Audacious Women Doctors

Are you a woman doctor who knows you want more, but you’ve convinced yourself your messy life disqualifies you from going after it? Then this one’s for you.

This is the very first episode of Audacious Women Doctors. I rebranded from Dr. Kimmy Unplugged, and in this episode I’m introducing you to The MORE Method, my free, step-by-step training for women doctors who want to build businesses, step into leadership, grow a personal brand, and design a life on their own terms.

We’re going straight at the #1 mindset trap I see holding women doctors back: the belief that you have to clean up your mess before you’re allowed to chase your dreams. I’m sharing my own story, from getting fired from a leadership position in 2017 to building a seven-figure business, all while navigating undiagnosed ADHD, high-functioning autism, and a life that is nowhere near perfect.

If you’ve been circling an idea, waiting for the “right time,” or telling yourself you’ll start once things calm down, consider this your call to action.

What I want you to walk away with

• Your mess does not disqualify you from more. You don’t need a perfectly organized life, an empty inbox, or a flawless schedule to build the business or step into the role.
• Name it first. The first step to creating your MORE life is naming exactly what you want, out loud or on paper. If you can’t say it to yourself, you can’t create it.
• Ask, “What if it does work?” Stop defaulting to the worst case. Make your brain picture the full, successful version of what you’re building.
• Courage doesn’t feel good. It feels scary every single time. That discomfort isn’t a stop sign. It’s confirmation you’re on the right path.
• This is not about productivity. The MORE Method is not a new planner or calendar system. It’s how you create your MORE life with a messy brain, a messy life, and everything else you’ve got going on.
• Feel everything and keep going. Resilience isn’t pretending the setback doesn’t hurt. It’s feeling the frustration, taking the break if you need it, and coming back stronger.

Episode highlights

[0:00] Welcome to Audacious Women Doctors, and why I rebranded from Dr. Kimmy Unplugged
 [0:59] How audacity saved my life, and why this podcast had to carry that energy
 [2:17] Who this is for: the woman doctor who sees the vision but keeps saying “one day”
 [4:29] Action step #1: pause the episode and write down or say out loud your MORE life vision
 [7:39] Why courage feels terrible (and anyone who says otherwise hasn’t done it)
 [8:36] Action step #2: push past the small version of your dream. What if it actually works?
 [10:18] The belief underneath your hesitation: “My mess disqualifies me from more”
 [11:58] My 2017 story: getting fired from a leadership position and trying to “clean up” before chasing more
 [12:58] The truth: a seven-figure business, textbook chapters, keynotes, all created with the mess still there
 [16:18] Real talk: my recording failed mid-episode, and here’s how I handled it
 [19:51] Why planners, calendars, and time-blocking are not the answer
 [21:20] Introducing The MORE Method, my free training for women doctors
 [22:47] Go to audaciouswomendoctors.com to get the free MORE Method training

Resources and links

• The MORE Method (free training): audaciouswomendoctors.com
• TikTok: follow me for more on audacity, women in medicine, and building a business with a messy brain
• Previous podcast: [see note below] (now Audacious Women Doctors)

Who this episode is for

You, if you’re a woman doctor (attending, resident, fellow) who:

• Wants to start a coaching business, consulting practice, or side hustle
• Dreams of stepping into leadership or launching a new initiative
• Has a vision for a personal brand, keynote speaking, or brand partnerships
• Feels stuck because life is chaotic, messy, or overwhelming
• Has been diagnosed with or suspects ADHD or neurodivergence
• Is tired of waiting for the “perfect time” to start

About the podcast

Audacious Women Doctors is the podcast for women doctors who want more: more impact, more income, more freedom, more alignment. I’m Dr. Kimmy, a physician, entrepreneur, and seven-figure business owner, and this show is for the woman doctor who’s ready to build her dream life with her mess, not in spite of it. New episodes every week.

Ready to create your MORE life?

Go to audaciouswomendoctors.com and sign up for The MORE Method. It’s completely free, and it walks you through the exact steps to build your MORE life. And when you get to the end of the training, there’s something special waiting for you.

