Dr. Alicia Shelly is a Board-Certified Internal Medicine / Obesity Medicine physician with Wellstar Medical Group in Douglasville, GA, outside of Atlanta. She is the host of Back on Track: Achieving Health Weight Loss. She is a fitness enthusiast and have completed 6 marathons and was training for an Ironman 70.3 at the time of our recording! She is also an author of Made for More: Physician Entrepreneurs Who Live Life and Practice Medicine on Their Own Terms.
In this episode, Dr Shelly tells us about her lifelong struggle with weight and what combination of strategies helped her along the way and things that have been speedbumps. In addition to walking the talk, she wants to help others.
She is working to balance life in order to live to the fullest with purpose. She shares her thoughts on how to become the person you want to be!
Top 3 Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
This is not always!
You are not alone!
Enjoy your life and live your passion.
You can find her at:
Website: drshellymd.com
YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCk_jXPTVHuYWD4d_Ri6ce5A
Twitter/Instagram: drshellymd
linkedin.com/in/alicia-shelly-535685175
https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Shelly-MD-109288878073798
Instagram: www.instagram.com/drshellymd
Dr. Corinne Menn is a board certified OBGYN and North American Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner, with over 20 years of experience caring for women.
She has a special interest in areas often neglected in women's health: perimenopause and menopause and the unique needs of female cancer survivors and those at high risk for breast cancer.
In this episode, Dr Menn shares her story of multiple resets, which starts with her diagnosis of breast cancer as a 28-year-old OBGYN resident. We discuss her path to motherhood, finding her niche as a physician, and all the pearls she learned along the way. She encourages others to keep the door open in their careers and to give themselves the gift of time.
"Choose what works for you in the moment."
She is both a patient advocate and a physician education advocate who hopes to dispel medical misinformation by getting the science out there on social media and her website www.drmenn.com
Find her on IG @drmennobgyn where she has over 40,000 followers!
Join us today as we listen to Dr. Nahille Natour, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) whose passion is to inspire her clients to achieve balance in their lives. She serves professionals who are looking to transform their lives, careers, businesses, and relationships. As a board-certified OB/GYN, she has experience in many practice settings and has personally and successfully worked through physician burnout.
She shares her story of burnout and how coaching helped her to define her career goals and pivot in her career to a job as a hospitalist OB/GYN that ultimately allowed her boundaries between her professional and personal life that have been welcome. During that journey she also explored and has become a very active and successful coach for other physicians.
She reminds us of several pearls on today’s episode:
- Three keys to balance include defining your priorities and values, nurturing your relationships to help fill your cup, and allowing for time for personal growth, reflection and rest.
- It’s okay to make your career what you want, keep an open mind and make change where possible if it isn’t meeting your goals.
- Know that there is a way to get “unstuck” if you are feeling unfulfilled.
For time efficiency, try her “F.A.R. Rules”—File it, Act on it, or Recycle it.
See her website www.inspiringbalancecoaching.com for details and you can contact her at nahille@inspiringbalancecoaching.com.
Enjoy!
Dr. Maggie Kang is a board-certified radiologist trained at Yale, mom of two kids, one with a rare disease. She was the radiologist who was the first to see her nine-year-old daughter’s horrifying brain MRI in the ER. Her daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease, neuromyelitis optica.
The ordeal motivated Maggie to shift her focus from radiology to mental well-being. Now a certified Life Coach, Maggie dedicates her time to supporting parents of kids in the rare and chronic disease communities. She also works with physician moms of kids with chronic needs.
Maggie told her story on the TEDx stage, sharing her powerful message that you can choose to accept pain or create suffering.
Link to TEDx talk: The Truth About Pain and Suffering Will Change Your Life | Maggie Kang | TEDxCherryCreekWomen
TEDx reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_JYN91dlIM
Ways to reach out to Dr Kang:
Website: https://maggiekangmd.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/maggiekangmd/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggiekangmd/
Link to TEDx talk: The Truth About Pain and Suffering Will Change Your Life | Maggie Kang | TEDxCherryCreekWomen
My Hospital Story (her daughter’s book) on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/My-Hospital-Story-Nell-Choi/dp/1982262842/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=c3f60023-05a3-4bab-bf26-2ac3b9d954f7
In this episode, Errin Weisman, DO openly speaks on her experience of professional burnout early in her family medicine career so that no woman feels alone and to prove you can have a joy-filled and sustainable career. Dr. Weisman wholeheartedly believes to be a healer, you must first fill your own cup. She lives and practices life coaching and medicine in rural Southwestern Indiana, loves her roles as farmer's wife, athlete and mother of three. Besides being sassy, she enjoys getting mud on her shoes, teaching her children to catch tadpoles and reading a great fantasy novel. She is interested in using her medical knowledge beyond the standard outpatient clinical realm through innovative technologies, public speaking, writing and social media as well as utilizing her business skills in organization, team leadership and creative problem solving.
