Ending Physician Overwhelm

Send us Fan Mail As physicians, we're trained to prioritize evidence above everything else, and oftentimes this comes at the cost of suppressing our intuition. But what if we allowed evidence and intuition to co-exist? In this episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm Podcast, I sat down with Dr. Erica Bove, OBGYN and REI, to discuss how rediscovering, and learning  to listen to her intuition...

Send us Fan Mail How do you deal with those days when you feel like you're unable to do or learn something?  In this episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm Podcast, we'll talk about the phenomenon of feeling "uncoachable." It's a sentiment that's often expressed by individuals who are hesitant to engage in coaching, therapy, or any form of self-improvement due to v...

Send us Fan Mail I am so thrilled to share this week's episode with you all, featuring my business mentor and all-round incredible human, Dr. Una! She's a pediatrician, best-selling author, speaker, and the founder of EntreMD - a business coaching program that helps doctors build profitable businesses so they can live life and practice medicine on their terms! Dr. Una and I find a lot of...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm podcast, I want to talk about the experience of being an introvert in medicine. I'll start off by saying that I personally identify as an introvert. Not in the sense that I don't like to be around other people, but rather in the sense that I draw a lot of my energy from having time to myself. I'm sure many of you can...

Send us Fan Mail If you've ever experienced burnout before, you can probably relate to an analogy that you'll hear in this episode, comparing burnout to being stuck in a chokehold with no clear escape. However, as you'll also hear, there is a way out, and the other side is often better than even the best times pre-burnout! This episode features a fascinating interview with special g...

Send us Fan Mail As physicians in the field of medicine, our work situations vary greatly. Some of us work for a big system, some of us in smaller clinics, and some of us are running the clinics ourselves. But regardless of what your situation is, I want to urge you to be your own boss, and that's what we're going to be diving into in this episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm podcas...

Send us Fan Mail "Embrace what comes easily to you, because more often than not, that's your zone of genius, and that's what you can capitalize on!" In this episode I had the great pleasure of being joined by Dr. Johanna Moore, a dermatopathologist turned entrepreneur and coach. Here, we discuss her journey of overcoming burnout, embracing entrepreneurship as a step to overcomi...

Send us Fan Mail Do you think you're a good physician?  This is a tough question for many physicians to answer, because the truth is that in our US medical system, there are so many metrics, opinions, and perspectives that feed into our own self-worth.  But let me reassure you that the odds are in your favor that you are indeed a good physician. And internalizing your gift of competence and c...

Send us Fan Mail Being a physician is tough on its own. Now add motherhood on top of that and you've got a recipe for stress and burnout in one way or another. And if you boil it all down, it stems from prescribed expectations of others for the various roles we play. As physicians, it's drilled into us throughout training to be altruistic and prioritize the care of our patients above car...

Send us Fan Mail When you encounter disappointment, whether that's at work or at home,  how is it that you currently cope with that feeling? Do you judge yourself for having the emotion in the first place?  And if so,  do you like the way this pattern is working out for you or do you want something different? In this episode of the Ending Physician Overwhelm podcast, I invite you to take this...

Send us Fan Mail What would you say if I told you that you're just a couple of "No's" away from getting the "Yes" that you want? With this in mind, most of us would likely persist when it comes to asking for what we want/need, right? It's all a part of the art of negotiation, and my guest today, Dr. Weili Gray, is an expert in finding the path to the "Yes!&q...

Send us Fan Mail Well folks, we made it to episode 100! Thank you so much for joining me on this incredible journey of healing, self-discovery, and breaking free from the confines of perfectionism. Podcasting was something that I dreamt of doing for the longest time, but it took a while for me to start. I battled self-doubt, uncertainty about what the path would look like, and so many other blocke...

Send us Fan Mail What would you do if you were constantly getting bombarded by calls from the hospital, asking you to come in to work, even when you were thousands of miles away on vacation with your family? And how would you react if when you went to discuss this clear lack of boundaries and proper systems, your colleagues told you that "your generation just doesn't like to work"?...

Send us Fan Mail As women physicians, we are doctors, but that's just one of many facets of who we are. We are mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and so much more! And all of these parts put together make us innately valuable, not just the doctor part. So in this week's episode, I really want us to lean into our value and start to internalize it so that when we encounter something in an...

Send us Fan Mail If you've listened to the podcast before, you've almost certainly heard me say that you can't pour from an empty cup. But I don't think that this can be said enough, because when you take a look at burnout in women physicians, it's almost always the case that we're trying to give give give without having anything left to share. Today's special gu...

Send us Fan Mail The end of the year is a dangerous time for perfectionists. We tend to look back at the year and think to ourselves, " that's all I accomplished ?" and only see the flaws, rather than all of the progress.  Then,  as we look forward to the new year, we see it as as this bright, new thing, that's magically going to be better than the past. But that can also be pr...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Ending Physician Overwhelm, I'm joined by a physician who, like myself was feeling completely burnt out, but wanted to feel better. So she turned to coaching for support, and ended up becoming a coach for other women physicians struggling with burn out! Our guest today is Dr. Nicole Perrotte, a board-certified Internal Medicine Physician turned founder of Mind-U...

Send us Fan Mail Our brains love comfort, and habits, and things that make life feel easy. And for good reason too, because it would be pretty tiring if we had to manually choose to do all the regular, recurring tasks in our lives. But our brains also aren't the greatest at choosing habits that serve us best for what we want out of our lives. It's almost like habit forming is a habit, an...

Send us Fan Mail There's a conundrum that, as physicians, many of us face after finishing all our training. We've accomplished so much in so little time, and from the outside, our lives seem perfect and sparkly. Then, all of a sudden and for the first time ever, we're looking a 30 year career straight in the face, and at that point, questions start to come up about our purpose, iden...

Send us Fan Mail Consider this as an idea... When you say "yes" to something, you're saying "no" to something else. I know it seems obvious, but I really want to drive home the fact that we only have a finite amount of time in our days and in our lives; time that should be spent doing the things we love with the people we care most about. And when we say "yes" to...

Send us Fan Mail This is an episode about optimization, opportunity, overwhelm, and discovering the  why   for which we do the things that we do. It was such a pleasure to be joined for this episode by Dr. Bradley Block, a private practice otolaryngologist based in Long Island, NY, and the creator of the Physician's Guide to Doctoring Podcast.  Shortly after starting his tenure at ENT and All...

Send us Fan Mail Life in medicine is hectic and it comes with it's up's and down's, but I want you to know that you are worthy of feeling all your emotions. Unequivocally! Grief is one that many physicians and other medical professionals experience when they reflect on what they thought their careers would be. We often start our careers with big hopes and dreams about the impact tha...

Send us Fan Mail I'm not sure there are many people who could handle running a solo surgical practice while being a solo mom, but for today's guest, it's no big thing, and it's just the tip of the iceberg of what makes her so incredible! I'm so grateful to have been able to speak with Dr. Ritha Belizaire about her story of being one of the few people out there to open up a...

Send us Fan Mail As parents, professionals, and even as individuals doing our best to take care of our own needs, I know that it can be exhausting to feel like there's always something more to do. Like the to-do list is always growing. We do so much, and yet still feel scattered- as if we haven't done anything at all. When this is the case, it can be helpful to take a moment to stop and...

Send us Fan Mail Many of us have fantasized about traveling  more, perhaps disappearing to a quiet beach indefinitely. But what if you could actually live and WORK while traveling? As a Physician. On your terms. Today I am joined by Dr Kristine Goins, Integrative Pediatric and Adult Psychiatrist and Coach for Physicians searching for a career with location freedom. Dr Goins shares her story of tra...