Hippocratic Hustle

In today’s episode, we speak to Barbara Hamilton, MD about how she planned her wedding on a budget. She tells us all about how she planned each step of her wedding and saved money along the way. Don’t miss out as her and Carrie share how they both planned frugal weddings and were much happier because of it.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why she decided to have a frugal wedding.
• How having a destination wedding out of state helped her cut down her guest list.
• Why she thinks that having a frugal wedding gives you control over the planning and allows you to be more creative.
• How she purchased her drinks at a local price club to save money.
• How she got her flowers on her own at the LA Flower Market for around $500.
• Why she used Pinterest to visually plan out the whole wedding.
• How she got her dress off the rack at David’s Bridal for around $1000.
• How she utilized her friends’ talents to get their cake and music at a discount.
• How Carrie planned her barn wedding on the cheap too before they were trendy.
• Why she feels that budgeting for her wedding made them happier with it overall.

Barbara Hamilton, MD is an interventional radiologist, physician leader, and mom, who blogs at TiredSuperheroine.com.

She helps aspiring and early career doctors find work life balance and financial empowerment through her writing, coaching and speaking. Through a behind-the-scenes view, her audience gets to see her in the trenches, learning leadership skills, and balancing a demanding job with family life. Ultimately, she strives to be an example of what is possible for her audience.

She uses a mix of fear-busting, idea sharing, and general cheerleading to provide her audience virtual support through their medical training so they can transition to full, multifaceted lives as attending physicians.

Links we discussed in the show:

• Check out her website and blog at: TiredSuperheroine.com.
• Listen in to Barbara’s last episode as well: 096 Barbara Hamilton, MD: Tired Superheroine.

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

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In today’s episode, we speak to Dr. Barbara Hamilton about her journey into the field of interventional radiology as a female physician. Only 9% of the physicians in IR are female and she is trying to change that by educating early career doctors on the benefits of entering male-dominated specialties. Her blog, TiredSuperheroine.com, helps aspiring doctors find work life balance and financial empowerment as well.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How she got into the interventional radiology field.
• Why she decided to start her blog to help early career doctors.
• Why she feels that women don’t need to limit themselves to “lifestyle” fields.
• How she is breaking down barriers regarding women in IR.
• How she helps women in IR to be successful with things like pregnancy toolkits.

Barbara Hamilton, MD is an interventional radiologist, physician leader, and mom, who blogs at TiredSuperheroine.com.

She helps aspiring and early career doctors find work life balance and financial empowerment through her writing, coaching and speaking. Through a behind-the-scenes view, her audience gets to see her in the trenches, learning leadership skills, and balancing a demanding job with family life. Ultimately, she strives to be an example of what is possible for her audience.

She uses a mix of fear-busting, idea sharing, and general cheerleading to provide her audience virtual support through their medical training so they can transition to full, multifaceted lives as attending physicians.

Links we discussed in the show:

• Check out her website and blog at:  TiredSuperheroine.com.
• Learn more about Fincon at: Fincon 2020.

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

Lastly, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won’t miss an episode!

In today’s episode, we speak to Dr. Eliza Minimal. She is a blogger and a minimalista. She explains to us how she created a new life for herself out of the ashes of burnout. Eliza talks to us about how she retired early from clinical medicine, and how she eventually returned, but on her own terms. Don’t miss out on her best tips to eliminate debt and live a minimalist lifestyle.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why she started her minimalist lifestyle as a physician.
• How she was able to pay off her student loans and home loan so quickly.
• How she makes a minimalist lifestyle work in a family with two kids.
• Why she decided to retire at 34 years old.
• How she took a year off to travel around the states and Europe with her kids.
• Why she decided to go back to work part time on her own terms.
• Why she started her blog to help others realize the importance of minimalism.
• What she plans on doing in the future with her career and personal life.

