Happy In Medicine with Dr. Christina Arnold

In this special case study episode, you get to learn more about Dr. Caissa Troutman's journey inside of Trauma-Informed Physician Coach Training & Advanced Certification. She is a Quadruple Board-Certified Obesity & Menopause expert with 20+ years of experience. She provides menopause & weight loss care for midlife women. Lose weight. Master menopause. In this episode, she shares how s...

Here's what you get inside of this special Make Medicine Optional with Physician Coaching Private podcast episode:  Even if you never leave Medicine, here's how becoming a coach delivers a $100k ROI this year:  *Here’s your $100k ROI even if you never become a coach *How coaching gets you prioritized for top pay, bonus, schedule, and career opportunities *Why coaching has your colleagues and boss...

Here's what you get inside of this special Make Medicine Optional with Physician Coaching Private podcast episode:  Here’s how i make more than a doctor by coaching about 1 hour a day: → You don't have to "sell coaching" to replace your clinical salary → The 2 steps to sign $20k clients → The biggest mistake physician coaches make that tanks their business AND how to avoid it Trauma-Informed Physi...

Here's what you get inside of this special Make Medicine Optional with Physician Coaching Private podcast episode:  Get started making medicine optional in only ONE HOUR A WEEK: → Why women physicians only need one hour a week to get started building a Million dollar coaching practice → How your busy physician schedule is your biggest competitive advantage → Don't have one hour a week right now? N...

Here's what you get inside of this special Make Medicine Optional with Physician Coaching Private podcast episode:  How I retired from medicine at 45 | intro to Trauma-Informed Physician Coach Training (TIPCT): → Why I retired from Medicine at 45 → My current schedule is now that I'm fully in physician coaching → How we have more cash than ever before-- pivot your physician career WITHOUT taking a...

Four years after leaving clinical medicine, I finally let my medical license expire. Not because I had to.  Because it was time. This wasn’t an easy decision at all. Fear told me I needed a backup plan. What if my husband died? What if he was disabled? What if my coaching practice needed to cover all our bills, two kids in college, and unexpected medical expenses. In this very special podcast epis...

Andrea sat in her office staring at the school calendar. Four kids. Twelve weeks of summer. And a job at an academic center where summers off simply didn’t happen. She was the breadwinner. She carried the benefits. She had convinced herself she wasn’t allowed to want something this big. When she joined the program and I asked for her dream result, she finally said it: “I want the entire summer off...

One physician walked into my program convinced she couldn’t negotiate.  She’d never been trained in Negotiations. She worked at an Academic center. They already said they were in a budget crisis and hiring freeze. The economy. She had convinced herself that a raise was out of the question for her. THEN, she watched replays of my bonus Negotiation trainings. Twenty minutes of listening was all she...

Support isn’t optional in medicine — it’s the currency of a healthy career. Without it, promotions get delayed, our salary stalls, and we get the worst schedules. And what do you do if the person with the most power to help you... doesn’t. Maybe they never respond to your emails. Maybe they overlook your work. Maybe they just don’t like you. You can still get their support. In this week’s episode,...

I thought I’d live in Colorado forever. I can see the Rockies from my house. I love everything about this state— the land, the adventure, the people. This is where I became a life coach.  This is where I retired from Medicine. This is where my kids call home. This is home to me. And now I’m packing it all up. In today’s episode, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes story of the move none of us saw co...

A new client came to me worried she was catching her colleagues’ burnout. She said, “Everywhere I look, people are miserable — complaining about coworkers, staying until 8p and coming back on the weekends, sending terse emails. I DON’T want to end up burnout.” Here’s what I told her: you can guarantee to never be burned out. In this week’s episode you get the burnout prevention plan I built for he...

One of my first bosses was a total micromanager. She emailed at 10 p.m. on Friday nights. She called while I was on vacation. She even showed my cases to the clinical team without me. And still—I built a great career and a strong relationship with her. If your boss watches every move, this week’s episode gives you 5 new strategies to shift the dynamic without having to generate any more RVUs. ✅ S...

How to fix an Unfair Schedule   If your schedule feels unfair, you’re not imagining it. It is. It shows up as us staying later, coming in on weekends, dragging work home, and missing our own doctor’s appointments. You might even find yourself spending hours counting up the call shifts, case load, and RVUs in the department– only to find what you already knew…. Your schedule isn’t fair. Here’s the...

