Welcome to "Surviving the Side Hustle," the ultimate podcast for balancing the demands of entrepreneurship with maintaining mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
Hosted by Coach Rob Tracz, an expert in helping driven professionals achieve 'personal development for professional success,' this show is more than just storytelling—it's a masterclass in thriving amidst the entrepreneurial grind. Each episode features candid conversations with leaders who are rewriting the rules of entrepreneurship, sharing their unique stories, the creative solutions they're offering, and the everyday challenges they’re overcoming.
Whether you’re a side hustler looking for your big break or an established entrepreneur seeking fresh perspectives, "Surviving the Side Hustle" provides valuable insights that resonate with the movers, the shakers, and everyone in between.
Feeling burnt out and sidelining your own health? This podcast empowers you to overcome stagnation, build resilience, and optimize your life and business. We dive deep into your goals, identify obstacles, and share strategies to boost your energy, improve your strength, and keep the entrepreneurial grind enjoyable.
Join us for inspiring stories, expert insights, and practical advice to help you look good, feel good, and do great things at every stage of your entrepreneurial journey. Let’s not just survive the side hustle—let's master it.
Welcome to "Surviving the Side Hustle," the ultimate podcast for balancing the demands of entrepreneurship with maintaining mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
Hosted by Coach Rob Tracz, an expert in helping driven professionals achieve 'personal development for professional success,' this show is more than just storytelling—it's a masterclass in thriving amidst the entrepreneurial grind. Each episode features candid conversations with leaders who are rewriting the rules of entrepreneurship, sharing their unique stories, the creative solutions they're offering, and the everyday challenges they’re overcoming.
Whether you’re a side hustler looking for your big break or an established entrepreneur seeking fresh perspectives, "Surviving the Side Hustle" provides valuable insights that resonate with the movers, the shakers, and everyone in between.
Feeling burnt out and sidelining your own health? This podcast empowers you to overcome stagnation, build resilience, and optimize your life and business. We dive deep into your goals, identify obstacles, and share strategies to boost your energy, improve your strength, and keep the entrepreneurial grind enjoyable.
Join us for inspiring stories, expert insights, and practical advice to help you look good, feel good, and do great things at every stage of your entrepreneurial journey. Let’s not just survive the side hustle—let's master it.
Have you ever looked at your life and thought, “I’m doing everything right… so why does it feel so heavy?”
You’re productive. Responsible. Capable. But beneath it all, you’re exhausted — not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.
That’s exactly what this week’s conversation with Dr. Maureen “Mo” Gibbons cracked wide open.
Here’s the truth she dropped that stuck with me:
You cannot hustle your way out of poor health — and no amount of success can compensate for a fried nervous system.
Dr. Mo isn’t speaking from theory. She lived it.
15 years in emergency medicine. Night shifts. High-stakes decisions. Ironman races. Credentials for days. And despite “doing everything right,” she was trapped in a system slowly draining her bandwidth, health, and joy.
Her mission now is simple but powerful:
Create a space for adults to be — and to grow.
Dr. Mo runs AMS Lifestyle Medicine, a telehealth practice focused on weight management, energy, men’s performance, and functional/lifestyle medicine.
But what stood out most to me is this:
👉 She doesn’t just treat symptoms — she treats capacity.
Mental bandwidth.
Biological energy.
Emotional clarity.
She helps people stop surviving their lives and start directing them.
One of the most powerful moments was when Dr. Mo said:
“I didn’t think I was burned out.”
She was sleeping. Exercising. Productive. High-functioning.
Yet her system was overloaded.
Burnout doesn’t always look like collapse.
Sometimes it looks like sustained over-functioning, where everything costs more than it should.
Dr. Mo kept coming back to this idea of bandwidth — mental space, emotional capacity, nervous system regulation.
Most people don’t need more motivation.
They need fewer invisible drains.
Bandwidth is what allows better decisions, better leadership, better health.
Without it, even “good habits” stop working.
Dr. Mo scaled fast — replacing her ER income in six months — but without the right systems.
Eventually, she had to do the hardest thing imaginable:
She blew it up and rebuilt from scratch.
Because broken systems don’t scale — they multiply chaos.
This applies to life too.
If your calendar, routines, and environment aren’t supporting you, they’re quietly draining you.
This book is for the person who says:
“I can’t work any harder… and I can’t imagine doing this for 20 more years.”
It’s the first of a trilogy:
You don’t retire from growth.
You evolve into relevance.
DM “REBOOT” to @drmogibbons on Instagram for her 7-Day Reboot
Learn more at ShiftWithDrMo.com
Ask yourself:
Then audit your calendar — not to cram more in, but to create white space.