Errin's Pearls:
1- You are not alone.
2-Help is available for those who ask.
3.-Enough is a decision. Good Enough is what you determine it to be!
4- Today is not your forever.
You can find out more about Dr. Weisman on her podcasts "Doctor Me First," and “Burntout to Badass” or hang out with her on Instagram - @burntout_to_badass
Dr. Frances Mei Hardin, MD is an otolaryngologist and avid physician wellness advocate. She created the brand Rethinking Residency to provide concrete, effective resources for resident physicians, fellows and medical students. The skills she writes about are evidence-based DBT-informed skills, customized specifically for the unique population of young physicians and physicians in training.
During this brief conversation we try to tackle what is wrong with medical training to lead to such a challenging environment. Dr. Hardin states that the residency training phenomenon has to break the cyclical bullying model for us to improve and do better, consider the fact that maybe the socratic method is being used wrong. It's not about grilling and pimping you it's a method where questions are asked bi-directionally to improve knowledge!
If we can pause for a moment, acknowledge our anger and embrace it, we can deeply understand its true roots. If we can take care of our own anger instead of focusing on the other person, we can get immediate relief.
And how right that is! In our short conversation we discuss interpersonal effectiveness and ways to address distress tolerance and emotional regulation.
Dr. Hardin is a fan of stoicism and some of her favorite quotes are:
" We cannot ensure success, but we can deserve it". (stoic teaching, from a famous play about Cato)
"All cruelty springs from weakness". (stoic teaching - Seneca)
"And you're right: this internship has been like the stuff of dreams, like the overpowering nightmares of childhood: aggression, fear of retaliation, and then the resolution, where you don't win, you live."(The House of God)
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." (Victor Frankl)
Pearls of Wisdom:
“Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career, you have a life” Cheryl Trade
Keep a spirit list and fill it with items that keep you most connected with yourself.
During this match time important to reminder
“We cannot ensure success but we can deserve it"- Cato
Her Happy Place:
“Divorce Beach" in Cabo -its not always filled with people. There’s solitude!
What's on Dr. Hardin's nightstand:
Untethered Soul
Source
Tiny Habits
How to do the work
Adam Grant books
AND…a lovely smelling Dream oil by Santo Cabo
IG: @francesmei.md
Website: francesmei.com
Brand-Rethinking Residency:
IG: @rethinkingresidency
Website: rethinkingresidency.com
Happy New Year and welcome back to the ResetMD Podcast.
We hope you will listen in to each episode and look forward to hearing from you at resetmdpodcast@gmail.com!
This episode was originally released December 2021.
Dr Vidhya Prakash is a Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine, a member of the Infectious Diseases Faculty, and the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations in her department. She is the Founder and Director of the SIU Alliance for Women in Medicine and Science (AWIMS). She has many roles on the local, state, and national levels and she is a wife, mother, author, and advocate.
In this episode we discuss her reset from military medicine in the Air Force, her recent commitment to prioritizing her passions, and her mission to use her voice for gender equity. We also discuss her approach to helping trainees with the imposter phenomenon.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1- "Recognize your value."
2- "You don't have to apologize for prioritizing your wellness." It is ok to self-advocate.
3- Prioritize things that you are passionate about, in line with your values, and in line with your career goals. (Listen in to see how she does that!)
She recommends: "Letter to a young female physician" by Dr Suzanne Koven, "The Conversation" by Dr. Robert Livingston, and "The Beauty in Breaking" by Dr. Michele Harper.
Although not mentioned in this episode, she is the author of "Learning to Listen: A Memoir," published in November 2021.
This episode was originally released November 2021.
Susan Hingle is a leader among leaders.
