DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast

“Starting to create accountability partners, those people who you can be vulnerable with and being able to utilize them regularly and strategically to say, ‘Hey, you said you were going to do this. Did it happen?’” Omalara Uwemedimo, MD, MPH    In today’s episode, Coach Gabriella Dennery MD talks with with pediatrician and entrepreneur Dr. Omalara Uwemedimo. Dr. Omolara Thomas Uwemedimo is CEO and...

How Physicians Can Improve Work-Life Balance by Minimizing Contaminated Time at Work and at Home   “Maybe getting a little clearer on what this idea is so you can be even five percent or ten percent more intentional about keeping those two things separate.” -Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer  In today’s episode, Coach Gabriella Dennery MD and Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer explain contaminate...

Our producer, Amanda Taran, is away this week and we've chosen to share some of our favorite episodes that you may not have heard.   In this episode, Co-lead Coaches Gabriella Dennery MD and Jill Farmer, give us tips on how to make your non-clinical days more productive. They discuss time blocking and how it can help you stay more focused. Tune in to this episode to hear time management tips to ma...

Our producer, Amanda Taran, is away this week and we've chosen to share some of our favorite episodes that you may not have heard.   “Whether you’re a young physician or a gardener, the issues are very similar. You have goals, you have values, and many of you have large amounts of debt from student loans. Coming up with a plan representing you, that’s where you have to start. -Andrew Friedman, AJF...

Our producer, Amanda Taran, is away this week and we've chosen to share some of our favorite episodes that you may not have heard. “There’s something about that world of graphic medicine where you put it out onto paper, and you still sit with those feelings, but when you close the book or when you have something tangible and you can walk away from it, it does let you digest it in a way that talkin...

“Also the culture of medicine: We were told to not care for ourselves, to just care for everyone else, to show up to grand rounds, it didn’t matter how long your shift was the night before, to be ready and prepared to go, and rest wasn’t important.” -Dr. Hansa Bhargava 
In today’s episode Dr. Jen Barna talks with Dr. Hansa Bhargava about her career in medicine and then her pivot into medical journ...

“That’s the truth, that’s the kindness, that’s the love. And at the same time, making space for an honest conversation and saying, ‘Hey, you know what, whatever you have to say is ok.’” -Coach Gabriella Dennery MD    In today’s episode, Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer and Coach Gabriella Dennery MD guide us through having courageous conversations. You know, those conversations that you sometime...

“Networks are so important in every industry. I mean networks are hugely critical because they essentially start with relationships which I believe are the building blocks of the foundation to what you need to be impactful in society.”- Kemi Olugemo, MD, FAAN    In today’s episode, Coach Gabriella Dennery MD talks with Dr. Kemi Olugemo, a Neuroscience Physician Researcher and Healthcare Advocate,...

“...and physicians, we’re not good at doing this for ourselves, you have to give yourself some grace. Right? Like, ‘You’re being hard on yourself. You’re a good person, you’re working hard, you deserve the best.’” -Dr. Bradley Block In today’s episode, Jen has a conversation with the host of the Physician’s Guide to Doctoring Podcast , Dr. Bradley Block, to talk about the ins and outs of physician...

“We walk with our values everyday, but oftentimes we don’t realize what they are. So name them, put them on a sheet of paper, stick them in a journal, put them where you can see them, remind yourself. And when you’re making that tough decision, when you have to let’s say move across the country, when kids are starting back in school finally and all the sudden there’s a new opportunity that comes,...

“We think better about complex abstract ideas when we can engage with them in a physical way or see a graph or picture of them, rather than just hearing about them.” -Rebecca Schwarzlose PhD In today’s episode, Jill has a fascinating conversation with Dr. Rebecca Schwarzlose about the amazing and complex maps in our brains. Dr. Rebecca Schwarzlose is a postdoctoral scholar and cognitive neuroscien...

"You don’t know what you don’t know. And so the benefit of talking with people that you don’t talk with all the time is hearing their solutions to the problems you’ve been having.” -Victoria Silas MD  In this episode, Jill talks with Victoria Silas MD on the importance of community for physicians. You work with other people, you talk with them on occasion, you pass them in the halls. But do you re...

