Voices of Women  Physicians  ®

Dr. Sarah Neitzel is a board certified podiatric surgeon who grew up in Northern CA and attended medical school and residency in Chicago. She currently owns both a private practice and medical nail spa business in Silverdale WA and has been in practice almost a decade.

In 2021, Dr. Sarah recognized the need for doctors to maintain a presence in medicine utilizing doctor owned private practices as opposed to large corporate healthcare employment. She became committed to helping other private practice owners scale their practices with business strategies and creative solutions to massively increase their profits and ability to serve their community.

Thus, Visionary Practice Solutions was formed, which is a coaching and business consulting program to help practice owners do just that. The need for help in designing and running private practice from the business aspect has been overwhelming and Dr. Sarah hopes to continue to grow this program as a nationwide support network to serve as many physicians as possible, regardless of specialty.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ About Dr. Neitzel’s journey of opening a private practice
✔️ The steps of how the process was
✔️ What helps with marketing and how to get patients
✔️ Lessons learned and mistakes to avoid
✔️ How to find a good employment attorney
✔️ How long it took from the moment she started until it was profitable
✔️ What she used for office equipment, EMR, etc. and what the best way is to get it on a budget
✔️ Tips she would give to other people from a business perspective
✔️ Creative solutions to increase profits and ability to serve one’s community

Dr. Sarah Neitzel is a board certified podiatric surgeon who grew up in Northern CA and attended medical school and residency in Chicago. She currently owns both a private practice and medical nail spa business in Silverdale WA and has been in practice almost a decade. 

In 2021, Dr. Sarah recognized the need for doctors to maintain a presence in medicine utilizing doctor owned private practices as opposed to large corporate healthcare employment. She became committed to helping other private practice owners scale their practices with business strategies and creative solutions to massively increase their profits and ability to serve their community. 

Thus, Visionary Practice Solutions was formed, which is a coaching and business consulting program to help practice owners do just that. The need for help in designing and running private practice from the business aspect has been overwhelming and Dr. Sarah hopes to continue to grow this program as a nationwide support network to serve as many physicians as possible, regardless of specialty. 

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ The decision to go into private practice:
The fear of leaving a secure income to regain your freedom of time
✔️ Challenges for women in private practice:
Fear of missing out on family time
Desire to please everyone and not standing in your worth
✔️ Superpowers for women in private practice:
Patient relatability
Tuned into office staff concerns and challenges
✔️ What helps to build your team
✔️ How to find the right people to hire for your team
✔️ How to organize office dynamics to make sure everyone’s working harmoniously together
✔️ Dr. Neitzel’s nail spa

Bolanle Akinronbi M.D is a board certified, residency trained physician in Psychiatry - a field devoted to the treatment of brain and mental health conditions. She is the founder and CEO at BrightMindsMD - a private psychiatry practice in NJ where together with her team, she offers a unique and whole person approach to treatment. Her treatment recommendations follow a wholistic model. This model accounts for the contributions of childhood experiences, genetic predisposition, environmental and social stressors, co-occurring illnesses, nutrition deficiencies, current function and activity to disease AND a pathway to improve them using a hybrid of medication and lifestyle/behavioral modifications.

Dr. Bolanle knows that we all can live a meaningful life and the foundation for this is laid in our minds beliefs, habits and relationships. She shares this message and tools via writing, speaking and consultations. She received both her undergraduate and graduate medical education at Rutgers and Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School (formerly UMDNJ). She completed her postgraduate residency training in Psychiatry at the Zucker Hillside Hospital (formerly of NorthShore-LIJ) in Queens New York. She is a wife and mom of 2. She enjoys cultural exploration via travel and dance.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ The first steps to starting Dr. Bolanle’s practice
✔️ Choosing between insurance based, cash based, or hybrid model
✔️ Practice care philosophy- therapy, med management or hybrid
✔️ Practice model: general vs specialized care
✔️ Navigating starting a brick and mortar office
✔️ Telemedicine
✔️ Marketing/ads
✔️ Tips for physicians who want to open their own private practice

Meet Dr. Weili Gray (pronounced “Way Lee”), a dreamer and physician who experienced burnout and now happily practices sleep medicine in Vermont's tranquil countryside. With her husband and three cherished kids, she crafts a dream life brimming with family adventures and extraordinary experiences, sprinkling a touch of magic to every moment.

Beyond practicing medicine at a rural critical access hospital, Dr. Gray founded Dare to Dream Physician, a mission-driven endeavor empowering fellow doctors to dream big and embrace life through travel. She's all about boosting physician wellness and shares her wisdom on stages and her inspirational weekly podcast called "Dare to Dream Physician Travel."

Join Dr. Gray's mission to reclaim life for physicians, urging them to dream boldly, explore the world, and live life to the fullest. Hop aboard on this adventure of imagination and exploration!

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ How Dr. Gray was able to make 5 out of country trips this year as a sole earner on a part time income with a family of 5
✔️ How to make time for traveling
✔️ How to make it financially possible to travel
✔️ Travel hacking
✔️ Picking out amazing places to go that cost less money
✔️ Mindful spending as an alternative to keeping a travel budget without feeling restricted or deprived
✔️ What makes travel with small children easier
✔️ What to do if a child doesn’t like traveling
✔️ Mistakes to avoid
✔️ Helpful tips to make travel possible on a budget

Meet Dr. Weili Gray (pronounced “Way Lee”), a dreamer and physician who experienced burnout and now happily practices sleep medicine in Vermont's tranquil countryside. With her husband and three cherished kids, she crafts a dream life brimming with family adventures and extraordinary experiences, sprinkling a touch of magic to every moment.

Beyond practicing medicine at a rural critical access hospital, Dr. Gray founded Dare to Dream Physician, a mission-driven endeavor empowering fellow doctors to dream big and embrace life through travel. She's all about boosting physician wellness and shares her wisdom on stages and her inspirational weekly podcast called "Dare to Dream Physician Travel."

Join Dr. Gray's mission to reclaim life for physicians, urging them to dream boldly, explore the world, and live life to the fullest. Hop aboard on this adventure of imagination and exploration!

