Moving Medicine Podcast

This episode is supported by Bob at Truist, who works closely with physicians and medical families navigating big financial decisions—especially around relocation, home buying, and long-term planning.

If you’re making a move, stepping into a new role, or just want clarity around how your money fits into your life, Bob brings a calm, strategic approach that’s built for people with complex careers.

You can connect directly with Bob— http://www.truist.com/bob.hall

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Physicians shouldn’t be settling.

Paul shares how his first company (Winow) revealed deep structural issues in physician recruiting — a system driven by speed, vacancy costs, and marketing pitches instead of alignment and transparency

That realization led to the creation of Tesselate, a physician-first career navigation platform designed to:

Dr. Jeff Bettag adds the resident perspective — highlighting how physicians are trained extensively in medicine but rarely in contract structure, compensation models, or long-term career strategy

Together, the conversation covers:

Paul Vernich

Founder & CEO of Tesselate

Paul previously founded Winow, an AI-driven physician recruiting company that exposed the systemic inefficiencies in healthcare hiring. After its acquisition by IA Healthcare in 2023, he launched Tesselate with a new mission:

To empower physicians directly — not recruiters or health systems — by leveling the informational playing field.

Tesselate operates as a physician-first, privacy-protected career navigation platform designed to prevent settling and improve alignment across compensation, culture, autonomy, and clinical scope.

🌐 Website: https://t8health.com

Neurology Resident | Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Jeff Bettag is a first-year neurology resident who joined Tesselate after witnessing firsthand the confusion, fear, and lack of transparency surrounding physician job selection

He advocates for restoring physician autonomy, educating residents earlier in training about career realities, and reframing burnout as a systems misalignment issue.

(Note: Views expressed are his own.)

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more…

This episode is supported by Bob at Truist, who works closely with physicians and medical families navigating big financial decisions—especially around relocation, home buying, and long-term planning.

If you’re making a move, stepping into a new role, or just want clarity around how your money fits into your life, Bob brings a calm, strategic approach that’s built for people with complex careers.

You can connect directly with Bob— http://www.truist.com/bob.hall

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Des Moines isn’t flashy — but it offers something many high-demand cities don’t: accessibility, manageable cost of living, strong physician demand, and an easy lifestyle.

Andrea Quann is married to a general surgeon, and since medical school they’ve relocated multiple times — Iowa City, Des Moines (residency), Dubuque, Wilmington, NC, and back again. They’ve rented, built, bought land, sold quickly, and learned hard financial lessons along the way.

Now a licensed real estate agent with Re/Max Precision, Andrea specializes in helping physician families relocate with clarity — especially when time is limited and stakes are high.

In this episode, Andrea shares:

This conversation blends practical relocation advice with honest reflections on marriage, medical call schedules, raising kids through residency, and choosing lifestyle alignment over hype.

Andrea Quann is a licensed real estate agent with Re/Max Precision based in Des Moines, Iowa.

She is married to a general surgeon and has personally navigated medical school, residency, attending transitions, private practice shifts, and cross-country moves.

Before becoming a realtor, Andrea worked in healthcare marketing and web design for a large health system, collaborating closely with residency and fellowship programs. Those experiences — combined with handling four relocations of her own — shaped her mission:

To make relocation easier and far less stressful for doctors and their families, especially when time is limited and the stakes are high.

📍 Des Moines, Iowa

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more…

This episode is supported by Bob at Truist, who works closely with physicians and medical families navigating big financial decisions—especially around relocation, home buying, and long-term planning.

If you’re making a move, stepping into a new role, or just want clarity around how your money fits into your life, Bob brings a calm, strategic approach that’s built for people with complex careers.

You can connect directly with Bob— http://www.truist.com/bob.hall

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Milwaukee may not be flashy — but it offers something many high-demand cities don’t: stability, affordability, strong physician reimbursement, and a high quality of life.

Traci Kurtin, a longtime Milwaukee resident and wife of a joint replacement orthopedic surgeon, shares her family’s full-circle journey — from medical school and residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, to fellowship in Utah, private practice in Arizona, and ultimately returning to Milwaukee to put down permanent roots.

Traci opens up about:

• Growing up in Tucson and adjusting to Midwest winters (including her convertible-in-black-ice story)
• What makes Milwaukee surprisingly vibrant — beaches, walkability, food, arts, and access to Chicago
• Why cost of living matters more than just salary when evaluating a physician contract
• How real estate decisions affect emotional stability and family life
• The invisible load physician spouses carry during training and relocation
• Why choosing the right community matters just as much as choosing the right house

This conversation blends practical relocation insight with honest reflections on marriage, career transitions, motherhood, and finding fulfillment beyond medicine.

