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October 19Building a Life Around Medicine with Wesley Porter – Ep 39
What does it take to build a successful career, maintain financial stability, and support a spouse through medical residency—all while living between two cities?
In this episode of Moving Medicine Partners, host Zoe Taylor welcomes Wesley Porter, a real estate professional serving Lexington, Kentucky, and Indianapolis, Indiana, whose husband, Sam, is completing his OB-GYN residency.
Wesley shares his journey from chemical engineering to full-time real estate, balancing his entrepreneurial ambitions with the demands of medical training. After getting married just three days before Sam relocated for residency, Wesley found himself navigating two real estate markets, managing multiple properties, and traveling regularly between Kentucky and Indiana.
Their journey hasn't been without surprises—including a neighboring house fire shortly after purchasing their Indianapolis home. Wesley explains how that experience changed his perspective on evaluating properties and helping clients make informed decisions.
Zoe and Wesley also explore whether physicians should buy or rent during residency, the realities of owning investment properties, and why transitioning into an attending salary doesn't necessarily mean rushing to purchase a dream home.
In This Episode:
Balancing a real estate career with a spouse's demanding medical residency
Maintaining professional identity and financial independence as a physician spouse
Buying versus renting during residency
The benefits and challenges of owning rental properties
Lessons learned from an unexpected neighboring house fire
Preparing financially for the transition from residency to attending
What makes Lexington, Kentucky, an appealing destination for medical families
Choosing neighborhoods and evaluating lifestyle needs when relocating
Whether you're entering residency, preparing for your first attending position, or supporting a partner through medical training, this conversation offers a practical perspective on making real estate decisions that support your family's long-term goals.
Connect with Wesley Porter
RE/MAX Creative Realty | F.C. Tucker Company
RE/MAX: https://wesley-porter.remax.com/
F.C. Tucker: https://www.talktotucker.com/wesley.porter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/porter_papi_realtor/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwporter-1/
34 min
October 12Las Vegas Homebuying: Big Savings for Physicians – Ep 38
Thinking about moving to Las Vegas as a physician? Discover what life is really like beyond the Strip, from family-friendly neighborhoods to new-construction opportunities and physician real estate investing.
In this episode of the Moving Medicine Podcast, host Zoe Taylor, founder of Moving Medicine Partners, welcomes Jeanette Martinez, broker and owner of Luxury Living Las Vegas.
Originally from St. Louis, Jeanette has spent 20 years in Las Vegas and 12 years helping buyers and sellers navigate real estate, with a particular focus on physicians and medical families. Having experienced physician family life firsthand, she understands the unique challenges of medical career transitions and relocation.
Jeanette shares how she recently helped a relocating physician couple negotiate nearly $100,000 off a new-construction home, secure builder-paid closing costs, and obtain a 30-year fixed mortgage rate in the 5% range.
In This Episode:
Living in Las Vegas beyond the Strip
Henderson vs. Summerlin: Where physicians and their families should consider living
Choosing a neighborhood based on hospital commutes, schools, and lifestyle
New-construction incentives and buyer opportunities in the Las Vegas housing market
Builder warranties, inspections, and potential maintenance expenses
Turning your first physician home into a future investment property
Healthcare expansion and opportunities for medical professionals in Southern Nevada
Nevada's tax advantages, outdoor recreation, and family-friendly communities
Whether you're relocating for residency, fellowship, or a new attending position, Jeanette offers practical insights into finding a home that supports both your medical career and long-term goals.
Connect With Jeanette Martinez
Broker/Owner | Luxury Living Las Vegas
Website: https://luxurylivinglasvegas.com/
Meet Jeanette: https://luxurylivinglasvegas.com/meet-jeanette/
Moving Medicine Partners Profile: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/agents/jeanette-martinez
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luxurylivinglasvegas
Phone: 702-743-9882
Email: [email protected]
Connect With Moving Medicine Partners
Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/movingmedicinepartners
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MovingMedicinePartners
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moving-medicine-partners
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moving-medicine-podcast/id1865970049
Email: [email protected]
About Moving Medicine Partners
Moving Medicine Partners is a national network of real estate professionals who have firsthand experience with the physician lifestyle. The organization helps medical professionals and their families navigate relocations, homebuying, and career transitions with agents who understand the demands of medicine.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, mortgage, tax, legal, or real estate advice. Rates, incentives, and market conditions vary. Consult qualified professionals regarding your individual circumstances.
