and Suffering"
Dr. Maggie Kang is a board-certified radiologist trained at Yale, mom of two kids, one with a rare disease. She was the radiologist who was the first to see her nine-year-old daughter’s horrifying brain MRI in the ER. Her daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease, neuromyelitis optica.
The ordeal motivated Maggie to shift her focus from radiology to mental well-being. Now a certified Life Coach, Maggie dedicates her time to supporting parents of kids in the rare and chronic disease communities. She also works with physician moms of kids with chronic needs.
Maggie told her story on the TEDx stage, sharing her powerful message that you can choose to accept pain or create suffering.
Link to TEDx talk: The Truth About Pain and Suffering Will Change Your Life | Maggie Kang | TEDxCherryCreekWomen
TEDx reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_JYN91dlIM
Ways to reach out to Dr Kang:
Website: https://maggiekangmd.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/maggiekangmd/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggiekangmd/
Link to TEDx talk: The Truth About Pain and Suffering Will Change Your Life | Maggie Kang | TEDxCherryCreekWomen
My Hospital Story (her daughter’s book) on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/My-Hospital-Story-Nell-Choi/dp/1982262842/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=c3f60023-05a3-4bab-bf26-2ac3b9d954f7
Dr. Errin Weisman - "Stepping Away and Coming Back Better"
In this episode, Errin Weisman, DO openly speaks on her experience of professional burnout early in her family medicine career so that no woman feels alone and to prove you can have a joy-filled and sustainable career. Dr. Weisman wholeheartedly believes to be a healer, you must first fill your own cup. She lives and practices life coaching and medicine in rural Southwestern Indiana, loves her roles as farmer's wife, athlete and mother of three. Besides being sassy, she enjoys getting mud on her shoes, teaching her children to catch tadpoles and reading a great fantasy novel. She is interested in using her medical knowledge beyond the standard outpatient clinical realm through innovative technologies, public speaking, writing and social media as well as utilizing her business skills in organization, team leadership and creative problem solving.
Errin's Pearls:
1- You are not alone.
2-Help is available for those who ask.
3.-Enough is a decision. Good Enough is what you determine it to be!
4- Today is not your forever.
You can find out more about Dr. Weisman on her podcasts "Doctor Me First," and “Burntout to Badass” or hang out with her on Instagram - @burntout_to_badass
Dr. Frances Mei Hardin - "Rethinking Residency"
Dr. Frances Mei Hardin, MD is an otolaryngologist and avid physician wellness advocate. She created the brand Rethinking Residency to provide concrete, effective resources for resident physicians, fellows and medical students. The skills she writes about are evidence-based DBT-informed skills, customized specifically for the unique population of young physicians and physicians in training.
During this brief conversation we try to tackle what is wrong with medical training to lead to such a challenging environment. Dr. Hardin states that the residency training phenomenon has to break the cyclical bullying model for us to improve and do better, consider the fact that maybe the socratic method is being used wrong. It's not about grilling and pimping you it's a method where questions are asked bi-directionally to improve knowledge!
If we can pause for a moment, acknowledge our anger and embrace it, we can deeply understand its true roots. If we can take care of our own anger instead of focusing on the other person, we can get immediate relief.
And how right that is! In our short conversation we discuss interpersonal effectiveness and ways to address distress tolerance and emotional regulation.
Dr. Hardin is a fan of stoicism and some of her favorite quotes are:
" We cannot ensure success, but we can deserve it". (stoic teaching, from a famous play about Cato)
"All cruelty springs from weakness". (stoic teaching - Seneca)
"And you're right: this internship has been like the stuff of dreams, like the overpowering nightmares of childhood: aggression, fear of retaliation, and then the resolution, where you don't win, you live."(The House of God)
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." (Victor Frankl)
Pearls of Wisdom:
“Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career, you have a life” Cheryl Trade
Keep a spirit list and fill it with items that keep you most connected with yourself.
During this match time important to reminder
“We cannot ensure success but we can deserve it"- Cato
Her Happy Place:
“Divorce Beach" in Cabo -its not always filled with people. There’s solitude!
What's on Dr. Hardin's nightstand:
Untethered Soul
Source
Tiny Habits
How to do the work
Adam Grant books
AND…a lovely smelling Dream oil by Santo Cabo
IG: @francesmei.md
Website: francesmei.com
Brand-Rethinking Residency:
IG: @rethinkingresidency
Website: rethinkingresidency.com
2024 Season 2 Launch
Happy New Year and welcome back to the ResetMD Podcast.
We hope you will listen in to each episode and look forward to hearing from you at resetmdpodcast@gmail.com!
Dr Vidhya Prakash - "Learn to Listen"
This episode was originally released December 2021.
Dr Vidhya Prakash is a Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine, a member of the Infectious Diseases Faculty, and the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations in her department. She is the Founder and Director of the SIU Alliance for Women in Medicine and Science (AWIMS). She has many roles on the local, state, and national levels and she is a wife, mother, author, and advocate.
In this episode we discuss her reset from military medicine in the Air Force, her recent commitment to prioritizing her passions, and her mission to use her voice for gender equity. We also discuss her approach to helping trainees with the imposter phenomenon.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1- "Recognize your value."
2- "You don't have to apologize for prioritizing your wellness." It is ok to self-advocate.
3- Prioritize things that you are passionate about, in line with your values, and in line with your career goals. (Listen in to see how she does that!)
She recommends: "Letter to a young female physician" by Dr Suzanne Koven, "The Conversation" by Dr. Robert Livingston, and "The Beauty in Breaking" by Dr. Michele Harper.
Although not mentioned in this episode, she is the author of "Learning to Listen: A Memoir," published in November 2021.
Dr Sue Hingle - "Lead by Example"
This episode was originally released November 2021.
Susan Hingle is a leader among leaders.
She is an Internal Medicine specialist and a Professor of Medicine, who serves as Associate Dean for Human and Organizational Potential, and Director of Faculty Development at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Miami University and a medical degree from Rush University Medical College. She completed an Internal Medicine residency at Georgetown University Medical Center, where she served as Chief Resident of Internal Medicine. Dr. Hingle completed the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program.
She has been active nationally in numerous organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Women's Association, the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine, and the American Medical Association. She served as Chair of the ACP Board of Regents and Chair of Board of Governors and is President-elect for AMWA.
Pearls of Wisdom from the episode:
-Self-care is essential and we, as leaders, should lead by example by practicing it.
-Wellness should be “THE Goal” NOT “A goal” in healthcare.
-Organizations need to define what a healthy workforce looks like and make it a priority.
-Let go of the drive for perfection! The goal should be to become the best version of ourselves. Just enough is good enough.
-Understand the power of saying no.
Recommended Reading:
Just Enough- Laura Nash
Untamed- Glennon Doyle
The Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo- Marianne Cronin
Dr Liz Lawrence - "Navigating Relationships"
This episode was originally released December 2021.
Dr. Liz Lawrence currently practices at UNM, where she also serves as the Chief Wellness Officer, the Assistant Dean for Professional Wellbeing, and a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
In this episode, we get into navigating relationships. We highlight transitions that Dr. Lawrence went through in her career and what she learned during that time. We talk about self reflection and recognition of our inner state. We talk about the importance of self care and boundary setting in our profession. There are so many pearls in this episode, listen in to hear them all.