Keywords and tags

women doctors, women physicians, female physicians, doctor entrepreneurship, women in medicine, ADHD in physicians, neurodivergent doctors, physician burnout, physician career change, women doctor podcast, doctor coaching business, physician side hustle, women physician leadership, doctor mindset, audacity, MORE Method, Dr. Kimmy, Audacious Women Doctors, physician personal brand, women doctors building businesses

Big Life Updates: I'm Back in Medicine, My Business Is Changing, and So Is This Podcast

Y'all. A LOT is happening over here. 😂

For the first time in over five years, I'm back in scrubs. Yep. I'm returning to clinical medicine.

And here's the interesting part. I'm doing it even though I don't fully trust myself to manage some of the very things I struggled with before.

The charting. The inbox. The administrative stuff that used to make me feel like I was failing every single day.

My ADHD brain hasn't magically transformed into a brain that loves those things. And I've stopped requiring it to.

Because one of the biggest shifts I've made in my life is realizing that I don't have to master the mundane parts of my life before I'm allowed to pursue something bigger.

But that's just ONE of the updates.

I'm also sharing what's happening inside The Doctor Coach School, why my work with women doctors is expanding beyond business coaching, and what I'm seeing as my clients begin making some pretty audacious decisions about their lives.

And speaking of audacity...

I'm changing the name of this podcast. Yes, already. 😑

Dr. Kimmy Unplugged is becoming Audacious Women Doctors: Brilliant Docs. Messy Brains. Big Lives.

I'm sharing why this name has been years in the making, what it means for the direction of the podcast, and a sneak peek at the brand-new free course I've been working on.

Things are changing. Things are a little messy. And I'm bringing you along for all of it.

Peace and love, y'all.

What happens when your fear of rejection is so deeply buried that you don't even realize it's controlling your decisions?

In 2023, I experienced a painful rejection from a community of women I had dedicated my business to serving. I thought I had processed it. I thought I had moved on.

I hadn't.

Over the next two years, I slowly began disappearing from my own business. I stopped sharing my perspective, pulled back from the platforms where my voice resonated most, and made a series of seemingly strategic business decisions that were actually protecting me from the possibility of being rejected again.

And I had absolutely no idea I was doing it.

As a late-diagnosed woman with ADHD, I've spent much of my life navigating rejection, misunderstanding, and the exhausting experience of feeling like I'm always getting something wrong. But what I didn't recognize was how deeply my fear of rejection had shaped my visibility, marketing, and leadership as an entrepreneur.

In this vulnerable episode of Dr. Kimmy Unplugged, I'm sharing how rejection sensitivity affected my business, how my brain disguised avoidance as strategy, and what happened when I finally recognized that I'd been hiding in plain sight.

But there's something different about this episode.

I'm not just talking about overcoming the fear of rejection. I'm actively confronting it while recording.

For the first time in years, I went live on Facebook, the very platform where I experienced the rejection that sent me into hiding.

I didn't want to do it. I was nervous. I had butterflies in my stomach. And I did it anyway.

Not because the fear was gone, but because I'm learning that I can experience uncomfortable emotions without allowing them to determine what I do next.

In this episode, we're talking about:

• How rejection sensitivity can affect women with ADHD, particularly late-diagnosed and neurodivergent women
• The lifelong experience of being misunderstood, rejected, or feeling different
• How childhood rejection can influence the way we navigate visibility and relationships as adults
• Why self-awareness doesn't always protect us from emotional avoidance
• How my fear of rejection disguised itself as reasonable business and marketing decisions
• The hidden connection between rejection sensitivity, self-sabotage, and entrepreneurial burnout
• Why I slowly removed myself from my own brand, even during my most successful revenue year
• What it looks like to stop avoiding negative emotions and take action while still feeling afraid
• How I'm rebuilding self-trust and learning to show up authentically as a neurodivergent entrepreneur

Here's what I want you to consider:

Sometimes the decisions that seem the most logical are actually the ones keeping us safe from emotions we don't want to experience.

And sometimes, the reason we're not moving forward isn't that we need a better strategy, more discipline, or another productivity system.

Sometimes, we're hiding.

The work isn't necessarily to eliminate the fear of rejection. It's learning to experience rejection, disappointment, embarrassment, and vulnerability without abandoning ourselves or the lives we want to create.