28 min
October 05How private is your home purchase when you're a physician? – Ep 37
Physicians spend their careers protecting patient privacy—but how often do they think about protecting their own?
In this episode of Moving Medicine, Zoe Taylor explores an often-overlooked part of physician relocation: personal privacy when buying a home.
Public property records can make it surprisingly easy to connect a physician’s professional identity to a home address. From there, publicly available information may reveal a home's purchase price, estimated value, photos, layout, and other personal details.
For physicians, that exposure can carry additional considerations. Zoe discusses how privacy intersects with professional boundaries, online visibility, family safety, and the realities of being a public-facing medical professional. She also explains why some physician buyers may want to speak with an attorney about trusts or other ownership structures before closing—while emphasizing that these options do not automatically provide anonymity and can vary based on state law, lending requirements, taxes, insurance, and estate-planning considerations.
Zoe also shares a simple exercise every physician can do: search yourself online and see exactly what someone else can learn about you, your home, and your family.
In this episode:
Why physician privacy belongs in the relocation conversation
How public property records can expose personal information
Privacy and professional boundaries with patients
Trusts and other potential ownership structures
Physician-loan and legal considerations
How social media can unintentionally reveal your home or family
Questions to ask before purchasing and recording a property
Creating separation between your professional identity and private life
The goal isn't to hide. It's to make an informed decision about how much of your private life you want to make publicly accessible before the information is already out there.
Find a Moving Medicine Partners agent: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
10 min
September 28Moving to Boulder as a Physician Family: Lifestyle, Housing, and Finding the Right Fit – Ep 36
Relocating for medicine means finding a place that works for the whole family. In this episode of Moving Medicine Partners, Zoe Taylor talks with Boulder real estate agent and physician spouse William Greig about building a life around a medical career and helping buyers find a home that fits theirs.
William shares how he moved from social work and professional triathlon into real estate, and why he approaches the job as a service to his clients. He and Zoe discuss his wife’s move into a smaller family medicine practice, the flexibility two working parents need, and what draws relocating families to Boulder.
They also explore Boulder’s neighborhoods and limited housing supply, along with Colorado home-buying details that can surprise out-of-state buyers, including disclosures, inspections, radon, and water rights.
In this episode:
William’s path into real estate and his service-first approach
How a practice change affected his family’s schedule
What physician families should consider when choosing where to live
Boulder’s neighborhoods, outdoor access, and housing options
Colorado disclosures and inspection negotiations
When radon and water rights may matter to a buyer
Connect with William: Website · Instagram
Find support for your move: Moving Medicine Partners
31 min
September 14Relocating to Houston as a Medical Family – Ep 35
Relocating for medicine is rarely just a move. It can mean rebuilding a career, finding a community, managing a demanding medical schedule, and making major housing decisions with very little time. In this episode, Zoe Taylor talks with Houston Realtor and physician spouse Whitney Conkling about moving from New York City to Houston with a six-week-old during the summer of 2020 so her husband could begin a cardiovascular anesthesiology fellowship.
Whitney shares how the logistics of the relocation largely fell on her shoulders, how she rebuilt her own career in a city she had left 15 years earlier, and why a physician family's medical specialty and call schedule should influence where they live. She also explains why Houston buyers need to look beyond the house itself and consider commute patterns, schools, flood history, construction quality, future resale, and the kind of community they want to build.
In This Episode
Moving from New York to Houston with a newborn and only days between residency and fellowship
The invisible planning and emotional workload often carried by physician spouses
Whitney's unconventional path from musical theater to real estate in three different states
Rebuilding a career while supporting a spouse through fellowship and an attending schedule
Why a physician's specialty, hospital assignments, and call radius matter when choosing a neighborhood
How Houston commute times change by time of day and why distance alone can be misleading
Balancing schools, hospital access, neighborhood lifestyle, flood history, and resale value
Why medical families should decide whether they are buying a short-term or long-term home
Finding friends, support, and a sense of belonging after relocating
What makes Houston's medical, cultural, arts, and food communities appealing to newcomers