Dr Lawrence gives her 3 Principles of Well-Being:
1- Spend time with the People you Love
2- Exercise
3- Sleep
We discussed "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams" by Matthew Walker Ph.D.
Dr Tammie Chang - "Doctors are Struggling in Silence"
This episode was originally published in October 2021.
Dr. Tammie Chang is aboard-certified physician in pediatric hematology/oncology practicing in Tacoma, Washington. She is the medical director of Provider Wellness for MultiCare Health System. She is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Pink Coat, MD, a platform to support and empower the personal and professional success of all women physicians. She has held numerous leadership positions including Director of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) ELEVATE Leadership Development Program for Attending Women Physicians, President of the Washington State Chapter of AMWA, Co-Founder of her local Women in Medicine (Cool Chicks In Medicine) group, and Co-Founder of the Women of Influence Network (WIN) @MultiCare for her healthcare system.
In this episode we discuss her story of being in a dark place due to a confluence of practice situations and not wanting to ask for help. She likens this to what many are experiencing during the pandemic. We talk about what worked for her then and now and the impetus it gave her to create a safe space for other physicians to be honest and vulnerable and to know they are not alone. She comes back to the basics to support herself. Also, you don't want to miss out on her book recommendations! (I have already ordered them!)
Pearls of Wisdom for Well-Being:
1- Put Your Own Self-Care First so you can take care of others (Remember the O2 mask image)
2- Set Boundaries! Learn what is your responsibility and what is not your responsibility.
3- Ask For Help. We're Not Alone.
Check out more from Tammie:
"Women Doctors Are Struggling In Silence" is Tammie's TED Talk.
Tammie's Personal Website at https://www.tammiechangmd.com/
Dr. Kerri Palamara - "Reset after Loss"
This episode was originally released October 2021.
Kerri Palamara, MD MACP is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She leads the Center for Physician Well-being at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is an expert in physician coaching and well-being. Dr. Palamara leads the American College of Physicians “Physician Coach Training Program”, which trains physicians to integrate coaching into their quality improvement and well-being work. Dr. Palamara co-created and directs the MGH Physician Coaching Program. This program was designed to improve physician awareness of their growth, reduce burnout, and improve well-being.
In this episode: Dr Palamara discussed her hard reset after facing a horrible loss and how it taught her that her well-being was pivotal to her family's well-being and to the impact she had in the world. She shares her 3 basics of self-care and how asking for help supports them. We dive into the concepts of addressing your needs and the impact it has on how you feel.
Books she mentioned: "The Choice" by Edith Eva Eger and "It's OK that You are Not OK" by Megan Devine
Pearls of Wisdom for Well-Being:
1- Download the Manual of Yourself. Know your Basics for Self-Care. You can't expect to take care of others if you don't take care of yourself.
2- Ask Yourself: "What Do I Need Today?" How your feel is based on what you need. So, if you can get what you need, you can feel differently.
3- Reframe your Self-Talk to be more self-compassionate.
Dr. Eileen Barrett - "Meaning in Your Work"
This episode was originally released in April 2022.
Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, SFHM, MACP, is an internal medicine hospitalist and medical educator in Albuquerque. She has held several leadership roles in physician wellness, DEI, and CME, both in employed and volunteer work. She is the current chair of the American College of Physicians Board of Regents and a former New Mexico Chapter Governor. She is a multistate District Chair for the Society of Hospital Medicine, and Advocacy Committee Vice Chair for the American Medical Women’s Association. She and her husband, Sam, enjoy skiing, hiking, reading, and goofing off with their kiddos, Daisy and Dahlia.
In this Episode: Dr Barrett talks about her mindset that "I get to be a physician", her experience with key advice at key times from mentors, and her drive for advocacy and sense of purpose. She discusses her pivots from rural practice in the Indian Health Service, her choice to go to academia and her choice to leave academia more recently. She reflects on her time as an Ebola Aid Worker and how it contributed to her sense of purpose and humanity.
Listen in to see how she finds wellness, places to visit in her home state of New Mexico, and the books we are reading right now! There is a challenge for you at the end!
Wellness Pearls:
1. Surround yourself with people you love to be around AND that love to be around you.
2. Look for meaningful work that makes you feel great.
Dr Darilyn Moyer - "Be Curious - How to Make Decisions in your Career"
This episode was originally released September 2021.
Darilyn V. Moyer, MD, MACP, FRCP, FIDSA is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP). She has served on ACP’s Board of Regents, which manages the business and affairs of ACP and is the main policy-making body of the College, chaired ACP’s Board of Governors, and served as Governor of ACP’s Pennsylvania Southeastern Chapter.
Prior to becoming ACP’s EVP and CEO, Dr. Moyer was a Professor of Medicine, Executive Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program Director and Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. She was previously the Co-Faculty Advisor for the Temple University School of Medicine Internal Medicine Interest Group and for the Temple University School of Medicine Student Educating About Healthcare Policy Group. Dr. Moyer currently practices part time at the Temple University Internal Medicine Associates.
In this episode we discuss her resets into medical education and then to advocacy with the ACP. She shares her thoughts on finding what you are meant to do in your career. She discusses what supports her wellness and gives advice for women in medicine. She ends with the mantra of "Bring your Best to Whatever You Do Everyday."
Pearls of Wisdom:
1. Take Care of Yourself- in whatever way works for you. Know what Recharges you.
2. Reach Out to People to hear their story. Be Curious and Listen.
3. Create Community inside and outside of medicine.
4. Write Down and Examine your short and long-term goals.
Dr. Robyn Tiger - "Reversing the Effects of Chronic Stress"
This episode was originally released in March 2022.
Robyn Tiger, MD trained and practiced as diagnostic radiologist until making a pivot to help herself and other physicians. She is on a mission to empower physicians with self-care tools backed by science and research. With physician burnout on the rise, Robyn knows firsthand what it’s like to love your job while also coping with stress, anxiety, overwhelm, imbalance and even illness. She is deeply passionate about helping her colleagues relieve stress, elevate calm and live their best lives! She does so with yoga therapy, meditation and life coaching in her innovative CME accredited courses, private coaching, and podcast that focus on complete physical, mental, and emotional well-being and resilience.
In this Episode: Dr Tiger discusses the symptoms she had of chronic stress and what shift she made to reverse them. We didn't learn about how to care for ourselves during out training, but we can now. We discuss multiple proven tools to take care of ourselves.
Take Home Pearls for Wellness:
1- You have the ability to be "you"- to make a choice to feel differently. You just need to learn how.
2- You are not alone.
3- Ask for help.
- Help is available 24/7. Text 741741 or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (988 or 1-800-273-8255) or Disaster Distress Hotline (1-800-985-5990).
- Call the Physician Support Line (1-888-409-0141) for free and confidential just-in-time peer support.
You can learn more about Dr. Robin Tiger and her programs at www.StressFreeMD.net
**Her next retreat is October 2023 in the beautiful Western NC mountains: https://www.stressfreemd.net/fallretreat
Dr. Erica Howe - "How are You Doing?"
This episode was originally released January 2022.
