Episodes

On this episode we have the incredible Dr. Jules Cormier: ✅Practices Famly Medicine in Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada ✅Known as "Plant-based Dr. Jules" on social media ✅Actively blogs about the benefits of plant-based eating, weight loss & fitness ✅Competed in the World Ninja Championships as a 41 y.o. plant-based athlete He shares his compelling story including: ☑️The stress of living with a chronic illness with no known diagnosis ☑️His near death experience ☑️How he was finally correctly dia...

On this episode I answer for you a common question that I frequently receive: "What is something that I can quickly do to feel more grounded and in control when my mind is full of thoughts and I feel disconnected from my body?" Learn the 5 things that are readily available to you at all times so that you can "reconnect" all by yourself! What are they? Answer: your 5 senses & enjoy my guiding you through how to effectively use your 5 senses whenever you need to!☮️ Earn CME: Reflect on how ...

On this episode we have the wonderful Dr. Marion McCrary: ✅Primary Care Physician in North Carolina ✅National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach ✅Well Being Champion for American College of Physicians ✅Host of the ResetMD Podcast ✅Narrative Medicine Facilitator She shares her personal journey: *The overwhelm and dissatisfaction in her medical practice *Her courage to develop a concierge practice that she loves *How she found coaching *How she helps physicians through Narrative Medicine:...

On this episode I invite you to think about all of the ways you define yourself: career, family, community, possessions, feelings, emotions, health, thoughts....so many things!... which can all really weigh you down and cause you to feel so overwhelmed, anxious and stressed. It can be really hard to see yourself as separate from how you define yourself. To create lightness and spaciousness and clarity in your life, let me guide you through my version of a meditation called The Shelf Meditation....

On this episode, I share with you how to relieve the extreme stress associated with being a perfectionist. Perfectionism may seem like it is just something that you are born with, something that you can’t change, something that you have and others don’t and that’s just the way that it is…something you have to live with..but know that it is not true. So what is it? It is the continual belief that things, you, situations are not good enough. That you can be better, do better, that situations can...

This episode is releasing on my birthday! & one of my mentors said to me many years ago, "It's important to be your own birthday cake!" What do you think about when you think about your birthday cake? Something so very happy, beautiful, delicious, exciting, fun, giddy, sweet, special and full of potential as you blow out those candles and make a wish. What “be your own birthday cake” means is that you don’t need to seek externally for any of that. You really have everything you need to feel a...

On this episode we have the amazing inspiring Dr. Amy Vertrees: ✅General Surgeon in Tenessee ✅Creator of BOSS: Business of Surgery Series ✅Host of the BOSS Podcast and Facebook group ✅Certified Life Coach ✅Military Veteran ✅Co-Founder of Women Warrior Healers ✅Author of numerous excellent KevinMD articles She fills the hole in the missing business and mindset education for surgeons conveying the lessons not taught in residency: *Financial management *Creating a CV *Dealing with difficult part...

On this episode, I talk with you about something one of my mentors said to me several years ago and I come back to it over and over again as it has been extremely helpful…my mentor said “Robyn, you need to be more like a coconut and less like a peach”…. It was at a time when I was experiencing feelings and emotions that didn’t serve me which led to actions that didn’t serve me or the others in my life. So what is the difference between a coconut and a peach? A coconut is hard on the outside an...

On this episode I address the stress that is caused by heartbreak 💔and how to ease it. When you are feeling heartbroken from a completed relationship whether that be a completed relationship in your personal life or your professional life, your brain may be offering you lots and lots of unhealthy words and this causes many emotions and significant stress that disrupts your well-being in all layers of you. You have 2 choices: to sit on the couch and do nothing, or to take control so that you ca...

Today I want to talk with you about how to prevent the stress you feel over food waste. I know how bad it feels when you realize that food is spoiling or you overbought or you overcooked and you end up throwing food away… And it happens over and over again… And your human brain keeps beating you up for it. So here are some effective food waste hacks that I have collected over the years that I love to use myself to prevent that food waste stress! Earn CME: Reflect on how this Podcast applies...

On this episode we have the "brave enough" Dr. Sasha Shillcutt: ✅Professor & Vice Chair Anesthesiology University of Nebraska Medical Center ✅Founder & CEO of Brave Enough ✅Researcher ✅Author of 2 books ✅Podcaster ✅Tedx speaker She shares: *Her journey juggling academic medicine and motherhood *Wake-up call after physician friends died from suicide *Learning how to say no *Her feeling of isolation *How she rebuilt herself *Her community she has built for women *The intentions behind her books ...

On this episode we have the courageous and strong Dr. Laura Fortner! ✅OBGYN of over 21 years ✅Speaker & expert in litigation stress She is passionate about helping physicians thrive through medical malpractice, normalizing the topic and how to not let it define who you are and how to feel at peace. She shares: ✅her own journey being sued (and how she is STILL in it after 8 years!) ✅MMSS: Medical Malpractice Stress Syndrome (in the DSM) ✅the emotional rollercoaster full of shame, anger, helples...