About Whitney Conkling
Whitney Conkling is a Houston Realtor with Compass and the spouse of a cardiovascular anesthesiologist. After earning a BFA from Boston Conservatory, she began working in real estate while still in college, later pursued acting in New York City, and maintained real estate licenses across Massachusetts, New York, and Texas. Her own experience navigating medical training, relocation, parenthood, and a career restart now informs the way she helps physicians and medical families choose not only a home, but a community and lifestyle that work for them.
Connect with Whitney
Website: The Conkling Group Realtors
Instagram: @WhitneyConklingRealtor
Email: [email protected]
About Moving Medicine Partners
Moving Medicine Partners is a national relocation network built to support physicians and their families through moves from residency to retirement. Founded by physician spouse Zoe Taylor, the network connects medical professionals with relocation guidance and trusted professionals who understand the demands of a medical career.
Explore physician relocation support at Moving Medicine Partners.
Listen to more episodes of the Moving Medicine Partners Podcast.
Disclaimer: This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, tax, or employment advice. Consult an appropriately licensed professional about your specific circumstances.
27 min
September 07Your Physician Contract Is Negotiable – Ep 34
A physician employment agreement can shape far more than salary. In this episode, Zoe Taylor talks with healthcare attorney and physician spouse Kyle Claussen about how physicians can evaluate compensation, identify hidden risks, negotiate from a position of clarity, and protect their careers and families before signing.
Kyle explains why a “standard contract” is still worth reviewing, how verified market data can strengthen a physician’s position, and which clauses can create expensive problems later—from productivity formulas and repayment obligations to restrictive noncompetes and missing promises about schedules, staffing, or practice location.
In This Episode
Why contract education is an essential—but often missing—part of physician training
The difference between understanding an offer, benchmarking it, and negotiating changes
Why base salary is only one part of total compensation
How work RVUs, collections, guarantees, signing bonuses, student-loan assistance, and relocation benefits affect the real value of an offer
The contract terms that influence daily quality of life, including call schedules, administrative time, staffing, and satellite-location expectations
How tail coverage, bonus clawbacks, production payments, termination language, and noncompetes shape an exit
Why verbal promises should be clearly documented in writing
How multiple offers—and reliable market comparisons—can create leverage and confidence
What residents, fellows, mid-career physicians, and future private-practice partners should review before committing
Key Takeaways
Do not assume “non-negotiable” means “do not review.” Even when an employer will not revise every term, physicians should understand the agreement and its risks before signing.
Compare the entire opportunity—not only the guaranteed salary. Long-term production formulas, time commitments, benefits, working conditions, and exit costs may matter more.
Get important promises in writing. If a role includes a scribe, protected administrative time, a specific practice site, or certain procedures, the contract should reflect that understanding.
Preserve options when possible. Two or three acceptable offers can reduce pressure and make it easier to negotiate objectively.
Review early. The best time to seek guidance is when the first written terms arrive, including a letter of intent, term sheet, or memorandum of understanding.
Episode Timeline
00:00 — Welcome and introduction to Kyle Claussen
01:00 — How Kyle entered physician contract law and the origin of Resolve
03:00 — Contract clarity, compensation fairness, and physician retention
06:00 — What physicians overlook when focusing only on salary
08:00 — Reviewing versus benchmarking versus negotiating
10:00 — Verified contract data, anonymity, and market comparisons
12:00 — Employment agreements, private practice, and partnership tracks
15:00 — When physicians should begin reviewing an opportunity
16:00 — Why multiple offers improve leverage and decision-making
18:00 — Compensation wins and small clauses with major lifestyle impact
20:00 — Noncompetes and the “Swiss cheese city” problem
22:00 — Burnout, misalignment, and documenting verbal promises
23:00 — Resolve’s self-service and attorney-supported options
25:00 — How to connect with Resolve
About Kyle Claussen
Kyle Claussen, JD, is a healthcare attorney and the CEO of Resolve. He has spent more than a decade advocating for physicians in negotiations with major health systems, private practices, and academic medical centers. As a physician spouse, he also understands how employment terms affect the entire household—not only the physician’s career.
Resources & Connect
Review physician contract services and market-comparison options at Resolve.
Learn more about Kyle and the legal team at Resolve Legal.
Explore physician relocation support at Moving Medicine Partners.
Listen to more episodes of the Moving Medicine Partners Podcast.
About Moving Medicine Partners
Moving Medicine Partners is a national relocation network built to support physicians and their families through moves from residency to retirement. Founded by physician spouse Zoe Taylor, the network connects medical professionals with relocation guidance and trusted professionals who understand the demands of a medical career.
Disclaimer: This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, tax, or employment advice. Consult an appropriately licensed professional about your specific circumstances.
28 min
August 27The Truth About Physician Loans: Zero Down, No PMI & Myths That Cost You Money – Ep 33
A physician mortgage is not one standardized product. In this episode, Jim Secrest of Arvest Bank and Zoe Taylor unpack the differences between conforming loans, bank-held portfolio loans, and brokered products that may be marketed as physician loans without offering the same benefits.
Jim explains why loan servicing and lender experience matter, how certain programs can offer up to 100% or 103% financing without private mortgage insurance, and why a physician loan may still make sense even when a borrower has cash available for a down payment. He and Zoe also discuss credit-score treatment, student debt, employment contracts, 1099 and K-1 income, residency and fellowship eligibility, and the risks of putting little or nothing down when a family may sell again quickly.
The conversation closes with a rapid-fire round separating common physician-loan myths from reality—and a reminder that an experienced lender who regularly handles medical borrowers can often identify options that a general loan officer may miss.
They Cover
How portfolio physician loans differ from conforming conventional mortgages

