Episodes

On this episode we have the wonderful Dr. Tonya Caylor from Anchorage, Alaska: Family Physician Academic Physician Coach Certified Life Coach Founder: Joy in Family Medicine Coaching Services Dr. Caylor partners with family medicine residency programs to help residents, faculty, and recent graduates enjoy all of life and thrive in their chosen careers She shares: her own insidious onset of her burnout journey how her life was changed through life coaching what makes training in family medicin...

Do you feel tired "crumping" early to midafternoon, & can’t keep your eyes open? And then may be reach for something to wake you up such as caffeine just to make it through the rest of the day and night? If so, that used to be me too! On this episode, you will learn 5 ways to use your own anatomy and physiology aka your own internal super powers to wake and feel energized all by yourself! Earn CME: Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs here: htt...

On this episode we have the wonderful Dr. Karen Wolowick: Board Certified OBGYN from the western suburbs of Chicago Founder of Wolowick Women's Health She is passionate about empowering women with the knowledge to take control of their fertility and overall health. Making decisions whether or not to use birth control and what type to use can be very stressful. She clears up and demystifies the rampant widespread misinformation surrounding birth control to reduce the stress and guilt that many...

When you think about a diet, you usually think about food and drink, right? Consumption comes in several more forms than actual food and drink. You are actually constantly consuming information and that can go one of two ways: it can nourish you or it can be the cause of chronic stress in your life. On this episode I share with you the 4 consumption categories beyond food & drink and how to protect yourself and create a healthy consumption diet! Earn CME: Reflect on how this Podcast applies to...

It can be very stressful to know that you want more…or less…or something different in your life, but you just haven’t been able to understand or conceptualize just what that looks like for you. On this episode I invite you to reflect on your life in 3 ways: Reflection on your life as it has been Reflection on your life as it currently is Reflection on how your life could be based on your desires And then I guide you through a coaching exercise to help you relieve this stress and gain clarity ...

On this episode I share with you how to combat sleep difficulty when you are changing time zones with travel. It can be a stressful part of your travelling experience when you aren’t getting nourishing sleep which turns into anxiety…and then more bad sleep. Learn the 3 main components that you can adjust accordingly to improve your sleep depending on your direction of travel…if you are traveling east or traveling west. These 3 components are: Daylight Exercise Food Earn CME: Reflect on how th...

On this episode we have the wonderful Dr. Serene Sereef! She is: Trauma Acute Care Surgeon in Virginia Certified Life Coach Founder of SerenityWellnessMD Host of Mindfulness and Productivity Podcast Creator of MAPS: Mindfulness And Productivity Systems Framework She helps high-performing women struggling with burnout and overwhelm take control of their time, mind & energy. She educates through mindfulness and scientific principles of habit building. Earn CME: Reflect on how this Podcast appli...

On this episode I share with you why it is important to actually give yourself permission to feel your painful feelings and emotions no matter how uncomfortable that is for you. Research shows that “what you resist, persists”. Pushing your emotions away actually causes dis-ease and disease. Learn several key effective tools you can use to help you both during the situation and after the situation to prevent you from getting stuck and keep you as healthy and strong as possible! Earn CME: Reflec...

On this episode I share with you a really effective stress relief tool to help you release your evening worries. Did you every notice that you have more worries at night? That for some reason it seems that as you get into bed, your brain is flooded with worrisome thoughts? This flood of worry interrupts your ability to get a good night’s sleep….and then you are exhausted when you awake, which leads to anxiety….and then anxiety makes it hard to sleep…so it is a vicious cycle. And sleep is imperat...

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...