On this episode I overcome your "I don't have time for self-care" and "I can't add one more thing into my day" by sharing with you the 3 steps you can take to create time! Knowing how important it is to care for yourself but at the same time feeling that you don't have the time to do so can create a lot of stress. So let’s find you some time to care for you! Here are the 3 steps to do it: #1: Take an overall time inventory #2: Work with the time you already have #3: Organize your time Earn C...

On this episode we have Dr. George and Vanessa Naum. George is a Family Medicine Physician & author of: “What’s Forever For? A Physician’s Guide for Everlasting Love and Success in Marriage.” Vanessa has a background in accounting and finance her MBA and is a relationship and intimacy coach Together they specialize in physician marriage coaching with 25 years of experience and focus on helping couples with open and honest communication so they can live their marriage's full potential Earn CM...

On this episode I teach you how to be successful with your goals. It is one thing to have goals. It is another thing to actually successfully carry them out and attain them. I know what it is like to have lots of things you want to achieve and then only partially get there or not at all. And since my doctor brain loves organization, boxes to check, specific steps laid out for me without me having to think about “the how to” part, I want to share this 5 step formula that learned, implement and ha...

On this episode we have the amazing Dr. Kelly Casperson! ✅Board Certified Urologist ✅Interested in the power of the body and mind to change the view of sexuality ✅Host of the You Are Not Broken Podcast ✅Best Selling Author: You Are Not Broken: Stop "Should-ing" All Over Your Sex Life As physicians we have an incomplete sexual education that is sparse and not fact-filled. Dr. Casperson fills in the knowledge gaps and answers the questions that many of us have with respect to sexual health. She...

On this episode we look on the other side of the COVID pandemic, not the horrific side, but the educational side, giving some clarity and shedding light on what is really important in life. Recognizing what really matters. I know it isn’t over and I don’t know when that day will come. But there have been some deep meaningful life lessons that we can all learn from. And while they are still fresh, I wanted to bring them to the surface so you can really appreciate them and hold on to them even af...

On this episode I talk with you about the importance of forgiveness because lack of forgiveness is a large source of chronic stress which reeks havoc and causes dis-ease in your body and your mind setting you up for illness and disease and lack of joy. I know what it is like to feel wronged for sure….and carry that story around… and defining yourself as your story…how heavy and burdensome that feels…and then the amazing lightness and freedom that comes with releasing it all. You will learn: Wh...

On this episode we explore the differences between the 2 types of core brain functioning modes: doing and being With doing, your brain is working to accomplish tasks towards a specific goal to reduce the gap between how things are and how you think they should be. With being, your brain is giving you space to experience present moment awareness, accepting and allowing what is without the need to change it Your brain can only be completely in one mode or the other at any given time The proble...

On this episode we have Dr. Myrdalis Diaz-Ramirez from Sarasota, Florida! ✅Anesthesiology ✅Interventional Pain Medicine ✅Founder: maxAllure, entrepreneurship mastermind for physicians ✅Host: Design Your Physician Life Podcast She shares her story: Business experience began in childhood working with her parents in Puerto Rico. Passionate about giving physicians tools to succeed, plan their lives, avoid burnout. Recognized there was no Mastermind for both physicians and non physician partners...

On this episode, learn how to turn back the clock when it comes to your brain health! Research (from reputable institutions such as Harvard/MGH) shows that you can create neuroplasticity and actually change the configuration of your brain for the better through meditation. YES! Meditation (not medication). 3 parts of your brain that "change shape" are: 1-prefrontal cortex 2-amygdala 3-hippocampus and that directly affects many important brain functions (amazing!) Earn CME: Reflect on how t...

On this episode I share with you some wonderful life lessons that I have learned from my very special sibling with cerebral palsy. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t appreciate what he has and continues to teach me on a daily basis. So I thought I would share with you what I have learned so far as we look together at life through his eyes. At birth, my step brother was hypoglycemic (had low blood sugar), suffered brain damage, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. He was so easy to c...

On this episode I share with you techniques to decrease your stress by self-soothing touch. It is human nature to need to be touched to feel content and safe. Physical touch has a protective effect on the physiologic stress response. A hand hold or a hug from another can relieve your stress. But sometimes touch from another is unavailable, uncomfortable, or not safe. Research has shown that alternatively, self-touch gestures can be used to decrease your stress response and actually decrease yo...

On this episode we have the courageous and powerful Dr. Lulu aka "The Momatrician": ✅Pediatrician ✅LGBTQ+ advocate ✅Queer ✅Mom of a non-binary transgender young adult ✅Youth suicide prevention activist ✅Disabled veteran ✅Parent Life Coach ✅ Speaker ✅Best selling author She candidly discusses: 💡 misconceptions about the LGBTQ+ community 💡 respecting pronouns and the effect on suicide rates 💡 being a queer individual 💡 seeing her transgender son and others just as they are 💡 political threat on...