I'm still doing that work.

And in this episode, you get to hear me doing it in real time.

You don't have to stop being afraid to stop hiding.

Welcome to Dr. Kimmy Unplugged, where we're building big, expansive lives with messy brains.

What if the answer to feeling overwhelmed, burned out, and constantly behind isn't doing less—but daring to want more?

For years, I was a high-achieving physician with undiagnosed ADHD, struggling with executive dysfunction, procrastination, and the exhausting feeling that I was failing at everyday life. I had big ideas, enormous potential, and a brain that seemed determined to make everything harder.

So I did what most of us with messy brains do: I tried to manage the mess. Better planners. More discipline. More productivity strategies.

But the more I focused on managing my life, the smaller my life became.

Today, I'm celebrating something I never imagined I'd see: 199.2 pounds on the scale for the first time in my adult life. That's nearly 180 pounds lost from my highest weight.

And while I'm absolutely celebrating that number, this episode isn't really about weight loss.

It's about the transformation that happened when I stopped trying to make myself smaller and started pursuing a bigger life.

In this deeply personal episode of Dr. Kimmy Unplugged, I'm sharing how I went from a burned-out physician who couldn't get out of bed without hitting snooze six times to building a multiple six-figure coaching business, publishing, speaking, and showing up for my dreams—even before I knew I had ADHD.

Not because I finally mastered productivity.

Because I started building self-trust through action and gave myself permission to want more.

In this episode, we're talking about:

• Why traditional productivity advice often misses the mark for high-achieving women with ADHD and executive dysfunction
• The difference between managing your life and actually living it
• How small actions helped me rebuild self-trust and change what I believed about myself
• Why desire can be more powerful than discipline when you're building a life with a messy brain
• What nearly 180 pounds of weight loss taught me about identity, personal growth, and choosing myself
• How I built a successful business while living with undiagnosed ADHD
• Why being overwhelmed doesn't automatically mean your dreams need to get smaller
• How to stop fighting your messy brain and start pursuing the life you actually want

Here's what I want you to remember:

Your life doesn't have to be perfectly organized before you pursue something extraordinary.

You don't have to eliminate procrastination, master executive functioning, or become a completely different person before you start.

You can build self-trust, pursue ambitious goals, and create a beautiful, expansive life—even when the journey is messy.

The mess of your life does not invalidate your genius.

So here's my question for you: What would you pursue if you stopped waiting to get your life together first?

Welcome to Dr. Kimmy Unplugged. We're building big lives with messy brains.

You’re a doctor. You’re neurodivergent (or think you might be).

And you want more.

You want the big life. The audacious goal. The business, the leadership, the creative work, the next thing you keep thinking about even when part of you is trying to convince yourself that maybe you should just be satisfied with what you already have.

But your brain is…messy.

And sometimes it feels like there are only two rooms available to you.

There’s the room full of high-achieving doctors and entrepreneurs doing big things—setting huge goals, executing, building, creating—and you leave inspired as hell…until you get dropped back into your actual life. The unread emails. The unfinished projects. The notes you’re behind on. The fact that you forgot to eat. Again.

And suddenly you’re wondering if maybe you just don’t have the capacity they have.

Then there’s the other room.

The room where neurodivergent people actually understand your brain. Where your limitations are acknowledged. Where we talk about accommodations, executive dysfunction, fluctuating capacity, and how exhausting it can be to function in systems that weren’t built for us.

And that room can feel like a relief.

Until you realize you’re still sitting there wanting more.

So now what?

Because I don’t want to pretend my limitations aren’t real in order to chase my desires.

But I also refuse to sacrifice my desires because my limitations are real.

In this episode, I’m talking about what it feels like to be a neurodivergent doctor stuck between those two worlds—and the third option I’ve had to create for myself.

My capacity can be dynamic.

My desire can stay static.

I can honor what my brain and body are actually available for today without putting the life I want back up for negotiation every time my capacity changes.

I can keep the desire and negotiate the method.

If you’re a neurodivergent doctor with a messy brain who still wants a big, expansive life, this episode is for you.

I recorded this one in the car, driving home from my first day back in a hospital in five years.

