Authentic Tea - Mindful Career Change for Doctors

In this episode, Dr. Rachel Beanland explores how women in medicine can create meaningful, fulfilling careers and achieve work-life balance. She shares her own journey and provides actionable steps for listeners to take. The key steps include unpacking beliefs about being a doctor, redefining health and wellness, identifying needs and passions, clarifying values and goals, practicing mindfulness,...

Dr. Sheila Carroll, a pediatrician turned life coach, discusses the importance of living on purpose and empowering parents to improve their children's health. She emphasizes the need for lifestyle changes, such as nutrition, sleep, and exercise, to address childhood obesity and other health issues. Dr. Carroll highlights the power of coaching in helping individuals make conscious choices and m...

Authentic Tea podcast - Episode 40 Dr. Amrita Sen Mukherjee shares her journey of exploring the concept and importance of wellbeing, which started during her medical school days and was influenced by her father's experience as a single-handed GP. She emphasizes the need to consider the human behind the doctor and the impact of personal experiences on one's career. Dr. Sen Mukherjee's c...

Dr. Mary Alice Mina, a dermatologist and host of The Skin Real podcast, shares her journey into sharing skincare expertise online and the importance of providing evidence-based information. She discusses the challenges of navigating the world of social media and distinguishing herself from misinformation. Dr. Mina emphasizes the responsibility of physicians to share accurate information and the ne...

In this episode, Dr. Rachel Beanland introduces the Dharma Method, a unique approach to help doctors transition from full-time clinical practice to a career that aligns with their values and passions. She discusses the challenges doctors face in feeling trapped and unfulfilled in their medical careers, and the fear and uncertainty that comes with making a career change. Dr. Beanland explains the f...

Dr Rachel Beanland, a public health doctor and professional coach, shares her insights on mindfully creating an online business. She emphasizes the importance of finding balance in an unbalanced world and creating a unique career path aligned with one's purpose and values. Dr Beanland provides strategies for overcoming fears and challenges, such as getting clear on who your ideal client is and...

Emma DeSouza is an IVF mom with bipolar disorder and fibromyalgia, and she is passionate about intentional living and storytelling. She believes that we can intentionally choose a different future and make new decisions every day. Emma's career journey started with a Bachelor's degree in psychology and biology, which sparked her fascination with the mind-body connection. She then pursued a...

Zaayin, a travelling hospital doctor and author of the spiritual novel 'With Love from Planet B', discusses the role of literature in responding to climate change. She shares her journey of writing the book as a response to the lack of action on climate change and the spiritual awakening she experienced during the process. The book explores humanity's spiritual diseases and offers hope...

Dr. Laura Gabayan, author of Common Wisdom, discusses the eight scientific elements of a meaningful life. She conducted interviews with 60 wise individuals between the ages of 50 and 79 and identified resilience, positivity, spirituality, humility, tolerance, creativity, curiosity, and connection as the key elements of wisdom. These elements are not limited by gender, race, or political affiliatio...

Authentic Tea Podcast Episode 34 Dr. Shafer Stedron, a physician and life coach, shares her journey of reclaiming her story and using storytelling for personal development. She discusses the power of storytelling in promoting health and the importance of self-awareness and mindset in living an authentic life. Dr. Stedron emphasizes the need for growth and flexibility in one's career path and t...

Summary In the first episode of season two of the Authentic Tea Podcast, Dr. Rachel Beanland discusses the importance of finding role models and creating your own unique career path. She shares her own journey of struggling to find role models in medicine and how she turned inward to create her own inner compass. Dr. Beanland provides four steps to finding and being your own role model: working ou...

Join me for Episode 32 to mark the end of Season 1 of the Authentic Tea podcast. In episode 32 I include a snippet of the very first episode of the Authentic Tea podcast where I shared my thoughts on how to create and maintain healthy habits and yoga practice. Many of my wonderful guests have shared their stories and simple habits that they use to be more mindful every day. In this episode I chat...

