Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Olga Deengar

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Kinsey Soderberg Kinsey is founder of Authentic AI and co-founder of Her AI Era / Her AI Club, teaching women entrepreneurs to use AI without sounding like a robot. She was not an early fan. “I don’t need a robot to write my emails.” Then the light went on: AI is not the problem. How humans use it is. Authenticity was already her core value. AI became the through-li...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Pradnya Mitroo Dr. Pradnya Mitroo is a gastroenterologist in Fresno and President of Fresno Digestive Health. She grew up in New Jersey, trained at Mount Sinai and Thomas Jefferson, and built a career around a simple why: her mom lived with GI illness and never got the care she needed — especially as a woman. She drinks tea, not coffee. Black tea, cardamom, no s...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Boram Han Dr. Boram Han is back. Internist, obesity-medicine physician, and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner in Boston. She treats menopause and midlife weight together, teaches residents how to prescribe hormone therapy, wrote on midlife weight for the Women for Women anthology, and runs Hormone Lab, a menopause book club for Korean American women. What...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Amanda Han, CPA Amanda Han has been a CPA for 25+ years and co-leads Keystone CPA with her husband. Most people find her because their current accountant is reactive. She is not. Her firm works nationwide with investors who want to use real estate, entity structure, retirement planning, and alternative investments to build wealth and pay less tax — legally. Two myth...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Steve Moore In this episode I sit down with Dr. Steve Moore — chiropractor, entrepreneur, and leader at Get Healthy USA / Live Better Longer. Steve shares his unconventional path: he started pre-med aiming to become an orthopedic surgeon, but a shift toward root-cause care led him to chiropractic school. While studying in Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom,...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Junaid Niazi In this episode I sit down with Dr. Junaid Niazi, double-boarded internist and pediatrician in Minneapolis, physician coach, and creator of the Charting Conquered program. Junaid shares how his creative side (drawing, music, drums) felt sidelined by medical training, and how discovering coaching during the intense early pandemic years in Minneapolis...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Alexia Gillen In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Alexia Gillen — board-certified family physician, functional medicine practitioner, and founder of Mosaic Medicine in the Black Hills. Alexia shares her nonlinear career path: from traditional primary care and urgent care leadership to medical information officer roles (including implementing EPIC), multiple rou...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Jessica Mendelsohn In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Jessica Mendelsohn — family physician, Direct Primary Care pioneer, real estate owner, and founder of multiple businesses in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Jessica shares her journey from a high-volume hospital system and leadership roles to burning out, pivoting into hospice medicine, and then boldly launching...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Tod Stillson In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Tod Stillson — rural family physician, bestselling author of Doctor Incorporated , founder of the Physician Entrepreneur Academy, and creator of ChatRx. We talk about what it really looks like to stop being an employee and start thinking (and operating) like an owner. Tod shares how 30 years of rural medicine sha...

📝 Podcast Summary In this insightful episode of Coffee Playdate, Dr. Olga chats with Dr. Mike Jordan, a pediatrician and practice owner of Eastlake Pediatrics. Dr. Jordan shares how he built and scaled his multi-location practice while transitioning to more business-focused work. He dives deep into the creation of ResponseRx , an innovative AI-powered tool that generates HIPAA-compliant Google re...

📝 Podcast Summary In this warm and expansive episode of Coffee Playdate, Dr. Olga sits down with Samantha Blossom. 🌟 Who is Samantha Blossom? Samantha calls herself an Opulence Oracle and “software programmer for your body.” She uses BodyTalk and energy work to tune into a person’s innate wisdom, clear energetic blocks, and create more magnetism in their health, relationships, and business. Sama...

🎙️ Show Notes ☕ Coffee Chat Dr. Alex Schloe keeps it simple with black coffee (a full pot a day!), while we played Rapid Fire and Take a Sip games before diving into his inspiring journey. 🔑 Key Takeaways ✨ Residential assisted living offers a compassionate, high-quality alternative to traditional senior care — large homes with personalized attention for 6–16 residents. Physicians are uniquely...

Coffee Playdate Podcast Episode Title: From ER Doctor to 51-State Telemedicine Entrepreneur: Dr. Suneer Chander’s Journey Short Description: Dr. Suneer Chander, a former ER physician, shares how he transitioned into telemedicine during the pandemic, built two companies (including AIR Physician Academy), overcame imposter syndrome and a fear of public speaking, and now helps other doctors create fl...