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Gray's journey
✔️ What life planning is
✔️ How life planning helps people do what is important for them
✔️ How she studied it
✔️ Helpful tips for women physicians

Dr. Cecilia Minano is a practicing gastroenterologist and certified trauma informed, somatic life coach and clinical hypnotherapist. Her passion is to help people living with chronic gut issues to re-gain control of their debilitating symptoms and conditions so they can begin to live more normal lives again. She has a unique perspective of how chronic stress and trauma negatively impact the mind gut connection and that by understanding these neural pathways, people can learn to track and redirect their nervous system to help their digestive tracks work more optimally and improve overall wellness. She sees her coaching work as part of a multidisciplinary approach within the medical, nutritional and functional medicine systems to help people have more resources and life skills that can help them manage their day to day gut symptoms. She recently created "The Gut Healing Solution” which is an e-book to teach people her 3 Essential Pillars to Gut Healing.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ How chronic stress and trauma can negatively impact the mind gut connection, and what effect it can cause on chronic gut issues
✔️ Mind body integration and regulation of the nervous system
✔️ How to combat the impact of stress on gut health
✔️ Healing and prevention of stress related gut issues
✔️ Pain reprocessing
✔️ Mindful eating practices
✔️ What you can do intentionally to direct your body to the parasympathetic nervous system
✔️ Dr. Minano's 5 pillars of the Gut Healing Solution

Dr. Malathi Acharya is the founder of Ayur Integrative Medicine, a holistic Medical practice. She has 3 locations in the Bay Area. Her areas of focus are: Cancer prevention and survivorship, South-Asian metabolic and heart health.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Acharya's journey
✔️ About integrative medicine and why she chose it
✔️ How integrative medicine can be beneficial for women physicians
✔️ About her practice
✔️ The path to opening an integrative medicine practice
✔️ Lessons learned and mistakes to avoid
✔️ Tips for women physicians who want to follow in her footsteps

Dr. Poorvi Shah is an integrative medicine physician, speaker and author of Stress Tools: An 8 Week Guide to Relieve Stress and Regain Resilience. 

Dr. Shah also founded Peace and Good Health, a company dedicated to helping individuals and companies manage stress and burnout through mind-body medicine. 

She runs her own private practice in the Washington DC suburbs.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Why Dr. Shah decided to write a book.
✔️ What Stress Tools is about
✔️ What one of her favorite exercises from the book Stress Tools is
✔️ How the process of writing a book was
✔️ How the publishing and marketing process was
✔️ What lessons she learned and what mistakes she made
✔️ How long the publishing process took
✔️ What the best first step for someone who is very stressed and does not know how to start is
✔️ How the book has helped her career?
✔️ Her speaking business and workplace wellness company
✔️ What piece of advice she would give someone to who wants to follow in her footsteps

Dr. Suzanne Morgan is a board-certified family medicine physician who earned her doctorate of osteopathic medicine in 2004 at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Feeling burned out after 11 years in fee-for-service practice, she sought out opportunities that would allow her to care for patients and practice medicine in a way that maximized patient success and wellness while providing a better work-life balance for her. In 2018, she moved to an employer sponsored direct primary care model that allowed her to care for patients and pursue leadership within that organization. In January 2022, she moved to PeopleOne Health as Chief Medical Officer, continuing to practice family medicine. A primary motivation for her to continue in leadership is the ability to educate and offer the opportunity of employer-sponsored direct primary care to colleagues in primary care.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What direct primary care is and how it can be employer sponsored
✔️ How much time Dr. Morgan usually has for appointments and how many patients she sees per day
✔️ How quickly patients can get an appointment
✔️ Providing labs, medications, and imaging studies
✔️ How the employer covers the cost so that the patient doesn’t pay out of pocket
✔️ What happens with coverage if the patient needs to be admitted to the hospital
✔️ What steps to take to find such a group
✔️ If something similar exists for pediatrics
✔️ Any downsides to this model
✔️ Lessons she learned along the way
✔️ If you can do telemedicine visits
✔️ How specialty care works with the model
✔️ If there is a difference in charting and notes

Dr. Klee is a physician mom of 4 that decided to get to financial freedom in order to practice medicine, raise kids and live life on her own term. Her goal was to get to financial freedom in as few doors as possible. She accomplished that in our first short term rental door. Their second door replaced her clinical income. It took her 5 years of learning and analysis paralysis to jump in and take massive action. She wishes she had a mentor that would have shortened that time. She has created the mentorship program she wishes would have been available to get her the confidence to go from contemplation to successful short term rental business.  Now she practices medicine part time, mom full-time, has financial freedom, gets to enjoy a lifestyle asset, while also finding joy in supporting others on their path to changing their life.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ How Dr. Klee started doing real estate investing
✔️ How she became financially independent with only 1 property
✔️ How she  replaced her physician income with 2 properties
✔️ Lessons learned
✔️ Mistakes to avoid
✔️ 3 tips for women physicians
✔️ About her program/offer

Dr. Rachel Draelos is  the Founder and CEO of Cydoc, a health AI startup that generates medical notes from patient intake forms, enabling streamlined appointments and helping doctors save time on notes. Dr. Draelos was the the first person to graduate from Duke University with an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. She also holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Duke University and a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University. Dr. Draelos’ research focuses on artificial intelligence methods development for medical applications. She has published across multiple areas of artificial intelligence, including computer vision, natural language processing, explainable AI, and expert systems, and her academic works have been cited over 300 times. Her machine learning models have been applied to medical images, medical notes, EHR data, and genetic data.  Dr. Draelos is also the author of the popular medicine and AI blog Glass Box Medicine.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Registering an entity
✔️ 'The lean startup' methodology
✔️ Finding and talking to potential customers
✔️ Building an MVP
✔️ Writing and filing patents
✔️ Various medical AI research projects she's worked on
✔️ Cydoc's overall mission

Dr. Rachel Draelos is  the Founder and CEO of Cydoc, a health AI startup that generates medical notes from patient intake forms, enabling streamlined appointments and helping doctors save time on notes. Dr. Draelos was the the first person to graduate from Duke University with an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. She also holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Duke University and a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University. Dr. Draelos’ research focuses on artificial intelligence methods development for medical applications. She has published across multiple areas of artificial intelligence, including computer vision, natural language processing, explainable AI, and expert systems, and her academic works have been cited over 300 times. Her machine learning models have been applied to medical images, medical notes, EHR data, and genetic data.  Dr. Draelos is also the author of the popular medicine and AI blog Glass Box Medicine.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Smart patient intake forms
✔️ What AI is. The difference between AI, machine learning, and deep learning
✔️ What explainable AI is
✔️ What kinds of tasks AI can solve and how it relates to healthcare
✔️ How to prevent patient's privacy breaches
✔️ How to get involved in a healthcare AI project as a physician 

Poorvi Chordia, MD is a board certified Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases physician. She is an inpatient teaching hospitalist at Grady Hospital with Morehouse School of Medicine. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughters, and enjoys traveling, wildlife viewing, tea and food. In 2021 she founded Herbs & Kettles, a premium Indian tea company. She is a certified tea sommelier and works with small sustainable farmers to bring back the best single origin, directly sourced teas. She has also collaborated with a nonprofit in India, and a percentage of Herbs & Kettles proceeds go towards a red panda conservation project in Singalila National Park in Darjeeling.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Who she is and what she does
✔️ How the idea for her and her husband’s company came along and how she started
✔️ How she finds small sustainable farmers in India to source the tea from
✔️ How she organized everything
✔️ How she does the business side of things and what obstacles she had to overcome
✔️ What mistakes she made and what she learned from them
✔️ Which marketing technique worked the best for her
✔️ What advice she would give to those who want to do something similar with a different food item
✔️ Tips specific to the food industry
✔️ Her favorite ways to steep tea

Nicole Guevara is the author of Breakaway: The International Medical Graduate’s Guide to Alternative Careers, a thoroughly researched, comprehensive book that will give you an edge and guide you to a fulfilling career.

