DRIVE TIME DEBRIEF: A Physician Wellness Podcast with The Whole Physician

Register Here for "What's the ICD-10 Code for Injury Sustained in a Dumpster Fire" Choosing your Habits Housekeeping: Encouragement for listeners to review, rate, and share the podcast for visibility. Announcement of upcoming webinar on anti-burnout mindset techniques. Discussion: Atomic Habits  by James Clear Key Principles: Small Habits Make a Huge Difference: Emphasis on small habits and t...

Your Future Self Show Notes: Introduction to the Topic Laura introduces the topic of "future you" and its importance. Reflects on the perception of time and how we imagine our future selves. Visualizing the Future Discusses an article by Mariana Pogosyan, PhD, about future self. Considers the shortness of life in terms of weeks lived. Talks about the challenge of imagining our future selves realis...

Join us as we interview Dr. Atashi Mandal, med/peds hospitalist and amazing human as she describes her experience in Wellness 911, our coaching plus CME course. She also shares with us some thoughts about the book  The Four Agreements  by Don Miguel Ruiz, which are:  1) Be impeccable with your word. 2) Don't take anything personally. 3) Don't make assumptions.  4 ) Always...

In this episode we discuss why it matters to what your brain is paying attention.  There are several terms we discuss including: selective attention: tuning out unimportant details in order to focus on what matters mental filtering: focusing on the negative rather than the whole picture, negativity bias disqualifying the positive: minimizing the good things in our lives Reframing and changing...

In this episode, meet Tony Overbay, LMFT, Laura's favorite podcaster (besides Amanda and Kendra, of course). In addition to being a licensed marriage and family therapist, he is a popular podcaster and host of The Virtual Couch and Waking Up to Narcissism , as well as cohost of Murder on the Couch. Tony is also the developer of the The Path Back, an online course to help people recover from unheal...

In this episode, meet Dara Kass, MD. She's an Emergency Physician who now works as Regional Director for Region 2 of the US Dept of Health and Human Services. She's here to talk about how she pivoted from working in traditional clinical medicine to working in government. In this episode Dr. Kass: shares the inspiration behind FeminEM tells the story how she first got started in government explains...

As we continue in this part 2 of our conversation with Rebel  Physician founder, Dr Kristin Yates, she explains "Five Ways Your Medical Training Has Failed You." Highlights: The hustle culture Lack of emphasis on mental health No individualization Denial of play time Forced reliance on external validation Whew, these are some hot topics and Dr Yates is not afraid to back down from any of...

In this episode, Kristin Yates, DO joins us to talk about Inappropriate Things Doctors Brag About (and why we keep doing it). The reason we do this is likely because of both external and internal pressures, she says. External pressures in that it's what everyone else is doing. And internal pressures in that many of us have replaced our sense of inherent worthiness as a human with having to earn ou...

On today's episode we talk with Dr Christina Shenvi who candidly helps us understand that we can't buy more time, but we can be wise about the time we are given.  She comes with an incredible academic pedigree including Princeton, Berkeley, Yale, and UNC. She’s a mom of 4, a practicing emergency physician, educator, keynote speaker, and leader. She’s going to talk with us about how she gets e...

Meet Dr. Bradley Block, otolaryngologist, husband, father, and the host of the Physician's Guide to Doctoring Podcast. We interviewed him today to get some of the best pearls he's learned over the years regarding physician wellness. He's gleans from personal experience as well as the phenomenal guests he's interviewed over the past 5 years. We cover: the motivation behind his podcast (hint: "every...

We are honored to host a special guest who is so brave to advocate for such a special topic.  In this episode, Dr Michelle Chestovich shares her beautiful and heartbreaking story of how she lost her sister to suicide She has become a voice and an advocate for not only awareness but "normalizing" this conversation. She is bringing it out of the darkness that is usually hides it and illumi...

Today Kenton Allen, MD, MBA, FASA joins the show to talk about starting Doc2Doc Lending with another co-resident.  After experiencing his own difficulties within the existing banking systems, he helped re-write the script for how doctors can get funding for transitions, side-hustles, fertility journeys, credit card consolidation, and more. He shares: why they started their own lending program...

