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In this episode, Dawn Baker comments on a recent Doximity OpMed describing the habits of the happiest doctors. She discusses the meaning of happiness and adds her own additions to the list.

Relevant/mentioned links:

• Inquire HERE about coaching - 20% off during November and December!
• Doximity OpMed article - These Are the Habits of the Happiest Doctors
• Arthur Brooks books - Build the Life You Want (with Oprah Winfrey), From Strength to Strength
• Lean Out Podcast – Why You Need a Retreat

Get in touch with Dawn:

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker talks with Erica Bove. Erica is a double board-certified OB-GYN and Reproductive Endocrinologist (REI) physician at the University of Vermont. She is also the CEO and founder of Love and Science: Thriving Through Infertility, where she helps women physicians and professionals optimize both the science and the emotional side of fertility so they can maximize their opportunities for family building.
 
 Erica has a keen interest in marrying an evidence-based approach with intuitive knowing in the context of a trusting relationship. Her mission is to heal and support the healers and to create a legacy she is proud of. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys running, yoga, kayaking, skiing, reading, writing, and spending time with her inner circle.

Erica shares how she found a unique work schedule even as a specialist with an ongoing patient panel. She talks about identifying a serious need and implementing a vision of coaching for patients and physicians with infertility, and she gives insights on navigating uncertainty through the lens of infertility. 

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Relevant/mentioned links:

• Lean Out Podcast episodes - Gray Zones with Wendy Schofer, Rest with Saundra Dalton-Smith, Education with Kara Wada, Solocast: The Cost No One Talks About

Get in touch with Erica:

• Website - loveandsciencefertility.com 
•  Podcast - loveandsciencefertility.com/podcast 
•  LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/erica-bove-0701a0173
•  Instagram - @loveandsciencefertility 
•  Facebook - Love and Science Fertility

Get in touch with Dawn:

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker talks with Nancy Echefu. Nancy is a Hair Transplant Physician and Hair Loss Coach based in Peachtree City, Georgia. Since opening Havilah Hair Restoration in 2023, she has helped patients regain their confidence through personalized and innovative hair restoration treatments.

Nancy is the 2024 Regional Winner of Best of Georgia and is the only female hair transplant physician in South Georgia recognized by the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), where she also serves as Patient Advocate.

We discuss Nancy’s journey to becoming a hair restoration physician, why she has a passion for this area of medicine, and how she manages to run her clinic while still practicing as an emergency medicine doctor. You also just may learn something about hair loss, which is super common among both men and women!

Mentioned/relevant links: 

• Listen to the solo episode (or read the article) where I talk about showing up for work when there was no work
• Learn more about coaching and schedule a free consultation HERE

Get in touch with Nancy:

• Website - www.hh-restorations.com
• Youtube - Dr. Echefu
• Instagram - havila_hair_restoration

Get in touch with Dawn:   

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker talks with Wendy Schofer. Wendy is a dual-board certified pediatrician and lifestyle physician, and a trauma-informed parenting coach specializing in eating disorder prevention for family members of all ages and sizes. She retired from a career in Navy medicine in 2021, and as founder of Family in Focus®, is on a mission to help 1 million families build the social-emotional skills that strengthen relationships with food, body, and especially each other. 

Wendy discusses her retirement from Navy medicine and transition to a much more nebulous practice - a coaching-based practice in eating disorder prevention. She also shares her approach to the common and yet elusive problems of navigating uncertainty, defining and communicating your focus, and getting your message out to those who need it.

Relevant/mentioned links: 

Check out this conversation (and others) on Youtube!

Take a look at my speaking page, and consider hiring me for your next event!

Get in touch with Wendy:

• Website - wendyschofermd.com
• Instagram - @wendyschofermd
• Facebook - Wendy Schofer MD
• LinkedIn - Wendy Schofer MD
• TikTok - @wendyschofermd
• Youtube - @wendyschofermd

Get in touch with Dawn: 

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker shares a recent experience of having her work-life balance abruptly change. She talks about what happened, how she felt, and what she learned from the situation.

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Relevant/mentioned links:

• Lean Out Podcast - Solocast: The One Thing You Can Rely On, Open to Possibilities with Leigh Johnson
• Mentally Stronger with Amy Morin - How to Stop Taking Things So Personally (and Stop Giving Away Your Power)

Get in touch with Dawn:

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker talks with Cobin Soelberg. Cobin is an M.D., J.D. who practices anesthesiology part-time in Bend, Oregon. He also serves as an expert witness in medical malpractice cases. Since 2020, he has also run Greeley Wealth Management, a financial planning firm built on a simple premise of a physician working for physicians. 

Outside of work, Cobin spends as much time as he can in the Cascade Mountains with his wife, Julie, and son, Wes, skiing, mountain biking, and exploring the backroads in their truck. Over the past eighteen months, his part-time clinical schedule has given him more room for reading, writing, and epic Lego sessions with Wes. 

