Cut Like A Girl

What happens when the career you imagined doesn't quite go to plan? In this episode of Cut Like a Girl, we explore career FOMO, the opportunities we miss, the compromises we make, and the disappointment of working hard for something that doesn't work out. How do we balance ambition with genuine happiness, and know when to keep pursuing a goal versus embracing a different path? Because sometimes a closed door leads us somewhere unexpected - and a life that looks different from the one we imagined can still be a meaningful one.

FOMO isn’t just about missing out on the latest foodie haunt or weekend plans. It can creep into the big-ticket items: relationships, children, careers, and the fear that we’re somehow getting life “wrong.” In this episode, I unpack the different faces of FOMO, where it comes from, and how to tell the difference between genuinely wanting something and simply being afraid of missing out.

What if reinvention doesn't mean becoming a completely different person?

In this episode, I’m talking about what it really means to start again when life doesn’t go according to plan - without the makeover montage, five-year plan or pressure to emerge from the other side looking mysteriously hot and emotionally healed.

Drawing on ideas from Buddhism including impermanence, non-attachment and beginner’s mind, I explore what happens when the story we thought we were living no longer fits - and what becomes possible when we stop trying to recreate the past and get curious about what might come next.

Maybe reinvention isn't about becoming someone else.

Maybe it's about becoming more yourself.

I'm 40, a surgeon, newly single...and somehow my life just keeps getting bigger and brighter.

Cut Like a Girl is an honest, funny and sometimes brutally candid podcast about what happens when life doesn't turn out the way you thought it would.

We talk dating, relationships, career, friendship, ageing, ambition, women's health and the strange experience of starting over while simultaneously feeling like you're just getting started.

As a surgeon, I'll cut through the noise on the health issues women actually want to understand - from breast lumps and menopause to skin checks and everything in between.

No perfect answers. No pretending to have it all figured out. Just honest conversations about being a woman, navigating change and building a life that might look very different from the one you imagined.

Cut Like a Girl - because sometimes the best thing you can do is cut through the BS.