Eliza Minimal, MD is a 37-year-old financially independent dermatologist who used minimalism to eliminate her debt so she could focus on the things that really matter. She blogs at MinimalMD.com.

Links we discussed in the show:

• Check out Eliza’s website at: MinimalMD.com.
• Learn more about Fincon at: Fincon 2020.

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

Lastly, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won’t miss an episode!

Today, on the Hippocratic Hustle Podcast, I talk with Stacia Dearmin MD about the taboo topic of medical malpractice. She tells us about her experience regarding her own lawsuit and all of the ways she is working to help other physicians get through their own lawsuits as well. She believes that this topic should be spoken about openly since almost every physician will experience this at some point in their career. Don’t miss out as she shares her top tips for managing the stress and anxiety involved in the litigation process as well.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How Dr. Dearmin got interested in this topic and decided to help other physicians.
• How she recommends minimizing anxiety surrounding medical malpractice.
• Why she thinks it is of utmost importance for physicians to share their experiences surrounding lawsuits with one another.
• What steps you should take when you are notified that you are being sued.
• What you should do and not do if you think an event that occurred could be a potential future lawsuit.
• How to manage your emotions while going through a long term lawsuit.
• What you can do throughout this stressful time to alleviate stress and find balance.
• How the litigation process plays out and how much you need to be involved.
• Why it’s important to be supportive of colleagues going through lawsuits.
• Why she decided to start her coaching business to help physicians one on one.
• How she developed her new course Deposition Magic to teach physicians how to manage the deposition process.

Dr. Stacia Dearmin is passionate about the needs of physicians who face unexpected adverse outcomes and medical malpractice litigation. A speaker, coach and consultant, she founded, “Thrive” in 2017 to provide insight, education and support to other physicians facing one of the toughest experiences many of us will ever have: being sued. She now speaks nationally on this topic and writes a blog on the challenges of recovering after a hard patient outcome and how she survived a malpractice lawsuit. She draws on her personal experience to educate the medical and legal communities, and more importantly, to alleviate physician’s isolation through litigation and invite them to join her in growing. She practices and teaches emergency pediatrics in Ohio.

Quotes from Dr. Stacia Dearmin:

• “Our best way to minimize the risk is to focus in on keeping up to date in our field, practicing good medicine, keeping ourselves healthy, and accepting that when we do work that is so heroic, as to get in there and make difficult decisions in the face of limited information in real time, sometimes things are not going to go as we planned.”
• “Reminding yourself that had you not been the brave kind of individual, who cares so deeply for humanity to go through all the work you went through, to master the body of knowledge you mastered, to then get into the arena, and apply it to real human lives; had you not been that person, you would not be in this situation, and guess what, you are still that person!

Links we discussed in the show:

• Check out Dr. Dearmin’s enlightening website: ThrivePhysician.com.
• Learn all about Dr. Dearmin’s amazing course: Deposition Magic. Don’t forget to use promo code HIPPO HUSTLE for 10% off of her course!

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

Lastly, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won’t miss an episode!

Today, on the Hippocratic Hustle Podcast, I talk to my good friend, Dr. Cory Fawcett. I think this is a really fun way to introduce you to him and all of his helpful content. We actually recorded this a few months ago, before we reconnected at FinCon 2019, and before we chatted at Passive Income MD’s real estate conference as well. On this episode, we talk about so many things including his books: “The Doctor’s Guide to Starting your Practice Right”, “The Doctor’s Guide to Eliminating Debt", and “The Doctor’s Guide to Smart Career Alternatives and Retirement.” Then, we move on to his newest book, “The Doctor’s Guide to Real Estate Investing for Busy Professionals.” It is out and available right now! Lastly, we talk about his exciting and innovative, new course, “The Doctor’s Guide to Thriving in Locum Tenens,” to help physicians who are thinking of starting locums get the information they need to get started on that journey.