Cobin is a longtime friend and medical school classmate who I’ve watched buck the traditions of medical training and practice for more than 20 years. We discuss the joys of part-time medicine, Cobin’s roundabout way of getting to his current dream schedule, how to get your organization to allow for alternative schedules, and some great talk about personal finance. 

Relevant/mentioned links:

** Subscribe to the Practice Balance newsletter and get a fun, educational training video about the one thing that's likely holding you back from better work-life balance! **

• Books - The Power of Regret by Daniel Pink, The Pathless Path by Paul Millard
• The Pathless Path Podcast - Why Sheryl Sandberg is Wrong - Dawn Baker on the Art of Leaning Out
• Lean Out Podcast - Joy with Cory Fawcett

Get in touch with Cobin:

• Substack - Medicine, Money and Meaning
• Website - Greeley Wealth Management

Get in touch with Dawn:

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker shares some stories of a recent summer trip. On that trip, she watched the new movie, The Devil Wears Prada 2. Careful to not share too many spoilers, Dawn discusses the work-life balance themes she identified from the movie and one of its main characters, Miranda Priestly.

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Relevant/mentioned links:

Lean Out Podcast episodes - Prevention with Marjan Bolouri, Functional with Tracy McCarthy, Solocast: How to Deal with Loss

Get in touch with Dawn: 

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker talks with Mary Jeanne Roberts. Mary Jeanne is a Certified Anesthesiologist Assistant (CAA) with nearly two decades of clinical experience. She's an AA educator, mindfulness practitioner, and founder of the Awakened Anesthetist, an educational brand built exclusively for the CAA community. 

Mary Jeanne loves to live slowly in her suburban home in Kansas City with her husband and three children. Her favorite time of day is morning coffee on the deck, and her newest expression of self is learning to play the native five-hole flute.

Mary Jeanne begins the discussion by sharing the unique career path of a CAA. We talk about intentionality as a way to balance ambition, and how you can make an impact in your own way, on your own timetable. Mary Jeanne doesn’t have a classic burnout story but would consider her journey one of growing and expanding. We also talk about the concept of "enough," and how the whole landscape shifts when you know you have it. 

Relevant/mentioned links:

• Subscribe to the Youtube channel HERE! (You can watch this conversation on Youtube HERE).
• Practice Balance Articles - Mindfulness: What Is It, Why You Want It, and How to Get It, Meditation for Skeptics and Busy People
• Lean Out Podcast episodes - Experiments with Cheri Wiggins Aello, Purpose with Jordan Grumet, France with Kelly Katcher, Solocast: What is Enough? 

Get in touch with Mary Jeanne:

• Website - awakenedanesthetist.com
• Podcast - Awakened Anesthetist
• Instagram - @awakenedanesthetist

Get in touch with Dawn: 

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker welcomes. back Jordan Grumet. Jordan is an internal medicine and hospice physician who first shared his thoughts with the world through blogging, specifically focusing on financial independence and wellness. He has published three books -Taking Stock, The Purpose Code, and most recently The Healthcare Heist: How Physicians and Patients Can Unite to Transform Healthcare. 

Jordan's journey intertwines medical insight and financial wisdom, resonating deeply with those seeking a balanced, meaningful life. He discusses many causes for burnout in the medical profession, but this conversation applies to non-medical people as well. We will all be patients at some point in our lives.

Watch the conversation on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/TTnfSJoj2F0

Relevant/mentioned links:

• Sign up for the Practice Balance newsletter HERE
• Lean Out Podcast - Purpose with Jordan Grumet

Get in touch with Jordan:

• Website - jordangrumet.com

Get in touch with Dawn:

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)

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In this episode, Dawn Baker talks with Dimitrios Tsatiris. Dimitrios is a practicing board-certified psychiatrist, book author and TEDx speaker who studies and writes about the interface of mental health and achievement. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including Psychology Today, Doximity, Health.com, KevinMD, The White Coat Investor and Thrive Global among others. An expert in physician wellness, he has worked with hundreds of physicians and is the author of the book Physician Burnout: How to Rise Above a Broken Healthcare System as a Practicing Clinician.

Dimitrios is passionate about empowering physicians and other high achievers to live a fulfilling life by developing a healthy relationship with achievement. He shares his current work-life balance, how he came to do the work he loves, and common themes he sees as a psychiatrist and coach to physicians and high achievers. 

Relevant/mentioned links:

• Sign up for the Practice Balance newsletter here
• Dimitrios' Psychology Today blog - Anxiety in High Achievers
• Check out Dimitrios' book on physician burnout 
• Lean Out Podcast - What Is Enough?

Get in touch with Dimitrios:

Website - dimitriostsatiris.com

Instagram - @drdimitrios

X - @drdimitrios

Get in touch with Dawn: 

• Website - practicebalance.com
• Instagram - @practicebalance
• Facebook - Dawn Baker
• LinkedIn - Dawn L Baker, MD
• Buy the Lean Out Book
• Buy the Lean Out Confidence Course (code POD gives you $50 off!)