Dr. Erica Howe is a board-certified Hospitalist and a nationally known educator, wife, and mother to three kids. As a lifelong advocate for improved wellness in medicine, she founded the Women Physicians Wellness Conference in Grand Cayman in 2018 as a way of bringing women physicians together to share their struggles and their strategies for success. She believes that women are stronger together and wants to inspire them to find the courage, clarity, and community to succeed on their own terms, instead of someone else’s.
Her endeavors in teaching and mentoring have been recognized with a number of honors and awards including receipt of the Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett Woman Mentoring Women Award, the medical student-elected Rainbow Award Finalist for “teaching the art of medicine by example”, and the Distinguished Chancellor’s Teaching Award, one of the highest honors given to educators at the University of Kansas.
In this Episode: You will feel like you are in a conversation with your best friend!! Dr Howe discusses her resets which started with answering the question "How are you doing?" with an honest answer, being transparent, and vulnerable with other physicians. She discusses what led to her mission with helping other women physicians and how she is doing that in a big way. She also reveals her secrets for time management.
Take Home Wellness Pearls:
1- Tools to Find Clarity: Take time to determine where you want your career to go, make space to do it, and put out your "asks."
2- Start with being honest with the other doctors around you and continue to have those conversations.
3- Say No to what doesn't meet your needs anymore and protect that space you create by doing so.
You can learn more about the Women Physician Wellness Conference at www.womenphysicianswellness.com - she has three wonderful conference options yearly.
Dr. Rachel Miller - "A Light Switch Moment"
Join us today as we meet Dr. Rachel Miller, a board-certified OB/GYN and Certified Executive Coach who is dedicated to empowering healthcare leaders to drive meaningful change within their organizations. Her company, Pocket Bridges, offers transformative guidance to physician executives and front-line leaders nationwide. Her personalized coaching and engaging leadership cohort sessions focus on fostering confidence, reducing physician burnout, enhancing provider engagement, and refining leadership skills. Today’s episode highlights ways physicians can empower themselves.
In this Episode, we discuss Dr Miller's path to where she is today and what has worked for her.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
· Remember to breath, step into nature, and remember the facts of what is true when facing a moment of burnout.
· Examining your passion, where it comes from and what your values are will help put things into perspective when looking at life, career, leadership or organizational changes
· Self-awareness to know how you communicate and how others communicate will help conversations and negotiation more effective.
· When enduring tough situations- put them in your back pocket—they will stay with you, but you won’t be leading with it and you can work through and grow from it.
Find Dr. Miller’s book, “How to Succeed as a Healthcare Leader” here, and listen to the podcast to learn how it came about!
https://www.amazon.com/How-Succeed-as-Healthcare-Leader/dp/1644845814
Find the link to Dr. Miller’s podcast “Life, Love, and Leadership for Physicians” here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3yikwQNhRhim9bDJq6rL8G?si=13a5579466cb4b7a
Dr. Tonya Caylor - "Point Your Brain in the Direction You Want to Go"
Tonya L Caylor, MD, FAAFP is a family physician and an academic physician coach in Anchorage, Alaska with 23 years of clinical and academic practice. She owns and runs Joy in Family Medicine Coaching Services ® which partners with family medicine residency programs to help residents, faculty, and recent graduates enjoy all of life and thrive in their chosen careers.
In this episode she describes the 3 stages of her RESET: burnout, recovery, and coach training and practice. She outlines the fullness of her recovery phase, details what in the practice she joined made it work, and reveals what helped her re-learn to enjoy the practice of medicine. She talks about her experience with coaching family medicine residents and faculty and the lightbulb moments she sees. Lastly, we dive into what it takes to change the culture of medicine.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1. Point your brain in the direction you want to go.
2. Figure out what self-care looks like for you and don't let yourself down.
3. Take time to reflect.
More ways to find Dr Caylor:
www.joyinfamilymedicine.com
joyinfamilymedicine@gmail.com
www.joyinfamilymedicine.com/blog
https://www.facebook.com/joyfmcoaching/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonya-caylor-md-faafp-b74a04158/
https://youtube.com/@academicmedicinecoach
Dr. Laurie Boge - "More than Medicine"
Dr. Laurie Boge is a wife, runner, feminist, dog mom, combat veteran and dessert lover who in her spare time works part-time as an Emergency Medicine physician and recently founded GreenCloud Apparel, an elevated scrub company on a mission to make women in medicine feel and look as amazing as the work they are doing.
In this episode (#98!) Dr Boge talks about her transitions from a military medical career where she served in wartime in Iraq to community and academic medicine. She shares her experience as a combat physician and how she honors veterans now.
She has a passion for mentoring and sponsoring women physicians, re-inventing her career despite a system that is not always supportive, and pursuing her entrepreneurial venture.
GreenCloud Apparel grew out of a "crazy idea" to improve what is already out there and honor and support women physicians along the way. Listen in to hear what is next!
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom that work for her:
Set Boundaries- say yes to what aligns with where you want to go.
Stay Healthy- get sleep and exercise.
Surround Yourself with People who get you and your vision and believe in it!
Boost your Confidence by putting on scrubs you love! Shift the attitude for the day.
and...
Remember you are courageous and confident. You just need to be yourself and go after those crazy dreams. It is ok to change in life and it is ok to be more than medicine. Don’t put things off that you really want. Make medicine work for you. A different recipe works for different people.
Dr. Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski - "The 3G Cycle of Life: The Secrets of Achieving Joy, Meaning and Well-Being"
Dr. Miriam Zulberglait Lisigurski joins us today to discuss her new book, "The 3G Cycle of Life: The Secrets of Achieving Joy, Meaning and Well-Being", but also to share her story of finding healing for herself, being vulnerable, and in working through burnout how she created something to help others-- in medicine and outside of medicine to grow through challenges and avoid burnout.
Listen in to hear her story of how writing about her challenges and frustration helped to create a path forward on her journey. Her book also highlights stories from 30 individuals along with her own personal story and shows how she recovered hope with this collaboration. She is not healed but is much better and describes life as being linear, with a series of interconnected cycles. Each "3G Cycle" is comprised of Goals, Grit & Growth. She shares pearls in this episode that can be applied personally and professionally.
In this Episode, she discusses:
-Vulnerability
-Your life being a continuous journey we are on with others; you are not travelling alone!
-Keys to success in these cycles include setting realistic goals, using internal energy to bolster the cycle you are in in your life and not being afraid to accept help from others when you need some of their energy to continue to propel you forward. Recognize growth even when goals aren't always met.
-Achieving a better version of yourself occurs every time you try, even if your goal wasn't necessarily met.
- Finding who you really are and aligning your values. This will help you set those goals.
Dr. Zulberglait's book can be found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/3G-Cycle-Life-Achieving-Well-Being-ebook/dp/B0BSJ48MP
Dr. Debbie Bradley - "Life After Clinical Medicine"
Dr. Debbie Bradley is a board-certified medical oncologist, certified executive coach, avid mountain biker and adrenaline junkie. She has worked in the academic setting, private practice, and somewhere in between. Most recently she has pivoted to leave clinical medicine and step into industry/pharma.