Today was new employee orientation. Badge photo, trainings, paperwork — and a lecture from a woman in an office about how far behind I am. I'm credentialing at three healthcare systems right now, and paperwork is my kryptonite. It always has been. The difference is that this time I know why.

So this episode is me going back over the last time I went through credentialing — at my first attending job, undiagnosed — and the phone call from the chair of my department that started my career off feeling like a failure on day one. "I have a question for you." Six words. Then: "Don't you want to make money for your family?"

I'm talking about what it does to a high achiever to be treated that way while you're already beating yourself up harder than anyone else could. And I'm talking about what was different today: I felt the embarrassment in my body, and I still kept my dignity.

In this episode:

• Why easy things — paperwork, email, forms — darn near take us out
• The difference between executive dysfunction and being lazy
• The chair's phone call, and what it costs to lash in instead of lash out
• Being clinically excellent and still behind on documentation
• What I have now that I didn't have then: a diagnosis, a therapist, medication, a husband who gets it
• Being her and becoming her at the same time — and why you have to do both

I'm in the thick of the return. Proud of myself and scared out of my mind. Both.

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I almost did not record this episode.

I tried three times.

The first time, I recorded for an entire hour before realizing there was no audio. The next attempt disappeared too. Then, while trying to prepare myself to record AGAIN, I asked an AI app to summarize my last episode.

It gave me the summary.

And then it gave me an unsolicited critique.

Y'all. 😑

Within minutes, I went from being ready to record to crying, arguing with an AI app, and wanting to shut my computer and go to bed.

And then I realized something.

This is the episode.

Because what happened to me that night was a tiny version of what happened to my business over the course of two and a half years.

In 2023, I found out that a group of Black women physicians were saying negative things about me online.

It hurt.

BAD.

But I had a business to run. A launch coming. Money to make. So I got coached, cried, talked about it publicly, and kept moving.

I thought I had moved through it.

I had not.

My brain had quietly made a calculation:

Visibility + vulnerability = rejection.

Rejection = pain.

So the obvious solution was to reduce my visibility.

Except my brain was smart enough not to say, "Kimmy, we're scared, so let's hide."

I would have caught that.

Instead, my fear put on a blazer and created a strategic plan. 😂

Let's adjust the messaging.

Let's make the brand more professional.

Let's talk more about the frameworks and less about me.

Let's let the company speak for itself.

It all sounded reasonable.

Meanwhile, I was slowly disappearing inside the company I built.

And the wildest part?

The business kept growing.

The next year was our biggest revenue year ever.

So I had no idea that the very strategy protecting me from rejection was also slowly choking my business.

By 2025, I was ready to close the company.

It took me two and a half years to finally see what happened.

They rejected me.

Then I rejected me.

That is what this episode is about.

I am taking you inside what rejection looked like in my brain and body, how fear disguised itself as perfectly reasonable business strategy, and how I slowly took a dream I still wanted away from myself because pursuing it had become too painful.

And I want you to look at your own life while you listen.

That leadership position you stopped pursuing.

That paper you never submitted again.

That business you keep saying you will start "when the timing is better."

That idea you quietly stopped talking about.

That dream you swear you do not want anymore.

When did you stop wanting it?

What happened right before that?

Did your desire actually change?

Or did your brain decide that pursuing it had become too expensive?

I am rebuilding differently now.

Not because rejection does not hurt me anymore.

It does.

The difference is that rejection can hurt me without getting decision-making authority in my life.

Other people are allowed to reject me.

I am no longer willing to join them.

You know you're brilliant. That was never the question.

The question is why your life doesn't look like it yet.

In this episode, I'm talking about the gap. The one between the vision you have for yourself, the leader you know you're meant to be, the things you know you're capable of creating, and the way you're actually showing up right now. The unfinished projects. The broken promises to yourself. The snooze button you hit six times before your feet touch the floor. The track record that says one thing while your mind says another.

I'm sharing how I lived in that gap for years, how I tried to fix it by doing more, organizing more, planning more, and how none of that worked. What actually changed everything was learning how to believe differently. Not affirmations on sticky notes. Real beliefs, built through small actions, until my brain couldn't argue with the evidence anymore.

