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Today is Episode 50! Thank you so much for listening all the way up to episode 50 of our podcast! In today’s very special milestone episode, we speak with Sasha Shillcutt, MD of Brave Enough and StyleMD. Listen in as Sasha tells us all about her greatest passion of empowering women to be Brave Enough in their professional and personal lives.
In this episode, you will learn:
Sasha K. Shillcutt, MD, MS, FASE is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Strategy and Innovation in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Dr. Shillcutt also serves as the Director of Clinical Research. She underwent her residency in Anesthesiology at UNMC and completed an Executive Fellowship in Perioperative Echocardiography at the University of Utah Medical Center. Sasha is a wife, mother of four, physician, clinical scientist, national educator, writer, and speaker.
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Special thank you to this week’s show sponsor: Johanna Fox Turner at Fox & Company Wealth Management.
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!
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In today’s Friends Talk Finance episode, we discuss the the taboo topic of Prenuptial Agreements. Why are people afraid to talk about them? Should you sign one or not as a physician? What are the financial implications of not getting a prenup? All of these questions are answered today as Bonnie and Carrie discuss all things to do with Prenups!
In this episode, you will learn:
Links we discussed in the show:
Special thank you to this week’s show sponsor: Johanna Fox Turner at Fox & Company Wealth Management.
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 chat with Dr. Christen Behzadi about her journey into starting her own business, The International Intercultural Consulting Firm. Dr. Behzadi became engrossed in Persian Culture when she first met her husband in medical school. She shares her journey from meeting her husband’s family, learning about their culture, feeling transformed by the experience of all things Persian to eventually writing her own book to help other non-Persian Brides.
In this episode, you will learn:
Dr. Christen Behzadi is a published writer on modern, Iranian cultural etiquette. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a degree in Biopsychology and Cognitive Sciences. She holds a Medical Degree from the University of Oklahoma and completed her residency in Rochester, NY. She is now a practicing anesthesiologist, wife and mother of two in Houston, TX.
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Special thank you to this week’s show sponsor: Johanna Fox Turner at Fox & Company Wealth Management.
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 are so happy to welcome back our most frequent guest of the podcast. She is the multi-talented Emergency Medicine Physician and Founder of FeminEM, Dara Kass, MD. I first talked with Dara in Episode 3 of the Hippocratic Hustle Podcast. In that episode, Dara explained how she was developing a conference specifically for EM women physicians. Then, in Episode 25, Dr. Kass was back to discuss how amazing the conference was and its significance. Today, Dr. Kass is back again to tell us all about the most rewarding physician job she has ever had as a camp doctor and how you can become one too! She also tells us all about her newest venture with Camp Health Consulting and how she is leading the way in camp healthcare.
In this episode, you will learn:
Dr. Dara Kass is currently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in NYC. A graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical School and Kings County Hospital’s EM residency, she has spent her entire clinical career working in within the 5 boroughs of New York. Upon completion of her residency, Dr. Kass joined the fledgling faculty Staten Island University Hospital, where she helped start its EM residency. Dr. Kass left Staten Island 5 years ago to join the faculty at NYU as their director of undergraduate medical education. Dr. Kass stepped back from her defined title at NYU to focus on FemInEM, an open access resource for women in EM. Most recently, she now serves as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in NYC where she is also the Director for Equity and Inclusion in the ED. Dr. Kass lives in Brooklyn NY with her husband, Michael and 3 kids, Hannah, Charlie and Sam.
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Special thanks to this week’s 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]
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Dr. Nii Darko is a trauma surgeon living in Pennsylvania and also the creator of the wildly popular Docs Outside the Box Podcast. In his podcast, Nii interviews ordinary doctors doing extraordinary things. Nii’s guests have broken the typecast of doctors as just being doctors. He has interviewed physicians that are also media moguls, activists and trend setters. He has also recently written a book and manages a locums company. In between all of this, he and his amazing OB/GYN wife, Renee, paid off over 662,000 dollars in student loans!
In this episode, you will learn:
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Special thanks to this week’s sponsor: The White Coat Investor’s new course Fire Your Financial Advisor! and PearsonRavitz for all of your physician disability and life insurance needs.
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!
Dr. Nicole Swiner is a family physician, mother of two, author, speaker, professor and owner of her own publishing company. Her interests include: minority health, women’s health, and pediatrics. She is an author of many books including, “How to Avoid the Superwoman Complex: 12 Ways to Balance Mind, Body and Spirit.” In this episode, she talks to us about how she thought of the idea to write this book, and how we can all apply it to our busy lives as physicians to gain health and happiness.
In this episode, you will learn:
Dr. Swiner did her undergraduate studies at Duke University, and obtained her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. From there, she decided Family Medicine was for her, and completed her residency at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Currently Dr. Swiner is an adjunct associate professor at U.N.C.’s Family Medicine Department in Durham, North Carolina.