Why asking who originates, retains, and services the loan matters

How products marketed as “physician loans” can vary from one lender to another

When zero-down or low-down-payment financing may preserve liquidity

Why physician loans do not automatically carry higher interest rates

How private mortgage insurance may be avoided with qualifying physician programs

Why established attendings—not only residents and fellows—may still benefit

How credit scores, student debt, employment contracts, 1099 income, bonuses, and K-1 income may be evaluated

The potential downside of selling too soon after a highly leveraged purchase

Why borrowers should compare several lenders and work with someone experienced in physician lending

What Makes This Episode Different
A practical explanation of what “portfolio loan” actually means for the borrower

Specific vetting questions physicians can use when interviewing lenders

Real examples of borrowers who were initially told they did not qualify

A balanced look at both the flexibility and the risks of low-down-payment financing

A myth-versus-reality segment that clears up the most persistent physician-loan misconceptions
About the Guest
Jim Secrest is a residential mortgage lender with Arvest Bank. Before joining Arvest, he spent two decades in consumer finance, mortgage lending, and the title industry across both operations and sales. He has spent roughly a decade working with Arvest’s mortgage products and has developed a particular focus on physician lending and complex medical-family borrower scenarios.
Jim works with eligible borrowers in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Because physician-loan programs, rates, limits, eligibility rules, and terms can change, borrowers should confirm current details directly with Jim and Arvest.
Connect with Jim Secrest
Jim Secrest at Arvest Bank
Jim Secrest at Moving Medicine Partners
LinkedIn
Call Jim: 913-634-2323
NMLS #1104170
Timestamps
00:00 — Why physician loans matter during relocation

