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Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhy Doctors Should Trust Their Longing for More (Even When It Doesn’t Make Sense)Have you ever felt a deep longing for "something more" — a pull you can't explain but also can’t ignore? In this solo episode, Chelsea uses the lyrics of a Disney song to unpack the hidden wisdom inside those vague but persistent yearnings we often silence. If you've ever questioned whether your desire for change is valid — especially when it doesn’t fit a neat plan — this episode will help you finally understand why that longing matters more than you think.You'll learn:Why your longing isn't a problem to fix but a compass to lead the...2025-04-2920 min
Life's Best Medicine PodcastEpisode 242: Dr. Chelsea TurgeonThank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Dr. Chelsea Turgeon is an MD-trained career coach, bestselling author, digital nomad, and host of the Life After Medicine podcast. In 2019 she left the hustle and grind of her OBGYN residency to travel the world and start her own online business. Now she helps healthcare professionals recover from burnout and forge their own unique path to fulfillment. In this episode, Drs. Brian and Chelsea talk about… (00:00) Intro (04:41) Chelsea’s early interest in psychology/medicine and how she became disillusioned with medical school (24:14) How Chelse...2025-03-121h 09
Beyond Chronic Burnout: The Talk Show for Autistic Women & Their Helping Professionals169 - How to Measure Self Care for Freedom & Fulfillment with Dr. Chelsea TurgeonIn this episode of Beyond Chronic Burnout, we sit down with Dr. Chelsea Turgeon, a former OBGYN resident who left the world of medicine in 2019 to create a life of freedom and fulfillment.
Today, Chelsea is a bestselling author, career coach, and digital nomad running a 6-figure business that helps healthcare professionals discover new paths outside the traditional grind.
In our conversation, we dive into how burnout often stems from living and working against your values, and why addressing the deeper wounds—like people-pleasing and perfectionism—can break the cycl...2024-09-1842 min
The Dr. JJ Thomas PodcastEverything You Need to Know About Concussions with Dr. Chelsea TurgeonIn this episode of the Dr. JJ Thomas Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Chelsea Turgeon, our dedicated concussion specialist in Primal Foundations, to break down the different types of concussions, how to identify them, and the unique challenges of treating each type. Dr. Chelsea shares her insights on the evolution of concussion evaluation and management over the past decade and the critical importance of timely intervention and personalized treatment plans for patients who have concussion symptoms. She also tells us rewarding stories about her patients and bits of advice for fellow clinicians on success. This episode will teach...2024-07-3028 min
The Limitless MDStrategies for Overcoming Burnout and Achieving Work-Life Balance With Chelsea Turgeon, MDFeeling exhausted and unfulfilled in your medical career? Do you find yourself constantly trying to meet others' expectations while neglecting your own dreams and desires?In this episode, we sit down with Chelsea Turgeon, MD, a former OBGYN resident who made the bold decision to drop out of residency and forge her own path to happiness and success. Chelsea shares her personal journey of hitting rock bottom with burnout, reconnecting with her true values and strengths, and ultimately finding joy and purpose as a life coach for healthcare professionals.2024-06-0424 min
PA the FI Way130 | Life After Medicine: Interview with Chelsea Turgeon, MDHave you ever thought about monetizing your passions within medicine or without? Have you considered transitioning out of medicine altogether? Or have you ever thought about becoming a digital nomad and traveling the world? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you have to take a listen to this conversation with Chelsea!
Dr. Chelsea Turgeon is an MD trained career coach, bestselling author, digital nomad, and host of the Life After Medicine podcast. In 2019 she left the hustle and grind of her OBGYN residency to travel the world and create a life of freedom. Now, sh...2024-02-2340 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsDay 4: Career Change Strategies for Doctors Facing Burnout that Actually WorksDay 4 of the Diagnose Your Career Unhappiness Podcast Series. Through this series we will pinpoint exactly WHY you are unhappy in your career, so you can figure out your next steps.In this episode, Chelsea shares the difference between mindset work and mindfulness and how it can affect your perspective in your career. You will know the importance of mindfulness before mindset work to understand the root cause of why you are unhappy in your career.Get updates directly to your inbox. Join the Diagnose Your Career Unhappiness Email Course HERE.2024-02-1809 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsLet's Diagnose Your Career Unhappiness - Day 1: Introducing the 8 part FREE audio course for Career Change and BurnoutWelcome to the Diagnose Your Career Unhappiness audio series. This audio series was created specifically for healthcare professionals who want to have more freedom and fulfillment in their careers in 2024.In this episode, Chelsea will help you answer the question, “WHY AM I UNHAPPY in my current career?” We will understand the root cause and identify where you fall on the spectrum of unhappiness to map out your next steps forward.At the end of this series, You are going to have an AHA moment- that says… yupp that’s it. that’s why I’m unhappy...2024-02-1513 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsOfficial Trailer: Life After Medicine with Chelsea TurgeonWelcome to the podcast for healthcare professionals who want to make a difference, make a living and still have the freedom to enjoy their lives.My name is Chelsea Turgeon. My mission is to help you, the frustrated health professional, find your authentic path to helping others and generating stable income without having to sacrifice your own health and happiness in the process.****Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs...2024-01-2004 min