I'm also getting honest about what happened when rejection hit me at a level I didn't even know I was carrying, how I slowly started hiding in my own company, and how I almost shut the whole thing down three weeks before everything turned around.

If you're a physician who knows exactly who she wants to be but can't figure out why she's not being her yet, this one is for you.

In this episode:

Why the gap between your vision and your reality isn't a discipline problem

The difference between self-esteem and self-trust (and why you have one but not the other)

Why affirmations fail when your actions don't match

How I went from "the chick who can't do her billing" to keynotes, publications, and a promotion

What rejection-sensitive dysphoria actually looks like when you don't know you have ADHD

The moment I almost closed my company and called it "purpose"

Why sitting in the gap is the first step every single time

Before there was a business, there was a woman who felt like a hot mess every single day. In this episode I go all the way back to the beginning: pediatric hospital medicine, award-winning teaching evaluations, and an inbox, a billing queue, and a life I could not stay on top of. I didn't know I had ADHD. I just thought I was lazy. I used to say I was triple board certified — pediatrics, pediatric hospital medicine, and being a hot mess.

Then things went from bad to worse. I got pregnant, my mother got sick, and a year and a half later she was gone. Cleaning out her house after the funeral, I found a manila envelope with her handwriting inside — an entire book she had written by hand more than twenty years earlier and never told a single soul about. Sitting on her floor with that book in my hands, I said out loud, "I want to live a life of purpose." I share what happened next, which was not the manifestation story you're expecting: I got fired from a leadership position, I papered my office in affirmations that did absolutely nothing, and in December 2017 I hit my actual rock bottom.

This is also the episode where things turn. Therapy. A Mel Robbins video on my thirty-sixth birthday. The morning I stopped saying "5, 4, 3, 2, 1" and started saying "I can do hard things" — and the realization that changed everything: my brain is not broken, it's different, and it needs different support. I'll take you through what that belief shift unlocked (the textbook chapter, the keynote, the leadership roles) and end with the day I got called into the chair's office and, voice shaking, named racism out loud to the most powerful person in my department — and got an apology.

This is part one. Next episode: building the company, scaling it, and how I almost burned the whole thing down.

Chapters
01:10 — Triple board certified in being a hot mess
06:51 — The book my mother wrote by hand and never told anyone about
08:37 — "I want to live a life of purpose"
10:04 — Fired from a leadership position a month in
12:18 — Why affirmations did nothing for me
16:17 — Rock bottom, and finding a therapist
19:04 — The five-second rule and my thirty-sixth birthday
22:20 — "I can do hard things": belief built through action
24:40 — My brain is different, so I gave it what it needs
28:55 — Called into the chair's office
32:32 — Speaking truth to power, and the apology
36:04 — Why this is part one

If this one landed, share it with someone who's brilliant at their job and quietly drowning everywhere else. And tell me what you want me to unpack next — I'm listening.

You can be brilliant, accomplished, and still feel like your brain refuses to cooperate. That’s the starting line for Dr. Kimmy Unplugged, a new show where I tell the truth about building a life and business you love with a messy brain, not the curated version that looks good on paper. I’m Dr. Kimmy, a 44-year-old Black woman physician, entrepreneur, and homeschooling mom, and I’m done pretending that executive dysfunction, procrastination, anxiety, and identity pressure are side notes. 

I share why this is my third podcast, why the “buttoned up” format no longer fits, and how a late ADHD diagnosis in December 2025 made my life feel like it fell apart and came back together at the same time. We talk about what it means to rebuild after self-sabotage, how I unknowingly burned my business down until I was standing in the ashes, and why “messy” can be a strategy instead of a shame label. You’ll also hear the lens I bring as a Black woman in America with Caribbean roots, plus the faith that overflows into how I think about courage, work, and growth. 

I also lay out what’s coming next: practical frameworks, tools, and real-time stories as I rescale the Doctor Coach School™, explore building Attentii™ (an AI-powered coaching tool for high-achieving women with ADHD), and transition back into the medical workforce. This space is for high-achievers who want more and are ready to stop fighting their brains in silence. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review or comment telling me what you want me to unpack next.