I’m excited to be joined on the podcast by one of my dear friends and a fellow physician coach, Dr. Shideh Shafie. Shideh brings so much wisdom, humor, and honesty to this conversation, and I loved having the chance to explore how she lives with intention across medicine, parenting, work, and personal growth. Today, we dive into understanding the practice of sovereignty and how it differs from freedom. Sovereignty isn’t about being completely untethered from your life. It’s about choosing, wi...
All content for Your Favorite You is the property of Melissa Parsons and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
I’m excited to be joined on the podcast by one of my dear friends and a fellow physician coach, Dr. Shideh Shafie. Shideh brings so much wisdom, humor, and honesty to this conversation, and I loved having the chance to explore how she lives with intention across medicine, parenting, work, and personal growth. Today, we dive into understanding the practice of sovereignty and how it differs from freedom. Sovereignty isn’t about being completely untethered from your life. It’s about choosing, wi...
I’m excited to be joined on the podcast by one of my dear friends and a fellow physician coach, Dr. Shideh Shafie. Shideh brings so much wisdom, humor, and honesty to this conversation, and I loved having the chance to explore how she lives with intention across medicine, parenting, work, and personal growth. Today, we dive into understanding the practice of sovereignty and how it differs from freedom. Sovereignty isn’t about being completely untethered from your life. It’s about choosing, wi...
In this episode, I am thrilled to bring you a conversation with another incredible guest. I’m joined by Dr. Rashmi Schramm, a board-certified physician and coach who helps people connect with the highest version of themselves. After hearing her speak about expanding consciousness at the Physician Coaching Summit, I knew I wanted to invite her to share her approach to awareness and coming home to who we truly are beneath all the shoulds and expectations. We talk about why it’s so hard to expan...
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Yolanda Bogaert, a physician and coach I met at the Physician Coaching Summit. Yolanda shares her journey through academic medicine, burnout, and an MS diagnosis, and how being a mom to a neurodivergent child has reshaped her understanding of identity and what it means to show up as your authentic self. We explore Yolanda’s philosophy of “detached attachment,” a way of parenting and healing rooted in letting go of outcomes and focusing on emotional co-regula...
"Having your own back" means choosing yourself, trusting yourself, and not abandoning yourself when things get hard or when other people disapprove. It means being on your own team, being your own advocate,and being your own best friend. "Having Our Own Backs" was the theme of this year’s Physician Coaches Summit at the Civana Resort and Spa. There were 32 physician coaches gathered together, and I'm still buzzing from the experience. To start the summit, we went around and shared how we have...
Becoming your favorite you includes knowing how to find your calm, especially in the hurricane of life. This is difficult for so many of the brilliant women I work with, not because calm isn't available, but because it’s not their usual territory. Does this sound like you? You’ve spent most of your life in motion; always doing, achieving, producing, and managing. Simply being may not be something you’ve had much practice with. Calm exists within you, but perhaps you're unsure what it looks li...
In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation with one of my beloved friends from residency, Dr. Dominique Williams. Dominique specializes in obesity medicine, and we talk about obesity as a chronic diagnosis, what GLP-1 medications are and how they function in the body, and the narratives so many of us carry around taking medication for obesity. You may remember my recent episode where I talked about my relationship with my body and my own biases against taking medication for my diagnosis of o...
Today, I’m joined by four of my incredible group coaching participants: Krystin, Erin, Colleen, and Prerana. Even though these women are in different stages of life, they all share the common thread of being physicians. You’ll hear how that shared background created a sense of safety and understanding, and how group coaching can still be deeply effective for anyone, no matter their profession. These women offer a glimpse into group coaching, sharing their biggest takeaways and explaining how ...
I’m honored to bring you a conversation with one of the incredible people who has helped me learn to support my clients–and all of you–in a new and exciting way. Anna Gartshore is a psychotherapist and a lead trainer at the Internal Family Systems Institute, who brilliantly guided me and many other therapists, social workers, and counselors through IFS training this past summer. In this episode, we explore what it means to have everything you need to heal already within you, and how embracing...
So many of us think we need to be perfect before we can help anyone. We think our Instagram post needs to be profound, our podcast needs to be polished, or our coaching needs to be life-changing. Because we're waiting for perfection, we never start—or we start and then immediately stop ourselves, second-guessing everything, making it so hard that it's not even fun anymore. We're afraid we'll put ourselves out there and no one will care, or maybe even worse, that someone will care enough to cr...