The Metabolism, Muscles, and Mindset Podcast189. Your Career as an Authentic Expression of You with Dr. Chelsea TurgeonYou have permission to create the most authentic expression of you. Yes, even if you feel stuck in your career. And yes, even if you’re ready to shift gears into what you truly want. I’m joined by Dr. Chelsea Turgeon to talk about vulnerability, choosing your authentic self, and what your life after medicine might look like. How to Live With Your Authentic Self Get to the place where you can see your true self. Slowly start to introduce that authentic self to others who can support and appreciate that. Abou...2023-11-2931 min
Career In Technicolor | Find Your Purpose & Design Your Dream JobBlend Your Unique Gifts into a Career on Your Terms with Chelsea Turgeon, MD Do you feel like something is missing in your career and you’re questioning what next step should you take? If so, this conversation with Chelsea Turgeon might be exactly what you need and you’ll walk away with a few ideas on what next steps you can take and questions you can ask yourself to get to the answers that are right for you. Chelsea is a career transformation coach who literally transformed her own career going from medical school and residency to coaching others on how to build fulfilling careers. In this conversation she shares the steps she...2023-09-241h 00
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsIs it Possible to be a Doctor AND a Human with Dr. Sapna Shah-HaqueAfter her best friend from medical school died by suicide in 2019, Dr. Sapna Shah- Haque realized how broken the current medical system is. She became an advocate for supporting mental health and preventing burnout among healthcare professionals. In this episode, we covered a lot of ground, from the pressure to be infallible to creating a supportive culture in the workplace.In this episode, we talk about:the stigmas and barriers to receiving mental health support for healthcare professionalshow to be authentic and embrace your imperfections in a profession that demands you to be infallibletips for creating...2023-07-2033 min
Succeed in MedicineQuitting Medicine? How Dr. Chelsea Turgeon Walked Away from Residency and Found a New PathThis episode is sponsored by PearsonRavitz. Visit www.PearsonRavitz.com today and embark on a journey of safeguarding your future. Dr. Chelsea Turgeon joins Dr. Block in a thought-provoking conversation about her decision to leave her OB/GYN residency and embark on a different path. Driven by a lifelong fascination with psychology and human potential, Dr. Turgeon shares her journey of self-discovery and personal growth. They discuss the challenges of choosing a specialty and the conflicts encountered within the doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Turgeon's story offers insights into the importance of pursuing one's passions and finding f...2023-06-2938 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsFrom Trauma to Triumph: A Journey of Self-Realization with Sanjay GadasalliIn this episode, Dr. Sanjay Gadasalli takes us on an incredible journey from medical school to startup founder to yoga teacher and wellness coach. He shares his insights on the modern healthcare system and how it is incompatible with our primal habits. Sanjay emphasizes the importance of staying true to yourself and finding your inner strength, even in the face of challenges and setbacks.Sanjay shares his insights on the modern healthcare system and how it is incompatible with our primal habits. We also dive into the benefits of being alcohol-free and the power of slowing down2023-06-1550 min
The Worthy PhysicianFrom Scrubs to Suitcases: A Journey of Leaving Medicine for Traveling and Coaching with Dr. Chelsea Turgeon MDSend us a textAre you tired of living your life on someone else's terms? It's time to take control and start living life on your own terms! Do not settle for a life that doesn't fulfill you emotionally, spiritually or financially. The beauty of living life on your own terms is that you get to define what success and happiness mean to you. You can prioritize your passions and create a schedule that works for you. You do not have to follow societal norms or conform to anyone else's expectations. In this ep...2023-05-3126 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow I Overcame Burnout: The HARDEST Parts of My Career Change After MedicineDo you have a nagging voice telling you to pursue something, but fear is holding you back?It's not just about leaving medicine or not leaving medicine; it's about following your longing, following that tug on your heart, following that pull towards something more.In this episode, I talk aboutdealing with haters and judgement and people who just don’t understand your decisionsthe time I fully spiraled out and questioned if leaving medicine was a horrible mistakewhy, even when its HARD and PAINFUL it's so wildly worth it to step out of your co...2023-05-0431 min
The Balanced Medics' Handover PodcastResidency drop out to digital nomad with Dr Chelsea TurgeonThis episode we are lucky to have Dr Chelsea Turgeon here to talk about her amazing journey from O&G trainee (resident) to digital nomad, healthcare career coach, author and podcaster. Chelsea quit training to pursue her own path and now works to help others find their own fulfilment in career and life.