Threatening bosses are a fixture in medicine. If you don’t know how to handle them… …work becomes unbearable.  …you’ll dread every shift, feel anxious at work, and make more mistakes. …your career and marriage will become unstable.  .. you’ll overeat (or stop eating well), lose sleep, and fight more with your kids. This episode breaks the cycle.  You’ll learn how to manage a threatening boss with...

You don’t need to reinvent your career to make it work better. You just need to stop doing everyone else’s job. In this week’s episode I show you exactly how to do JUST your job. When you do, you’ll love your job again. Here’s what you get in this week’s episode: ➡️The 10% Expansion Strategy- save 20 hours THIS week  ➡️The Delegation Trading System- every year your job gets easier with THIS ➡️Task...

When was the last time someone just listened to you? Not to fix, not to advise, not to tell you to calm down—just to witness you.   It doesn’t happen. We love our spouses, but they’ll just try to solve the problem. Your boss’ll tell you what to do. Your sister will interrupt to tell you her gripe. Nothing wrong with our spouses, boss, and sister AND ALSO….   When we’re not heard, the stress compou...

Right now, many of us are running on empty. Work doesn’t slow down, kids’ schedules are chaotic, and the holidays are closing in. When reserves run this low, everything feels sharp and hard. Small things turn into big crises. I'm sure feeling it.   Doing it all alone is what we’re used to—but it makes everything worse.   In this week’s podcast, I share a strategy I’ve never talked about before: Gi...

Sabbaticals have broken out of academia. In 2025, hospitals, tech firms, and even private practices are paying physicians to step away—because they know the doctor who returns refreshed, skilled, and connected is the one who drives revenue, boosts retention, and avoids costly burnout mistakes.   Done right, your sabbatical isn’t time off—it’s a million-dollar career accelerator. You come back bull...

The world feels heavy, chaotic, and overwhelming right now. I felt it myself—I woke up from one of the most disturbing nightmares of my life. Behind the scenes, my private clients have been asking for support on how to stay grounded during this relentless news cycle. I created a brand-new training for them and I shared it at the top of my weekly group call. Here's a clip of the call so you get thi...

True story: when I had my C-section, I only got two weeks off.  That experience taught me the most important lesson of my career: if you don’t know the policies in writing, you’ll lose benefits you already earned.   In this podcast episode, I break down exactly how physicians can stop leaving benefits on the table and design maternity leave that actually works. Here’s what you’ll hear: ➡️The GOLDE...

Medicine will do you dirty UNLESS you have this PTO Playbook: 10 Hacks Every Physician Needs to Know. Ask me how I know… I worked through a GI bug to not burden colleagues by taking a sick day. I didn’t know I could take paid time off for my 8 year old daughter’s surgery. My Chair threatened to not let me use my PTO.   Here’s what you get in this week’s Paid Time Off Series podcast episode 🔥 The...

📅Welcome to our new series on how to get Paid Time Off.  👀I'm revealing everything you’ve never heard about how to get work-life balance WITHOUT having to ask your boss, change a hospital policy, or sneak out. 💥With today’s podcast episode, you can get up to 25 hours back THIS WEEK. That’s 1,200 bonus hours THIS YEAR. More family dinners.  EIGHT MONTHS of paid vacation over a decade. 18.5 YEARS...

🚨LISTEN RIGHT NOW FOR THE SPECIAL 48 HOUR BONUS | $100K PRIVATE CALL!🚨 Women docs-- When my Chair threatened to fire me, I didn’t spin out – I negotiated. I kept my job, dropped call & frozen sections (worsts part of my job ever), eliminated RVU pressure, got a new leadership title, extra funding, and full support. I turned this crisis into the best physician job that’s every existed AND bui...

Every hospital has a salary ceiling.  It doesn’t matter if you’re the department workhorse, the highest RVU generator, your boss’s favorite, the national expert, or the one with all the papers… EVEN IF you invented one pill that cures cancer, dementia, obesity, and depression, you won’t get paid 1 penny more… At some point, you’ll hit the salary ceiling and the job won’t even keep up with inflatio...

If you don’t know how to Negotiate, you’ll soon see the male fellow you trained hired at a higher salary than you. Ask me how I know…. He had no experience. No leadership positions. He showed every hard case to me. I was his attending with lots of papers, books, leadership, experience. And he got hired at a higher base salary than me. PS. I don’t fault him– GOOD FOR HIM! The solution isn’t to unde...