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.