“It’s hard to just say, ‘Ok, manage your emotions.’ Or, ‘Regulate your emotions.’ Because there are some guidelines to follow, some sort of steps to take in order to achieve that.” -Coach Gabriella Dennery MD In today’s episode, Coaches Gabriella and Jill tackle emotional agility. What is emotional agility? How can we achieve it? What are the benefits? That is exactly what you will learn by listen...

“Part of it is reconnecting mind to body and to be aware of how my body reacts and to connect that with what I’m feeling and how to put words to it.” -Coach Gabriella Dennery MD In today’s episode, Coach Gabriella Dennery MD has an in depth talk with Francine Kelley, LCPC, RYT500, SEP about trauma and healing from trauma. Francine is a Jamaican-born integrative psychotherapist based in Chicago, IL...

“Having control of your life with financial independence, if you don’t like it, then maybe back off and just go part time or explore some other avenues of income, turn a hobby into a business. You need those kinds of options and that’s where I think financial independence comes in.” -Dr. Amir Baluch   In today’s episode, Jen has an in depth conversation about finances with Dr. Amir Baluch. Dr. Bal...

“This is a place where I can breathe, explore, talk to somebody and start devising and designing my next steps because I have goals, I have a vision, I have a life I want to live.” -Coach Gabriella Dennery MD Have you ever wondered if you could benefit from professional Coaching? In this episode, Jill and Gabriella talk about exactly that: shining a light on who benefits from coaching and in what...

“You know, I try to figure out:  What is not right here? And some things can’t be fixed. And then, if it can’t be fixed, I have to decide, do I want to stay here and be a part of this or is there a way that I can use my energies in a more positive way?” -Dr. Ysaye Barnwell, Retired Professor at Howard University College of Dentistry, musician, composer, actress, author.   Get One-on-One Coaching w...

“You really do make a judgment on a person, on their practice based on their online reviews. Whether that’s right or wrong, it is how the world is working these days.” -Avalon Hartman In this episode, we hear from Avalon Hartman of EmpathIQ about reputation management. In this case, by reputation management, we mean online reviews. I think we all know how big of an impact reviews play in our lives...

“It now feels more human, more relaxing and more fun to approach it this way than to try to say, ‘What’s your thirty second elevator pitch?’ ‘And go!’" In this episode, Coaches Gabriella and Jill give us some wonderfully useful tips on how to do a better job of networking. Jill and Gabriella tell us how to take the pressure out of networking and explain that none of us were born with a networking...

Please be advised that this episode contains talk about sexual assault. If you would like to skip that section of this episode please turn it off at the timestamp 13:24   “How can I use my time because it is the only thing I cannot get back. I cannot make time. So finding the best way to spend that is actually an active adventure for me right now.” -Lisa Johnson-Pratt MD    In this episode, Gabrie...

“Actually, a key part of my mission with DocWorking is (for) physicians to get themselves into a safe space where they feel that they have an amount that will cover their bases if they need to leave for some reason or if they choose to leave. That would give them a sense of security so that when they choose to work, at that point, it’s a choice.” -Jen Barna MD  In this episode, Jen talks with Tim...

“The achievement wasn’t what they really wanted, it was something inside. A sense of, as you said, fulfillment, meaning, contentment, service.” -Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer In this episode, Coaches Gabriella and Jill walk us through the important difference between achievement and success and why that difference matters in our lives. The DocWorking Coaches explain why sometimes achieving ou...

“Focus on today. Because so often we spend our time and we create so much pain for ourselves looking at the fact that we are not at our goal yet, and instead I would say ‘what step can you take today towards that goal?’” -Dr. Krystal Sodaitis      In this episode, Jen and Dr. Krystal Sodaitis talk about how Dr. Sodaitis discovered her career path in the health insurance industry, and how Leadershi...

“I think a lot of times, in our minds we think we have this personal, big problem and that we are the only ones who have it, and so we’re embarrassed to admit it and we’re embarrassed to talk about it. But when you realize, ‘Oh, everybody has this problem,’ suddenly it doesn’t seem like as big of a problem anymore.” Dr. Jen Barna MD   In this episode, Coach Jill Farmer sits down with DocWorking’s...

“When you’re just starting out and you have this sense of, ‘You know what? I think I could be a leader.’ First of all, don’t ignore that voice.” -Dr. Inga Lennes    In this episode, Coach Jill Farmer talks with Dr. Inga Lennes about physician leadership, the leadership qualities you innately have as a physician, and what skills you need to become an effective leader.  Dr. Lennes is the Senior Vice...