In this episode, you will learn:

• When is the best time to read his book, “The Doctor’s Guide to Starting your Practice Right.”
• What tail insurance is and why you don’t want to be in a position to have to buy it.
• How his book, “The Doctor’s Guide to Eliminating Debt,” can help you to become debt free and start practicing medicine and living your life the way that you want.
• Why his book, “The Doctor’s Guide to Smart Career Alternatives and Retirement,” can help you find happiness in careers outside of medicine and plan for retirement as well.
• How his new book, “The Doctor’s Guide to Real Estate Investing for Busy Professionals,” can change your life by helping you get into real estate as a side business.
• Why he created his new course, “The Doctor’s Guide to Thriving in Locum Tenens,” and how it can help you transition to locums easily.
• How he feels locums helped him transition from full time work to retirement.
• Cory’s best tips for living an amazing locums life.
• Why Cory and Carrie both feel that working locums showed them how people truly appreciated them as a physician.

Cory S. Fawcett M.D. is the author of three award winning Amazon Best- Selling Books: “The Doctor’s Guide to Starting your Practice Right”, “The Doctor’s Guide to Eliminating Debt”, and “The Doctor’s Guide to Smart Career Alternatives and Retirement”. He spent 23 years as a private practice general surgeon in Southern Oregon and has been involved in multiple real estate and business endeavors. He left medicine in 2017 to devote more time to his new business, “Prescription for Financial Success,” in order to teach doctors how to live a more fulfilling life by becoming debt free and achieving financial independence. He is enjoying his own financial independence by writing, speaking and coaching doctors into a better financial position, while he and his wife of 30 years, explore the world.

Quotes from Dr. Cory Fawcett:

• “Now that you don’t need to make money, you can make a difference.”
• “Tomorrow’s hope shouldn’t steal today’s joy.”
• “You will leave medicine one day, one way or another.”

Links we discussed in the show:

• Learn all about Locum Tenens through Cory’s course at: hippocratichustle.com/locumslife.
• Cory’s 1st book: The Doctor's Guide to Starting your Practice Right.
• Cory’s 2nd book: The Doctor's Guide to Eliminating Debt.
• Cory’s 3rd book: The Doctor's Guide to Smart Career Alternatives and Retirement.
• Cory’s latest book: The Doctor's Guide to Real Estate Investing for Busy Professionals.
• Check out Cory’s Website: DrCorySFawcett.com
• To learn more about the Fincon conference, check out: Fincon 2020.
• Check out Passive Income MD’s Conference: Financial Freedom through Investing in Real Estate.
• Listen in to the Hippocratic Hustle Episode 32: Living the Locums Life with Cheri Wiggins, MD.

Thinking about doing locums but don’t know how to get started? Already doing locums but not as satisfied as you'd like? Are you wondering what locums is like? These questions and more are answered by my friend, Dr. Cory Fawcett, in his course, “The Doctors Guide to Thriving in Locum Tenens.” You know I do Locums Tenens myself, and when I was starting out, I had to figure it all out as I went. Cory made this course so you don’t have to to do that! For more information on Cory’s amazing and informative course check it out at: www.hippocratichustle.com/locumslife.

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

Lastly, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won’t miss an episode!

In today’s episode, we speak to Dr. Sunny Smith about her journey into the world of life coaching. She shares how a traumatic injury changed her life and made her decide to become a certified life coach. She tells us how life coaching can help the lives of women physicians and how they make great life coaches as well. Don’t miss out as she shares some of her amazing wisdom and inspirational quotes with us all too!

In this episode, you will learn:

• How she got started as a life coach after a traumatic injury.
• Why she feels that life coaching works very well as a side gig for women physicians.
• What is life coaching and how it can help physicians in particular.
• How life coaching can help with physician burnout.
• What it’s really like to work with a life coach.
• How effective is life coaching in solving issues in your life.
• Why working with a life coach is favorable over talking to a family member or friend.
• Why men need to step out of their comfort zone and enter the life coaching world.