We discuss
External validation
The moment she decided to drop out of residency and bought a one-way ticket to South Korea
Trusting her intuition in becoming a digital nomad
Her burnout, hitting rock bottom, then coming out the other side
How her plan e...2023-04-3033 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsBreaking the Silence on Burnout: How to Speak Up When You Are NOT Okay with Dr. Natasha HolmesThere is a culture of shame and silence when it comes to the mental health struggles of healthcare professionals. We feel that asking for help is a sign of weakness. We tend to keep our problems bottled up inside until things get really bad. In today’s episode Dr. Natasha Holmes, a local pediatric doctor, shares her personal experience of burnout and depression in the medical field. You will learn:How to recognize early symptoms and signs of mental health deteriorationPractical strategies for managing mental healthIdeas for seeking support and communicating about the status of your mental health....2023-04-2746 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow I Overcame Burnout: 3 Pivotal Moments in My Career Change JourneyIf you are feeling run down by the daily grind of life and are longing for more presence and calm in your every day, this episode is for you. I’m sharing in-depth about my personal wellness journey.You’ll learn:the gateway personal growth habit that makes all other changes possiblehow to give yourself permission to rest without guiltthe go-to tool I use for processing my emotions.These 3 wellness practices have fundamentally shifted the way I experience life and I am so excited to share them with you.Join us for the...2023-03-1436 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to STOP Letting Burnout Run Your Life with Dr. Manuela RodriguesDo you ever have that experience where you get to the end of a day, a week or a month and wonder… what actually happened? It’s like the whole thing went by in a blur. Your body was there, but your mind was somewhere else. Your mind is so over active you can’t seem to slow down or stop the thoughts.In today’s podcast episode we are going to hear from Dr. Manuela Rodriguez who is general dentist, meditation teacher and retreat host. You will learnThe consequences of letting your overactive thinking mind run...2023-03-0941 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Navigate a Career Change Without Feeling Like You Are Jumping Off a CliffDoes the idea of changing careers fill you with so much anxiety that it makes you panic and retreat?Even the thought of pivoting into a new career makes you feel lost and disoriented like you are wandering around in the desert with no landmarks.It doesn’t have to be like this. Changing careers doesn’t have to mean jumping off a cliff.In this FB live training, I walk you through the process of creating your OWN map so that you can minimize your fear of the unknown.You don’...2023-03-0442 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhen You've Checked All the Boxes but Still Feel Burned OutHave you ever achieved a goal, but still felt empty afterwards? Do you feel like you’re doing all the things you are “supposed” to be doing to have a successful life and career, but something is still missing?Do you feel like although your life looks good on the outside, you feel discontent on the inside?Why does this happen?In today's episode, I talk about why chasing achievements can leave us feeling emptier and I offer a different approach that we can take instead.** Authen...2023-03-0329 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Beat Burnout and Find Your Purpose When Your Self-Care Routine Isn’t Cutting It with Dr. Shivani BartoThere’s a conundrum I see healthcare professionals getting trapped in. Feeling run down by the daily grind of life and then because they are so exhausted they lack the time and energy to do something about it. Essentially you are too burnt out to manage your burn out.You are trying to “do the things” you are supposed to do to take care of yourself- like yoga, meditation, green juices, but it’s hard to find the time to consistently commit to your own self care.You are absolutely not alone. Way too many...2023-02-0946 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsBeat Doctor Burnout By Fill Your Own Cup First with Dr. Shivani BartoHow can I start turning my passions into my career? What do I do if my dream career doesn't seem to exist? This is exactly what our special guest Dr. Shivani Kamodia Barto discussed in this week's episode.Shivani is a dentist, yoga teacher, and multi-passionate person who knew she was never going to be a traditional dentist. She recently took the leap to leave her clinical practice (temporarily) and go all in on her business creating wellness retreats for women in healthcare. She is a living example of the fact that we can't just sit around...2023-02-0353 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Overcome Fear of the Unknown During a Career Change for Burned-Out DoctorsAre you feeling stuck in a job you don’t love? In my experience, the reason we feel stuck is usually because we are afraid. Afraid to give up the certainty and stability we currently feel to take a giant leap into the unknown. In this episode I talk through:Why we must learn how to deal with and move through our fear of the unknown5 of my favorite tips and practices for moving through this super common fear.I’m so excited for you to listen in!REACH OUT TO CHELSEA:FREE...2023-01-1931 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Navigate Career Change When You’re Burned Out and Unhappy at WorkAre you feeling defeated and profoundly miserable at work? Burnt out and exhausted? Feeling resentful and angry about your life circumstances. You are not alone- and that’s exactly why I recorded this podcast episode.In Today’s episode, I read through 3 different journal entries from when I was in residency in 2018. I dissect what exactly was making me miserable and some of the things I did that helped me start pulling myself out of my self-pity spiral.This episode is going to help you feel seen and understood and give you some tangible steps to g...2022-11-1440 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsLeveraging Telemedicine to Recover From Burnout with Dr. Cherisa SandrowAre you feeling burnt out and exhausted in clinical medicine- but just not sure you can see a path forward into a new career? My guest today Dr. Cherisa Sandrow is a tele health expert who has used telemedicine as a vehicle to transform her whole life and career. She has previously been on