Nicole is an experienced health professional with over 12 years of hands-on management experience including operational, technological, and clinical aspects of health care. She earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from West Visayas State University College of Medicine in 2012, a Master of Science in Health Informatics degree from University of South Florida in 2019, and a Bachelor of Science in Family, Youth, and Community Sciences degree with three minors from University of Florida in 2006.

Nicole believes in the power of optimism grounded in actionable strategies. At 30 years old, she broke away from her medical path and shifted through multiple career paths. At 35 years old, she had her breakthrough career moment when she joined the largest FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center) in Florida, USA as Director of Performance Outcomes for 15 health centers and over 80 multi-specialty clinicians. Currently, she works as a Senior Healthcare Consultant serving large scale healthcare organizations globally.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Guevara’s book
✔️ Various options and careers for international medical graduates
✔️ How to learn clinical informatics and its pathway
✔️ Who to contact when looking for jobs as a clinical informaticist
✔️ Jobs that don’t require too much travel and are remote

Dr. Adame, also known as the Veggies Over Pills doctor, is a board-certified pediatric physician and holistic wellness expert with over 20 years clinical experience. She is the owner and CEO of Culver Pediatrics Center and the founder of Metamorphosis Holistic Wellness. Culver Pediatrics Center was voted one of the Best Physician Offices in Best of Marshall County 2023. In addition to her pediatrics residency, Dr. Adame has completed additional training on holistic wellness for adults including Pre-Conception, Pregnancy, and Post-Partum Nutrition through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Adame is also a Whole Foods Plant-Based cook and baker. She is the host of “The Veggies Over Pills Radio Show with Dr. Adame” on local radio station Giant FM and the author of the “Metamorphosis: Holistic Lifestyle Journal”.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ The epigenetic impact of maternal nourishment on herself,  the fetus, and offspring of the fetus
✔️ The impact of micronutrients deficiencies on maternal and fetal health and outcomes
✔️ The impact of WFPB nourishment on maternal and fetal health
✔️ How Dr. Adame created the ecosystem to support people who can become pregnant achieve optimal health
✔️ 3 tips for women physicians interested in optimization of preconception health
✔️ Dr. Adame’s journal 

Dr. Kristine Goins is a board-certified integrative adult & pediatric psychiatrist, physician coach and world traveler. Prior to pursuing a lifestyle of freedom and adventure by becoming a digital nomad, Dr. Goins graduated from Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, completed her adult psychiatry residency at Emory University and her child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Yale. Passionate about approaches to healing outside of conventional practice, she also completed an integrative medicine fellowship at The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

Having served in several healthcare settings and various leadership positions within academic centers, Dr. Goins has witnessed firsthand the impact that burnout, stress, and work-life imbalance can have on physicians’ lives. Motivated by a desire to make a difference, Dr. Goins founded Nomad MD, where she empowers doctors to break the chains of traditional medicine to achieve location freedom & create their ideal nomadic lifestyle.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Goins' journey
✔️ What an integrative psychiatrist is
✔️ How to become a digital nomad as a physician
✔️ The logistics of it
✔️ How to find housing and community/friends in a new country
✔️ The financial part of travel. How to afford it?
✔️ Difficulties and how she overcame them
✔️ Mistakes to avoid
✔️ Lessons learned
✔️ 3 practical tips for other women physicians who want to do something similar
✔️ What she offers 

Dr. Michele Cho-Dorado is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Medical Director. She is also a children’s book author and founder of Bright Futures EDG. Her book is called “Reach For The Stars” and introduces basic financial concepts to young kids. Bright Futures EDG was formed to be a platform to share this information about financial literacy, while empowering kids to be bold and to think big.

Book and related items as well as free downloadable activity sheets can be found on the website.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ How Dr. Cho-Dorado transitioned out of practice into UM
✔️ How to find a first job in UM
✔️ How to prepare for jobs in UM
✔️ The schedule and lifestyle
✔️ Lessons learned
✔️ Mistakes to avoid
✔️ What physicians can do to increase chances of getting approval
✔️ Tips for physicians considering transitioning to UM

Dr. Michele Cho-Dorado is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Medical Director. She is also a children’s book author and founder of Bright Futures EDG. Her book is called “Reach For The Stars” and introduces basic financial concepts to young kids. Bright Futures EDG was formed to be a platform to share this information about financial literacy, while empowering kids to be bold and to think big.

Book and related items as well as free downloadable activity sheets can be found on the website.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Cho-Dorado's journey
✔️ How the idea about the book came about
✔️ Steps in the publishing process and what helps
✔️ What a hybrid publisher is
✔️ Mistakes authors should avoid making when writing picture books for kids
✔️ Lessons learned
✔️ Tips for success in publishing a picture book for children that sells
✔️ Her platform to share information about financial literacy for kids

Amy Vertrees, MD is a board-certified general surgeon, Army veteran, certified coach, author and founder of the BOSS Business of Surgery Series. She served 17 years in the Army, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel, and deploying 3 times to Afghanistan and Iraq as a general surgeon. After leaving the military, she was an employed surgeon then created Columbia Surgical Partners, a private practice general surgery group. She discovered there were lessons that she was never taught in residency that were necessary for a successful surgical career. She created the BOSS Business of Surgery Series to fill in that gap and has used everything that she has learned to become a successful private practice general surgeon. The BOSS series includes a highly rated podcast, group coaching and 1:1 coaching and the book “Become the BOSS MD: Success Beyond Residency.”

Some of the topics we discussed in part 1 were:

✔️ Dr. Vertrees' book
✔️ Lessons not taught in residency
✔️ Dealing with complications
✔️ Cultivating shame resilience
✔️ Her coaching practice and podcast

Some of the topics we discussed in part 2 were:

✔️ How to deal with a difficult partner
✔️ Getting paid
✔️ Tips to succeed as a woman in a male dominated field

Liudmila Schafer, MD, FACP, is a board-certified and award-winning medical oncologist and founder of The Doctor Connect Professional Corporation, Helping Physicians and Established Professionals Become Proprietary Brands by using an "Organic Bravery™," a dynamic framework that helps you align passion and expertise, which includes developing proprietary business offers for physicians entrepreneurs, how to become bestseller author, how to start business,  grow profitable revenue, media appearances in front of multimillion audiences, how to find speaking engagements, how to to enhance career and have professional and personal fulfillment. She strives to find methods to end "labeling" and promote equality.

Dr. Liudmila is a TEDx and international speaker, a business consultant, a group leader Aligning your Passion and Career in Forbes Council, a TV host on ABC15, and a podcast host, #1 Best Selling Author of the book "The Other Side of Oncology." She has a wealth of experience speaking about enhancing careers, cancer education, leadership, the healthcare system, women empowerment, and business strategies at various prestigious forums. She speaks at regional, national, and international conferences, including in Dubai and Paris, among a few.

