Super Doc Stories

Dr. Marissa Caudill sits down with Dr. Melanie Camejo, an emergency medicine physician, medical educator, mother, and co-founder of Vervee Scrubs. Melanie shares the story behind creating a scrub line designed specifically for pregnancy, pumping, postpartum, and women working in healthcare. What started as a conversation between two physician friends eventually became a real business, requiring th...

After more than 20 years in traditional pediatrics, Dr. Celina Moore knew there had to be another way to practice medicine. In this episode of SuperDoc Stories, Dr. Moore shares her journey from insurance-based pediatrics to founding Moore Healthy Kids, a concierge pediatric practice in West Palm Beach, Florida. She talks about leaving a system she loved working within but no longer wanted to be l...

What happens when a physician turns her own experience with hair loss into a completely new career? In this episode of  SuperDoc Stories , Dr. Mona Sodhi sits down with  Dr. Nancy Echefu MD , a hair transplant physician and founder of  Havilah Hair Restoration . Dr. Nancy shares her journey from 7–8 years in emergency medicine to building a boutique hair restoration practice focused entirely on he...

What happens when a physician realizes that the traditional approach isn't solving the problem families are actually struggling with? Join  Dr. Mona Sodhi  and  Dr. Wendy Schofer  as they discuss her journey from military medicine and pediatrics to entrepreneurship and founding  Family in Focus® . Dr. Wendy shares how burnout, her experiences with families, and her own struggles at home led he...

What happens when a physician spends more than two decades in private practice and realizes the traditional system no longer allows her to practice medicine the way she believes it should be practiced? Join  Dr. Mona Sodhi  and  Dr. Ashanthi Gajaweera  as they discuss physician burnout, leaving traditional medicine, building a cash-pay specialty practice, and creating a new model centered around c...

What happens when a physician starts over, not once, but twice? Join Dr. Marissa Caudill and Dr. Boram Han as they discuss rebuilding a medical career in a new country, overcoming physician burnout, navigating midlife transitions, and empowering women physicians through financial education. Dr. Boram shares how her own experiences inspired her to found Coach Boram MD , where she provides one-on-on...

After reaching one of the highest leadership positions in healthcare, why would someone walk away? Join  Dr. Marissa Caudill  and  Dr. Kimberly Johnson-Hatchett  as they discuss perseverance, becoming a physician after multiple rejections, delivering a TEDx Talk, physician leadership, healthy brain aging, and the courage to leave a successful executive career in pursuit of a greater purpose. Dr. K...

Can independent private practice still thrive in today's healthcare system? Join Dr. Marissa Caudill and Dr. Jennyfer Uzor as they discuss leaving corporate medicine, building an insurance-based pediatric practice, physician entrepreneurship, overcoming burnout, and the realities of starting a business from scratch. Dr. Jennyfer shares the lessons she learned while launching Allegra Family Ped...

What happens when a successful physician realizes that medicine alone isn't enough to create the life she truly wants? Join Dr. Marissa Caudill and Dr. Meredith Shur as they discuss financial freedom, entrepreneurship, real estate investing, mindset, physician identity, and reinventing your life after 50. Dr. Meredith also shares why she created  Ignite – Fuel Fitness Fire , a 12-week coaching...

What happens when a physician realizes that success built on constant sacrifice is no longer sustainable? Join  Dr. Marissa Caudill  and  Dr. Nikia Smith  for an honest conversation about physician burnout, recovery, and redefining success beyond achievement. Dr. Nikia shares how her own experience with burnout inspired her to create wellness retreats, coach women physicians, and help others recon...

What happens when a successful family physician realizes she's meant for something more? Dr. Rashmi Schramm joins Dr. Mona Sodhi to discuss her journey from traditional medicine to coaching, mindfulness, retreats, and helping women create more fulfilling lives. This episode explores physician burnout, entrepreneurship, personal transformation, and the courage it takes to leave the familiar beh...

What does it look like to build not one, but two thriving wellness businesses while still working night shifts in the emergency room? In this episode of Super Doc Stories, Dr. Marissa Codil sits down with Dr. Heather Hammerstedt, an ER physician, lifestyle medicine specialist, and entrepreneur who has spent more than 20 years proving that nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and whole-person care belong...