In this episode, Debbie talks about what drove her to make the career resets along the way. We discuss how she had to ultimately follow her heart even if it meant disappointing others. What was the one thing after a year of trying to decide that prompted her to ultimately leave clinical medicine? When we recorded this, she was almost 3 months into a return to her roots in research and she shares several insights about the way this helped her get out of a chronic "fight or flight" life. Now she is more aware of what lead her to overwhelm and what will keep from returning there over and over again.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1. Remember your why/your goals before saying yes to something.
2. Have a "Board of Directors" to support you and help you be accountable.
3. You can have white space- you don't always have to have a well-defined plan.
You can reach out to Debbie if you would like to know more at www.debbiebradleymd.com
THERE IS NO END TO GRATITUDE (Setting the Stage ... the Medical Student Memoirs)
Meet Momin Taherkheli - An upbeat, full of life and brilliant student whose life was turned upside down by transverse myelitis. Momin was born in Pakistan and came to Kansas City with his parents when in elementary school and since then, this community has been his home. A straight A student, an athlete and a wonderful brother and son, he vividly remembers the day that completely changed his life. He went from playing basketball to not being able to move his limbs in the span of a few hours. He always wanted to be a physician because his father was one and growing up he thought physicians were well respected, took care of people and were humanitarians and that was embedded in his psyche. But having to experience every facet of healthcare while being on the p[patient side of things really solidified his resolve. Momin had thought doctors knew EVERYTHING and realized that it was not the case but, it was OK not to know everything and yet be passionate about one's career.
Momin strongly credits his positive attitude and composure for his recovery and being able to fulfill his dream. The times when he was in the hospital but still working on his test scores, medical school applications etc., happened because he knew where he wanted to be. He believes that if you can envision where you need to be, your body and mind leads you to that. They almost conspire to make it happen. He credits his tenacity to the people around him, his family, friends and community. He states his strength that he exhibited was a reflection of their love and support.
Momin blew me away in this interview with how much good he sees in people and how much gratitude he felt even when the odds were all against him. His spirituality and faith have been instrumental in having him succeed in his journey.
MOMIN'S PERALS OF WISDOM:
KNOW your PURPOSE before you enter medical school. Your "why" is important all throughout your journey.
To be happy in life, look at those who are less fortunate than you, to better yourself and to improve, look at those who are better than you. This leads you to a state of gratitude and hunger at the same time.
One can find happiness in the smallest things in life. A touch, a smell and every breath are all joy.
Momin says NEVER to be afraid of asking for help.
Knowing your limitations is an IMPORTANT skill
There is no end to gratitude.
Find mentors early on and be honest with them!
Life is a Gift, cherish it.
MEDICAL SCHOOL BROKE MY TRUST (Setting the Stage ... the Medical Student Memoirs)
Meet Tara, a student at one of the highly competitive, full tuition provided, medical schools. She shares her experience of navigating the realities of "all expenses covered medical education."
Tara might have chosen differently had she understood what being a part of a very small group and an even smaller minority student group, meant. Tara shares her struggles with home sickness, acclimatizing to a culture that was vastly different than what she grew up with and trying to find community and build trust while feeling scrutinized through a biased lens. She uses powerful language like " Burnout of the soul" which really got me thinking deeper and left me wanting to do a lot more to support my students.
She goes on to tell us how medical school is hard enough and trying to navigate and figure out who really cares about you and is in your corner can be really hard on students. the institutions should be in our corner and support us whether we are the top 1 percent or not. That is really their responsibility and duty. She talks about her frustration with DEI measures in medicine being "surface level” and that intentionality and true change can only occur when people can have real conversations without fear of reprimand and when those in power are held accountable for their actions.
Tara believes that Introspection is important for well being. Enjoy the good and see what you need to do about the bad. Make those changes intentionally and early on so you are not wasting precious time and resources. Medical education of the future needs to extend the same benefit of doubt as is given to the faculty/ higher ups. Right now, the hierarchal system is causing the most damage imaginable.
TARA'S PEARLS of WISDOM for STUDENTS:
Chasing perfection sets you up to fail.
Not every classmate can create a safe space for you.
Its OK to look through your worst case scenario and If you are OK with it, you should be at peace.
Find happiness outside of accolades and remember what all there is to love and be grateful for outside of medicine
Remember that you are a good person and don’t deserve bad things to happen to you
FOR FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION:
Nurture mistakes so students can learn from them.
Be honest with your students, it helps build trust.
Let students have realistic expectations, but support them regardless.
DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF (Setting the Stage ... the Medical Student Memoirs)
Meet Sahana Shiggaon, a medical student graduating from the University of Missouri Kansas City- School of Medicine's 6 YR combined BA/MD program. She talks about the unique challenges of being in an accelerated program and how she found her "groove". Sahana talks about suffering from imposter syndrome and overcoming it. She talks about feeling alone and isolated as one of the few students who was out fo state and learning to start from scratch as far as building her social circle. Medical schools need to provide opportunities to socialize and speak to other students so one can open up, not feel isolated and learn to work together in a collaborative environment. She believes that being at a school where her concerns were addressed and "listened to" really helped in feeling welcome and helped her succeed.
Her pearls for us:
Being vulnerable is normal
Don’t sweat the small stuff
Celebrate yourself and your accomplishments even if they feel small. Validate yourself!
Build your confidence and believe in yourselves. We are all capable since we have landed in these places.
Invest in yourself and try to find other things that give you joy. Take up a hobby early on.
REMEMBER YOUR WHY (Setting the Stage ... the Medical Student Memoirs)
Meet Daniya Mozaffar, a highly energetic, motivated medical student who never gave up on her dreams. After going through two cycles of a medical school match, she decided to fulfill her goals by attending a Caribbean medical school. She shares her journey with her and how she has grown over these years and the person she is becoming. She has learnt what it takes to succeed as a medical student and to never forget that yes, we might be physicians, but we are human and people first.
Some pearls of wisdom from Daniya:
REMEMBER YOUR WHY
Choose yourself above all, that will always help you stay true to yourself and your vision
Surround yourself with people who will support you and left you up, build your community
Define what that support looks like for you and build it intentionally
Being proactive about your mental wellbeing is essential. Invest your time and energy in a good therapist.
Empower yourself with the knowledge of what all is available to you on your campuses and beyond.
Learn to be as efficient, work smarter not necessarily harder.
Learn to develop a growth mindset and thinking through a “worst case scenario” might be a great exercise. Failure is good.
What's Happening in 2023 here at RESETMD
Listen in for a quick recap of 2022 and a preview of what's starting soon in 2023.
January 11, 2023 we will start a series: "Setting the Stage ... Medical Student Memoirs"
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Dr. Nan Nuessle - "A Code to Address the Bullying in Medicine "
Nanette Nuessle, MD, or Dr. Nan as she is affectionately known to patients and colleagues, has led an exciting life as a frontline Pediatrician providing excellent care to patients for over 30 years. She has spent the last half of her career giving back to rural areas that are short staffed. More recently, as a Pediatric Hospitalist she has concentrated on her strengths: stabilization of critically ill infants and children, acute airway management, and attendance at high-risk deliveries.
Dr. Nan also runs a coaching company, Beat Down Burnout, which has a unique process of communication skills and relationship building, allowing healthcare organizations to improve staff retention, increase patient safety, and reduce risk management. This helps both the organization, and their staff find opportunities and learn new ways to build trust and fight to prevent burnout.