Episode 31 features a chat with Sally.  Sally is guiding people back to health using an integrated medical approach and her passion for functional and lifestyle medicine.  Join us to hear more about the value of nutrition, healthy food, the connection to self, others and nature and how Sally is working to incorporate these and so much more in to her holistic approach to healing.   Sally supports o...

Community is at the heart of how Helen approaches life. Join us for Episode 30 to find out more about how Helen has combined her passions and create opportunities to share her knowledge with her friends, family, colleagues and wider community. Helen shares the value of creating space and hitting the pause button to make healthy lifestyle choices.  Helen is a personal development coach supporting b...

Episode 29 features a chat with Ericka. Join us to hear more about how Ericka discovered mindfulness, meditation, affirmations and visualisations to create balance and positivity in her life. It was fantastic to reconnect with Ericka and hear how she has created her path through her career and stays healthy and energetic.  Ericka has created an online community called Where’s My Mojo At sharing ti...

Episode 28 features a chat with Ally.  Ally is a fellow Bristol Alumni and we chat about turning ideas into reality and following our dreams. Ally shares her story of weaving her passion in nutrition, lifestyle medicine and mental health in her medical training and how she creates balance in her daily life.  Ally is cofounder of Nutritank, a medical student network connecting and empowering studen...

In Episode 27 I am joined by Susy. We chat about how the quality of what we do is related to the quality of our thinking. Susy shares her thoughts on the value of coaching to provide protected time to think and how compassionate leadership can allow individuals to thrive.  In her leadership roles, Susy supports doctors and healthcare professionals to be their best selves and do their best work. Su...

Episode 26 features Nikki. Join us to find out more about how Nikki learnt her own money personality and explored her relationship with money. We chat about finding true passion in business and cultivating intention and abundance to live with energy and avoid burnout. Nikki is the founder of the Female Money Doctor and is on a mission to change the relationship with have with money to support ment...

Equanimity is an aim for Cheryl on and off the yoga mat! For Episode 25 it was fabulous to chat with Cheryl and hear more about her passions of medicine and yoga and how she is sharing her skills with the world. Cheryl is the host of The Mindfull Medic Podcast and explores the lived experience of colleagues, mentors and other healthcare professionals in her episodes who have inspired her through h...

Episode 24 of the Authentic Tea podcast features Orlena. It was wonderful to chat with Orlena and find out more about her unique path and creations that she shares with other women. Orlena uses her experience and expertise to support women and their families develop healthy habits and lifestyles. Orlena’s podcast Fit and Fabulous shares inspirational stories and ideas on how to create and maintain...

For Episode 23 of the Authentic Tea podcast, we are joined by Fiona. As an accredited European Mentoring and Coaching Council master coach, Fiona shares her extensive experience and expertise in healthcare and behaviour change with medical and public health professionals. Fiona is an executive coach and career counsellor as well as a trained mindfulness-based cognitive therapy teacher. Her backgro...

Katya joins us for Episode 22 of the Authentic Tea podcast to share her story behind The Working Well Doctor and how she is supporting people who care to thrive well in life and find their own path.  Katya has a love of teaching and has been able to continue this passion through her coaching career and with others who are creating small businesses.  Katya experience of anxiety and burnout has help...

Rashmi shares her lifelong passions of holistic healing and spiritual health.  Join us as we chat about how the models of yoga, mindfulness and contemplative practices can be used to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. Through our chat, Rashmi explores how her study of Ayurveda, mantra meditation and asana practice has been woven into her medical career and helped her...

Join me today to celebrate Episode 20 of the Authentic Tea podcast! I am excited to celebrate this milestone with you. Grab your cup of tea to hear more about why I started the podcast and what I have learnt from chatting to other women and hearing their stories. I am also sharing a few thoughts on inspiration, authenticity and conscious living...and how my yoga and meditation practice fits into a...

Join Rach for Episode 19 and listen to her chat with Nicola and be inspired by her story and the joy she has found in her life choices.  Nicola is an empowerment coach supporting women who have experienced trauma to rediscover their true self, find freedom and awaken their potential. Nicola combines her experience as a doctor and women’s trauma specialist with her training in Mindful-Self Compassi...