Her clients appear in reputable media within 30 days, including Forbes, NBC, Healthline, WebMD, Authority Magazine, and ABC, among a few. Journalists and reporters reach out to her and her clients as an expert, so they can grow their business and medical practice. 

She is guiding a book, a compilation of stories and experiences of 15 physicians from multiple specialties, titled "AI in Medicine." 

If you want to enhance your career and find out how to share your expertise in front of a multimillion audience in press or television, write a book, become a professional speaker, start a business, appear on a television show and or her show on abc15, or podcast, visit her at https://thedoctorconnect.com or connect via email: info@thedoctorconnect.com.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What exactly is a proprietary brand and why it is important
✔️ What helps to build your proprietary brand
✔️ Teaching points from Dr. Schafer's area of expertise that can help women physicians
✔️ Mistakes to avoid
✔️ Lessons learned
✔️ 3 tips for physicians
✔️ The AI book
✔️ Her book The Other Side of Oncology
✔️ About her business/what she offers and how to connect

Dr. Ritha Belizaire is a dual board certified general and colorectal surgeon in Houston, Texas. She opened her solo surgical practice, Houston Community Surgical, in July 2023, and is passionate about accessible, inclusive surgical care. 

Dr. Belizaire is a "single mother by choice." As a chief resident at age 35, she decided to undergo the egg freezing process to preserve her fertility.  After becoming an attending, she embarked on the journey to single motherhood and 6 years later is the mother of two young children. She has counseled many unpartnered female professionals, including physicians, who were seeking a similar path toward motherhood but who did not know how to navigate the emotions, fears, logistics and professional anxieties around seeking and achieving single motherhood. Dr. Belizaire is passionate about empowering single women who desire motherhood to consider their options for preserving fertility and expanding their families when that time is right. 

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What made her decide to undergo the egg freezing process and what that process was like
✔️ Who Dr. Belizaire might recommend the egg freezing process for
✔️ What is a "single mom by choice" is how and how she decided to move forward with that process
✔️ What her biggest fears were about becoming a single mom by choice
✔️ Why she thinks someone would be hesitant about becoming a single mom by choice
✔️ What important considerations are for donor conception and donor conceived children/offspring
✔️ Some resources available for women who are interested in single motherhood
✔️ What helps to be able to get everything done as a busy surgeon and single mom of 2 small kids
✔️ Her new practice

Dr. Sarah Boyles is a board certified and fellowship trained Urogynecologist. She helps women with bladder leaking before they are ready to be seen with a specialist. She educates and empowers them and helps them get started on their journey to dryness.  Many of these women are perimenopausal and menopausal but these issues also happen at younger ages and after delivery.  These issues are so common but no one wants to talk about it!

She recently started a podcast called, “While you’re waiting…”  She's heard from so many PCP’s and patients who are frustrated with the wait to see her. The goal of her podcast is to help women get started on improving their bladder leaking before they can be seen in the office.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ 3 things patients can do while they are waiting for an appointment
✔️ How common bladder leaking is and who it impacts (everyone!)
✔️ What patients can do to get started
✔️ Where patients can look for more help
✔️ Why the timing of bladder symptoms is important and how it can guide the diagnosis
✔️ Recurrent bladder infections and the use of vaginal estrogen as a UTI preventative
✔️ Pelvic floor muscle training
✔️ How to straighten the pelvic floor

Dr. Mary Leung is a physician who is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. She is also a certified life coach who is passionate about serving physicians who are stressed, overwhelmed and burned out.

Dr. Mary was working and charting after hours many nights and weekends until life coaching transformed her life. She is now going home at least 2.5 hours earlier than before, with all her clinical work completed for the day. From the depths of her own experience, Dr. Mary founded Shining With Gratitude MD. Her passion and mission is to guide other physicians through their unique situations — so they can feel better, have more time outside of their clinical work, regain control and have more clarity. Her hope is for physicians to rediscover joy in life and in medicine. Dr. Mary believes that if physicians can enjoy practicing medicine again, they can take better care of their patients. Through renewal, they can shine brighter for their families and all the lives they touch.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ How she came to the US in 12 grade from Hong Kong
✔️ Adjusting to life alone away from family in a foreign country at a young age
✔️ Getting into and completing college, med school, residency, and fellowship
✔️ Lessons learned
✔️ Discovering coaching and becoming a life coach
✔️ Efficiency strategies
✔️ Practical tips on how to cut down charting by 2h/d
✔️ Efficiency mistakes to avoid

Dr. Elizabeth Chiang, otherwise known as Elisa, is an oculoplastic surgeon, life coach and founder of Grow Your Wealthy Mindset. Her mission is to help physicians practice clinical medicine because they want to, not because they have to. She works primarily with physicians to help them achieve financial freedom by taking control of their money.  Elisa also hosts the Grow Your Wealthy Mindset Podcast as a way to help physicians gain the financial knowledge and mindset they need to succeed.

Some of the topics we discussed in part 1 were:

✔️ Dr. Chiang's journey
✔️ Investing strategies: index fund investing for stocks/bonds, real estate (active and passive), venture capital, private equity, etc. 
✔️ Lump sum vs dollar cost averaging investing strategies
✔️ Choosing the right asset allocation for you
✔️ Accredited investor

Some of the topics we discussed in part 2 were:

✔️ Traditional mutual funds vs ETFs
✔️ Tools to track your spending and net worth
✔️ How Dr. Chiang uses an Excel spreadsheet to track her spending
✔️ What a backdoor Roth IRA is
✔️ Common financial mistakes to avoid
✔️ 3 helpful tips

Stephanie Pearson, MD, FACOG, is a board-certified OB/GYN and a licensed broker specializing in disability and life insurance for physicians. Injured in the prime of her career as an OB/GYN, Stephanie was forced to pivot; through her own firsthand experience, she found a new calling in advocating for and educating her peers on their insurance needs. Stephanie’s goal is to empower others to protect their most valuable asset: their ability to earn income. As a speaker, Stephanie combines her hard-won insurance expertise with her personal experience to address the physical and mental impact of physician disability, emphasizing the importance of proper coverage. 

Stephanie’s background includes 9 years of medical practice after receiving her M.D. from Drexel Universities MCP/ Hahnemann College of Medicine (now Drexel University College of Medicine), and completing a residency at Pennsylvania Hospital. She currently lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania with her husband, their two children, and dogs.