In this episode, we explore her experience with bullying as a student and where she sees it happening today, how she turned around a toxic situation by learning the values of her colleague and used that information to change the conversation, and her recommendations for those interested in doing locums medical work. We discuss what has worked for her to help with both the intuitional causes and the personal causes of burnout.
Take home points/Pearls:
1. Know other people's values.
2. Anyone can be a leader- lead from where you are.
3. You can’t pour from an empty pot.
Dr Nan invites you to learn your own code: My.Bankcode.com/beat-burnout
Drs. Danielle Shelton and Michelle Seguin - "How to Re:Think Health"
Drs. Danielle Shelton and Michelle Seguin are family physicians and co-founders of Re:Think Health, a co-learning educational platform for healthcare professionals. In addition to co-teaching medical student electives on lifestyle medicine and innovation + entrepreneurship they are working on their interdisciplinary community offerings. They are passionate about reducing healthcare professional burnout and increasing cross-collaboration.
In this episode: We hear how Danielle and Michelle came to family medicine and their reasons for looking for more education to help their patients with lifestyle changes. We discuss their separate starting places in the Clean Your Plate nonprofit in GA and the interest in a Produce Prescription program and how a shared purpose and technology brought them together.
Learn about ways to overcome barriers to entry into a new space to create transformational change with the taglines of Dream Big, Be Brave, and Look for Allies.
How could you regain your curiosity and creativity in medicine? Healthcare in Medicine is beyond the 4 walls of the clinic! What would medicine look like if we talked to one another?
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom (these are just the last three - there are many more hidden in the episode!):
1. Do one thing just for you every day. Time for yourself is not selfish.
2. Create a daily gratitude practice a few minutes before bed. This is a seed of abundance in our life.
3. Creating something out of nothing can be hard. We hope this isn’t as hard for the people who come after us.
Dr. Diana Mercado Marmarosh - "The Thing I Saw as My Greatest Flaw is My Greatest Gift"
Dr. Diana Mercado Marmarosh is a family medicine physician, clinic medical director, chief medical officer and ADHD life coach for Physicians. She used to have 200 open charts and a graveyard of unfinished projects, but all has changed. In the last year she has made it her mission help more than 50 physicians enhance their zone of genius by creating systems that allow them to leave work at work and obtain freedom of time.
In this episode: Diana shares the story of her diagnosis of ADHD and now it has led her to where she is today. She shares an honest, heartfelt journey through seeing it initially as something that was a flaw and should be hidden to learning to see it as just a circumstance that she could control.
We discuss her transition from leaving the medical community where she trained to ultimately become a medical director and medical society leader elsewhere in the state of Texas. We talk through how the things that led to burnout in her career were simply the price a doctor had to pay in order to do the things she loved and live the lifestyle she wanted. Her mindset changed after being coached in a community of women physicians and this led to her most recent reset!
ADHD Hacks for Physicians:
1. Planning (listen in for the specific planning tools)
2. List daily what you are for!
3. Write down 3 things you want like they have already happened.
4. Decide everything has a home.
5. Charting: Begin with the end in mind and control the environment during your workday in a way that supports getting your chart done right after the visit (it is possible!)
6. Diana shares an amazing list of EMR charting hacks in the last third of the podcast. Get your pen and be ready to write them down! She teaches us how to work smarter not harder!
Diana's website and resources: https://www.adhd-lifecoach.com/boundaries
Beyond ADHD: A Physician’s Perspective Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076467873550
Dr. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber - "Women in Medicine- Setting the Agenda for Change"
In today's episode we have the exciting opportunity to welcome Dr. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber back on to the podcast as our first return guest! Today she is here to talk with us about a foundational position paper that AMWA and Korn Ferry Health published at the end of September 2022, “Women in Medicine- Setting the Agenda for Change” by Dr. Eliza Lo Chin and Liz Bickley of Korn Ferry Health. The report "explores the challenges that confront women in medicine and the work that is still needed to close the gender gap in healthcare leadership". It explores areas such as burnout, mental health crises, caregiving conflicts, fertility concerns and underrepresentation of women in leadership roles. We hope you enjoy the conversation and the many areas she discusses including:
-Empowering women, creating opportunity
-Creating clear goals in your job role, and regularly debrief and make sure the boundaries and goals you are in line with your expectations in order to support your career but also provide support to prevent burnout.
-Institutions should see wellbeing as more than a "checkbox". Consider having coaching more available for physicians without the burden of having to seek it out. Examine onboarding practices of physicians and increasing time with other colleagues in order to help them more familiar with processes, expectations, and feel more comfortable in the environment.
-Re-evaluation of recruiting mechanisms in order to increase the diversity in leadership positions.
-Time and talent reviews.
-Thinking outside the box, opening our eyes to other possibilities.
-Making childcare -- both sick and well-- more accessible to alleviate a burden that is often cited as a reason for women leaving the workplace.
We strongly encourage our listeners to read the entire paper and find ways that you can affect change in these areas, you can find the entire paper here:
https://www.amwa-doc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Final-AMWA-KF-Women-in-Medicine-Whitepaper.pdf
Dr Eliza Lo Chin - "Women in Medicine- Setting the Agenda for Change"
Join us as we hear from Dr. Eliza Lo Chin, Executive Director of the American Medical Women’s Association and author of the recent paper Women In Medicine- Setting the Agenda for Change". Dr. Chin is an assistant clinical professor of Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. She has been actively involved in American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) for over a decade. Working with and collaborating with women physician leaders is her passion and she is honored to be AMWA's executive director and to serve the organization that has provided her with so much support. Dr. Chin is a graduate of the University of California in Berkeley, Harvard Medical School and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She completed her training in primary care at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia for many years before relocating to California where she continues to teach medical students and practice medicine part-time with a focus in geriatrics. Dr. Chin currently resides in California with her husband and their three children.
Dr. Chin is here today to discuss her foundational position paper that AMWA and Korn Ferry Health published at the end of September, “Women in Medicine- Setting the Agenda for Change”. Listen in to hear about:
- AMWA's work in increasing fertility awareness, advocacy and resources for physicians working through these challenges.
- Being a leader at whatever stage you are at will help to increase females in leadership roles and help close the gender gap in leadership.
- Finding your passion and plug in there.
- The importance of building a better pipeline for women in medicine.
- Remembering we are humans before heroes, mental healthcare is so important for physicians and often is overlooked.
- These challenges identified in this report are something that we need everyone to help tackle, not just women. Small actions can lead to big change.
We strongly encourage our listeners to read the paper and find ways that you can affect change in these areas. The entire paper can be found here:
https://www.amwa-doc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Final-AMWA-KF-Women-in-Medicine-Whitepaper.pdf
Dr. Mary Leung - "How You Can Reclaim 2 Hours Each Day"
Dr. Mary Leung is a physician who is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. She is also a certified life coach who is passionate about serving physicians who are stressed, overwhelmed and burned-out. From the depths her own experience, Mary started Shining With Gratitude MD, whose ardent purpose is to guide other physicians through their unique situations—so they can feel better, regain control and live holistically in the present. Mary believes that if physicians can enjoy practicing medicine again, they can take better care of their patients. Through renewal, they can shine brighter for their families and all the lives they touch.
