Welcome back to another meaningful episode of The Physicians and Properties Podcast with your host, Dr. Alex Schloe.
💡 What if the life you dreamed of—the parent you hoped to be, the spouse you wanted to become, the physician you envisioned—can’t be built inside the limits of your current medical schedule?
What if the real path to freedom isn’t time off or a lighter call schedule…
…but cash-flowing assets, ownership, and autonomy?
In today’s episode, Dr. Alex shares the deeply personal story of the night everything changed during residency—a night in the middle of peak COVID when exhaustion, fear, and a single text from his pregnant wife forced him to confront a truth he had never allowed himself to consider. Medicine alone was not enough to build the life he wanted for his family.
This episode is an invitation for physicians to rethink freedom, redefine identity, and reclaim the autonomy they were never taught to build in training.
🔥 What you’ll learn:
- The Night Everything Changed: How a moment of fear during peak COVID uncovered the unsustainable reality of modern medical training—and sparked the search for a different path.
- Your Identity Beyond the White Coat: Why your degree is not your entire identity, and why separating who you are from what you do is essential for long-term joy and fulfillment.
- The Power of Your First Passive Income Check: How a $1,000/month short-term rental fundamentally reshaped Alex’s view of freedom, work, identity, and what was possible for his life.
- The Lie Physicians Are Taught: Why “just work harder and someday it gets easier” is a myth—and how physicians unintentionally sacrifice their health, families, and dreams waiting for a future that never arrives.
- The Three Freedoms Every Physician Needs: Time freedom: Control over your hours. Financial freedom: Income not tied to patient volume. Mental freedom: Space to breathe, dream, and build a life outside the hospital
- Why Real Estate Isn’t an Escape—It’s a Launchpad: How entrepreneurship and investing bring physicians back to the best version of themselves in medicine: more present, healthier, grounded, and fulfilled.
🔥 Key Takeaways:
- Freedom doesn’t come from time—it comes from cash-flowing assets.
- Your first passive income check flips a switch you can never unsee.
- You’re allowed to build a bigger life—without being ungrateful for medicine.
- Burnout isn’t a personal failure; it’s a systems failure.
- Real estate creates options, and options create life.
- Medicine was designed to serve others—not to give you financial freedom.
- You are more than the white coat. More than the stethoscope.
- Your medical degree is not your identity—it’s your launchpad.
- The dream you’re chasing is often hidden inside the work you’ve been avoiding.
- When you reclaim time, financial margin, and mental space, you become the physician—and the person—you always hoped to be.
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