• Why Milwaukee is often called the “Third Coast”
• Average home price ranges in Milwaukee and surrounding suburbs
• What winters are actually like (and whether you need AWD)
• Public transportation and commuting options — including Chicago access
• The difference between measurable contract perks and lifestyle fit
• How HGTV culture has impacted home buying decisions
• Why physician families should evaluate intangibles before relocating
• What makes Wisconsin especially physician-friendly (malpractice climate + reimbursement)
• How to build community as a physician spouse
• Why empathy and big-picture thinking matter in relocation decisions

Traci Kurtin is a licensed real estate agent with Keller Williams based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

She is married to a joint replacement orthopedic surgeon and has personally experienced every stage of the medical journey — from medical school and residency to fellowship, private practice, and employed physician life.

After spending years as a stay-at-home mom raising four children and volunteering deeply in her community, Traci returned to the workforce and found her calling in real estate in 2012. Her mission is simple:

Connecting people to their homes and communities.

She specializes in helping physician families navigate relocation with clarity, balance, and long-term lifestyle alignment — not just quick transactions.

📍 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
📧 [email protected]
📞 262-957-0388
🌐 https://kurtin-realty.com
📸 Instagram: @kurtin.ryba.group

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
📸 Instagram: @movingmedicinepartners
📘 Facebook: Moving Medicine Partners
💼 LinkedIn: Moving Medicine Partners
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more… 

This episode is supported by Bob at Truist, who works closely with physicians and medical families navigating big financial decisions—especially around relocation, home buying, and long-term planning.

If you’re making a move, stepping into a new role, or just want clarity around how your money fits into your life, Bob brings a calm, strategic approach that’s built for people with complex careers.

You can connect directly with Bob— http://www.truist.com/bob.hall

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January came, and the “floodgates opened”—buyers who waited through uncertainty are stepping back into the market. Zoe and Sylva kick off with what they’re seeing in real time: more families moving forward even if rates aren’t perfect, because goals and life don’t pause forever.

Sylva shares how she entered real estate because she was a med spouse—after buying their Indianapolis home from Los Angeles (sight unseen) and realizing how much the right home supports residency life. Together, they talk through what good relocation support actually looks like: video tours that capture the street, not just the kitchen, using Google Street View to “walk” a neighborhood from afar, and why listening to what clients want matters more than pushing them toward someone else’s version of “ideal.”

One of the most powerful parts of the conversation is Sylva’s explanation of how a home can regulate (or dysregulate) you—especially during training. They share a real example of how a mismanaged apartment building became a full-blown stress crisis for an intern, and why “renting is safer” isn’t always true. The episode also gets practical: physician loans (and the marketing traps to watch for), Indy commute and lifestyle options, school choice, biking/public transit, and how med families can build community when the physician has built-in “hospital people”… and the spouse often doesn’t.

• Why the January market shift can feel like the “switch flipped” after the holidays
• The real reality of buying sight unseen—and how to do it safely
• How to use Google Street View and video tours to evaluate a neighborhood from afar
• Why housing decisions “live in your nervous system” (and what that actually means)
• A cautionary story: when a “convenient” apartment becomes a residency-level stressor
• The hidden emotional load of the non-medical spouse during training and early attending years
• Physician loans: what varies by lender, what to watch for, and how “physician loan” can be a marketing label
• Indianapolis lifestyle basics: commute flexibility, walkable pockets, school choice, biking trails, and public transit
• Community-building strategies for med spouses who don’t automatically get a built-in cohort

Sylva Zhang is a licensed real estate agent with MedMatch Realty Group with @properties in Indianapolis, Indiana, and she specializes in helping relocating and transitioning physicians find a home (and a rhythm) that actually supports their season of life.

Her path into real estate started as a med spouse—she and her husband bought their Indianapolis home from across the country while finishing med school at UCLA, and that experience showed her how vulnerable (and high-stakes) relocation can be during match and early training. Sylva now brings a grounded, advocacy-first approach to helping medical families put down roots in Indy—centered on clarity, not pressure.

Her mission: Helping doctors put down roots in Indy that allow them to grow and thrive while they’re here.

Company: MedMatch Realty Group with @properties

Website: www.indymatch.com

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 812-360-7428

Instagram: @pedalindy

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pedalindy

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
📸 Instagram: @movingmedicinepartners
📘 Facebook: Moving Medicine Partners
💼 LinkedIn: Moving Medicine Partners
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more… 

This episode is supported by Bob at Truist, who works closely with physicians and medical families navigating big financial decisions—especially around relocation, home buying, and long-term planning.

If you’re making a move, stepping into a new role, or just want clarity around how your money fits into your life, Bob brings a calm, strategic approach that’s built for people with complex careers.