Today the three of us sat down to talk about judgment within medicine. This conversation started at a conference we recently attended.  We listened to an amazing lecturer give his account of what keeping empathy looks like and how it helps us care for our patients and others, like our colleagues. It is also a way to take care of ourselves.  We are taught and modeled this idea that what e...

In this episode, we continue our interview with Dr. Al'ai Alvarez, a national leader and educator on physician wellness. He's an emergency physician, clinical associate profession of emergency, and the director the Physician Wellness Fellowship at Stanford. We discuss: creating environments where we can talk and acknowledge our lived experiences lessons from the Mission Critical Team Institut...

Dr. Alvarez is joining us today to talk about all things wellness in medicine. I met Dr Alvarez at ACOEP Spring Seminar last month. He is an emergency physician and clinical associate professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at Stanford University. He is the Director of Well-Being and co-chair of the Human Potential Team at Stanford Emergency Medicine. He gave 2 lectures titled, “Beating the Blame” an...

Sometimes the smallest changes in habits can lead to huge results. Sometimes trying to change too much all at once backfires. In this episode, we discuss just how life changing it can be to start with smaller steps.  Little bursts of exercise can have a bigger impact than you might suspect. Starting with just cleaning your sink can lead to an organized house. Eating ice cream in a bowl instea...

What is the difference between feeling guilty and spiraling into shame? On today's podcast, we dive deeper into these two very poignant emotions. Shame is when the  focus is on self, it's not really on a behavior. You actually label yourself as bad or negative or not good enough. Which then makes you feel unworthy of love, belonging, or connection. So it's really not a positive change driver...

This week we're sharing a podcast we did onsite at ACOEP23 with EM Over Easy Podcast's Dr. Andy Little. Hope you enjoy! In this episode we discuss our personal moral injury journeys far before the COVID pandemic. Additionally we cover: coaching teaches the same mindset tools commonly used in professional athletics and high level business but glaringly missing in medicine perfectionism isn't helpfu...

This episode we dive into the topic of boundaries...finally!  We have a fun and candid conversation about what boundaries are and what it means to have boundaries and where we use the boundaries to serve us in our lives.  A -  Boundaries are like property lines. It's where your property ends and someone else's property begins. So be careful who you open the gate to and allow into yo...

In this episode we talk about what happens during one of our private coaching sessions. We realize most of our listeners have never personally experienced being coached by a life/wellness coach and may come with some assumptions about what goes on. First, coaching is client directed . You pick what you want to work on.  Next, we listen...without judgement . We purely help bring to the surface...

We continue our quest to improve our emotional granularity by discussing the emotions, fear, anxiety and dread. These are all emotions we as doctors experience at any time during our day, week or even moment. We put forth the best effort to take care of the patients that are put in our hands. But we know that inevitably things don't go the way we thought and we can easily allow fear, anxiety and d...

In this episode we talk about the various uses of the equation attributed to Psychologist Kristin Neff. Pain x Resistance = Suffering Part of being a human on earth is enduring some painful situations and experiencing discomfort. But it's shocking how much additional suffering we create by trying to fight reality. It's also good energy wasted, energy that could be used on thing within your control...

This special edition is a conversation with software developer, life coach and addiction survivor,  Elyse Segebart.  She bravely discusses her journey being introduced to drugs and her 13 year struggle with addiction. She has emerged in a career in software development and mentors a special population of people trying to get into software development, their common theme is they come from...

In the episode we discuss the essay "The Star Thrower" from Loren's Book The Unexpected Universe . It is a beautiful piece about making a difference even when it seems futile. And for many of us, working in healthcare can seem futile at times. But Eiseley's essay describes the beauty, the strength, and the importance of being the anti-chaos in a world of chaos.  Colin Beavan, PhD has some sug...

Introducing Dr Tonya Caylor, family medicine doc, who relocated to Alaska from Florida. She describes her journey from  academic medicine to independent practice and the recovery from burnout.  Her passion is now to help residents and faculty with mindset training to equip them with the tools they need for longevity in their career in medicine. In our conversation, Dr Caylor gives exampl...