If you’re a big overachiever like me, maybe setting these lofty New Years Goals and resolutions isn’t actually the way to happiness.

I’ve realized that setting these big new years goals usually leaves me constantly striving and hustling and working towards the future. 
It takes my focus away from the present moment. 

With this in mind, I’ve created a different approach to new year’s resolutions that I think you are really going to like. 

Tune in to hear my process for checking in and setting intentions for 2022.

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

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Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling of dread about going into work on a Monday morning? But maybe you just brushed it off, decided to suck it up and keep going. While it seems like a noble thing to do,  ignoring  your career discontent may actually be leading you right into burnout.

Burnout doesn't happen at all once.  It's a gradual build up with predictable warning signs.  Warning signs that we tend to ignore. 

My guest this week Dr. Shola Ezeokoli, shares her story of taking responsibility of her own happiness, recovering from burnout and building a thriving business as a physician life coach and bestselling author. 

During this conversation we talk about:

• How to navigate the voices of self-doubt that try to keep you stuck
• Two key things that you MUST in place to recover from burnout
• Behaviors and mindsets leading to burnout and how to spot the warning signs early on.
• Creating your own definition of success
• The truth about starting your own coaching business

And so much more.

This episode is full of empowering messages and mindset shifts and will be sure to leave you feeling POWERFUL- like you can do anything. I'm so excited for you to tune in!

Resources/ Links:
Dr. Shola Ezeokoli's Website
Free Burnout to Balance Masterclass
Email Dr. Ezeokoli: [email protected]

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

The holidays can be a challenging time for everyone, but there are some special difficulties that healthcare professionals face.

Hospitals don’t close and people don’t stop getting sick just because it’s a holiday.

When you already feel overworked and underappreciated in your job, working over the holidays can lead to so much bitterness and resentment.

Even if you aren’t working, the holidays can be a triggering time that brings up a whole host of emotions.

In this solo episode I talk about...

• The problem with continually sacrificing your own needs and desires for your career
• How to use your feelings to understand what you truly need and want
• Letting go of what you think the holidays are supposed to look like
• Taking care of yourself this holiday season

If the holidays are stressing you out for one reason or another, I hope this episode can help bring you back to a place of calm.

Sending you so much love and blessings this holiday season and always.

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Have you ever felt an indescribable pull towards something more? Maybe you feel happy enough in your current career, but also have this sense that you are missing out on something you are supposed to be doing? 

Many of us have this sense that something is off or missing in our current careers, but we also fear change. We convince ourselves that things are good enough, that we are happy enough because we don’t want to venture into the unknown. 

My guest this week, Dr. Jill Wener, felt a similar sort of pull towards something more while practicing academic medicine. Because she had been meditating for years, she was able to trust her intuition and surrender into the unknown.

Her journey took her away from clinical practice and all the way to Asia, where she completed a meditation teacher training in India. 

She continued taking one step at a time into the unknown and allowed her path to unfold in unpredictable and synchronistic ways. 

Listen in as Jill and I talk about

• Tuning into and trusting your intuition
• Changing the way you conceptualize fear
• The benefits of practicing meditation
• How to be practical on a spiritual journey
• Allowing your identify to evolve and pivot as you grow
• Conscious anti-racism

Jill’s story and insights are so inspiring and I am so excited to share this conversation where you can learn from her.

Links/Resources:
Jillwener.com
Connect with Jill on IG
Twitter: @jillwenermd
The REST Technique Meditation Course (use the coupon COACHCHELSMD10 for 10% off)

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Have you ever felt like you're running on a giant hamster wheel? That no matter how hard you work, it's not enough- there are still one million things left to do.

My guest this week Dr. Serene Shereef felt exactly the same way. She worked herself into a hole of burnout while trying to balance being both a Mom AND an acute care trauma surgeon. She tried all the different productivity hacks and tools to try to get everything done, but at the end of the day she still felt overwhelmed and like she wasn't doing enough. 

She quit her job as a trauma surgeon and took time to rediscover her interests, connect to her priorities and desires and redefine what productivity means to her. 

She decided that productivity doesn't have to be just about getting more and more things done- instead productivity is about doing LESS , but intentionally doing the things that add the biggest value to your life.

Listen in to this weeks episode as Serene and I talk about...

• Shifting your mindset from "I'm not enough" to "I'm more than enough"
• Reframing the way you think about failure
• Navigating the realities of the medical system to practice on your own terms
• Getting OFF the hamster wheel and connecting to what's most important in your life
• Using productivity to do more of what actually matters to you

This episode is full of practical tips and wisdom that are going to change the way you think about productivity.

Links/Resources:
www.serenitywellnessMD.com
Join the FREE 21-Day Habits Challenge starting Dec 1st!
Connect with Serene on FB
Connect with Serene on IG

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Do you feel this constant pressure to do ALL the things? Are you addicted to work and productivity? Do you feel guilty about resting when your to-do list isn't done (which, let's be real it NEVER is!).