In this episode we talked about how things did not get better once she moved from fellowship to being an attending and what it was costing her. She made a huge reset in her mindset and strategies and was able to shave off 2 hours of charting each day. Listen in to see what worked for her. She reiterates that you can do it too!
There are so many pearls of wisdom in her very authentic and relatable story.
She is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mary.leung.18659
Dr. Hajira Yasmin - "Be Truthful to your Mission and Find Joy in Practicing Medicine"
Hajira Yasmin, M.D. FACOG, IF, NCMP, AASECT(CSC), is a Board-Certified OB-GYN with expertise in sexual medicine being an AASECT certified Sexuality Counselor and NAMS (North American Menopause Society) certified Menopause Practitioner. She has obtained sexual medicine fellowship in women’s health with ISSWSH (International Society for Study of Women’s Sexual Health) and postgraduate training as a Sexuality Counselor from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She specializes in treating perimenopause, menopause hormonal balance, sexual dysfunction in women, vulvovaginal disorders including vulvovaginal pain, skin disorders of the vulva, pelvic pain, and restoring physical intimacy during survivorship care after cancer and conditions like fibromyalgia, diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune disorders, and any other chronic illness.
In this episode, Dr Yasmin talks about her many resets: Coming to the US after being an attending in India and England and completing another residency, starting a program in the Midwest, and recently moving to North Carolina to set up a unique practice that serves women. We discussed what fueled her to make these changes, how she developed confidence to do these things, and her recommendations for women who are experiencing pain, significant symptoms of menopause, and sexual dysfunction.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1. Be authentic in what you are doing. Be passionate in what you are doing. Be truthful to your mission.
2. Address your inner critic and change to a positive mindset.
3. Enjoy the JOURNEY not just the end point.
www.alraymd.com is her practice in Raleigh, NC.
https://www.facebook.com/alraymd
Dr. David John - "You Cannot Be True to Yourself If You are Not Honest with Yourself"
Dr. David John is Associate Professor of Medicine and the Associate Dean for Alumni and Community Initiatives at the University of Missouri Kansas City, School of Medicine. He has also served as a "Docent" mentor within the SOM. He served as the Chair of the state of Hawaii Physicians' Health Committee while also serving on the board for over two decades. He is heavily involved in the recovery community in Hawaii and Kansas City. He is a father to two wonderful daughter and has served as a confidante and mentor for many students, residents and colleague over the years.
In this episode, Dr. John shares how important honesty with oneself is to be able to live a truthful and honest life. He shares his story of addiction to alcohol and the moment of clarity when he realized he had a real problem. This led to him packing his bags immediately and checking himself into a rehabilitation center. He talks about the power alcohol had over him and how he has kept his disease in front of him as a reminder of where he does not ever want to go back.
He believes physicians struggling with these issues need to be reminded that taking the first step and acknowledging the problem is the hardest but things do work out. Going through hardships is something that pushes us to change. Having a support group where one can be vulnerable and not feel judged is important. Having role models who have made it and been successful and who can guide others through this tumultuous journey is important. One has to remember that the risk of losing everything is inevitable if help and treatment is not sought. But if we take the time to be honest and really focus on recovery long term, there is much to be mended and gained.
He states that GRATITUDE is important. According to Alcoholics Anonymous, you can be sober and not grateful BUT you can't stay sober! David's enriched life started with his sobriety birthday. He strongly believes that the only way for an addict to live is to get clean, work towards recovery and rebuild their life. He is grateful for his second life and feels blessed to have a chance to love others wholeheartedly.
David's Happy PLace: Island in Oahu-That's where he is surrounded by those who love him, especially his daughters.
On his Nightstand: Fiction (Still likes to get lost in books)- Teen Wolf is what he's watching
One pearl of Wisdom: Be Honest with yourself, only then you can be true to yourself and to those around you.
Recommended Reading: The Ship of Death by DH Lawrence
https://www.aa.org/twelve-steps-alcoholics-anonymous
Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
Dr. Malissa Barbosa - "How Failure got me to the Place I am Today"
In this Episode: Dr Barbosa discusses that her early resets in college and in her plans for medicine. Her philosophy is that failure is necessary- If we don’t fail how do we ever learn? She gives us a chance to not be so perfect. We talk about how medicine can be a mistress and how it can overshadow the importance of family connection. What did she learn from women older than herself that was so helpful? She shares what she thinks help humanize us in our physician role. Lastly, we discuss how she has pivoted in her roles and what is next.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1- Don't fear Failure- it is here to help you learn.
2- Treat patients as Family.
3- Make yourself a Priority.
4- Protect your Peace- say No!
5- Be Clear and Ask for what you Need!
Dr. Saimun Singla - "What I have Learned from My Own Diagnosis"
In this episode, she shares pearls that she learned through her journey and how she came to create a practice that serves her and her patients. It was much more work, but so fulfilling! She discusses the ins and outs of starting her own practice and having a purpose-driven life. Her reset story started the moment she was diagnosed with RA, a surprise despite her medical knowledge. She says that discomfort = growth.
Pearls for Wellness:
1. Set Boundaries
2. Learn to listen to your body!
3. Make sure what you a doing is in tune with your true purpose.
4. Get rid of perfectionist tendencies.
You can follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/rheum.to.grow.tx/ and contact her via her website: www.rheumtogrowtx.com
Dr. Shelley Meyer - "Go Your Own Way"
Dr. Shelley Meyer started out as a Registered Dietitian with a masters degree in Nutrition from the University of Florida, and then quickly discovered she wanted to learn more, and do more for her patients. She then went on to get her medical degree (Doctor of Osteopathy) from Kansas City University's College of Osteopathic Medicine, working first in an inner-city, high-volume clinic, and then branching out to have her own solo practice, and pursuing further training and certification in Functional Medicine. She now owns a small, micropractice for functional and family medicine membership practice in Denver, CO.
In this episode, Dr Meyer shares her path to creating a practice that combines her interests and supports her needs for autonomy. She shares multiple tools that helped her get comfortable creating a non-insurance based, direct model. Her motto is "Go Your Own Way!"
Pearls for Wellness as Physician Entrepeneur:
1. Find others who want to do what you are doing and see how they did it!
2. There are multiple tools out there for both your patient care needs and business needs. Listen to hear her top three game-changers.
You can hear more about how she is supporting a similar mission as we are here at the ResetMD podcast. Check out her YouTube channel and interviews at:
Dr. Holly Neville - "Choose to be Happy but Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater"
Holly Neville, MD, FAAP, FACS is the division chief of Pediatric Surgery at Joe Di Maggio Children’s Hospital and also serves as associate program director for the general surgery residency at Memorial Regional. Previously, she served as Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine from 2006-2019. Holly attended Emory University (92) where she received a BS in Biology and served as Co-Captain of the varsity swim team, followed by the University of Florida College of Medicine (96). She completed her surgical residency at the University of Texas at Houston and Pediatric Surgery at the UT Southwestern. Holly has and continues to serve nationally on various committees, including the Educational Committee for International Pediatric Endosurgery Group, she chairs website development for American Pediatric Surgery Association and serves on the obesity surgery committee. She also serves on the Association of Women Surgeons and AAP. Recently, in collaboration with Kerri Palamara, MD (MGH) and Eunice Huang, MD (Vanderbilt), she developed a national coaching program for pediatric surgery trainees. This year they began their 3rd year of coaching. Holly has also brought the coaching program to the residents at Memorial Regional Hospital. Inspired by this program, Holly completed her coaching certification through Wellcoaches in 2021. Outside of work, Holly is the mom to 3 children: Zack (21), Camille (17) and Chloe (13). She is an avid sport enthusiast, enjoying paddle boarding, yoga, jogging, swimming, and Otillo racing. She also is a home chef, and due to Celiac disease, specializes in gluten free and vegetarian cooking, occasionally publishing her recipes and ideas in her blogs hollysglutenfreehome.com and www.hollycutstothechase.com.