the show (episode 30) and today she is coming back to tell us even more about telemedicine. In this episode you will learnStories about healthcare professionals who took back control of their lives through unprecedented contract negotiations.How telemedicine allowed Ch...2022-11-0735 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhy You HAVE to Slow Down and Stop Living on Autopilot to Avoid Burnout with Dr. Cindy TsaiDo you ever feel like you are just going through life on autopilot? Maybe things feel off at work or at home, but you are too busy to actually stop and figure out what’s wrong. Even though you know something isn’t right you keep going because pushing through is all you know. In this podcast episode, our guest Dr. Cindy Tsai talks about why we need to slow down and start listening to our bodies.You’ll learnCindy’s own struggle with powering through until her body forced her to stop.The 3 pil...2022-11-0140 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Redefine Your Medical Career and Find Purpose on Your Own Terms with Dr. Keeyana LockDo you wish you could start a business, write a book or follow a dream, but are waiting for someone else to give you permission? You feel like you need someone else to tell you that you can do it, or that it’s possible before you get started. In this podcast episode, Dr. Keeyana Locke shares her story of giving herself permission and taking her career into her own hands. In this inspiring conversation we cover:How Keeyana came from truly humble beginnings and overcame multiple obstacles on her path to becoming a doctorWhy she ultimately decided to...2022-10-2750 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhat you Need to Burnout Proof Your CareerListen in to learn how aligning your career to your authentic self is a way to burnout proof your life and career. In this episode I talk about the 3 pillars of Authentic Career Alignment my upcoming group program. A 12 week course to help you find a career that's the right fit for YOU based on your personality traits, passions, strengths and desired lifestyle.Our first call will be Tuesday, October 25th, but I will be extending the deadline to enroll until Monday October 31st.Click here to sign up: https://coachchelsmd.com/aca/...2022-10-2420 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsCareer Change From Robotic Healthcare System Worker to Becoming a True Healer with Altynay AbdirakhmanovaAltynay joined one of my group coaching programs in April of this year. Before joining she was working as a general surgery resident dealing with increasing burnout and feelings of emptiness. Although she was working in her dream career, she still felt like something was missing.In this episode we talk about:How a migraine and a visit to an Osteopath helped Altynay release the expectations of others and start living life for herselfHow working in my group coaching program helped her overcome her fears of leaving medicine and charting a clear path forward.Switching from...2022-10-1349 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsThe Secret to Finding a Career Change You'll LOVE!This is another BONUS solo episode all about the importance of self discovery, which is the second pillar of my upcoming group program Authentic Career Alignment.In this episode you will learn about:Why it's important to work WITH your nature and constitution instead of against it.4 modalities of self discovery that have been a complete game changer for me when it comes to ENJOYING my work.What has given me the HUGEST since of relief and helped me understand why I was so unhappy in medicine. Can't wait for you to listen in!2022-10-0629 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsFinding Purpose and Learning to Live for Yourself as an Asian American with Toni LiuDo you ever worry that leaving medicine means “throwing everything away that you worked so hard for?” Do you feel a lot of pressure from your culture or your family to continue down the path of medicine, even though it doesn’t feel right for you anymore?This is exactly the dilemma our guest Dr. Toni Liu, struggled with during her medical career. Toni is a family physician, self-love and relationship coach, and digital nomad who shares with us her story of leaving clinical medicine as an Asian American. During this episode you will learn:How the ex...2022-10-0348 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhy Embracing Yourself is Crucial for a Successful Career Change and Finding Purpose Beyond BurnoutToday is a BONUS solo episode where I chat with you about self acceptance, which is one of the 3 pillars in my upcoming group program Authentic Career Alignment.In this episode you will learn about:My personal struggle with self acceptance (including what felt like my biggest failure during residency)What self acceptance IS and what it IS NOTWhy it's important to accept yourself as you forge a career that's the right fit for you.3 things you can start doing to practice self acceptance today!Can't wait for you to listen in!Life...2022-09-2835 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhy Inner Work is Essential for a Career Change with Julie StroupHow often do you try to hold your breath and power through in your job- even though you feel unhappy? Are you so scared of making a mistake, or getting it wrong when making a career change that you end up doing nothing?In today’s episode, our guest Julie Stroup a trained SLP, share’s her growth mindset approach to careers and how she believes “if it doesn’t work for you, you can change it.”.In this episode you will learn:How to take a more playful and experimental approach to your career, so...2022-09-2637 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow Understanding Your Type Can Aid in Career Change with Erika DaveyHave you heard of the Enneagram? The Enneagram is a personality testing system that allows you to learn more about yourself by understanding your core motivators and fears. Today we have on the podcast, enneagram coach and physician assistant Erika Davey. She is here to tell us how we can use the knowledge of the enneagram to design a life and career we love.For me, as an adventure-seeking type 7, learning about my enneagram type has helped me cultivate daily practices to add more fulfillment and meaning to my life. For our guest Erika, as an overachieving...2022-09-1841 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHere’s Why You Feel So Isolated (and How a Career Change Can Help You Beat Burnout)Do you ever feel like you want to hide under the covers and avoid life? This is how I always