Some of the topics we discussed in part 1 were:

✔️ Dr. Pearson's journey and what she does now
✔️ What's important to know while choosing disability insurance
✔️ If there are particular riders that are important to consider i.e. COLA
✔️ How the "own occupation" is determined for insurance purposes
✔️ Employer benefits vs. private insurances
✔️ If you slow down or stop working clinically, how long that disability insurance stays in place
✔️ If the price is fixed or different if the person goes through different agents

Some of the topics we discussed in part 2 were:

✔️ Pregnancy and infertility coverage
✔️ What mistakes physicians should avoid while choosing disability insurance
✔️ 3 tips to remember while choosing disability insurance

Dr. Shilpi Pradhan is a board-certified Ophthalmologist and board-certified Lifestyle Medicine doctor, mother of four beautiful children, and personal finance and real estate enthusiast. She’s interested in the impact Lifestyle Medicine can make on eye diseases and overall health. Dr. Pradhan went to Emory University, Atlanta, GA, for college, and Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, for medical school. Her training included a transitional year at Carilion Health Systems in Roanoke, VA, an Ophthalmology residency at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, and a Cornea, External Disease, and Refractive Surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA. She has also been Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO, and loved teaching residents before moving to Virginia. She owns her solo private practice, Eye Doctor MD PC, in Glen Allen, VA, since 2015 and practices Ophthalmology with Lifestyle Medicine education for her patients.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Pradhan's journey to Lifestyle Medicine
✔️ What LM is and how it helps
✔️ About the book
✔️ How to publish a compilation of stories
✔️ Steps to take in publishing it
✔️ Tips for people interested in LM
✔️ Tips for physicians interested in getting LM certified
✔️ Where to buy the book

Kristi Angevine, MD, FACOG is a board certified Ob/Gyn and master certified life coach. She specializes in helping high achievers  change unhelpful habits into intentional ones. Whether it’s perfectionism, overthinking, people pleasing, excess scrolling, overeating, mindless shopping, or simply feeling chronically preoccupied with a running mental to do list, she helps them unpack the root causes of their habits. She has a natural warmth that helps all of her clients feel at ease and have fun while they work on mindset. In addition to master coach certification through The Life Coach School, she is also Internal Family Systems-informed and an Advanced Certified Deep Dive Coach. Her Advanced Feminist Coaching is underway.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What is IFS?
✔️ Where the parts of ourselves come from
✔️ How an appreciation of parts helps to understand why we do what we do
✔️ How understanding IFS can increase compassion to the self and to others
✔️ What IFS offer when it comes to feeling torn with conflicting thoughts and emotions
✔️ How IFS conceptualizes a harsh inner critic
✔️ How the IFS approach deals with a harsh inner critic
✔️ Why we may not follow through on previously made plans for ourselves
✔️ 3 helpful tips on changing habits
✔️ About Dr. Angevine's program and podcast 

Today we will talk about real estate investments, specifically about investing in multifamily apartment complexes 

Dr. Lydia Essary is a practicing physician dermatopathologist in Dallas, TX. 

She is also co-founder and principal at Lift Equity Invest, a company focused on helping busy physicians build passive income and generational wealth through apartment investing. 

Dr. Essary has invested in multifamily real estate syndications since 2019 as both a general partner in 713 units and a limited partner in over 4300 units.  For physicians and busy healthcare professionals interested in making their money work for them through apartment investing, Lift Equity provides education and quality opportunities to invest and reach their financial goals.

Some of the topics we discussed:

✔️ Dr. Essary's journey
✔️ How she started
✔️ What passive vs active RE is
✔️ Pros and cons of each
✔️ What limited partner vs general partner is
✔️ How she went from LP to GP
✔️ How to choose markets
✔️ How to choose sponsors
✔️ Mistakes to avoid when passively investing in RE
✔️ Lessons learned
✔️ Helpful practical tips

Oxana Ormonova, MD is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician, an Intuitive Healer, Intuitive Life Coach, and Spiritual Counselor. 

From a very young age, Oxana realized she was different–being able to see and feel things no one else could. As a physician, this talent was helpful to others, but painful for herself, as Oxana could feel all the pain of her patients and colleagues. Through much trial and error, she found a way to both embody her intuitive gifts and feel great in her body, and it’s these secrets she’s now passionate about sharing with others. 

Oxana’s greatest love (other than diving into the Pacific with her marine family) is empowering people by helping them heal themselves on all levels-physical, emotional, and spiritual. She works with people all over the globe, from physicians, to business executives, to coaches and entrepreneurs. If you feel you have empathic tendencies, Oxana has your medicine.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Ormonova's journey
✔️ Developing and trusting your intuition
✔️ How to maintain your energetic boundaries so you are not absorbing your patients’ problems and pain
✔️ Compassion vs sympathy
✔️ Tips to help with stress

Dr. Latifat Akintade is a Gastroenterologist and founder of The Money Coaching School for Badass Women Physicians. She is also the host of The MoneyFitMD podcast. She combines her interest in personal finance, her training as a certified life coach, and her passion for physician wellness. She believes every physician can create their own wealthy life. Her mission is to equip every physician with the tools they need to be financially liberated so they can live well, fully, and without burning out.

She is the author of “Done With Broke: A Woman Physicians Guide to More Money and Less Hustle” available for purchase May 2, 2023.

She also has a personalized socks line called SocksyDoc for women physicians, focusing on comfort and empowerment. They donate a pair of socks for every 3 pairs sold. It goes to individuals who are homeless.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Akintade's journey
✔️ Why financial liberation is more important for wellness and burnout than financial independence
✔️ How to stop using debt to be poor and use it to leverage wealth
✔️ How she started 4 businesses as a full-time physician
✔️ Tips for physicians that are interested in taking a sabbatical
✔️ What financial mistakes physicians make and how to avoid them
✔️ Tips that busy physicians can use
✔️ 3 main takeaways from her book

Elaine Stageberg, MD, MHA is a psychiatrist, mother of 4, & Owner of Black Swan Real Estate. She owns & manages a portfolio of over $300M in assets under management. Through real estate investing, she reached financial freedom in her 30s and now helps others to do the same; 

Black Swan has delivered exceptional returns to hundreds of passive investors through their unique investor-focused private equity funds which enjoy no sponsor fees whatsoever, 100% return of capital to investors before any splits, and long-term returns and tax advantages, all coupled with socially conscious investing and at least 5% of profits donated to charity. Connect with her at meetblackswan.com.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What Black Swan Real Estate is
✔️ How Dr. Stageberg started learning about real estate and what helped her become a highly skilled real estate investor
✔️ How she not only became financially independent but also grew a massive real estate portfolio so quickly
✔️ The pros and cons of SFH investing in comparison to multifamily
✔️ How she finds time to do all of this with 4 young kids, including a 1 yo
✔️ How being a physician helps to be a successful entrepreneur
✔️ What helped her overcome challenges
✔️ What mistakes to avoid early on in one's real estate investing journey
✔️ Tips for achieving financial freedom through real estate investments
✔️ The unique structure of her funds, her course and charitable work

Dr. Randie Schacter is the founder, owner and solo practitioner at Silver Psychiatric Services, NC, treating women and children with a special passion in caring for women physicians. 