You can connect directly with Bob— http://www.truist.com/bob.hall

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Relocating for a medical career isn’t just about matching—it’s about quality of life, affordability, and choosing a place that fits the season of life you’re in.

Yolima shares her journey from civil engineering into real estate after relocating to Tucson with her husband, a primary care physician. Together, she and Zoe unpack what physician families often overlook when choosing where to live: commute realities, neighborhood personality, cost of living vs. salary, and how real estate decisions can quietly shape financial freedom.

They also explore why Tucson is frequently overlooked—and why that might be a mistake. From sunshine and outdoor living to strong physician salaries and relative affordability, the conversation highlights how smaller, less-hyped cities can offer more space, flexibility, and opportunity than expected.

The episode also dives into physician loans, residency-friendly housing markets, HOAs, and how physician spouses can play an active role in wealth-building through real estate and tax strategy.

• Why Tucson often gets overlooked—and why it deserves a second look
• What relocating from a high-cost state (like New Jersey) to Arizona actually feels like
• How Yolima’s civil engineering background gives her unique “product knowledge” in real estate
• Differences between urban vs. suburban living within Tucson
• What residents and attendings can realistically afford in the Tucson housing market
• How physician loan products work—and what to watch out for
• Why lifestyle fit matters as much as proximity to the hospital
• How physician spouses can contribute to financial strategy through real estate and tax planning
• The role of bonus depreciation and real estate professional status for medical families

Yolima Mulligan is a Tucson-based real estate professional with a unique background in civil engineering and construction. After spending over six years in engineering, Yolima recognized she wanted to build a career rooted in connection, impact, and work she genuinely loved. That pivot came naturally when she and her husband—now a practicing primary care physician—were searching for a rental and investment property, sparking her transition into real estate.

Having personally relocated from the NJ/NYC area to Tucson, Yolima understands the emotional and logistical challenges medical families face when moving to an unfamiliar city. She now specializes in helping physicians and their families navigate relocation to Southern Arizona, providing curated guidance on neighborhoods, schools, lifestyle priorities, and investment opportunities.

With a strong presence on social media, Yolima is known for sharing practical, on-the-ground insight into what life in Tucson actually looks like—helping relocating families feel informed, supported, and confident every step of the way.

If you’re considering a move to Tucson—or want real, on-the-ground insight into neighborhoods, lifestyle, and real estate options—Yolima is incredibly approachable and easy to connect with.

🌵 Website:
https://www.yolimasellshomes.com

📸 Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/yolimamulligan

🎵 TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@yolimamulligan

💼 LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yolima-mulligan-executive-mba-8841a381/

📧 Email:
[email protected]

📞 Phone:
520-222-7398

Yolima is highly active on social media and welcomes DMs—especially from physician families navigating relocation to Southern Arizona.

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
📸 Instagram: @movingmedicinepartners
📘 Facebook: Moving Medicine Partners
💼 LinkedIn: Moving Medicine Partners
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more…

This episode is supported by Bob at Truist, who works closely with physicians and medical families navigating big financial decisions—especially around relocation, home buying, and long-term planning.

If you’re making a move, stepping into a new role, or just want clarity around how your money fits into your life, Bob brings a calm, strategic approach that’s built for people with complex careers.

You can connect directly with Bob— http://www.truist.com/bob.hall

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Relocating for medicine often looks straightforward on paper—but in practice, it’s anything but.

In this episode, Zoe Taylor speaks with Tony Mattar, a Chicago-based real estate broker with over a decade of experience and deep ties to physician homebuyers. Together, they explore what makes Chicago uniquely complex for medical families: segmented neighborhoods, brutal traffic patterns, physician loan strategy, residency vs. attending priorities, and how lifestyle decisions today ripple years into the future.

Tony shares his journey from office administrator to managing broker to Compass team lead, offering rare insight into how real estate functions as both a business and a long-term life strategy. Drawing on his experience working with residents, fellows, and attendings—as well as buying his own home with a physician loan—Tony explains how to avoid short-sighted decisions that can quietly erode quality of life.

This conversation goes beyond listings and price points. It’s about understanding how commute times affect burnout, why Chicago’s market can’t be generalized, and how the right guidance helps physician families buy with clarity—not pressure.

• Why Chicago real estate can’t be treated as a single market
• The reality of commute times—and why distance lies in Chicago
• How residents can buy strategically (even on limited income)
• Physician loans vs. conventional loans: when each makes sense
• Why many medical families rent first before buying in Chicago
• How lifestyle creep sneaks in through “desirable” neighborhoods
• Why trust and specialization matter when physicians choose advisors
• How Tony helps couples navigate misaligned priorities during home buying
• What makes Illinois real estate different (attorney-based transactions)
• Long-term thinking: buying with future flexibility in mind

Tony Mattar is a Chicago-based real estate broker and founder of the Chicago Crib Team at Compass. With 12+ years in the industry, Tony has worked across boutique brokerages, team models, and independent firms—giving him a rare, comprehensive understanding of Chicago’s housing market.