Welcome to hustle culture, which refers to the way we place a high status and importance on work in today's society.  In general, the culture in the US  prioritizes work over connection, creativity, and joy- and in many ways it's costing us our wellbeing.

Hustle culture is particularly rampant in the medical field, and the pressure to keep working at all costs is a huge contributor to burnout.

In this episode, I have a very special guest, Dr. Brianna Turgeon (yupp, my sister!) who is a sociology professor at Jacksonville State University.
 
Brianna unpacks the cultural narratives, media messaging and systems that contribute to our obsession with working nonstop.

By understanding where hustle culture comes from- we can distance ourselves from the belief that we should ALWAYS be working, and start to create a new, healthier  narrative.

In this episode we discuss the historical origins of hustle culture, the way our current systems are set up to normalize and perpetuate excessive hard work,  and how we can start to relieve the guilt associated with resting to truly take some time off.

This is an incredible episode full of paradigm shifting insights as well as practical suggestions for mounting a resistance against hustle culture.

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Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Are you sick of feeling drained and exhausted at the end of each day? Are you constantly taking the stress of the job home with you? 

In this podcast episode I share a clip from Day 1 of my Bye Burnout training. In this clip I teach you how to manage the impact of the stress response in the body.  This is a  cornerstone of burnout recovery.

The medical field is full of highly stressful situations that trigger our sympathetic nervous system to go into a fight/flight/freeze response. In order to recover from burnout we need to understand how to downregulate our nervous system to bring our body back into a state of equilibrium.

Tune into this episode to learn about my framework for conceptualizing burnout, how to identify your energy drains, and one tangible way to start turning off the stress response in your body.

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Do you want to enjoy your work and not feel so drained? Do you want to be happy and fulfilled in your career?  Maybe you long to wake up in the morning NOT dreading the day ahead.

 A huge part of getting on the path to career fulfillment is doing the inner work to get clear on what your really want/ need to be fulfilled. And by "inner work", I just mean asking yourself some deep questions and taking the time  and space to reflect on your true answers. 

In this solo episode I share with you 5 questions you can ask yourself to get started on the path to career fulfillment.

These questions are really just a starting point for you. In my 1-1 coaching  program,  The Career Fulfillment Formula, we go through a step by step process to answer these questions in depth. 

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Do you ever feel completely unhappy but also stuck in your current career? You try to brainstorm options for making a change, but none of the other options seem like quite the right fit. Either they wouldn't make you enough money, you aren't sure you'd actually be happy doing them, or you worry it might fail.

My guest this week, Dr. Laura Brenner went through this dilemma as well. Dr. Brenner practiced clinical dentistry for 10 years before leaving and now works as a career coach helping other dentists find JOY in their careers. But her decision to leave dentistry, wasn't so easy or straightforward.

She went through years of feeling burnt out, paralyzed, afraid and stuck before she finally decided that something HAS to change. During this episode, Laura and Chelsea talk about some of the key shifts she had to make to find joy in her career. They also discuss how perfectionism keeps you stuck, how to get started when you aren't sure what to do, moving through imposter syndrome, giving yourself credit and building courage, and so much more.

This is a powerful and inspiring conversation that is going to help you see your life and career differently.

LINKS/ RESOURCES:

Website: https://www.lolabeescareercoaching.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Drlolabees/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlolabees - @drlolabees

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Do you  get your self worth from your productivity? Do you have a belief that feelings are weak and if you take time to feel them- it get's in the way of getting things done?

You are not alone. This is exactly what we talk about with on this week's podcast with special guest Dr.  Sogol Pahlavan, pediatrician and co-founder of her private practice ABC Pediatric Clinic in Houston.

By the time Sogol was 40 she had checked all the boxes. She had career success as a physician and entrepreneur, she had a loving family, and was financially independent, but something was still off. Despite her success, she didn't feel good physically, mentally or emotionally.

After going on an inward journey, she realized her symptoms stemmed from years of unprocessed emotions she was carrying around with her. She discovered and implemented mindfulness practices which completely transformed her life and well-being.

Now she works as a mindfulness coach educate physicians on the importance of mindful living.

Listen in as Sogol and Chelsea talk about the physical toll of unprocessed emotions, the importance of feeling your feelings, how to start unlearning the hustle,  the real definition of self- love and how have a more positive emotional experience each day.

This episode is literally packed FULL of actionable tips for living more mindfully every day.

RESOURCES/ LINKS MENTIONED:
- Connect with Dr. Sogol on Instagram
- Connect with Dr. Sogol on Facebook
- Email: [email protected]

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.

Register for Pivot Potentials Now >> https://coachchelsmd.com/summit/

Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.