01:00 — Jim’s path into mortgage lending and the physician-loan niche

04:00 — Conforming mortgages versus bank-held portfolio loans

06:00 — The first red flags when a lender dismisses physician loans

08:00 — Why “physician loan” does not mean the same thing everywhere

09:00 — Credit scores, special underwriting, and 103% financing

10:30 — Why banks created physician mortgage programs

12:00 — Eligible medical professions and how programs differ

13:00 — Residents, fellows, and established attendings

14:00 — When keeping cash invested may—or may not—make sense

15:00 — The risk of selling too soon after putting little down

16:00 — Physician loans, jumbo financing, and changing loan limits

18:00 — PMI, interest rates, and why comparisons matter

20:00 — Employment contracts, future income, and closing before a start date

23:00 — Student debt, 1099 income, K-1 income, and complex qualification scenarios

28:30 — Rapid fire: physician-loan myths versus reality

31:00 — Why the individual loan officer’s experience matters

34:00 — The biggest takeaway for physician families

35:00 — Jim’s service area and how to connect

About the Show
The Moving Medicine Podcast is a space for physicians and physician spouses navigating relocation—not as a transaction, but as a life transition. Hosted by Zoe Taylor, founder of Moving Medicine Partners, the show centers the human side of medical moves and offers clarity, grounding, and shared understanding for families at every stage of the journey.
Connect & Follow
Moving Medicine Partners
Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
Email
About the Host
Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and a real estate agent based in St. Louis who has sat at that kitchen table herself. Through her work supporting medical families across the country, Zoe has seen the unseen labor of relocation up close—and built this podcast to make sure no one has to navigate it feeling invisible, rushed, or alone.
38 min
August 10Buy vs. Rent: A Physician Family’s Guide to Real Estate – Ep 32
Physician families rarely move on a simple timeline. Match, residency, fellowship, and attending positions can mean relocating quickly, buying from another state, navigating unfamiliar neighborhoods, and making major financial decisions while the rest of life is already in motion.
Originally recorded for Financial Residency's Grand Rounds with Dr. Tammy, this episode features Zoe Taylor discussing why physician families benefit from real estate professionals who understand their specific circumstances. Zoe explains how Moving Medicine Partners brings together vetted real estate agents with ties to physician families and experience helping medical households buy, sell, and rent.
The conversation gets practical about the buy-versus-rent decision, physician mortgage loans, how to evaluate an agent, and why a residency home should sometimes be purchased with a backup plan in mind. Zoe also shares her own experience with long- and short-term rentals and discusses the importance of thinking beyond the immediate move when making a housing decision.
Because this is a repurposed episode, some market conditions, commission practices, lending rules, tax considerations, and timelines discussed reflect the period when the original conversation was recorded. Listeners should confirm current requirements with qualified real estate, lending, tax, and legal professionals.
They Cover
What makes physician-family relocation different from a typical real estate move

Why familiarity with hospitals, medical communities, physician loans, and medical-family timelines matters

The buy-versus-rent question for residents and other physicians expecting another move in a few years

How to vet a real estate agent and why active transaction experience matters

Why physician-loan buyers may need an agent who can clearly advocate for the strength of their financing

Buyer representation, commissions, and the concerns Zoe was watching when the original episode was recorded

Why a residency home may need a Plan B as a future long-, mid-, or short-term rental

Zoe's personal experience owning both long-term and short-term rental properties

The stress of finding housing on a compressed residency or relocation timeline

How Moving Medicine Partners helps connect physician families with agents across the country
What Makes This Episode Different
Zoe Taylor steps out of the host seat and into the guest seat

A physician-family-specific look at real estate rather than generic home-buying advice

Practical insight into the financial and logistical realities behind residency and attending moves

A candid discussion of rental-property strategy and the possibility that a 'temporary' home may need a longer-term plan