Dr. Anu Sidhu spent nearly two decades practicing medicine within the traditional healthcare system before making the decision to leave and build something different. In this episode of Super Doc Stories, Dr. Mona Sodhi sits down with the founder of Spring Monarch Primary Care to discuss the difference between burnout and moral injury, the realities of leaving employed medicine, and how Direct Pri...

Stem cell scientist and biotech entrepreneur Dr. Mari Mitrani joins Dr. Marissa Caudill to talk regenerative medicine, women's health advocacy, and what it really takes to build companies that disrupt healthcare. A must-listen for physicians ready to think beyond clinical practice. Connect with Dr. Mari:  Dr-mariImprove Life Through Science - Dr. Mari Mitrani  #RegenerativeMedicine #StemCell...

What does it take to go from burned-out full-time gastroenterologist to published author, sought-after speaker, and Instagram educator with 145,000 followers? Dr. Supriya Joshi did it — and she's sharing exactly how.  In this episode, Dr. Joshi joins host Dr. Marissa Caudill to discuss practicing medicine in Canada vs. the US, why she went part-time at the hospital, and how her kids talked her...

What does it really take to leave academic medicine and build a practice on your own terms? Psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Reid has done it — and written a book about the guilt that followed.   In this episode, Dr. Reid joins host Dr. Marissa Caudill to discuss her journey from UCLA residency through county work, New York private practice, academic medicine, and eventual burnout — before stepping away...

What if the missing piece in your fertility journey wasn't medical — it was the method? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Erica Bove, a double board-certified OBGYN and Reproductive Endocrinologist (REI) at the University of Vermont and founder of Love and Science: Thriving Through Infertility. After witnessing patients cycle through failed treatments with no real answers, Dr. Bove created...

Dr. Una started her pediatric practice with no loan, no patients, and a 4-month-old baby. She sat alone in a dark kitchen at 1 AM wondering if there was another way. Fast forward — 5 businesses, 500+ podcast episodes, and a mission. But here's the truth she shares in this episode: most physicians have the vision. They're just missing the infrastructure to execute it. That's exactly why...

In this inspiring interview, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt, founder and CEO of Brave Enough, shares her journey as a woman physician, the importance of community, and her innovative space for women in Omaha. Discover insights on embracing life's phases, building supportive networks, and creating spaces for rest, growth, and connection. Dr. Sasha Shillcutt is a cardiac anesthesiologist, entrepreneur, aut...

When Dr. Carolina Sueldo moved back to South Florida with two kids under three and started looking for a new job, she discovered that almost every major fertility practice in the area had been swallowed up by private equity. So she did something most people told her was flat-out crazy: she started her own. No investors. No insurance contracts. No staff on day one — her medical assistant quit via e...

What happens when an internist who spent years on COVID frontlines and served in the military finally decides to open the business he'd been dreaming about for a decade — only to find out he has to launch it from a hotel room in Lima, Peru? That's exactly the story of Dr. Furhan Qureshi, founder of Noor Aesthetic Center in Northern Virginia, and this episode of Super Doc Stories does not d...

What if the food you eat every day is slowly working against you — and your doctor has no idea how to help? In this episode of Super Doc Stories, Dr. Marissa Caudill sits down with Dr. Akshita Mehta — neuroradiologist, double board-certified lifestyle medicine physician, and founder of Dive Into Health MD — to talk about what happens when a doctor gets tired of treating the same preventable diseas...

In this episode, hear from Dr. Aloknath Pandya, who shifted from employed intensive care pulmonology work to starting his own business (Spiromedics) as a specialist serving patients in skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes locally in New Jersey. In less than two years, he's earning double what he had been as an employee. With no call, and ability to make his own schedule, he is enjoying...

In this episode of Super Doc Stories, Dr. Marissa Caudill interviews Dr. Susan Hughes. Susan is an incredible healer, coach, mother, and physician who herself suffered a traumatic brain injury during a car accident in 2013, leading to a major shift in her identity and how she practices medicine. If you're inspired as I was in hearing her story, please follow her on her own podcast called &quot...

What if your medical career could give you both purpose  and  flexibility? In this episode, Dr. Olga Deengar shares how she transitioned from hospitalist to coaching entrepreneur while working as a locum physician. Through her journey, she developed the  DAMA Method , a framework that helps physicians clarify their values, overcome burnout, and create careers aligned with their lives. We discuss t...