Hippocratic Hustle

Shannon Klingman, MD is a gynecologist and she realizes the importance of empowering women to discretely address odor concerns. In today's episode, we hear how Dr. Klingman was tired of the narrative of “vaginal odor” that has been told since the beginning of time. She also discusses with us how there is an industry of products currently on the market that misleads women into believing that all vaginas have a foul odor as if it is an inevitable reality for women. Odor. It happens. But now there is a product that can fight it. 

In today’s episode, we will explore how Shannon Klingman, MD, an OB-GYN from Minnetonka, Minnesota, came up with a new product that all women have been asking for. A deodorant for ALL of your parts. And I mean ALL of them. She invented, produces, markets and distributes Lume Deodorant. 

Not only do we talk about this revolutionary product. We also discuss the whole process she underwent in making this product available in the market.

Today you will learn:

-How being a physician can help sell a specialized product
-The common myth about vaginas
-What products you shouldn't trust
-Where does that fishy odor really come from
-The ups and downs in making the product possible in the market
-What makes Lume different than the other products in the market
-How does Lume actually work its wonder
-How to apply the product correctly and effectively
-How to reach consumers to elevate the product

Check out Lume deodorant by clicking on this website: https://lumedeodorant.com

You may also follow their social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram.

Shannon Klingman MD is an OBGYN from Minnetonka, Minnesota. She has finished her residency at William Beaumont Hospital (I went there too!). She is the founder and CEO of Lume Deodorant. To know more about her, follow her on Twitter.

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Okeoma Moronu, JD of The Happy Lawyer Project

The Life of Lawyers vs Doctors

Have you ever wondered how different the professions of Lawyers and Doctors have, especially for women?

Today I chat with Okeoma Moronu, JD who is the host of the Happy Lawyer Project. Okeoma is a lawyer and the host of The Happy Lawyer Project Podcast. Okeoma and I talk about the realities of our own professions, and provide insight into the realities of life as a JD/MD, being a mom, a woman in our chosen professions.

Okeoma graduated from Columbia University School of Law with her J.D. and an LL.M. in International Criminal Law from the University of Amsterdam. Upon graduation she joined the Global Securities group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP working in both their New York and Singapore offices. She later lateralled to Baker Botts LLP before landing her current position as in-house counsel at an aviation company based in Dallas.  If you want to listen to her show, you can find it at TheHappyLawyerProject.com.

Today, you will learn:

• How to get into the profession of being an MD/JD - education, qualification, licensing, internship, entrance exams
• Student loans and starting salary structure
• Lifestyle and work/life balance
• Salary ranges and fee structure
• Maternity/Paternity leave
• The mindset needed to thrive in each profession

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Cheri Wiggins, MD

Living the Locums Life

Have you ever been in a position where you just couldn’t balance work and personal life? Today’s guest has had the same experience as most of us in our field of work. Cheri Wiggins, MD is back to share about her career as Locum Tenens. Before you close the door on considering locums as a career, listen in to our episode!

Today, you will learn:

• What locums is and the responsibilities of being a locum tenens physician
• Aspects in life to gain and lose when one becomes a locum
• Shifting careers to fulfill one’s self-development
• How to compartmentalize one’s medical career and family - we know, it’s hard!
• Unconstraining oneself from work by living a locum’s life
• How Locums doesn’t always have to be a drag
• How you can do Locums right out of residency
• How to be independent with what we do and to be in control

 

Dr. Cheri Wiggins MD has been a Locum Tenens physician for a year. She has been an onsite physician for a nursing facility. She specializes in disability rehabilitation and has particular interest in working with children who have developmental disabilities or physical impairments.

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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Nowadays, there are lots of platforms in which you can connect with people in the same field as yours. In today's episode, Katie and I talk about how she started a podcast for pediatricians to help educate her fellow physicians in the Philadelphia area with CME Podcasts. 