Dr. Sunny Smith is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego. She focuses her academic career on medical student education and underserved medicine. After a bike accident in Moorea left her broken arms and facial bones, and in full arm casts, she wasn’t able to work, care for herself or even hold a book for a few months. During this time, she discovered podcasts and listened to every single episode of the podcasts of Brooke Castillo and Dr. Katrina Ubell, who also happens to be the very first guest on this podcast! She found these coaching concepts really transformed the way she looked at her life. She then found coaching so influential that she became a certified coach through, “The Life Coach School”. She combines coaching, along with her experience as a medical educator, with the goal of improving the lives of other physicians through podcasts, coaching and retreats. She focuses her coaching exclusively on women physicians and helps them stop sacrificing themselves for others so they can finally start to enjoy this life that they worked so hard to create.

Quotes from Dr. Sunny Smith:

• “When you argue with reality, you lose 100 percent of the time.”
• “There is no failure. You either get the outcome you wanted or the lesson you needed.”
• “Your thoughts create your reality.”

Links we discussed in the show:

• Check out Dr. Smith’s website at: Empowering Women Physicians.
• Learn more about her retreat to Bora Bora at: Bora Bora Retreat!
• Listen to Brooke Castillo’s Podcast: The Life Coach School Podcast.
• Listen to Dr. Katrina Ubell’s Podcast: Weight Loss for Busy Physicians Podcast.
• Learn all about how to get start coaching at: The Life Coach School.
• Listen in to Episode 1 of the Hippocratic Hustle Podcast: Katrina Ubell: Weight Loss for Busy Physicians.

Special thank you to this week’s show sponsor: Set for Life Insurance! If you are in need of life or disability insurance, or if you need a second opinion to be sure you are insured appropriately, call Jamie Fleischner at Set for Life!

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

Lastly, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won’t miss an episode!

In today’s episode, we speak to Lara McElderry, the founder and host of the, “Married to Doctors,” Podcast. She shares what it’s really like to be married to a physician, the challenges physician spouses face and how they can protect and rediscover their own self-identity along the way.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How Lara met her husband and their journey into the medical field.
• What are some challenges that spouses of physicians face?
• How education disparity affects physician spouses.
• How physician spouses can rediscover their self-identity.
• Why Lara feels that life coaching is important for physicians and spouses as well.

Lara McElderry studied Family and Consumer Science and graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Masters Degree in Teaching. She has worked with youth and adults and has a strong interest in family dynamics. Lara has been navigating the medical world for the last seventeen years as she has supported her husband through medical school, residency, a specialty change, fellowship, as well as raising five boys. She is the founder and podcast host of, “Married to Doctors”. Her show is an interview based weekly podcast. Spouses of physicians share their stories and experts share advice as Lara leads a discussion asking personal and hard questions that explore the joys and challenges of being Married to Doctors.

Links we discussed in the show:

• Check out Lara’s amazing podcast: Married to Doctors.
• To learn more about Lara’s coaching programs click: here.

Special thank you to this week’s show sponsor: Set for Life Insurance! If you are in need of life or disability insurance, or if you need a second opinion to be sure you are insured appropriately, call Jamie Fleischner at Set for Life!

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

Lastly, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won’t miss an episode!

In today’s episode, we speak with Sarah Catherine Gutierrez of Aptus Financial. She is an industry expert in all things financial and can help you understand the best way to plan for your retirement. Don’t miss out as she explains her easy to use, “Savings Waterfall,” method to help you figure out where to invest your money and in which order. Also, she announces the exciting launch of her huge campaign for young women savers called, “Save 10,” and how you can get involved in that as well.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How her, “Savings Waterfall,” works and how to apply it to your life.
• Why an HSA is very different from an FSA and how it can benefit you.
• Where to place your student loan payment in the, “Savings Waterfall,” based on rates.
• How to determine the savings rate you should be setting aside for retirement.
• How to calculate home affordability using her new way of calculating.
• What is, “Save 10,” and why SC decided to create it to help young women?