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Special thanks to this week’s 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]
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Happy 4th of July to everyone! Happy Birthday to our country and to our podcast too! As the podcast turns one year old, I would like to sincerely thank each of you for being loyal listeners. This is our 41st episode and we have just reached over 50,000 downloads! That is incredible!
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Our 41st episode is super fun. We have some exciting Life Updates from Carrie and Miss Bonnie MD since it has been a while since we got together.
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Thank you to this week’s show sponsor: The White Coat Investor’s Brand New Course Fire Your Financial Advisor! Only until July 7th, use promo code INDEPENDENCE for 15% off this fabulous course.
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Special Thanks to our Long Time Show Supporters:
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Dr. Nina Shapiro is one of America’s leading physicians. With more than two decades of experience in clinical and academic medicine, she’s a trusted expert whom her patients and the media rely on routinely to set the record straight about the latest health fads and misconceptions. In today’s episode, I discuss her newest venture, her myth-busting and evidence-driven book: “Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not.”
In this episode, you will learn:
Dr. Shapiro is the Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology and a Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Cornell University, she completed her surgical residency at Harvard and finished additional subspecialty training in pediatric otolaryngology at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London and the Children’s Hospital of San Diego.
She has appeared on many broadcast programs, including CBS’s “The Early Show,” “Extra,” CNN and National Public Radio. She is a regular guest on the Emmy-Award winning television show “The Doctors,” and her work has been featured and published in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, Redbook. Prevention, First for Women, Real Simple and many other print and online publications.
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Nina Shapiro’s new book can be found on her website www.drninashapiro.com and also at all major booksellers. You can also check out her blog, Facebook and Twitter.
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Special thanks to this week’s sponsors:
The White Coat Investor’s new course Fire Your Financial Advisor! and
PearsonRavitz for all of your physician disability and life insurance needs.
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!
Dr. Dawn Baker is an anesthesiologist, blogger, author, mother and cancer survivor. In this episode, we discuss how she started her blog Practice Balance as a way to relieve stress during a difficult time in her life and how it has grown into so much more over the past seven years. She gives us great tips for stress management, blogging and how to practice balance in all areas of your life as a busy physician and mother.
In this episode, you will learn:
Dr. Dawn Baker is a board certified anesthesiologist and mother to a 2 ½ year old daughter. She was raised in Arizona and went on to earn her Master’s in Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. She then earned her MD and completed her residency training at University of Utah where she is still currently employed as an attending physician in anesthesiology.
Links we discussed in the show:
To follow along with Dawn and her journey to balance, you can check out her personal blog: http://www.practicebalance.com.
Also, follow Dawn on Mothers in Medicine. This is a group blog put together by physician-mothers, writing about the unique challenges and joys of tending to two distinct patient populations, both of who can be quite demanding. We are on call every, single day.
Check out their latest venture, the Mothers in Medicine Book. It is sold at all major booksellers.
You can find out more about the Physician Wellness and Financial Literacy Conference on the The White Coat Investor Website and follow their White Coat Investor Blog too.
You can also follow the Physician on Fire Blog that Dawn and I follow as well.
If you want to start your own blog, check out the book Dawn mentions: The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging.
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Special thanks to this week’s sponsor: Larry Keller from Physician Financial Services!
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!
Starting an Overseas Health Non-Profit with Heather Hammerstedt, MD
How do you start an Emergency Medicine program in a region without emergency rooms? How do you start an overseas non-profit? Heather explains how she and a few friends helped a rural community in Uganda start the non-profit Global Emergency Care. That then grew into an entire program for training nurses and other healthcare providers to run the unit. It’s truly amazing how helping a community solve one small problem then grew into a larger and larger service. Learn how you can volunteer in Uganda for this amazing program as well!
Stick around to the end of the episode, because Heather tells us all about her new side hustle: Wholist Health!
In this episode, you will learn:
Heather Hammerstedt, MD, MPH is a board-certified emergency physician in Boise Idaho and did her postgraduate residency in Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess’s Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program. She is also one of the founders of the nonprofit 501c3 organization, Global Emergency Care (GEC) and currently functions as Executive Director. GEC currently has an ongoing clinical, academic, and consultant relationship with stakeholders in Uganda, where they have created the country’s first emergency medicine training programs for advanced providers and physicians and are working with the national government to create a national emergency care system.
If you want to know more about the nonprofit, you may visit their website.
You may also get to know Heather Hammerstedt MD MPH by clicking on this link. You may also send her an email at [email protected]. If you also want to know more about Heather Hammerstedt MD’s Wholist Health, you may visit this site or send her an email at [email protected].
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!
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