Docs Outside The Box

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On this episode, I chat with Dr. Julien Pham – Chief Medical Officer and Founder of RubiconMD. Dr. Pham merged his experience as a nephrologist with his passion to innovate – and is truly living his life outside the box. With an eye for e-health he helped create RubiconMD, which is a technology platform that connects primary care providers to specialists with the aim of reducing unnecessary referrals and duplicate tests. Imagine the possibilities that could play out with this platform in third-world countries – where access to specialists can be rare!!

Find out more about RubinconMD at www.rubiconmd.com

In this episode you’ll learn:

• The steps he took to transition from his Harvard academic appointment as a nephrologist to being the founder of two start-up companies
• How important is it to be around like-minded physicians
• What he finds most rewarding – Chief Medical Officer of a start-up, nephrologist, or volunteer work in global health
• His techniques behind his meditation rituals that will help bring clarity and decrease stress
• Why he’s not just a doc

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How many of you just want to stick your head in the sand when it comes to understanding personal finance and investing? I get it!  The majority of us had no exposure to finances in college and medical school which either makes us feel like we don’t know what we’re doing or makes us feel obligated to pay someone else to manage our hard-earned money!

Well, what if I told you that understanding investing is a lot simpler than the concepts we all learn in medical school? Don’t take my word for it.  My next guest, Dr. Jim Dahle (a.k.a The White Coat Investor), reinforces that point on this podcast. Like many of you listening, he had a bad experience with a financial advisor and unknowingly bought financial products he would later regret. Sound familiar? Dr. Dahle didn’t get discouraged by that, he sought empowerment through self-education, acquiring enough knowledge to start his website, The White Coat Investor. This is not just a side gig, people… His side hustle has become arguably the most comprehensive website for doctors who are looking for a “fair shake” on Wall Street!

You can find him on his website whitecoatinvestor.com

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How he balances his medical practice with running this great website
• Top 3 financial mistakes made by doctors
• Why cash value life insurance is pushed so hard to physicians
• High yield financial decisions every doctor in debt should make right after graduating from residency
• Why he’s not just a doc!

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Docs, I hope you’ve got your bus passes ready for this next episode! We’re taking a ride with the co-founders of Tour for Diversity in Medicine – Drs. Kameron Matthews and Alden Landry. As we all know, there’s a physician shortage in the United States and it’s only going to get worse. The physician shortage disproportionately affects those from minority communities, specifically African – Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics. National initiatives from the Association of American Medical Colleges and the US government exist to help decrease this shortage, but what about bottom-up grass roots efforts to tackle this problem? Well, that’s exactly what the Tour for Diversity is doing – putting physicians, medical students, and pre-med advisors on a bus and driving hundreds of miles to target students from under-represented backgrounds and teach the basics of the medical school admissions process.

Follow and support this amazing organization at www.tour4diversity.org

In this episode you’ll learn:

• What sparked the idea for the Tour for Diversity in Medicine
• How they balance clinical medicine and running this organization
• About the success of the tour – but also the trials and tribulations from the first ever tour
• How balancing friendship and business has helped create a family-like atmosphere on the bus
• What advice they have for others who have similar ideas but suffer from “a failure to launch”
• How they each answer #imnotjustadoc

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Class is in session! That’s right.. we’re getting an education on personal finance and financial independence from Katie Brewer, CFP. She’s a fee-only certified financial planner and owner of the financial advising firm – Your Richest Life.  With a focus on both Gen X and Y’ers, you’ll find her advice in various media sources including Forbes, The New York Times, and podcasts like Stacking Benjamins and  His & Her Money.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• What you should look for in a financial advisor
• Understand the different pay structures for financial advisors
• Top three doctor financial mistakes
• How to break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck
• What does it mean to be financially independent
• Get the basics of investing – like what is a stock? A bond? What is passive vs active investing

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We’ve all heard of Sanjay Gupta, Dr. Oz, Travis Stork…..now meet Dr. Drai – “America’s OB/GYN.” Dr. Draion Burch is a board certified OB/GYN and media personality. He’s fun, charismatic, off-the-cuff, and is arguably the leading media voice for women and transgender issues. After learning to be honest with himself about loving not just his patients, but also a great lifestyle  – Dr. Drai has created a medical career that most can only dream of! From CNN, NBC, to HuffPost Live – it’s not hard to find Dr. Drai’s sought after medical opinions in print and electronic media. In this episode, Dr. Drai drops knowledge on how physicians can position and brand themselves to get the lifestyle of their dreams!

Follow him on his website: www.drdrai.com

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How being honest with yourself about career and lifestyle can lead you to success
• How falling asleep on the highway after a grueling 36 hour shift was his breaking point from a pure clinical practice
• How the heck he balances clinical medicine with his media persona
• Why as the head of Burch Media Group – does Dr. Drai teach other physicians to leverage their medical expertise to brand themselves and optimize their lifestyle
• Why he’s not just a doc!

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