Sarah Catherine Gutierrez is a speaker, writer and owner of a financial company called Aptus Financial. She is passionate about demystifying the financial world to women so that they can focus on the most important thing we need to do which is save money for our future self. There is no one better equipped to explain the financial world than someone who came from analyzing investments and she has chosen to bring women to the world of finance through humor, her honesty and plain English. SC also runs a blog for women called “Ladysplaining Money.” SC was also a featured speaker at the White Coat Investor Conference and she will be speaking at the next one too. She lives a beautifully, simple life in Little Rock, Arkansas with her husband, Jorge, and their 3 children: Marco, Max and Lucca.

Links we discussed in the show:

• Find more information about Sarah Catherine’s business at: aptusfinancial.com
• Learn some great information from her blog at: https://www.ladysplainingmoney.com/
• Check out SC’s ,“Savings Waterfall,” at: hippocratichustle.com/waterfall.
• Learn more about SC’s signature program, “Save 10,” at: hippocratichustle.com/Save10.
• Listen to SC on the White Coat Investor Podcast here: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/an-interview-with-sarah-catherine-gutierrez-from-aptus-financial-podcast-58/
• You can learn more about the WCI Conference here.
• Learn how to setup a Backdoor Roth with Physician on Fire.

Special thank you to this week’s show sponsor: Set for Life Insurance! If you are in need of life or disability insurance, or if you need a second opinion to be sure you are insured appropriately, call Jamie Fleischner at Set for Life!

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

Lastly, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won’t miss an episode!

Hey everyone! 

This episode is full of 2 very important announcements, including information about Bonnie's new Money For Women Physicians COURSE!

You can find more info about the course at:

Hippocratichustle.com/Bonnie

ALSO! This episode gave a brief announcement of my new podcast project, Hippocratic Holiday! 

Learn more here:

HippocraticHoliday.com

Thanks everyone for listening, more new episodes are coming soon (like, the end of this week!) so stay tuned! 

Yours in the Hustle,

Carrie

In today’s episode, we speak with Dr. Leah Houston about her revolutionary new business HPEC- the Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community. Her business is using Blockchain technology to build a platform that alleviates the third-party roadblocks that erode our patient-physician relationships. Listen as as she shares her expertise in this topic and hear all about the future of healthcare.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What is HPEC and why did she start it?
• What is Blockchain technology and how it can be helpful to physicians.
• How this technology could reduce or eliminate fraud in the system.
• Why she feels that cutting out the middle man in the system can help physicians to find joy in medicine again.
• What is the Decentralized Autonomous Organization of Doctors or Doctors DAO?
• Why she feels that patient portable electronic health records are important.
• How she feels that the digital health revolution will help physicians take care of patients in a superior way.

Leah Houston, M.D. is a board certified emergency physician. While practicing emergency medicine across the U.S. for nearly 10 years, she recognized a common problem. Uncompensated administrative burdens related physician employment and credentialing are a leading cause of administrative waste and physician burnout. She began HPEC in 2018 when realizing that Blockchain could solve the obstructive regulatory problems in healthcare with its distributed ledger technology. HPEC is building a platform that will give every physician a self-sovereign digital identity attached to their credentials in order to create a decentralized autonomous organization of physicians and surgeons. This is essentially a democratic physician’s guild. HPEC will streamline the current laborious process of credentialing, reduce administrative waste, improve access to care and give physicians sovereign ownership of their data and employment rights. The organization will also create an opportunity for physicians to communicate more efficiently about policy, practice and, in turn, improve patient care.

Links we discussed in the show:

• Check out Leah’s Blockchain based business at: HPEC.io.

Special thank you to this week’s show sponsor: The White Coat Investor’s new course Fire Your Financial Advisor!

Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it!

If you’d like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: [email protected]

Lastly, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won’t miss an episode!