She is an Internal Medicine specialist and a Professor of Medicine, who serves as Associate Dean for Human and Organizational Potential, and Director of Faculty Development at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Miami University and a medical degree from Rush University Medical College. She completed an Internal Medicine residency at Georgetown University Medical Center, where she served as Chief Resident of Internal Medicine. Dr. Hingle completed the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program.
She has been active nationally in numerous organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Women's Association, the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine, and the American Medical Association. She served as Chair of the ACP Board of Regents and Chair of Board of Governors and is President-elect for AMWA.
Pearls of Wisdom from the episode:
-Self-care is essential and we, as leaders, should lead by example by practicing it.
-Wellness should be “THE Goal” NOT “A goal” in healthcare.
-Organizations need to define what a healthy workforce looks like and make it a priority.
-Let go of the drive for perfection! The goal should be to become the best version of ourselves. Just enough is good enough.
-Understand the power of saying no.
Recommended Reading:
Just Enough- Laura Nash
Untamed- Glennon Doyle
The Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo- Marianne Cronin
This episode was originally released December 2021.
Dr. Liz Lawrence currently practices at UNM, where she also serves as the Chief Wellness Officer, the Assistant Dean for Professional Wellbeing, and a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
In this episode, we get into navigating relationships. We highlight transitions that Dr. Lawrence went through in her career and what she learned during that time. We talk about self reflection and recognition of our inner state. We talk about the importance of self care and boundary setting in our profession. There are so many pearls in this episode, listen in to hear them all.
Dr Lawrence gives her 3 Principles of Well-Being:
1- Spend time with the People you Love
2- Exercise
3- Sleep
We discussed "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams" by Matthew Walker Ph.D.
This episode was originally published in October 2021.
Dr. Tammie Chang is aboard-certified physician in pediatric hematology/oncology practicing in Tacoma, Washington. She is the medical director of Provider Wellness for MultiCare Health System. She is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Pink Coat, MD, a platform to support and empower the personal and professional success of all women physicians. She has held numerous leadership positions including Director of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) ELEVATE Leadership Development Program for Attending Women Physicians, President of the Washington State Chapter of AMWA, Co-Founder of her local Women in Medicine (Cool Chicks In Medicine) group, and Co-Founder of the Women of Influence Network (WIN) @MultiCare for her healthcare system.
In this episode we discuss her story of being in a dark place due to a confluence of practice situations and not wanting to ask for help. She likens this to what many are experiencing during the pandemic. We talk about what worked for her then and now and the impetus it gave her to create a safe space for other physicians to be honest and vulnerable and to know they are not alone. She comes back to the basics to support herself. Also, you don't want to miss out on her book recommendations! (I have already ordered them!)
Pearls of Wisdom for Well-Being:
1- Put Your Own Self-Care First so you can take care of others (Remember the O2 mask image)
2- Set Boundaries! Learn what is your responsibility and what is not your responsibility.
3- Ask For Help. We're Not Alone.
Check out more from Tammie:
"Women Doctors Are Struggling In Silence" is Tammie's TED Talk.
Tammie's Personal Website at https://www.tammiechangmd.com/
This episode was originally released October 2021.
Kerri Palamara, MD MACP is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She leads the Center for Physician Well-being at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is an expert in physician coaching and well-being. Dr. Palamara leads the American College of Physicians “Physician Coach Training Program”, which trains physicians to integrate coaching into their quality improvement and well-being work. Dr. Palamara co-created and directs the MGH Physician Coaching Program. This program was designed to improve physician awareness of their growth, reduce burnout, and improve well-being.
In this episode: Dr Palamara discussed her hard reset after facing a horrible loss and how it taught her that her well-being was pivotal to her family's well-being and to the impact she had in the world. She shares her 3 basics of self-care and how asking for help supports them. We dive into the concepts of addressing your needs and the impact it has on how you feel.
Books she mentioned: "The Choice" by Edith Eva Eger and "It's OK that You are Not OK" by Megan Devine
Pearls of Wisdom for Well-Being:
1- Download the Manual of Yourself. Know your Basics for Self-Care. You can't expect to take care of others if you don't take care of yourself.
2- Ask Yourself: "What Do I Need Today?" How your feel is based on what you need. So, if you can get what you need, you can feel differently.
3- Reframe your Self-Talk to be more self-compassionate.
This episode was originally released in April 2022.
Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, SFHM, MACP, is an internal medicine hospitalist and medical educator in Albuquerque. She has held several leadership roles in physician wellness, DEI, and CME, both in employed and volunteer work. She is the current chair of the American College of Physicians Board of Regents and a former New Mexico Chapter Governor. She is a multistate District Chair for the Society of Hospital Medicine, and Advocacy Committee Vice Chair for the American Medical Women’s Association. She and her husband, Sam, enjoy skiing, hiking, reading, and goofing off with their kiddos, Daisy and Dahlia.
In this Episode: Dr Barrett talks about her mindset that "I get to be a physician", her experience with key advice at key times from mentors, and her drive for advocacy and sense of purpose. She discusses her pivots from rural practice in the Indian Health Service, her choice to go to academia and her choice to leave academia more recently. She reflects on her time as an Ebola Aid Worker and how it contributed to her sense of purpose and humanity.
Listen in to see how she finds wellness, places to visit in her home state of New Mexico, and the books we are reading right now! There is a challenge for you at the end!
Wellness Pearls:
1. Surround yourself with people you love to be around AND that love to be around you.
2. Look for meaningful work that makes you feel great.
This episode was originally released September 2021.
Darilyn V. Moyer, MD, MACP, FRCP, FIDSA is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP). She has served on ACP’s Board of Regents, which manages the business and affairs of ACP and is the main policy-making body of the College, chaired ACP’s Board of Governors, and served as Governor of ACP’s Pennsylvania Southeastern Chapter.
Prior to becoming ACP’s EVP and CEO, Dr. Moyer was a Professor of Medicine, Executive Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program Director and Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. She was previously the Co-Faculty Advisor for the Temple University School of Medicine Internal Medicine Interest Group and for the Temple University School of Medicine Student Educating About Healthcare Policy Group. Dr. Moyer currently practices part time at the Temple University Internal Medicine Associates.
In this episode we discuss her resets into medical education and then to advocacy with the ACP. She shares her thoughts on finding what you are meant to do in your career. She discusses what supports her wellness and gives advice for women in medicine. She ends with the mantra of "Bring your Best to Whatever You Do Everyday."
Pearls of Wisdom:
1. Take Care of Yourself- in whatever way works for you. Know what Recharges you.
2. Reach Out to People to hear their story. Be Curious and Listen.
3. Create Community inside and outside of medicine.
4. Write Down and Examine your short and long-term goals.
This episode was originally released in March 2022.
Robyn Tiger, MD trained and practiced as diagnostic radiologist until making a pivot to help herself and other physicians. She is on a mission to empower physicians with self-care tools backed by science and research. With physician burnout on the rise, Robyn knows firsthand what it’s like to love your job while also coping with stress, anxiety, overwhelm, imbalance and even illness. She is deeply passionate about helping her colleagues relieve stress, elevate calm and live their best lives! She does so with yoga therapy, meditation and life coaching in her innovative CME accredited courses, private coaching, and podcast that focus on complete physical, mental, and emotional well-being and resilience.
In this Episode: Dr Tiger discusses the symptoms she had of chronic stress and what shift she made to reverse them. We didn't learn about how to care for ourselves during out training, but we can now. We discuss multiple proven tools to take care of ourselves.
Take Home Pearls for Wellness:
1- You have the ability to be "you"- to make a choice to feel differently. You just need to learn how.
2- You are not alone.
3- Ask for help.
You can learn more about Dr. Robin Tiger and her programs at www.StressFreeMD.net
**Her next retreat is October 2023 in the beautiful Western NC mountains: https://www.stressfreemd.net/fallretreat
This episode was originally released January 2022.
Dr. Erica Howe is a board-certified Hospitalist and a nationally known educator, wife, and mother to three kids. As a lifelong advocate for improved wellness in medicine, she founded the Women Physicians Wellness Conference in Grand Cayman in 2018 as a way of bringing women physicians together to share their struggles and their strategies for success. She believes that women are stronger together and wants to inspire them to find the courage, clarity, and community to succeed on their own terms, instead of someone else’s.
Her endeavors in teaching and mentoring have been recognized with a number of honors and awards including receipt of the Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett Woman Mentoring Women Award, the medical student-elected Rainbow Award Finalist for “teaching the art of medicine by example”, and the Distinguished Chancellor’s Teaching Award, one of the highest honors given to educators at the University of Kansas.
