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Hosts Dr. Nii (Ghanaian) and Dr. Renee (Haitian) are first-generation physicians who paid off $662,000 in student loans in 3 years - while figuring out contracts, career moves, and money management that their colleagues learned at home.
Every episode covers what first-gen docs need to know:
- Contract negotiation and career decisions
- Paying off debt without family financial guidance
- Building wealth from scratch
- The questions you don't know to ask (but your colleagues already knew)
Real strategies from doctors who had to figure it out on their own.
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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Most people can point to one year that changed everything. For me that year was 2012. I finished my trauma surgery fellowship in Miami. Had a contract negotiation go sideways when a trauma director yelled at me over the phone. Called Renee. She said one sentence. And then I went silent. That silence changed my life. In this episode I'm taking you back to 2012 — the year I said yes to everything that scared...
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! A first-year dental student posted a video on Instagram that stopped me cold. He's run out of federal funding. He's run out of private funding. He started a GoFundMe just to stay in school. The culprit: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. And here's why this felt so personal. This didn't happen to me. But it could have. Renee and I both needed private loans AND co-signers to finish our education. Without that ...
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Twenty years after medical school, I went back to Kansas City with Renee and our boys. Walking through the place where it all began brought back memories of my father driving me there from New Jersey, the first time I was rejected from medical school, and the life I could never have planned... In this episode, I’m sharing things I wish I could tell the student I was back then. You’ll hear: → Why getting re...
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! A first year general surgery resident slid into my DMs after our previous episode on how GHANA MADE ME BETTER. She’d been following the show for almost 10 years, and she had one question: “How can I best start preparing for global surgery, especially in places like Ghana?” That question deserved more than a simple reply. It deserved an entire episode. So I’m sharing what I’ve learned from 14 years of human...
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! In just a few days, we leave for Ghana, and this year, our boys are coming with us. This is our 14th year doing humanitarian work at KNUST University Hospital in Kumasi with International Healthcare Volunteers. Before we board that plane, we’re talking about what humanitarian medicine actually looks like. Not the Instagram version. The real version. You’ll hear: What International Healthcare Volunteers act...
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