She is also the creator and owner of an interactive CME program, Mindfulness Based Arts and Stress Reduction (MBASR) for Women Medical Professionals to manage stress and burnout using mindfulness, meditation, yoga, cognitive behavioral therapy, art and peer support, (accompanied by Farm-to-Table homemade-gourmet food) in the Charlotte Area. She has expanded the local programs to retreats around the US and internationally.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Schacter's journey
✔️ What helped her heal from burnout
✔️ Self-care tools that are outside the box, such as how creativity helps as well as finding purpose and meaning
✔️ Mindfulness beyond meditation
✔️ Mindfulness as a practice and as a way of being present with the world around you
✔️ Where to start, practice tools and tricks, myths
✔️ Apps for mindfullness
✔️ Rising rates of anxiety and ER visits in our youth and what we as adults can do to help
✔️ Why retreats are important and why they should be the new way to have CME
✔️ Positive psychology and the concept of flow
✔️ About her retreats

Dr. Kricia Palmer is a physician turned interior designer and certified life coach.

She helps crazy busy women physicians create intentionally designed spaces that makes coming home the best part of their day.

After practicing pediatric allergy and immunology for several years, she decided to leave medicine and pursue her creative passion of becoming an interior designer. 

In her signature course, Design Academy, she helps them channel their creativity by teaching them how to be their own interior designer.  For those that want the kickass home without doing it themselves, she offers 1:1 design services.

Through her business, House Calls for Physicians, Kricia is rapidly becoming known as the interior designer for women physicians and has clients across the country for which she’s created magazine worthy spaces that provide an inspiring sanctuary from their busy lifestyle.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Palmer's journey of learning and transitioning to a new career in interior design
✔️ Practical tips for women physicians designing their homes
✔️ Fabrics to choose when you have kids and pets
✔️ Mixing metals
✔️ Where to buy quality furniture that is not too expensive
✔️ How to make a remodel less stressful
✔️ Design mistakes to avoid
✔️ How to design a beautiful living room
✔️ How to make a bedroom more relaxing
✔️ Tips for a kitchen remodel

Dr. Trina Dorrah is a physician, binge eating coach, and former binge eater who helps physicians stop binge eating.  

Because of her personal history with binge eating, she knows what it’s like to struggle with food and feel like you can’t fix it on your own. She knows what it’s like to feel addicted to food and not be able to stop overeating despite your best efforts. She knows what it's like to try and eventually fail every diet you start. She knows what it's like to feel so much shame over your struggles with food.

She knows how all of this feels because this used to be her life, too. Now, through the use of evidence-based principles and tools, she helps her clients heal themselves and finally stop binge eating. 

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Intuitive eating
✔️ Diet culture
✔️ What restriction is and why  it leads to overeating
✔️ How to avoid binge eating
✔️ The binge-shame cycle
✔️ Body image and body acceptance
✔️ Disordered eating
✔️ What helps end emotional eating

Dr. Devon Gimbel is a double-board certified physician and founder and owner of Point Me To First Class, a business that helps employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners with high personal and/or business expenses earn tons of credit card points to travel the world in luxury. She believes that your expenses are your greatest asset - if you know how to leverage them. Devon is on a mission to change the face of first class travel and help thousands of women travel more, travel better, and travel often using credit card points.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Gimbel's journey
✔️ How to get started earning and using credit card points
✔️ Which personal and business cards she likes and why
✔️ Using points for travel
✔️ How to strategize and plan your credit card spending
✔️ How to book flights with credit card points
✔️ Paying taxes by credit card
✔️ Contributing to 529 using credit card via Paypal billpay
✔️ What mistakes to avoid
✔️ Travel with points success stories

Dr. Chrystene Nguyen is a board-certified physician in Southern California in family medicine and lifestyle medicine. She believes a major part of optimal health includes having supportive relationships and community and social connection, so during Covid-19 quarantine she started a Facebook group called White Coat Romance. This is a space for single healthcare professionals to virtually mingle, get to know one another as friends and/or potential romantic partners, and provide support among a group that understands the unique challenges and demands of our profession. She is a hopeless romantic with a long-time fascination with technological innovations, which led her to develop the White Coat Romance Dating App that just launched mid Feb. This dating app community consist of a much wider audience than the facebook group and is exclusively designed for Healthcare & Health-Related Professionals and Doctoral Students, with its unique feature of NPI verification or other verification.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Modern dating
✔️ Dating in the wild vs. dating apps, pros/cons 
✔️ 3 tips for successful online dating
✔️ Creating the WCR community, mingling
✔️ First steps to getting the WCR app done
✔️ The journey, bringing the idea to a reality
✔️ Practical steps to developing app
✔️ Tips for those who have an ideas and want to make an app in another area but aren't sure how to do it
✔️ Mistakes to avoid when you develop an app

An ‘Accidental Leader’ who found herself having to learn leadership skills through the school of hard knocks, Asha Padmanabhan MD, FASA is a soft-spoken introvert, an immigrant brown woman and a Board Certified Anesthesiologist who currently serves in several leadership roles including Medical Director of Anesthesiology, Vice President of the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists and Chair of the Committee on Women Anesthesiologists for the American Society of Anesthesiologists. 

She is also co-founder and current President of Female Indian Physcians of Florida.

She is passionate about empowering and encouraging women physicians to step into leadership in their hospitals and communities and has founded several networking groups for women physicians. 

She hosts the podcast “The Leadership Rx for Women Physicians” where she explores the challenges women face in leadership and how to overcome them through conversations with women physician leaders.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Her journey
✔️ Leadership at a hospital, state and national level
✔️ What holds us back as women physicians from aspiring to leadership positions
✔️ Leadership skills including emotional intelligence, relationships building, communication skills, and decision making
✔️ Believing in yourself as a leader

Mrinalini Kulkarni-Date, MD is an associate professor and division chief of endocrinology at an academic medical center. There, she has also served as Institute director for the medical subspecialties’ clinic, and was formerly Director of Virtual Care, and chronic disease management services for the Ascension Texas Family of Hospitals. She is a board-certified endocrinologist. She is a career coach and mentor for faculty and women physicians seeking to grow successful and fulfilling careers in academia and health-system leadership. She teaches a career coaching curriculum for faculty, and students. She has published about career advancement. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35114176/

Some of the topics we discussed in part 1 were:

✔️ Communication and collaboration skills in leadership
✔️ Understanding promotion criteria in academia
✔️ How to find mentors in your field
✔️ Networking

Some of the topics we discussed in part 2 were:

✔️ Career planning
✔️ Sponsors
✔️ Resumé building
✔️ Navigating leadership positions
✔️ Interviewing
✔️ Tips for contract and salary negotiation
✔️ Keeping a cool head

Dr. Vanessa Calderón, MD, MPP is a Latina Life and Leadership Coach and a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician. She has over 20 years of leadership experience and is the founder of The Empowered Brain, where she uses education, training and coaching to support the personal and professional development of women and men.