A repurposed conversation that gives Moving Medicine listeners another look at the mission behind Moving Medicine Partners
About the Guest
Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and a real estate agent based in St. Louis. As a physician spouse and real estate professional, she understands the demands medical training and career transitions can place on an entire family. Through Moving Medicine Partners, Zoe helps connect physician families with experienced real estate professionals who understand the unique logistics, financing, timelines, and lifestyle considerations that come with medical relocation.
Connect with Zoe Taylor / Moving Medicine Partners
Moving Medicine Partners
Email Moving Medicine Partners
Moving Medicine Partners on Instagram
Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction to Financial Residency's Grand Rounds and Zoe Taylor

01:00 - What Moving Medicine Partners is and why physician-family experience matters

02:00 - Helping relocating medical families find community after a move

03:00 - Resident season, relocation, and the realities of different real estate markets

04:00 - Buy versus rent, physician lenders, and choosing the right real estate agent

06:00 - Active versus inactive agents and experience in the market

07:00 - Real estate commission changes and buyer representation

09:00 - Concerns for buyers using low-down-payment or 100% financing

11:00 - Planning ahead when a residency home may later become a rental

12:00 - Rental income, debt-to-income considerations, and Zoe's long-term rental experience

14:00 - Zoe's short-term rental and second-home strategy

15:00 - The realities and headaches of managing a short-term rental

17:00 - Timing a residency move and finding housing on a tight timeline

19:00 - How to find a Moving Medicine Partners agent

20:00 - Advocating for physician-loan buyers
About the Show
The Moving Medicine Podcast is a space for physicians and physician spouses navigating relocation - not as a transaction, but as a life transition. Hosted by Zoe Taylor, founder of Moving Medicine Partners, the show centers the human side of medical moves and offers clarity, grounding, and shared understanding for families at every stage of the journey.
Connect & Follow
Moving Medicine Partners
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Email
About the Host
Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and a real estate agent based in St. Louis who understands physician-family relocation from inside the medical-family experience. Through her work supporting medical families across the country, Zoe has seen how much more a move involves than a closing date and an address - and built this podcast to make those transitions feel more informed and connected.
23 min
August 03When Your Spouse’s Medical Career Changes Yours – Ep 31
Todd Spencer spent roughly 15 years in the Department of Defense before medicine changed the trajectory of his own career. He met his wife, Amy, while she was in general surgery residency at Detroit Medical Center. Through seven years of residency and research, a surgical ICU fellowship, young children, Q3 call, daycare illnesses, and two demanding careers, Todd often became the parent whose work had to flex when medicine could not.
In 2014, the family relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Amy became an attending general surgeon and burn surgeon. Todd left the security and benefits of federal employment to prioritize their children and family life—a move that also forced him to rethink his professional identity. He later returned to remote defense work, but when the job required a return to Detroit, he chose Grand Rapids and his family again. That second pivot eventually led him into real estate.
Todd and Zoe unpack what physician-family relocation really looks like when the spouse is also sacrificing a career, why community doesn't automatically appear after a move, and how stress from medicine can spill into the home. Todd shares what helped his family recognize and respond when Amy's stress began manifesting physically, including listening without trying to fix everything, creating space to decompress, movement, mindfulness, reading, and time with colleagues.
They also get practical about Grand Rapids: the flexibility to live in a walkable neighborhood or a rural setting while maintaining a manageable hospital commute, the draw of East Grand Rapids and Reeds Lake, easy access to Lake Michigan, and why medical families should be honest about the lifestyle they want before narrowing their home search.
They Cover
What it was like raising young children while Amy completed general surgery residency and surgical ICU fellowship

Why Todd left a secure Department of Defense career to support the family’s move to Grand Rapids

The identity shift physician spouses can experience when their career becomes the flexible one

Why Todd chose family over returning to a Detroit office—and how that led to a second career pivot