used to feel in residency- and recently how I’ve been feeling since my accident. Essentially it’s this feeling of self induced isolation and disconnection, that meditation teacher Tara Brach refers to as “severed belonging”. In today’s episode I talk about….Why we experience severed belongingHow the trauma of working in healthcare during covid likely impacted your nervous systemHow to start downregulating your nervous system so you can move out of survival modeIf you want to lear...2022-09-1225 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsFinding the Courage for a Career Change with No Guarantees"What if it doesn't work out? " This is a common fear I hear from so many people contemplating leaving the medical field. Making any sort of life or career change generally requires you to take a bit of a gamble- to jump, hoping that the net will catch you on the way down. In this podcast episode I share how to take the leap in your career- when there are no guarantees.I share with you....Details of my own personal leap out of medicine.Stories of leaps that my clients have takenThe law of vacuum...2022-09-0543 min
The Career Rx Podcast for Doctors#101 - How to Choose the Right NonClinical Career with Dr. Chelsea TurgeonDo you feel trapped in your medical career? Worried that leaving clinical medicine is basically throwing your degree away? A mindset shift may be just what you need, from physician author and coach, Dr. Chelsea Turgeon. Listen to discover how you can align your career goals with your values. In this episode of The Career Rx we’ll discuss:How Dr. Chelsea Turgeon quit medicine, and now travels the world working remotelyWays to determine your deepest values in life - and what to do with that clarityWhy car...2022-08-3032 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsFollowing Your Curiosity for a Fulfilling Career Change with Dr. John JuricaAre you thinking about pivoting out of clinical medicine, but not sure where to start? In today’s podcast, I interview Dr. John Jurica, founder of the Physician Non-clinical Careers Podcast which has over 250 episodes about various nonclinical careers. In the show, we talk aboutHow following his curiosity. even when it didn’t seem relevant, led him to every next step in his careerSome of the most interesting non-clinical careers he’s witnessed are from actor to advertiser to health care advocateThe biggest mistakes he sees clinicians make as they try to pivot into a non-clinical careerIn t...2022-08-2948 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsThe Cause of Burnout No One Talks AboutToday we are going to talk about a very undocumented and undiscussed cause of burnout. I unpack my ideas around how putting on the mask of professionalism contributes to burnout.You will learn:what it costs to continually stifle your personality for the sake of professionalismwhy do so many of us, especially women and people have color, have imposter syndrome in the medical field?Actual scientific studies around how white lies impact our mental and physical healthWhy authenticity is the key to never burning out in your careerI’m so excited for you to di...2022-08-2231 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsLet’s STOP Normalizing Burnout and Toxicity in Healthcare System with Diana PageBurnout culture and toxic work environments have become the norm in healthcare. It’s gotten to a point where we don’t even recognize how toxic the expectations are because we are so used to being treated poorly. But this is clearly creating working conditions that are not sustainable for most human beings. In this episode, I talk with Diana Page, Nurse Practitioner and founder of Self Care catalysts about her experience leaving a toxic work environment and developing a personal commitment to self-care. In this episode, you will learnWhat it looks like to self-advocate and set boun...2022-08-1550 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Avoid the 3 WORST Mistakes When Facing Burnout in Your Medical CareerToday we’re throwing back to Oct 2018 when I was at my lowest point in residency. That period of time when I was relentlessly unhappy in my career but also felt stuck.So if you are feeling unhappy, unfulfilled and like an empty shell, this episode is going to help you feel seen, heard, and hopeful.You will learn:The 3 worst things you can do when you are feeling unhappy and unfulfilled in your careerThe benefit and beauty of a breakdown (even though it’s scary AF)A special opportunity to work with me 1-1 t...2022-08-0737 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsFrom Doctor to Entrepreneur: Ignite Your Passion and Purpose with Dr. Marjorie StieglerFeeling frustrated by the lack of innovation in healthcare? Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit you’ve been dying to express? Do you have ideas you want to put out in the world but ultimately feel too scared or discouraged just to get started?Entrepreneurship can feel like such a scary and risky path. That’s why I am so excited for today’s podcast convo with Dr. Marjorie Stiegler. We go deep into her back story and dive into how experimentation, boldness, and trial and error ultimately led to her success.You’ll learn:How to...2022-08-011h 01
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow the Healthcare System Uses Guilt to Manipulate Doctors and Fuel BurnoutIs your life being overrun by guilt? Are you feeling guilty about taking a vacation, resigning from a job that no longer serves you, or even just taking an afternoon to yourself? In this episode, I do a deep dive into the emotion of guilt so you can better understand it.I talk about:How the healthcare system uses guilt to manipulate its workers in a very negative wayWhat guilt actually is and what is the message that it carries3 questions you can use to unpack guilt so it’s no longer running your life.Li...2022-07-2534 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsThriving in a Broken Healthcare System and Reclaim Your Confidence to Prevent Burnout with Dr. Jimmy TurnerDo you feel disheartened by the broken medical system? You are fully not alone. The medical is absolutely broken. So many healthcare professionals I know are noticing a loss of personal autonomy and feel a lack of appreciation for the long hours and personal sacrifices they are putting in. And all the failures of the system are adding up to epic rates of moral injury.But what if you could find a way to work within a broken system… without being broken yourself? I know… I was skeptical too. In today’s episode, my guest Dr. Jimmy Turner...2022-07-1852 