In this episode Dr. Neville talks about her goal as a woman in medicine: to be happy! What most of us want is just to fit in, be professionally satisfied and find joy in what we do. Our purpose gets lost in what everyone else wants us to do. The reality is that medicine is based on an apprenticeship model and a “one size fits all” approach. In reality it needs to be more of a , “What do YOU want and how can we get YOU THERE” approach. Otherwise we risk losing the passion and the purpose that brings us to our jobs. We cannot all be expected to fit a cube, irrespective of which shapes we come in. People come into medicine with a lot of purpose, intent on changing lives, and somewhere along the way we get lost. Acknowledging that moment can be a “game changer”.
Dr. Neville believes that one can find joy in work and life but we might have to find ways to get re-inspired to do that and rekindle the joy. "Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater". Finding what works and what doesn't and taking a pause is imperative. Finding and reminding ourselves of our why .... Holly encourages getting coached and not just mentored. Coaching helps us leverage our strengths to get to where we want to be. Specifically, physicians need the guidance to give themselves permission to meet their own chosen outcomes. Holly urges us to get organized, have clear cut goals, written down, lay out a plan and have a timeline on a daily basis for personal and professional life. Intentionally choosing to be happy and occasionally refueling one's ego is a good thing. We need to get rid of our self-incriminating mentality.
Holly’s Happy Place: Her backyard, playing with her kids, Paddle boarding in nature.
What’s on her nightstand?
Define your Why: Own Your Story so you can live and learn on purpose by Barbara Bray. One pearl to share: BE AUTHENTIC! If you forget your why, you forget your what and your how too.
Listen to: Pretty Hurts
Jennifer Sweeney of 3rd Conversation - "Connection through Dialogue to Cultivate Humanism and Change"
Join us as we talk to Jennifer Sweeney and learn about 3rd Conversation. Jen is a Co-Founder of X4 Health, a purpose-driven organization on a mission to solve problems that matter for our society, and she also is the Co-Creator of 3rd Conversation, a program focused on revitalizing relationships in health care. An author, entrepreneur, and relational subject matter expert, Jen is committed to supporting the health care industry to evolve into a field in which relationships and human flourishing are central priorities.
3rd Conversation is an experiential program for providers, patients, and C-suite leaders that provides a framework for bidirectional conversation to highlight the importance of relationships in healthcare, not just the technical and structural functions. The goals are to improve professional well-being, enhance the patient experience, and improve relationships within healthcare.
To learn more, you can visit www.3rdconversation.org, or email Jen at jsweeney@x4health.com.
Pearls of Well-being Wisdom:
1. Having authentic conversations help people be seen, heard, and understood. Listen in to see how this can work on both sides for patients and physicians (SPARK) and physicians and C-suite leaders (IGNITE).
2. The problem is the system and not the people in the system, but we can reach out to each other. The system is about the people.
3. Coming into a conversation just being your full authentic self is a relief to not have to problem solve.
4. Learn how to come to a conversation with both requests and offers.
5. We have so much in common and have shared humanity - realizing this can lead to increased trust and hope.
I WONDER: "Building in Margin to Create Meaning"
This is the third installation of three highlighting survival of the frenetic pace of end of school, summer, and back to school with school age children-- juggling life at home and work, and staying sane. As we begin the school year and enter the fall, carving out time to build in margin to be able to breath and be present while our children work through these transition, can be extraordinarily helpful. Sometimes 5 minutes can make the difference in setting a positive tone for the day and make the time together really have substantial meaning.
Dr. Rashmi Schramm - "How Dare You Hide This!"
Dr Rashmi Schramm is a board-certified family physician and certified meditation teacher and coach.
She is the founder of Optimal Wellness, a teaching and coaching platform. She helps busy women navigate transitions with ease - by tapping into their inner power so they can confidently enjoy living more aligned, purposeful and energetic lives.
In this episode: Dr Schramm tells us about how she moved from being a "closet meditator" to being a meditation teacher and how it helped her sense of discontent and physical sickness. A friend called her out with "how dare you hide this" after hearing all the benefits of decreasing a chronic sympathetic overdrive.
We discuss how meditation has gotten a "bad rep" as a tool to help physicians with the shift of emphasis to organizational and systemic change. In actuality, it is an amazing gift "to not be a slave to drives" as we wait on longer term solutions. BOTH are important!
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1. Spending only a short time daily in meditation has amazing results outside of the actual act of meditation. Listen in for all the benefits on neurotransmitters from
2. Let your intuition guide you, listen to people, and stay curious.
3. Finding "Whole Health" for both the mind and body creates a synergistic effect that can be a dream come true.
Her 8-week live group program The Power Within empowers women to effortlessly access their inner peace and power so they can enjoy moving through life with more energy and fulfillment. You can find out more here: https://optimalwellnessmd.org/2022-program
Dr. Heather Nicole Signorelli - "Avoid Overwhelm in the Business Side of Medicine"
Dr. Heather Nicole Signorelli is a board-certified Pathologist and physician executive overseeing laboratories in a large healthcare system. Dr. Signorelli is also an entrepreneur who enjoys building businesses and owns a laboratory consulting company as well as a full-service medical billing and coding company with her husband. She is committed to helping physicians learn the business side of medicine through her podcast, RevMD and Facebook group of the same name.
In this episode, Heather tells us about how she always loved the business side of medicine and how that shaped where she is today. As an administrative leader she has developed rituals to allow her to turn off from work even though work never ends. Listen in to see if these strategies can help you too.
We discuss both the challenges and the joys as a leader in medicine and how having a mission keeps her on track. She has set out to help at least 10,000 physicians with their billing and coding business needs by making sure they have the right tools and know the right questions to ask.
Her personal wellness ritual/pearls:
1. Start off the day with Expressing Gratitude.
2. Prioritize and have Intentional Goals so you can turn off the work at a certain time. (Listen for what helps her do this despite the fact that the "work never ends."
3. Write things down so you don't need to worry if you will remember them.
4. As a leader, you can't stay in the weeds.
5. Find opportunities regularly to spend time doing what you enjoy so you will have the energy to help others.
Dr. Leslie-Ann Williams - "Marrying Art and Medicine with Creativity and Flow"
Dr. Leslie-Ann Williams is a board-certified physician, philanthropist and multi-talented artist, who wields her talent as a painter, actress and writer. She has forged a path for herself in the worlds of both medicine, business and art. A best-selling author, award winning actor, and ministry worship leader, 2020 was a year where she became more intentional in her art expression. Born of Grenadian and Trinidadian heritage and growing up in the culture-rich streets of Pashley Street, Laventille, her passion for the arts and science is embedded deep in her soul and informs her approach to life.