Dr. Calderón is also a resiliency expert and the Wellness and Resiliency Director of a National Multispecialty Physician organization. She is a graduate and active member of the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology and is a certified Compassion Fatigue Educator and Therapist. Dr. Calderón is also a recognized Positive Neuroplasticity Trainer and has studied with world-renowned experts, like Rick Hanson, PhD. Dr. Calderón is a masterful educator and founder of ICAREMD, the Institute for Compassion, Awareness, Empathy, and Resiliency in Medicine. She has spent over half a decade reconnecting healthcare providers to their original purpose in medicine through education and professional coaching.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ How to be the most effective and make impactful change as a leader
✔️ Negotiations
✔️ Building a team
✔️ Improving team culture
✔️ Overcoming imposter syndrome as a leader
✔️ Caring for yourself as a leader

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh is a Family Medicine Physician, Clinic Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer. She is also the founder of OverAchieve Life Coaching. Prior to discovering coaching, Diana typically had 200 charts open and a graveyard of unfinished projects. But that has changed, and now she’s on a mission to empower physicians and healthcare professionals to create systems that are simple to implement with ADHD, supporting their zone of genius and reclaiming 5-10 hours per week of their personal life. Her clients learn to leave work at work. She is happily married with two pre-school-aged children and enjoys travel, painting, dancing, yoga nidra meditation, and exploring different cultures.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ EVIDENCE-BASED tools to stop feeling  inadequate or inefficient, and be inspired and empowered
✔️ ADHD and problem with negotiation and saying No/people pleasing and how to overcome it
✔️ How to disarm imposter syndrome and rejection sensitivity dysphoria
✔️ How to enhance and be present in your relationships: common miscommunications between the ADHD and nonADHD brain

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh is a Family Medicine Physician, Clinic Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer. She is also the founder of OverAchieve Life Coaching. Prior to discovering coaching, Diana typically had 200 charts open and a graveyard of unfinished projects. But that has changed, and now she’s on a mission to empower physicians and healthcare professionals to create systems that are simple to implement with ADHD, supporting their zone of genius and reclaiming 5-10 hours per week of their personal life. Her clients learn to leave work at work. She is happily married with two pre-school-aged children and enjoys travel, painting, dancing, yoga nidra meditation, and exploring different cultures.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Executive function tools to create freedom of time- helpful even if you don't have ADHD
✔️ How to tame time-blindness and hyperfocus
✔️ How to focus when your brain feels scrambled and when you can’t concentrate
✔️ How to ditch procrastination
✔️ ADHD and money (tips to overcoming problems)

Dr. Teresa M. Anderson specializes in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression. She opened the first psychiatric-based ketamine infusion clinic in the state of Ohio and is one of only 12 providers in the Country to offer PrTMS, a revolutionary form of non-medication alternative treatment.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What PrTMS is and how it's done
✔️ Ketamine treatments
✔️ Indications and contraindications for both
✔️ How long treatment takes
✔️ How fast improvement can happen
✔️ Resources

Dr. Christine Gibson (TikTokTraumaDoc on TikTok) is a physician, author, innovator, and changemaker. She has worked in health equity spaces for most of her career, including founding Global Familymed Foundation. As a trauma therapist, she understands both the mind and body implications of stress. Her book, The Modern Trauma Toolkit, comes out in May 2023.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ The trauma of our schooling and career
✔️ What trauma responses show up like in us and our patients
✔️ How to prevent and reverse the negative effects of trauma
✔️ Some solutions that can become routine
✔️ 3 main takeways from her book
✔️ How she leveraged TikTok to get a book deal
✔️ What mistakes to avoid in dealing with trauma
✔️ 3 tips for physicians dealing with trauma
✔️ Accelerated resolution therapy

Judith Borger DO, FACEP is a mom of 3, wife, board-certified physician, and successful business owner of both The Aesthetic Doctor and Concierge Medical Arts.

Concierge Medical Arts is a Concierge Medical Aesthetics practice located in Fayetteville, NC offering full-spectrum non-surgical medical aesthetics. 

The Aesthetic Doctor encompasses the Podcast “The Aesthetic Doctor” as well as Courses, Life and Business Coaching. 

Dr Borger is a student and practitioner of Martha Beck’s Wayfinder coaching method.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ How to start a career in aesthetic medicine
✔️ How long does it take to study
✔️ What a resident can do while they are in residency to help with learning aesthetic medicine
✔️ What the steps are for starting aesthetic medicine practice
✔️ The financial aspect for starting the practice
✔️ Insurances
✔️ Marketing your aesthetic practice
✔️ Mistakes to avoid
✔️ 3 tips to physicians who want to start an aesthetics practice

Dr. Tanya Wansom is a physician/researcher (MD, PhD) and coach who reverse migrated to Thailand over 7 years ago. She currently works as an independent global health consultant on a bunch of projects spanning clinical trials, implementation of new public health interventions and coaches physicians. 

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What type of work Dr. Wansom does there and how to find such type of jobs
✔️ If she needed to do additional training or exams to work there and how
✔️ What helps with adjustment to new culture and lifestyle
✔️ Tax implications
✔️ Lessons learned
✔️ Mistakes to avoid
✔️ 3 tips for other women physicians interested in doing the same

Ann Huntington, MD, FACP, is an Internal Medicine-trained Hospital Medicine physician. She has expertise in quality, patient safety, peer review, privileging, and credentials.  Most recently, she was the medical director of over 50 hospitalist physicians during the pandemic. She believes lifestyle and integrative medicine are foundational to medical care, when used appropriately. She is the founder and CEO of Give More Naturally, LLC. With special expertise in the field of essential oils, she is launching an unbranded CME course for physicians on the safety and research of essential oils as an integrative tool. 

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Huntington's story, how she got started
✔️ What are essential oils and how are they used
✔️ The science behind essential oils
✔️ Safety
✔️ Industry shortcuts
✔️ The possibilities of essential oils in our practices and our homes
✔️ How to learn about essential oils and a special discount for physicians

Bonnie Koo, MD is a master certified life coach, physician and the founder of Wealthy Mom MD. She is a proud graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Her mission is to help successful women create wealth in all areas of their lives -- and yes that includes lots of money. She is the host of the Wealthy Mom MD Podcast and author of Defining Wealth for Women: (n.) Peace, Purpose, and Plenty of Cash!  She currently resides in northern NJ. 

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Koo's non-traditional path to medicine
✔️ Her journey from working as a dermatologist to founding Wealthy Mom MD
✔️ What mindset shifts are most helpful for high achieving women
✔️ Common limiting beliefs about money and how to change them
✔️ What money mistakes women physicians should avoid 
✔️ 3 most important takeaways from her book
✔️ Tips about publishing a nonfiction book 

Dr. Sharon McLaughlin is board certified plastic surgeon. She is founder of  the Female Physician Entrepreneurs Network and Business Program where she empowers women physicians by helping them turn their idea into profitable businesses so that they can have the freedom to live their best life. 

She is also the founder of Mind Lull, which helps others slow down by providing tools and journals which help small business owners improve their focus and have more fulfillment. 