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsMy Exact Framework for a Career Change and Finding Your PurposeHow do you go about finding your purpose? Like…. what are the exact steps? In this BONUS episode I am going to walk you through my exact framework for helping clients uncover their purpose. And the best part is…. I’m making this framework available for a super accessible price point in my newest program Pathway to Purpose.In this episode I am going to talk about how enrolling in this program can help you find a career that is the right fit for YOU personally.You will learn:The three types of peopl...2022-07-1434 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsCreating a Career Outside the Box and Beat Burnout with “OTs Gone Rogue”Have you ever scrolled through a list of job descriptions- and felt really disheartened- because it seemed like there were no good options. Nothing really jumped out at you as a great fit. This podcast episode will show you how to stop waiting for the perfect job to come around- and actually, go out and create it yourself. Melissa La Pointe- founder of the OTs Gone Rogue podcast and community- has been a trailblazer and serial entrepreneur from the start of her career as an occupational therapist. In this episode, you will learnHow she successfully petitioned the...2022-07-1051 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to AVOID Making the WRONG Career Decision when Facing BurnoutHave you ever been at a career crossroads and just agonizing over a decision. You're unhappy in your current situation, but you also are afraid to change it up. You don’t want to make the wrong decision and regret it. What if you walk away from your job and you are giving up a really good thing? What if you stay in your job, and you live out this burnt out, unfulfilled, miserable life.You are so worried about getting it wrong, that you end up paralyzed with indecision. In this week's epis...2022-07-0326 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsBurned Out Doctor Finds Healing Through AyurvedaAre you wildly frustrated with the healthcare system and its lack of emphasis on TRUE health and well-being? Did you enter medicine because you thought you could really make a difference and help people, only to slowly and painfully realize, it’s just not possible within the current system?My guest this week Dr. Siri Chand Khalsa- struggled with this exact same disappointment. After 20 years of practicing medicine in the traditional setting, trying to innovate from the inside, she finally hit a breaking point and left corporate medicine to pursue alternative healing modalities.In this ep...2022-06-2649 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsBe Brave Enough to Forge Your Own Path: How a Career Change Can Help You Find Your Purpose with #1 Female Travel Blogger Kristin AddisHave you ever wanted to quit your job and travel the world- but then immediately dismissed it as a pipe dream.Have you checked all the boxes of a successful career, great salary, but still feel empty inside- like something is missing?In this episode, I interview Kristin Addis, of Be My Travel Muse. She is one of the world’s TOP solo female travel bloggers and was my personal inspiration for leaving medicine to follow my dreams.In this episode you will learn:The story behind Be My Travel Muse, and wh...2022-06-2039 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhen YOU Become The Patient: Important Life Update About My Recent AccidentIt’s the life update you’ve been waiting for! In this week’s podcast episode I sit down and chat with you to share all the details about my recent accident.I talk about….How I fractured my pelvis and broke my ankleThe emotional low point that I hit in the hospitalThe story behind how I sent some tweets and got a visit from the hospital COOWhat’s ahead in the next 8-12 weeks of my recovery as I learn to walk again.Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical ca...2022-06-1341 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow Career Change Can Help You Find Your PurposeIs your day job supposed to be your purpose? Are you supposed to have this one thing that you love so much (and are so good at) that you make your living from it? Should that be the goal?Do you ever see quotes on Instagram that say things like “Make your career your passion and you’ll never work a day in your life”? Do you get frustrated by the idea that you are supposed to be living out your purpose, but you can’t seem to figure out what that is?In today’s podcast...2022-05-3040 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsMindset Shifts Doctors Must Make to Prevent Burnout with Dr. Megan MeloIt’s a hard truth, but our brains tend to get in the way of our success and happiness. Most of us have these unhelpful loops of thought that play over and over again in our mind. Thoughts like “I’m so stressed out. I’m so overwhelmed.” These thoughts can actually create an unwanted identity and shape our behavior in ways that don’t serve us. In this podcast episode, with the help of Dr. Megan Melo, a certified life coach, and host of the podcast “Ending Physician Overwhelm” we take an honest look at your mindset and how it’...2022-05-2240 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For Doctors3 Types of Overwhelm You May Experience When Making a Career Change (and how to overcome them)Do you feel like you are hitting a wall with your career transition? Are you trying to pivot out of clinical medicine but are at a bit of a standstill. Maybe you feel overwhelmed by the number of alternative career choices and don’t know where to start. Maybe you just don’t have the time or energy to deal with the logistics of making a career change when you have a full time job.In this episode I share with you 3 types of overwhelm you may be experiencing when it comes to making a career change, plus...2022-05-1529 min
Ending Physician OverwhelmResidency Drop-out with special guest, Dr Chelsea TurgeonSend us a textIn today’s episode I am speaking with Dr Chelsea Turgeon, author of the #1 Bestselling book, “Residency Drop Out,” and a Career and Burnout Coach for healthcare workers seeking fulfillment and happiness in their careers. Through pivoting to writing and coaching, Chelsea has been able to become a digital nomad, and speaks to us today from Equador. To find out more about Chelsea and her upcoming program, 5 Days to Career Clarity, head to https://coachchelsmd.com/clarity/. You’ll also find her on Instagram @coachchelsmd, on Facebook as Chelsea Turgeon MD, and on Li...2022-05-1027 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsBeating Burnout Living as a Healthcare Hero with Dr. Emily Silverman As a healthcare worker, have you ever made a mistake and literally wanted to die, or at least run away and hide? Do you have this vision in your head of what the ideal doctor, nurse, pharmacist, physician assistant, is supposed to be like? This infallible, all knowing being who never gets sick and never gets a diagnosis or treatment plan wrong?Do you feel like, when you have your white coat or your scrubs on that you are not allowed to be a human?In medicine there is SO much pressure to liv...2022-05-0845 min