Coffee Playdate Podcast Episode : Entrepreneurship Isn’t All Puppies and Rainbows – The Realistic Truth with Candice Lazar Short Description: Candice Lazar shares her unconventional journey from corporate marketing and law school to becoming a breathwork coach and entrepreneur. She opens up about the mindset shifts required, why she hid her legal background for years, and the importance of being r...

☕  Coffee Playdate Podcast Guest: Jack Shukman, CEO & Co-Founder of The Way - a groundbreaking meditation app. Episode Description: What if the secret to deeper meditation wasn’t more choices… but fewer ? In this inspiring episode of Coffee Playdate, Dr. Olga Deengar sits down with Jack Shukman who cofounded the groundbreaking meditation app featuring a single, progressive path of 1000 sessio...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast 🎙️ EPISODE SUMMARY Dr. Nneka Unachukwu (Dr. Una), board-certified pediatrician and founder of EntreMD, shares her remarkable journey from private practice to building a movement that helps thousands of physicians escape burnout and design life on their own terms. She delivers powerful mindset shifts on massive action, leadership, and why business skills are now essential...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast 🎙️ EPISODE SUMMARY What happens when a cardiologist finds herself in full survival mode, two young kids, a demanding call schedule, a husband who’s also a full-time physician and decides something has to change? For Dr. Christina Kang, that moment became a turning point. What followed was a journey she never could have scripted: real estate investing, a full pivot to tel...

Coffee Playdate Podcast Dr. Manpreet Samra shares how she went from full-time W-2 physician to scaling her own telehealth practice while raising two little ones - all without burning out. From early app flops to learning to rest after breast cancer, she reminds every physician mom that it’s okay to slow down, say yes, and just start. Packed with mindset shifts, community power, and real talk on fl...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast: From Pathologist to Multifamily Syndicator – Dr. Deb Das on Building Boston Rise Capital Dr. Deb Das, a practicing pathologist based in Boston, joins Dr. Olga for an inspiring conversation about stepping out of her comfort zone and building a successful real estate syndication company while still working in medicine. Deb shares how she and her husband started Boston Ris...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast: Mother’s Day Special – Real Talk on Being a Mom in Medicine Happy Mother’s Day! Dr. Olga sits down with fellow hospitalist and mom Dr. Zeel Shah for a heartfelt, no-filter conversation about what it really looks like to balance medicine and motherhood. From 7-on-7 hospitalist shifts and pumping at work to mom guilt, supportive partners, and creating boundaries, they sha...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast 🎙️ EPISODE SUMMARY What happens when a board-certified child psychiatrist realises that a traditional medical career — as wonderful as it is — simply isn't the whole picture? You get Dr. Marissa Caudill: a physician, parent coach, real estate investor, and now co-founder of a health-tech company, all rolled into one incredibly driven human being. In this episode of the C...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast: From Bicycle Accident to Building the Most Effective Physician Wellness Program – Dr. Sunny Smith Dr. Sunny Smith joins Dr. Olga for a refreshingly honest conversation about how one life-changing moment can completely shift your path. A former academic physician, Sunny shares how a serious bicycle accident in Tahiti led her to discover coaching — and eventually found Em...

Dr. Chrystene Nguyen joins Dr. Olga for a heartfelt conversation about something we rarely discuss openly in medicine - loneliness. As a family and lifestyle medicine physician, Chrystene shares how the isolation many healthcare professionals felt during COVID inspired her to create White Coat Romance, a supportive community and app for single physicians and students. She later launched White Coat...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Letizia Alto Dr. Leti Alto joins Dr. Olga for a heartfelt and inspiring conversation about what it really looks like to build true freedom as a physician. From full-time hospitalist to creating multiple successful businesses, Leti shares how she intentionally designed a life that gives her both financial freedom and the ability to travel half the year with her f...

☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast Dr. Bonnie Koo joins Dr. Olga for a really honest and refreshing conversation about her current evolution. After building WealthyMomMD around financial education for women physicians, she’s now shifting toward a more personal, lifestyle-focused brand. She’s sharing openly what it means to live a meaningful, aligned life. Bonnie talks about redefining success beyond money...