Her latest book, Thriving After Burnout, is a compilation of stories from women physicians who share tips and strategies on what helped them during burnout.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. McLaughlin's journey

✔️ Burnout

✔️ Overcoming fear and pivoting

✔️ What helps make a career transition successful

✔️ What helps when you are exploring new paths

✔️ What mistakes to avoid 

✔️ Her book “Thriving After Burnout”

✔️ 3 takeways from this book

Dr. Mamta Kumar is a board-certified Internal medicine physician and have been doing land investing business virtually for the last 3 years.  With her team she have bought and sold around 100 vacant lots so far.  She has 6 figure passive income coming from the seller financing note portfolio which makes her financially free.

Now she is able to have time and place freedom to work from anywhere and anytime with her team.

She also helps other physicians with active and passive land investing so they can achieve their financial freedom fast in just a few years like she did.

She is also passionate about helping women with autoimmune illness and she has an IntegrativeCareMD practice focused on this. 

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What is land Investing?

✔️ How Dr. Kumar got into land investing

✔️ What is the life cycle of the deal?

✔️ What is return on investment of active and passive land investing?

✔️ Pros and cons of land investing           

✔️ Passive streams of income through land investing

✔️ Limitations of land investing

✔️ Active vs passive land investing

✔️ Mistakes to avoid

✔️ How to learn about land investing

Jinhee Park, MD does outpatient locums tenens work in Portland, OR as a geriatrics physician. Dr. Park graduated from University of California at Davis Medical School and did her residency training at California Hospital Medical Center Family Residency Program in Los Angeles, CA. She completed Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture CME Courses and finished the Fellowship at Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. She is also an avid real estate investor who is passionate about creating multiple streams of passive income. She's a yogi and fitness junkie, as well as a philanthropist, donating to her alma mater undergraduate university and medical school to support students who are the past versions of herself.

Some topics we discussed were:

✔️ Dr. Park’s journey to real estate

✔️ How Dr. Park handled obstacles throughout her journey

✔️ How going to symposiums and conferences can help you network

✔️ How to handle doing multi-state taxes

Jinhee Park, MD does outpatient locums tenens work in Portland, OR as a geriatrics physician. Dr. Park graduated from University of California at Davis Medical School and did her residency training at California Hospital Medical Center Family Residency Program in Los Angeles, CA. She completed Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture CME Courses and finished the Fellowship at Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. She is also an avid real estate investor who is passionate about creating multiple streams of passive income. She's a yogi and fitness junkie, as well as a philanthropist, donating to her alma mater undergraduate university and medical school to support students who are the past versions of herself. 

Some topics we discussed were:

✔️ What it’s like working with a travel coordinator
✔️ Perks of working locums

✔️ How working locums affects ability to get a home loan

✔️ How to stay organized with business expenses

✔️ How to make traveling efficient and easy

Manvinder Kainth, MD is board certified in family medicine.  Now is year 5 of her DPC Maple Primary Care. 

She grew up in Canada, and has worked in a number of states including Washington, New Hampshire, Texas and Minnesota. She moved back to the Dallas area in 2013 to be closer to her family and friends. Dr. Kainth earned her medical degree in 2003 from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston before completing a residency in family medicine at Valley Medical Center, an affiliation of the University of Washington, in Seattle.

Dr. Kainth was named D Magazine’s Best Doctor in Family Medicine in Dallas and nominated as a Mom-Approved Doctor by Dallas Child Magazine. Dr. Kainth is currently welcoming new patients.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ What Dr. Kainth does for bookkeeping, accounting, and payroll

✔️ Books, websites, and other resources Dr. Kainth recommends

✔️ Common mistakes physicians should avoid while running a DPC

✔️ How to keep work-life balance

✔️ 3 practical tips for physicians who are considering starting DPC

✔️ How to keep overhead low

✔️ How to market your DPC

Manvinder Kainth, MD is board certified in family medicine.  Now is year 5 of her DPC Maple Primary Care. 

She grew up in Canada, and has worked in a number of states including Washington, New Hampshire, Texas and Minnesota. She moved back to the Dallas area in 2013 to be closer to her family and friends. Dr. Kainth earned her medical degree in 2003 from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston before completing a residency in family medicine at Valley Medical Center, an affiliation of the University of Washington, in Seattle.

Dr. Kainth was named D Magazine’s Best Doctor in Family Medicine in Dallas and nominated as a Mom-Approved Doctor by Dallas Child Magazine. Dr. Kainth is currently welcoming new patients.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Life prior to DPC
✔️ Concierge medicine vs. DPC model
✔️ How to arrange labs and imaging for a low cost
✔️ How long it took to start Dr. Kainth's DPC
✔️ How to manage vacations
✔️ Doing telemedicine as part of DPC
✔️ Which EMR, phone, fax services Dr. Kainth uses

One of the main barriers for physicians who want to take a sabbatical is finding coverage for clinical responsibilities. Dr. Gebauer is connecting physicians who want to go on sabbatical with doctors who want to cover for them. 

Dr. Gebauer is a physician, data expert, and consultant with extensive administrative and quality experience. She attended Stanford Medical School, completed an anesthesiology residency at the University of California, San Francisco and a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the San Diego Hospice Institute for Palliative Medicine. After fellowship, she joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico and she completed a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Informatics.  

In 2017, she and her family moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where she is a partner in her private practice anesthesiology group and the founder of the town's palliative care clinic. 

She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and serves as a consultant to several medical start-ups. Her husband and four school-age kids love to ski past her down the mountain.

Her family recently embarked on a five-month sabbatical to help her kids learn to speak Spanish, see the world, and spend time together. She strongly believes in the importance of workplace flexibility and hopes that her blog, physiciansabbatical.com, will help other physicians take a sabbatical.  

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ Finding coverage for your sabbatical
✔️ Creative malpractice insurance and housing arrangements
✔️ Creative ways to finance sabbatical
✔️ Kids on sabbatical
✔️ Mistakes to avoid when planning sabbatical
✔️ 3 things to think about before you go on sabbatical

Lena Shahbandar is a physician specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A graduate of Northwestern University for undergraduate and medical school, she practices outpatient musculoskeletal medicine with a particular area of interest in women’s musculoskeletal health and pain in pregnancy. In treating these patients and through the experiences she had herself as a mother, she discovered the need for a solution that allows mothers to safely transport their babies without compromising their physical comfort. 

She spent many years pouring her medical expertise and knowledge into a scientific solution: a baby carrier that lets people easily move their babies from the car seat, or anywhere, to babywearing, and lead a full life without pain. This solution led to the creation of Nessl and the Nessl Baby Carrier. 

When not working, Lena loves to spend time with her husband and three children, and to play tennis, ski and hike.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

✔️ How the idea came along
✔️ Creating a design
✔️ Choosing materials to use
✔️ Arranging production
✔️ How to market it
✔️ Overcoming challenges
✔️ Tips for physicians inventing something new
✔️ Mistakes to avoid