Friends of FranzLife After Medicine with Dr. Chelsea TurgeonHave you ever felt like you were stuck in someplace that you did not want to be in? Have you ever thought that you needed to escape a situation that you were deep into but afraid of the unknown next steps? Have you ever envisioned a different life than what you are living now? Have you ever felt unhappy with the choices in life that you have made thus far and wanted to start all over again but were afraid of what others would say about you? And if not others...what would you feel about yourself? For so...2022-05-0236 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsUnderstanding the Root Cause of Your Burnout to Move Forward with Dr. Andrew TisserAre you feeling unhappy in your clinical job but also don’t have the time or energy to figure out what’s next? Often times the demands of clinical medicine require us to work so many hours that we don’t really have a moment to stop, breathe and do the soul searching required to figure out next career steps. In this weeks episode. Dr. Andrew Tisser, offers a practical solution to this dilemma.He discusses how you can use the art of negotiation to buy down your clinical hours, maintain your salary and improve your quality of lif...2022-05-0233 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsStop Caring What Your Medical Career is 'Supposed to' Look Like and Find Your Purpose with Karen CalcañoAre you so focused on appearing successful to other people that you ignore your own needs? Are you more worried about what your life looks like on the outside than what it feels like on the inside?My guest this week, Karen Calcaño CT Surgical PA, Blogger, and Coach, shines an honest light on the lie we are fed about “work-life balance” and the REALITIES of living out work-life integration.In this episode you will learn:Karen’s decompensation in the CV ICU made her re-evaluate her life.How to be a ruthless steward...2022-04-2546 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Make a Career Change for LESS Hustle and MORE HappinessHave you ever achieved EXACTLY what you thought you wanted, but then experienced this sense of profound emptiness. Do you feel like you are caught in this vicious cycle where you are constantly chasing the next goal or the next achievement... but it never feels like it's enough?In this episode you are going to learn:WHY chasing all your achievements and accolades is actually making you feel EMPTIER and LESS FULFILLEDThe actual metric you need to use when you are setting goalsThe key shift you need to make to experience less hustle and m...2022-04-1727 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsRetooling Yourself and Exploring Non Clinical Jobs for Physicians with Dr. UnaDo you feel like your expectations of medicine don’t line up with the reality of what it’s become? Are you disillusioned with the medical field in general? Many of us started working in healthcare with idealistic hearts and high hopes of helping people, but the inefficiencies and barriers in the current medical system can cause burnout among even the most dedicated clinicians.My guest Dr. Una, best selling author of the Entre MD method and founder of Entre MD, has a solution for us.In 2016 she had an “aha moment” that medicine...2022-04-1058 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHere's How to STOP Feeling Indecisive About Your Career ChangeAre you struggling with indecision? In my experience- the indecision phase happens when you are unhappy in your career, but don't know what to do about it. Your mind keeps swirling around in a constant back and forth trying to weigh the pros and cons of the different options. You are over thinking and overanalyzing without making any real forward progress.Going through that mental battle is painful, exhausting and keeps you stuck.Today in this solo episode I unpack what is at the root of that indecision. You'll learn:Why you a...2022-04-0330 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow Ignoring and Suppressing Your Desires Contributes to BurnoutHave you struggled with answering that question- what do I want?Are you drawing a complete blank? Stuck on "I don't know..."You are not alone in this. Answering the question "what do I want?" is soooo challenging for so many of us, and in this BONUS episode I discuss WHY.In the episode I share:How most of us suppress our true desires in favor of what we "should" be doingThe consequences of continuously ignoring and suppressing our desires over time.Powerful questions you can ask yourself if you are stuck o...2022-03-3023 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsThe Truth About Burnout and Workaholism with Dr. Errin WeismanIf you are feeling like you've hit a wall of burnout and wondering... "is this it?" "Is this the career that I've spent so much time and energy training for? "If you are feeling disillusioned with your life and career and wondering what the heck to do about it.... you are not alone, and this episode is perfect for you.I interview Dr. Errin Weisman, podcaster, burnout coach and family medicine doctor about her journey from feeling burnt out and hopeless in 2014, to now crafting a life and career that she doesn't need a vacation...2022-03-2853 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For Doctors5 Steps to a Career Change and Finding Your PurposeFeeling dread about going into work everyday? Wondering if you can really keep working in healthcare for another 10 years?Wanting to make some sort of change but don't know where to start?It's time to STOP feeling lost and overwhelmed and finally have clarity on your next steps.In this podcast episode I walk you through 5 simple steps you can take to figure out what you want in your career.This is based on a FREE mini course I've created called 5 Days to Career Clarity which you can download here: https://c...2022-03-2035 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Set Healthy Boundaries for Burned Out Doctors with Dr. Maryna