In this Episode: You will feel like you are in a conversation with your best friend!! Dr Howe discusses her resets which started with answering the question "How are you doing?" with an honest answer, being transparent, and vulnerable with other physicians. She discusses what led to her mission with helping other women physicians and how she is doing that in a big way. She also reveals her secrets for time management.
Take Home Wellness Pearls:
1- Tools to Find Clarity: Take time to determine where you want your career to go, make space to do it, and put out your "asks."
2- Start with being honest with the other doctors around you and continue to have those conversations.
3- Say No to what doesn't meet your needs anymore and protect that space you create by doing so.
You can learn more about the Women Physician Wellness Conference at www.womenphysicianswellness.com - she has three wonderful conference options yearly.
Join us today as we meet Dr. Rachel Miller, a board-certified OB/GYN and Certified Executive Coach who is dedicated to empowering healthcare leaders to drive meaningful change within their organizations. Her company, Pocket Bridges, offers transformative guidance to physician executives and front-line leaders nationwide. Her personalized coaching and engaging leadership cohort sessions focus on fostering confidence, reducing physician burnout, enhancing provider engagement, and refining leadership skills. Today’s episode highlights ways physicians can empower themselves.
In this Episode, we discuss Dr Miller's path to where she is today and what has worked for her.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
· Remember to breath, step into nature, and remember the facts of what is true when facing a moment of burnout.
· Examining your passion, where it comes from and what your values are will help put things into perspective when looking at life, career, leadership or organizational changes
· Self-awareness to know how you communicate and how others communicate will help conversations and negotiation more effective.
· When enduring tough situations- put them in your back pocket—they will stay with you, but you won’t be leading with it and you can work through and grow from it.
Find Dr. Miller’s book, “How to Succeed as a Healthcare Leader” here, and listen to the podcast to learn how it came about!
https://www.amazon.com/How-Succeed-as-Healthcare-Leader/dp/1644845814
Find the link to Dr. Miller’s podcast “Life, Love, and Leadership for Physicians” here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3yikwQNhRhim9bDJq6rL8G?si=13a5579466cb4b7a
Tonya L Caylor, MD, FAAFP is a family physician and an academic physician coach in Anchorage, Alaska with 23 years of clinical and academic practice. She owns and runs Joy in Family Medicine Coaching Services ® which partners with family medicine residency programs to help residents, faculty, and recent graduates enjoy all of life and thrive in their chosen careers.
In this episode she describes the 3 stages of her RESET: burnout, recovery, and coach training and practice. She outlines the fullness of her recovery phase, details what in the practice she joined made it work, and reveals what helped her re-learn to enjoy the practice of medicine. She talks about her experience with coaching family medicine residents and faculty and the lightbulb moments she sees. Lastly, we dive into what it takes to change the culture of medicine.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1. Point your brain in the direction you want to go.
2. Figure out what self-care looks like for you and don't let yourself down.
3. Take time to reflect.
More ways to find Dr Caylor:
www.joyinfamilymedicine.com
joyinfamilymedicine@gmail.com
www.joyinfamilymedicine.com/blog
https://www.facebook.com/joyfmcoaching/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonya-caylor-md-faafp-b74a04158/
https://youtube.com/@academicmedicinecoach
Dr. Laurie Boge is a wife, runner, feminist, dog mom, combat veteran and dessert lover who in her spare time works part-time as an Emergency Medicine physician and recently founded GreenCloud Apparel, an elevated scrub company on a mission to make women in medicine feel and look as amazing as the work they are doing.
In this episode (#98!) Dr Boge talks about her transitions from a military medical career where she served in wartime in Iraq to community and academic medicine. She shares her experience as a combat physician and how she honors veterans now.
She has a passion for mentoring and sponsoring women physicians, re-inventing her career despite a system that is not always supportive, and pursuing her entrepreneurial venture.
GreenCloud Apparel grew out of a "crazy idea" to improve what is already out there and honor and support women physicians along the way. Listen in to hear what is next!
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom that work for her:
Set Boundaries- say yes to what aligns with where you want to go.
Stay Healthy- get sleep and exercise.
Surround Yourself with People who get you and your vision and believe in it!
Boost your Confidence by putting on scrubs you love! Shift the attitude for the day.
and...
Remember you are courageous and confident. You just need to be yourself and go after those crazy dreams. It is ok to change in life and it is ok to be more than medicine. Don’t put things off that you really want. Make medicine work for you. A different recipe works for different people.