We talk about:

• Things to consider before starting a CME podcast
• Checkboxes need when running a CME podcast
• Equipment needed to start a podcast 
• How to approach your Hospital with your idea for a CME Podcast
• Aiming for a Category One CME for your podcast
• Having passion for your specialty
• What to love about blogging
• The creative expression of blogging
• The satisfaction of feedback from podcasting and blogging

Katie Lockwood, MD is an attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, South Philadelphia (CHOP) and a clinical assistant professor of Pediatrics of Pediatrics at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As a primary care pediatrician, she focuses on the overall health and wellness of children and adolescents in the Philadelphia community, with a special focus on adoption medicine, managing health of children in foster care, breastfeeding and medical education.

She completed her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia and completed her Pediatric Residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.  In 2016, she launched a podcast called “Primary Care Perspectives” for Pediatricians.

To get to know Katie more, click on the following links below:

Mommy Call Blog

Primary Care Perspectives: Podcast for Pediatricians Website

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

Docs Outside the Box Podcast with Nii Darko, MD
Freedom Formula for Physicians Podcast with Dave Denniston 

 

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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Friends Talk Finance:

New Tax Plan and Podcast Year in Review

Disclaimer: Before we start talking about taxes, I want to remind everyone that we ARE NOT CPAs. Bonnie is a Dermatologist, I’m a Pediatric Gastroenterologist and in NO WAY do we claim to be experts in this stuff. We are simply trying to educate you guys on your commute to work or while you are walking your dog. We know you don’t have time to read all these articles, so we did it for you. Each of your own tax situations is unique TO YOU so if you have questions, get a CPA and ask them yourself.

We also DIDN'T talk about some important topics that you may have heard about such as the change in the tax brackets. 

We DID talk about the following regarding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017:

1. Alimony payments out no longer deductible 
   • Recipient of Alimony now doesn’t pay taxes on Alimony income
   • This one goes into effect in 2019, so you get a break for 2018 if this is your situation
2. Property Tax Cap (along with SALT- State and Local Tax)
   • AMT and why pre-paying might not have helped you 
3. Mortgage Interest Deduction:
   • Mortgage interest on home purchase loans is still deductible under new tax reform up to $750,000 (was $1 million)
     • Grandfathered in if you bought before Dec 15, 2017
   • Second homes mortgages can be tax deductible, but you can only claim $750,000 total of interest across all your properties 
   • Deduction for interest on home equity loans is nondeductible in 2018
     1. No grandfathering
     2. Many people have talked about using a home equity loan to pay off their student loans because at least that interest is “tax deductible”, well not anymore.
4. Less marriage penalty tax
5. Can no longer do above the line deductions for Moving expenses for new job
   • Exception for the Military
6. Estate tax limit doubled
7. Gift tax limit is now $15K (was $14K)
8. AMT sucks less
9. 529 money can be used for private elementary & high school (10k per kid per year). 
10. Small increase in employee contribution limits to 401(k), 403(b), most 457 plans: Now $18,500 for 2018, total is $55K

Here are some awesome links for more information about the new Tax Code:

White Coat Investor: What Doctors Need to Know about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Physician On Fire: Tax Reform! How Physicians and the Self-Employed are Affected

Kitces.com: Individual Tax Planning Under The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Of 2017

The Motley Fool: Your Complete Guide to the 2018 Tax Changes

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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Today's episode is super fun, Bonnie is back!! For our reunion episode, Bonnie shares with us her birth story. This episode is super laid back, and please ignore the sounds of Bonnie's breast pump in the background and Carrie laughing too much! Baby Jack makes a cameo as well.

Pearls from this episode:

• Amazement at how much amniotic fluid we can hold
• How awesome you feel after getting an epidural
• "When you need blood and get it, it really works!"
• Abdominal binders help you feel more secure
• Take Colace and Miralax religiously post-partum
• Baby Jack's adventures with tongue tie
• Unexpected costs encountered with a new baby
• How much fun is Lochia???
• How Bonnie nearly bled to death!
• "If I become unconscious, take me to Columbia Hospital!"
• How Bonnie is now a proud Philadelphian
• How impossible it is to move with a 1-month-old

Resources Mentioned in the Episode

Lucie's List
Breast Milk Organizer
Bucket Baby Bath
Force of Nature Clean 

For more about Bonnie's Birthstory, read her account on her Blog. 