You're at your kiddo's soccer game, but you're scrolling through work messages. You're in a meeting, but you're mentally making your grocery list. You’re on vacation, but you’re thinking about what you’re missing at home. Does this sound familiar? You’re constantly thinking about what’s next, trying to do everything and be everywhere at once. Not only is that an impossible standard, but believing you should meet it leaves you feeling like you’re failing everywhere instead of being fully prese...
Resentment usually shows up as a low-level annoyance, something small that you tell yourself isn’t a big deal. But when ignored, it can build into a bigger issue that you can’t simply brush off, such as serious strain on your relationships or tension at work. But the way to stop that from happening isn’t by pushing your resentment down, it’s by listening to what it’s trying to tell you. What are you feeling resentful about right now? Maybe your job is draining you, or you're in a relationsh...
How often do you catch yourself saying, “I don’t have time”? Maybe you’re “too busy” for rest, exercise, or figuring out what you actually want—even though when there’s a work deadline or a family emergency, you somehow always manage to fit it in. I know how easy it is to say those words without questioning them. But after years of coaching brilliant, capable women who tell me they simply “don’t have time” to take better care of themselves, I’ve learned that the problem is almost never actual...
Have you ever been around certain people and felt instantly at home–like you could exhale and completely be yourself? I’ve been thinking about that profound sense of belonging as I prepare for my group coaching program to start up again, and today I share the magic that happens when women with similar values come together to do the tender work of becoming our favorite versions of ourselves. I work with women who share core values like belonging, growth, community, freedom, connection, and kin...
Intelligence isn’t just something we measure with IQ tests or celebrate in school—it goes beyond intellect into the wisdom we gain from our emotions and our bodies. Our society tends to focus on intellectual intelligence without recognizing the importance of emotional and somatic intelligence. That’s why so many intellectually brilliant people can solve complex problems, but struggle to recognize when they’re overwhelmed or when their boundaries are being crossed. In this episode, we explore ...
What’s something you believe is “just the way you are”? Maybe you tell yourself you're just not a morning person, not good with technology, not creative, or always running late. We tend to cling to these “fixed” identities, but what if I told you that none of them have to be permanent? In this episode, I discuss something that may shift how you perceive yourself and your potential: the power of flexibility. Your brain is capable of creating entirely new patterns, habits, and ways of being thr...
As with most women, my relationship with my body has been a complicated one. Until recently, I never truly felt comfortable in my own body. I have yo-yoed with my weight for most of my adult life, and I carried old beliefs about my body that started in childhood. In this episode, I share how my relationship with my body has evolved throughout my life, and the changes I have made in the past year that have completely shifted how I feel. Many of you are brilliant, high-achieving women who excel...
Many of the brilliant women I coach are high achievers in their careers, yet they often feel lost when it comes to their finances. Why is it that so many smart, capable women feel like they struggle with money? Today, you’ll hear the amazing wisdom of my friend and coaching colleague, Keina Newell. Kenia is a financial coach who prioritizes meeting her clients where they are and helps them heal the shame they carry around money. Through her business, Wealth Over Now, she shows people that it...
If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re being “too soft” on your kids, consider this episode your permission to stop worrying. Think about what you want your relationship with your kids to look like when they’re adults. Do you want them to call when they’re struggling, include you in their lives, and let you know their real selves? That starts now with how safe you make it for them to be human in your presence. Most of us have been told that we need to toughen our kids up for the real wo...
Have you noticed how loud your self-critical voice can be? The parts of us that are anxious and perfectionistic sound so sure of themselves. They speak with authority and urgency, saying, “You’re not doing enough,” or “Everyone's going to think you're a fraud.” But there is a quieter voice beneath the noise–one that leads you toward your favorite you rather than sending you into a spiral. What if you could listen to the quiet whisper of this inner knowing? The one that says “You’re exactly wh...
Have you ever been convinced that someone you love needs coaching? While you may not be wrong–I haven't met a human yet that wouldn’t benefit from having a coach–in my experience, the person who thinks everyone else needs coaching is often the one who will gain the most from it. Today, we’re going to talk about why that’s actually great news. When you work on yourself first–your boundaries, your confidence, your needs–it has a ripple effect on the people in your life. Focusing on the one thin...
I’m excited to be joined on the podcast by one of my dear friends and a fellow physician coach, Dr. Shideh Shafie. Shideh brings so much wisdom, humor, and honesty to this conversation, and I loved having the chance to explore how she lives with intention across medicine, parenting, work, and personal growth. Today, we dive into understanding the practice of sovereignty and how it differs from freedom. Sovereignty isn’t about being completely untethered from your life. It’s about choosing, wi...