What Todd wishes had been different about his own 2014 home-buying experience

Why the best real estate question is often “why?” rather than simply accepting a buyer’s initial checklist

How physician families can build community through kids’ activities, school, the gym, volunteering, and showing up consistently

How physician stress and burnout can manifest physically—and the role a spouse can play without trying to solve the unsolvable

Why Grand Rapids can work for families who want walkability, water, outdoor recreation, or a more rural lifestyle

Todd’s favorite Grand Rapids-area spots, including Ada, Cascade Peace Park, Kirk Park, Butcher’s Union, and Frederik Meijer Gardens
What Makes This Episode Different
A male physician-spouse perspective on career sacrifice, identity, parenting, and rebuilding after relocation

A real estate professional who remembers what it felt like to arrive in Grand Rapids without knowing where his own family should live

A candid discussion of physician burnout from the spouse’s side of the relationship

A family-first look at housing decisions—where commute, community, lifestyle, schools, and mental bandwidth all matter

A local guide to Grand Rapids from someone who has lived the relocation himself and now helps other families navigate it
About the Guest
Todd Spencer is a licensed real estate agent with Paul Bunce Real Estate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Before entering real estate, Todd studied engineering and spent years working in the Department of Defense. He is married to Amy, an attending general surgeon and burn surgeon, and has experienced the physician-family journey firsthand—from residency and fellowship to raising young children, relocation, career sacrifice, attending life, and building community in a new city.

After relocating from Metro Detroit to Grand Rapids in 2014, Todd stepped away from federal service to prioritize his family. Today, he brings that lived experience and an engineer’s detail-oriented mindset to helping families make housing decisions that fit the life they actually want to build.
Connect with Todd Spencer
Paul Bunce Real Estate
Instagram
LinkedIn
Email Todd
About the Show
The Moving Medicine Podcast is a space for physicians and physician spouses navigating relocation—not as a transaction, but as a life transition. Hosted by Zoe Taylor, founder of Moving Medicine Partners, the show centers the human side of medical moves and offers clarity, grounding, and shared understanding for families at every stage of the journey.
Connect & Follow
Moving Medicine Partners
Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
Email
About the Host
Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and a real estate agent based in St. Louis who has sat at that kitchen table herself. Through her work supporting medical families across the country, Zoe has seen the unseen labor of relocation up close—and built this podcast to make sure no one has to navigate it feeling invisible, rushed, or alone.
35 min
July 27Building a Business That Serves Physician Families– She Lift Podcast – Ep 30
What does it take to build a business around serving one of the most unique professional communities in America?
In this special replay, Moving Medicine founder Zoe Taylor joins another podcast to share the story behind the company, how her own experiences as the spouse of a physician shaped her perspective, and why physician families require far more than a traditional real estate transaction.
Zoe discusses the realities of medical training, frequent relocations, physician mortgage programs, financial education, and how empathy became the foundation of Moving Medicine Partners. She also opens up about entrepreneurship, delegation, overcoming personal adversity, and learning that sustainable success requires grace—not doing everything alone.
Whether you're a resident preparing for Match, an attending considering your next move, or simply interested in building a purpose-driven business, this conversation offers practical insights and an honest look behind the scenes.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why physician families have unique relocation needs

How frequent moves affect physicians throughout training and beyond

The truth about physician mortgage loans and common misconceptions

Renting vs. buying during residency and fellowship

Why financial education matters early in a medical career

How Zoe built Moving Medicine Partners into a nationwide network

The importance of finding a niche and serving it exceptionally well

Leadership lessons on delegation, hiring, and building the right team

Why empathy has become one of Zoe's greatest business advantages

Personal lessons on resilience, balance, and giving yourself grace

Connect with Zoe Taylor
Hosted by Zoe Taylor, Moving Medicine Podcast explores the human side of physician relocation. Through conversations with physicians, spouses, and professionals serving the medical community, the show helps families navigate the transitions that come with life in medicine.
🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com
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💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moving-medicine-partners
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