MammolitiIf you struggle with saying YES all the time (even when you want to say no!)If you are feeling resentful that your work is taking over your life.If you wish you could have better work life balance. This podcast episode is especially for you.On this weeks episode of the Life After Medicine podcast I interview Dr. Maryna Mammoliti, Canadian trained psychiatrist and leadership and boundaries coach. Dr. Mammoliti is an expert on boundaries and is literally writing the book right now on how to create healthy b...2022-03-1347 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Prepare for a Career ChangeIf you are starting to have fantasies about jumping in your car, driving away and never coming back.If you are feeling jealous of your patients who are sick.... because at least they get to rest.If you don't have the time or energy to practice self care- and you get frustrated when people even suggest it.This episode is for YOU.You are at a low point of burnout and feeling hopeless and trapped with no way out. There is ONE thing you absolutely need to do that will help...2022-03-0932 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsDesigning a Flexible Career Change to Fit Your Lifestyle with Dr. Cherisa SandrowAre you sick of being trapped in a healthcare career with rigid hours? Do you crave the flexibility to rearrange your schedule last minute to take care of yourself of your family’s needs? Do you wish you had the freedom to work from a coffee shop or go on a run in the middle of the day?Our guest this week, Dr. Cherisa Sandrow, has created this exact set up for herself. She was working as a busy family physician with a concentration in OB when she realized the lifestyle was not sustainable. ...2022-02-2744 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhy Finances Play A Role in Contributing to Burnout with Dr. Jessica LouieHave you been spending your life racing to the finish line? Always trying to get to the next goal or benchmark. Thinking things will be better when.... you graduate, you get to that next phase in your training, or you hit that next income or savings goal?The problem with living for the finish line is... it never truly arrives.In this incredible episode, Dr. Jessica Louie, pharmacist you-tuber and host of The Burnout Doctor podcast share her own journey with this. She went from being burnt out and in-debt at the end o...2022-02-2047 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For Doctors5 Reasons You Can't Find a Career Change That Aligns with Your PurposeWould you love to enjoy your work, make decent income, AND have a good personal life outside of work... but it just doesn't seem possible. Why does it feel so out of reach? What is really standing in the way of you finding work you enjoy?What if the only thing standing between you and career happiness is a set of limiting beliefs and mental stories?In this weeks episode I go into:How your belief in what's possible influences your results and outcomes.Five of the most common limiting stories I h...2022-02-1333 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow Not Doing Fulfilling Work Contributes to Physician Burnout and Stifles Career ChangeThis episode is based on one of my favorite Brene Brown quotes:"Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out it's not merely benign or too bad if we don't use the gifts that we've been given. We pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being."During this episode I talk aboutThe consequences of not doing fulfilling workReleasing the pressure to monetize every hobbyQuestions you can ask to start exploring your gifts and talentsHelpful mindsets to adopt on your path to fulfillmentLife After Medicine...2022-02-0721 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhat it Really Takes to Overcome Physician Burnout and Find Your Purpose with Dr. Matthea RenteaDo you feel like you try to contort yourself to fit into the box of what an “ideal healthcare professional" should be?You tell yourself that you should be able to see patients more quickly, be more efficient in your documentation, and that you shouldn’t feel so stressed out and tired at the end of the day.This week’s guest Dr. Matthea Rentea kept trying to force herself into the mold of what the ideal physician should be. She felt silly being so burnt out when she was only a few years into her cl...2022-01-3144 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsHow to Cultivate a Beginner's Mindset for a Career Change: Embracing Imperfection While Finding Your Purpose with Dr. Kricia PalmerDo you think of yourself as a creative person? Do you ever feel an urge to draw, paint, write or start playing music, but immediately start to second guess yourself?Our guest this week, Dr. Kricia Palmer was always a creative kid growing up. She started off college majoring in dance and dreamed of being a dancer, but ultimately chose to pursue medicine instead.As early as residency, she realized that something didn't feel quite right in her medical career. She felt a pull to be more creative and started to fall in love with...2022-01-2352 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsWhen the Burnout Is Too Much: A Guide for Doctors Seeking a Career Change and Finding PurposeHave you ever had a panic attack? That acute feeling of terror that something is horribly wrong. A sense of impending doom, that any moment now you could just drop dead.I had my first panic attack during the first semester of medical school and have continued to experience them ever since (even to this day).In this episode I share with you...My personal experience coping with panic attacksWhat panic attacks are and why they occurHow I approached my panic attacks while I was working in medicine, and what I do differently now...2022-01-1639 min
Life After Medicine: How To Make a Career Change, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For DoctorsCreating a Balanced Life: A Guide to Career Change and Finding Purpose for Doctors with Dr. Dawn BakerHave you ever found yourself caught up on the treadmill of achievement?Where you are constantly chasing down the next goal, comparing yourself to others and living your life for other people’s approval.During her anesthesia residency, Dr. Dawn Baker was unintentionally caught up in this treadmill of achievement. She was working long hours and preparing herself for a competitive fellowship, until she started experiencing a host of non-specific symptoms that culminated in a scary diagnosis and a surgery.Getting sick was the wake up call that she needed to jolt her of...2022-01-0947 min