It's Not Just You with Dr. Kara Pepper

As we graduate the first cohort of the Micropractice Mastermind, I review four things you must do before leaving your practice.     Our Mastermind guest today, Dr. Leanne Wu, shares her story of opening an insurance-based pediatric practice to serve the Taiwanese community in Portland, Oregon.  You can Find Dr. Wu and LIttle Island Pediatrics on her website and I...

In this episode of It’s Not Just You , we are honored to welcome Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, a leading expert in the field of eating disorder treatment. She has built nationally recognized treatment centers and continues to evolve her career.  Dr. Oliver-Pyatt shares her recovery cycle between clinical entrepreneurial ventures and how that has fostered her creative and clinical energies...

Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You can actually enjoy practicing medicine. Next cohort starts April 2025.  Checklist to launch a micropractice​  - for those of us who love to check off a to-do list, here is a rough approximation of what we are completi...

In cliff-notes from the Micropractice Mastermind, we talk about  the power of community, where to find it, and why it is critical transformation and entrepreneurship. Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You can actually enjoy practicing medicine. Next...

Before founding The Russell Center, Dr. Jon Russell was the Director of the Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery at Johns Hopkins and led the Thyroid Tumor Center. As the busiest thyroid surgeon at Johns Hopkins for the past decade, he not only performed more thyroid and parathyroid surgeries than nearly anyone in the country but also trained the next generation of surgeons.   But desp...

Today, we talk about how to make your job easier - how to convert your hard earned expertise into marketing materials, build patient trust, and improve work flow in your practice.  Build your ideal practice and improve your patients' experience with these times saving tips.   Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start y...

Today, I walk you through the stages of change that I guide my coaching clients through when transitioning from employed, overworked, and exhausted to a place of autonomy, purpose, and sustainability in their careers. Whether you are building your own practice or leading within your organization, there is a predictable transformation, support, and action to move you forward.  M...

In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, we discuss the acute need for physicians to share their expertise and combat misinformation online.  As we build  our clinical practice, I share four simple steps to get through the fear of exposure we we build our online presence.  Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your o...

In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, we discuss our Unique Value Proposition (UVP).   Articulating your UVP is a practiced skill that clarifies why patients should see you instead of the doctor down the street. How do you articulate this without disparaging your colleagues?  I give you a simple tool to state what you believe your ideal patients d...

In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, we discuss our Unique Value Proposition (UVP).   Articulating your UVP is a practiced skill that clarifies why patients should see you instead of the doctor down the street. How do you articulate this without disparaging your colleagues?  I give you a simple tool to state what you believe your ideal patients d...

Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You can actually enjoy practicing medicine.  In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, we begin our marketing our practices.  I discuss why articulating what we REALLY do is critical to fill our practice with the p...

Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You can actually enjoy practicing medicine.  In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, I share strategies for doing less while becoming more of WHO you want to be.   Checklist to launch a micropractice ​  - fo...

Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You can actually enjoy practicing medicine.  In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, I share strategies for increasing visibility for your practice no matter what your goals are for 2025.  Checklist to launch a microp...

Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You can actually enjoy practicing medicine.    Checklist to launch a micropractice ​  - for those of us who love to check off a to-do list, here is a rough approximation of what we are completing in the Micropractice...

Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You deserve to look forward to Mondays.    Checklist to launch a micropractice ​ - for those of us who love to check off a to-do list, here is a rough approximation of what we are completing in the Micropractice Mastermi...

  Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You deserve to look forward to Mondays.    Dr. Dana  Gibbs  is a board-certified otolaryngologist and thyroid specialist, focusing on integrative approaches to complex thyroid and hormonal imbalances. She...

  Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You deserve to look forward to Mondays.    Dr. Sanghamitra "Mitra" Sadhu is a nephrologist who wanted to serve patients within the insurance network without sacrificing quality of care.  She inn...

  Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You deserve to look forward to Mondays.    Dr. Daniel Hochman, a board certified psychiatrist, knew he wanted his career to look different than the status quo but was told that his dream practice was not...

Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine.  You deserve to look forward to Mondays.    Dr. Mary Reilly learned early in her career, "Just ask." She describes how she opened doors to unheard of opportunities by simply asking a question. By asking "Is this possible?"...

Dr. Liz Lowden, an endocrinologist, left her corporate medicine job, opened a private practice, worked in telemedicine, went through a buyout, did consulting work, and endured burn out. Throughout all of this, she felt that she was trying "fit a mold of who she should be."   In an effort to model for her daughters how to show up as their authentic selves, she found a surprising crea...

Micropractice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time.    Dr. Ritha Belizaire is a dual board certified general and colorectal surgeon and the owner of Houston Community Surgical, a solo private practice in the Houston Heights neighborhood.  She launched her practice when she recognize...

Micro Practice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time.    Dr. Laurel Fick, an Internist in residency program leadership, became disenchanted with training new physicians to work in our broken healthcare system.  She missed one on one time with patients and wanted to model a...

Micro Practice Mastermind  - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time.    Dr. Amy Vertrees began her career and was deployed in the military, became an employed physician, and started her own private practice at the beginning of the COVID pandemic.  The constant evolution of...

Micro Practice Mastermind - starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time.    "When I think back about what has traumatized me as an Emergency physician, it was not being deployed [in the military], it was working in the American healthcare system with no room to breathe." Dr Andrea Austin  was taught in the military to debrief after mass casualties which allowed her team t...

Dr. Rebecca Berens is a board-certified family physician and international board certified lactation consultant.  She opened her DPC practice in January 2020, just two months before the pandemic and just 10 months before having her second child. As an early career physician, she was balancing entrepreneurship, the practice of medicine, personal responsibilities, and studen...