As a physician, Dr. Williams is founder and CEO of Healing Wings International, a primary care practice that addresses health disparities in the US Virgin Islands and surrounding territories. She is a fellow in the American College of Physicians and a catalyst for the formation of the Caribbean Chapter of the ACP. Dr. Williams is featured in several publications, and notably "Against All Odds: Celebrating Black Women In Medicine”. She is an Amazon Best Selling author of On Becoming: Pearls of Wisdom from My Journey into Womanhood. Her devotional On the Wall: A Devotional for Medical Professionals was released in November 2020.
In this episode, Dr. Williams takes us on a tour of her resets, from being an athlete, a performance artist, a doctor in traditional practice to opening her own practice in St. Thomas. We discuss how her plans were delayed due to her mission to help the people of the US Virgin Islands after the hurricanes in 2017. She tells us that she "goes all in." We then explore her reset into being a new form of a physician artist. We do lot of laughing along the way.
Pearls of Wisdom for Wellness:
1- Give yourself permission to create and not put a label (or judgment) on it.
2- Reassess and reset on a daily basis.
3- Turn off your inner critic and be your authentic self.
4- Don't get so caught up in life that you forget to live.
5- Remember to do the things that feed your soul.
You can learn more about Dr. Williams and her art at: https://www.artbydrleslieann.com/
Dr Sasha Shillcutt - "Permission to Set Boundaries"
Sasha K. Shillcutt, MD, MS, FASE is a tenured and endowed Professor and the Vice Chair of Strategy in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). She is also the CEO & Founder of Brave Enough, a well-published researcher in cardiac anesthesiology and gender equity, author, and international speaker. Sasha’s greatest passion is empowering and encouraging others to achieve wellbeing in their professional and personal lives.
Her writing has been published in both the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Her first book, Between Grit and Grace: How to be Feminine and Formidable, has sold thousands of copies and her second book, Brave Boundaries: Strategies to Say No, Stand Strong and Take Control of Your Time - The Key to Living Empowered is available for purchase Sept 6, 2022. You can follow Sasha at www.becomebraveenough.com.
In this episode, Dr Shillcutt talks about her resets in 2013 and then in late 2019 where she changed her path and rebuilt what she needed for herself. We discussed how her "Why" did not change, but how she did her "Why" changed and that made all the difference. Setting boundaries has been the key for showing up for herself. We talk about consequences of not setting boundaries and how boundaries at work may differ from boundaries at home. She shows how we all can be empowered to create boundaries for ourselves!
Boundaries Wellness Pearls:
1. You can set boundaries! Anyone can.
2. The areas where you don't set boundaries match up to your biggest pain points.
3. A boundary in your head is not a boundary until you speak it!
4. The more successful you are, the more boundaries you need to set.
Dr. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber - "Why Not! - Advocacy, Options, and Community "
In this episode, Theresa talks about her unique path to medicine and the resets she has made as a clinician-educator. Who knew that baton twirling would have the outcome it did! She shares her strategy to determine the timing for those resets noting it is ok to sometimes need a change of scenery. Her outlook on options as a physician, particularly as a generalist, is a refreshing take.
We recorded this interview in mid-June 2022 prior to the Supreme Court decision but she was already highlighting the powerful need for advocacy in all aspects but particularly equity and women's reproductive health. She appeals "Let's not go backwards."
Listen in to learn more about AMWA, the Power of Women book she just read, and the power of a community of physicians.
Pearls of Wisdom:
1. Finding a supportive community can lead to opportunities of "Why Not!"
2. Being a part of larger organization can help sort out the rough edges, give perspective, and be a source of support and strength in numbers. It can give you visibility on a larger scale and help you find your place in the world.
3. Consider a five-year check in to determine if you are getting the same amount of joy out of a role that you were before.
4. Doctors have options and remember there are so few of us around!
5. Know the importance of advocacy- even on the 1:1 level. Advocacy work helps you get a better understanding of how your community works.
6. Be Proactive.
Dr. Ashwini Bapat - "Breaking Outside the Box"
Dr. Ashwini Bapat is a palliative care doctor, writer, and co-Founder of Hippocratic Adventures, a community of US-trained physicians practicing and dreaming of practicing medicine outside the US. She is also the founder of EpioneMD which provides virtual serious illness coaching and advance care planning to individuals and telepalliative care consultations to healthcare organizations.
She completed her training in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Care at Yale University. She then worked as an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and was an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. In August 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, she and her family moved from the US to Portugal to live out their dream of living abroad.
In this amazing episode, Dr. Bapat weaves the story of her transition off the groomed academic track to getting creative about her career. She found herself putting off establishing roots and dreaming of what it would be like to create a different path for herself, her career, and for her family. Listen in to how she moved from feeling shackled to free to explore. She found working from an internal motivation to contribute to something bigger than herself, that creating a community supplemented her long-term love of connection and culture. Listen in for the details and what supported her personal well-being.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1. Create a space to dream: Think about the life you want to live!
2. You won't find the life you want if you follow another person's path.
3. This new path can be lonely, but it is unique to you.
4. Find like-minded people to share the journey with you.
You can join the private Hippocratic Adventures Facebook page (>6K strong) at https://www.facebook.com/groups/hippocraticadventures
Dr. Kara Pepper - "There is No Right Way!"
Dr. Kara Pepper is a practicing primary care Internist and Certified Life Coach in Atlanta, GA, who rebuilt her life and career after burnout.
In this episode, Dr. Pepper discusses her resets from being a professional ballet dancer to a high-achieving internist checking off the boxes of accomplishments to a physician finding clarity and moving away from a conformist attitude. Listen in for how she faced and reframed perfectionism, found out that rest is productive and necessary, and reclaimed a sense of self-worth. We discuss ways to move away from perfectionism and buffering with being busy.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. She shares what works for her and for other doctors she has coached.
Wellness Pearls:
1. There is no right way. Learn what is right for you.
2. Rest is productive and key.
3. When you combine insight with compassion- you have the fuel for change.
4. It is ok to want more! You deserve it.
5. Other's advice may not work for you. Listen to yourself- the answer is inside you.
You can find her on social media @KaraPepperMD or her website www.KaraPepperMD.com
PSA:988 - The National Suicide Prevention Hotline
The rate of suicide among physicians is two times that of the general population and tragically, 400 physicians die by suicide each year. The 988 National Suicide Prevention Hotline is a nationwide network of crisis centers linked through this toll free number that is active 24 hours/day, seven days/week that connects callers in crisis to immediate intervention services and care with trained counselors.
I WONDER ... "FINDING THE SIMPLICITY IN SUMMER"
This is the second installation of three highlighting survival of the frenetic pace of end of school, summer, and back to school with school age children-- juggling life at home and work, and staying sane. Setting realistic expectations, taking time to enjoy the simplicity, and experience some of the sheer joy of childhood your younger humans are experiencing may help you as they have me navigating the summer. It's also an unintentional documentary of summer agriculture in Kansas!