Women Physicians Flourish. A Podcast About Life and Wellbeing

Understanding how our medical culture formed is an important step in unraveling the toxicity that has led to burnout and dissatisfaction, and toward building a sustainable, fulfilling, and joyful profession we can be proud to practice. Using some of the information in this paper on the historical perspective on obstacles to physicians’ emotional health, this week’s podcast episode takes a deep dive into the origins of some of our problems, and some possible solutions. The paper’s author...

This week's podcast episode is taking a dive into two papers studying Self-Valuation behaviors in Physicians. Listen for more on why resilience may not be the panacea for preventing burnout, because physicians already are high in resilience. What we ARE lacking is self-valuation. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work! You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the...

Season 2 New episodes coming soon! Join me for more science, stories, and people who can help us on our journey to flourishing. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work!You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the podcast, and an occasional newsletter!Support the show

Favorite things of 2021! See Transcript here for links!Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work!You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the podcast, and an occasional newsletter!Support the show

The Table - a virtual group course for women physicians is enrolling this week from Monday October 4th  through Thursday October 7th. Learn more:  https://www.rebeccalauderdalemd.com/thetablequestions?  Email me! rebecca@rebeccalauderdalemd.comor DM me on instagram - I'm @dr.lauderdale

Here's the third and final special episode of the Women Physicians Flourish podcast  -  the audio for session 3 of my 3-part live video series on Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians. This session brought everything together into a curriculum for achieving high life satisfaction. A framework you can use for your entire life. 

Special Episode!This is the audio from the first session of the 3-Part live video series  I'm hosting on Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians.This session we focused on some of the areas that are most responsible for the higher level of burnout and lower levels of professional satisfaction for women physicians compared to our colleagues who are men. We went through an evaluation instrument for measuring self-compassion and self-trust, which are necessary parts of overcoming Impostor Syndrome.We did an exercise for Identifying and then deciding how to reduce Invisible Labor, and discussed how this can help alleviate role strain, which is another contributor to burnout that affects women physicians disproportionately. 

Special Episode!This is the audio from the first session of the 3-Part live video series  I'm hosting on Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians.This session we focused on some of the areas that are most responsible for the higher level of burnout and lower levels of professional satisfaction for women physicians compared to our colleagues who are men. We went through an evaluation instrument for measuring self-compassion and self-trust, which are necessary parts of overcoming Impostor Syndrome.We did an exercise for Identifying and then deciding how to reduce Invisible Labor, and discussed how this can help alleviate role strain, which is another contributor to burnout that affects women physicians disproportionately. If you haven't signed up for the series yet, it's not too late!  The third and final session is this Thursday the 30th at 7pm central time. I'll be talking about the importance of meaning and purpose in achieving high life-satisfaction, as well as the details of my upcoming group course that will open for enrollment next week. (I'm never a hard seller, but I think that having a supportive group of women who understand your struggles and work together to help each other grow is one of the most valuable things you can do for yourself, and that's one of the main benefits of this course.) If you can't attend session 3 live, you'll get access to the replays as well as our private facebook group.Another perk to signing up is that you'll get the details for how to participate in the GIVEAWAY! - I've got a box full of books and other fun things I love, for one lucky participant!!you can sign up at https://rebeccalauderdalemd.lpages.co/video2021

Hi friends!This is a special episode! It's the audio from the first session of the 3-Part live video series  I'm hosting on Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians.In this recording, I introduce my 3-part framework for understanding and developing high life satisfaction, and also we do one of my FAVORITE exercises - the Inner Mentor guided meditation. 

Michelle Quirk is a pediatrician, who in the first year of practice, lost her father to cancer. She was jolted by that experience, realizing the many parts of herself she had lost touch with during medical training. She found her way back through running, which she says allowed her time to notice the world around her and to feel connected and embodied in a way she hadn't before. Today, Dr. Quirk continues to practice pediatrics, and is a run coach. She founded Mindful Mar...