In today's episode, we welcome back the multitalented Emergency Medicine Physician and Founder of FemInEm Founder Dara Kass, MD. I first talked with Dara in the third episode of the Hippocratic Hustle Podcast. In that episode, Dara explained how she was developing a conference specifically for EM women physicians. Well, it was an AMAZING conference and I was so fortunate to be able to attend. I was able to interview Dara to reflect back on the conference and its significance, and also hear the voices of various conference participants and what the experience meant for them. 

Today's episode will include:

• 7 minute sponsored interview with Jon Appino from Contract Diagnostics
• 25 minutes reflection with Dara Kass, MD about the FemInEm #FIX17 Conference
• Dara and Carrie describe a moment of the conference where the speaker, Arian Nachat, MD, gave her TED-style talk with her toddler on her hip. 
  • We talk about the energy that was present in a conference dedicated to women
  • Dara explains the plans for next year's #FIX18
  • Dara mentions an article from KevinMD.com: "Here’s why women doctors need time together" by Rekha Chandrabose, MD.
• 12 minutes of interviews from conference participants about how important it is to have conferences that bring women physicians together.

Thank you to the ladies who shared with me their thoughts about the conference.

Special thanks to this week’s sponsor Contract Diagnostics!

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Our next guest addresses the most common concern that parents of small children have: How can I get my child to sleep? Or, as the great author Adam Mansbach more eloquently penned, "Go the F**K to Sleep". Dr. Nilong Vyas' business, Sleepless in NOLA helps parents with this difficult issue. 

Our episode discusses:

• How and why she started this business
• How she decided to leave private practice
• How she learned the business side of medicine
• How she knew she'd have a market for this service
• Specific tips for physicians moms 
• Shedding the mommy guilt!
• How our children manipulate us
• Children need guidance and structure
• How Nilong uses word-of-mouth to market her business
• Challenges that Nilong has encountered with this type of business

Dr. Nilong Vyas is a board certified pediatrician and mother of two boys. She was raised in New Orleans and went on to earn a Master’s in Public Health degree from Tulane University as well as an MD from Louisiana State University Medical School. After completing her Pediatrics residency at LSU, she joined private practice where, on a daily basis, she experienced her patient’s desire for more sleep for themselves as well as more sleep for their children. The parents explained that with better-rested children, their kids were happier, ate better, and developed at a more rapid rate. However, when that was not the case, secondary to many different factors, they noticed quite a change in the demeanor of their children, thus themselves. Dr. Vyas learned quickly about both children and their parent’s sleep needs thus established a strong value for sleep with her patients, in a nurturing fashion. 

Special thanks to this week’s sponsor CommonBond Student Loan Refinancing!

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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Julie Vieth, MD: All About Au Pairs

Have you ever wondered if hosting an Au Pair would be the right for you for your childcare needs? Julie Vieth, MD is an Emergency Physician in Upstate New York. She has hosted 3 Au Pairs and has seen both the good and the bad. In this episode Julie shares her experiences with us!

Some resources for learning more:

The Funny Nanny Blog

The US State Department info regarding Au Pairs

  

Special thanks to this week’s sponsor Lawrence 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!

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Yemi Odugbesan, MD:

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Our Children

Today’s episode is a little different from my past episodes…that’s because today’s entrepreneur isn’t going to be on the show because he’s… at school! Instead, in his place, is my guest Dr. Yemi Odugbesan, the mother of this aspiring entrepreneur.

NanaPam’s Jams was founded by 11 year old Dara Odugbesan in April 2017. Nana Pam's Jams is the product of his young entrepreneurial spirit and Nana's patient teachings of her secret fruit preserving techniques. Dara's mastery of preserving enables Nana Pam's Jams to constantly offer new flavors, working with the widest possible array of fruits to offer simple, yet unusual flavors.

Yemi joins me today to discuss fostering entrepreneurship in our children, along with tips for starting an online business in the Cottage Food Industry.