Today’s interview is with Dr. Karen Kaufman - she is an allergist/immunologist who started her career in the military, joined a group practice, and then realized she wanted something more than the impersonal, unfulfilling group practice she was in. She made the bold, courageous step to strike out on her own and now has a thriving solo practice in Virginia where she gives patients the type of care she wants to give and is able to practice on her own terms. Dr. Kaufman is a great ...

This week, Dr. Judy Wright! She is a Family Physician with over 15 years of experience, writer, speaker, and co-host of the Queens On Call podcast. Last year she was diagnosed with breast cancer just before the pandemic began, and has undergone a significant personal transformation during this time. In our episode, we talk about transitions, prioritizing joy, and her love for DIY projects! In the intro, Dr. Lauderdale discusses the invisible labor imbalance between women and men physi...

Full Transcript Here Dr. Andrea Staneata is a board certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician and is fellowship trained in interventional spine and pain management, and is now practicing at Cape Fear Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, in North Carolina. She has a compelling story: after medical school and two years of orthopedics residency in Romania, she immigrated with her then husband to the united states by winning a lottery sponsored by the romanian government.&nb...

Dr. Nneka Unachukwu, or Dr. Una as she is endearingly called by her patients and the many doctors she has mentored, is a pediatrician and founder of Ivy League Pediatrics, in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Since founding that practice 11 years ago, she has started many other successful businesses, including teaching physicians the skills of entrepreneurship through her podcast, called EntreMD (short for Entrepreneur MD), and her group teaching program, the EntreMD Business School. She has ...

Dr Diana Mercado is a family physician in Texas, currently serving as clinic medical director at Jackson County Hospital District, and her passion for becoming a physician was born from her experience as the daughter of Mexican immigrant workers. She saw that many immigrants did not seek medical care, and wanted to become a physician so that minority patients would have a doctor who spoke their language and looked like them. Another passion of Diana’s is helping physicians with ADHD.&...

This week, Rebecca interviews Dr. Chrystene Nguyen, who has pioneered an online community of single physicians and other high-level healthcare professionals called White Coat Romance. We talk about her experience transitioning to a new practice after 10 years, overcoming self-doubt, and what it’s like to be a single physician during a pandemic. Dr. Nguyen is a shining example of a physician who is flourishing and you’ll love our conversation, regardless of your relationship stat...

Full Transcript Here This week’s episode features Dr. Alicia Shelly - she is board-certified in Internal medicine as well as Obesity Medicine and practices in the Atlanta metro area. She is also the host of the podcast: Back On Track: Overcoming Weight Regain, where she shares her advice and personal experience to help others with weight regain after significant weight loss including from bariatric surgery. We had a wonderful conversation about her practice of exercise as self-...

This week, Rebecca talks about joy and our tendency to allow "dress rehearsing tragedy" to keep us from feeling joy, and the way to overcome that. She also discusses issues of weight and body image as relates to women physicians and how being vulnerable about struggles with body image and weight can free us from shame about our bodies. This can also help us be good examples to our patients, as people who have self-compassion in dealing with our personal struggles instead of trying...

This week's episode is short and sweet, recorded while my family thought I was packing for vacation! I talk about the "independent woman" archetype and how that can keep us from seeking support - which requires vulnerability, but is essential to letting others see who we are and what we need. Brene Brown's The Gifts of Imperfection Kasia Urbaniak's Unbound and her website. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this wo...

In this episode, Rebecca continues the discussion of evidence-based ways to work with your inner critic - a dysfunctional version of a very normal and healthy process contributed to by our phonological loop. Everything from personifying the critic to the surprising effect of placebos. Rebecca Lauderdale, MD's website and instagram email: rebecca@rebeccalauderdalemd.com Tara Mohr - Playing Big Ethan Kross, PhD - Chatter Brene Brown, PhD - The Gifts of Imperfection Support the podcas...