Tony specializes in helping physicians and medical families relocate with intention, clarity, and long-term strategy. He is also a former Division I swimmer at Northwestern University and qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials.

📧 Email: [email protected]
📸 Instagram (personal): @tmattar
🏙 Team: @chicagocrib

🏙 Website: chicagocrib.com

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
📸 Instagram: @movingmedicinepartners
📘 Facebook: Moving Medicine Partners
💼 LinkedIn: Moving Medicine Partners
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more… 

This episode is supported by Bob at Truist, who works closely with physicians and medical families navigating big financial decisions—especially around relocation, home buying, and long-term planning.

If you’re making a move, stepping into a new role, or just want clarity around how your money fits into your life, Bob brings a calm, strategic approach that’s built for people with complex careers.

You can connect directly with Bob— http://www.truist.com/bob.hall

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There’s a phrase many physician families cling to during training: “It gets better.”
But what happens when it doesn’t?

In this episode, Zoe Taylor is joined by Kendra Harvey, founder of It Gets Better Now and a life coach who works exclusively with physician spouses. Together, they explore why so many families feel blindsided after residency or fellowship ends—and why waiting for life to “finally feel better” often leads to resentment, burnout, and disconnection.

Kendra shares her personal story of navigating neurosurgery training, multiple relocations, and the realization that the promised relief at the end of training never arrived. Instead, she explains, you have to get better—by building skills, communication, boundaries, and self-awareness long before the attending job begins.

This conversation goes beyond housing logistics and dives into the unseen labor of physician spouses: carrying households, managing finances, suppressing needs, relocating repeatedly, and quietly losing parts of themselves in the process. Zoe and Kendra discuss why these patterns don’t resolve on their own—and how early support can fundamentally change the trajectory of a medical family’s life.

This episode is about relocation as a life transition, not just a move—and why relationships, identity, and mental health matter just as much as contracts and commute times.

• Why “it gets better” is often the most misleading promise in medicine
• The identity crisis many physician spouses face after training ends
• How unspoken resentment builds during residency and fellowship
• Why suppressing your needs feels necessary—but causes long-term damage
• The emotional cost of repeated relocation and starting over
• Why buying a house doesn’t fix deeper relationship strain
• When physician spouses should seek coaching or support (hint: earlier than you think)
• How communication patterns formed in training follow couples into attending life
• Why community and shared language matter for physician families

Kendra Harvey is a certified life coach, physician spouse, and founder of It Gets Better Now, a coaching practice dedicated to supporting physician spouses through medical training, relocation, and beyond. Certified through The Life Coach School with advanced training in faith-based coaching, habit creation, and rest-centered frameworks, Kendra brings both lived experience and professional expertise to her work.

She is also the co-host of the Supporting Physician Spouses podcast, where she offers honest conversations for families navigating the realities of medical life—without minimizing the emotional toll.

🌐 Website: https://itgetsbetternow.com
📸 Instagram: @kendra_itgetsbetternow
🎙 Podcast: Supporting Physician Spouses

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
📸 Instagram: @movingmedicinepartners
📘 Facebook: Moving Medicine Partners
💼 LinkedIn: Moving Medicine Partners
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more… 

This episode is sponsored by Bob Hall at Truist, who works closely with physicians and medical families navigating big financial decisions—especially around relocation, home buying, and long-term planning.

If you’re making a move, stepping into a new role, or just want clarity around how your money fits into your life, Bob brings a calm, strategic approach that’s built for people with complex careers.

You can connect directly with Bob— http://www.truist.com/bob.hall

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There’s a moment in every medical move when the excitement of a new opportunity collides with reality.

It’s when price points don’t align with expectations.
When commute time becomes a daily tax on family life.
When a contract says “as-is,” but negotiations are anything but simple.

This episode starts there.

Zoe Taylor is joined by Guillermo Freixas, a Miami native, long-time real estate professional, and husband to a physician, whose work centers on helping people understand Miami beyond the highlight reel. Guillermo shares what it’s really like to relocate as a medical family—whether you’re arriving for residency, stepping into an attending role, or considering Miami later in your career.

Together, they explore:

• Why Miami functions as dozens of micro-markets—not one
• How residents and attendings face very different housing constraints
• What physician families often underestimate about insurance, condos, and inspections
• Why content-driven real estate culture can be misleading
• How trust, transparency, and local insight protect families from costly mistakes
  
   

This isn’t about finding a dream house.

It’s about choosing a city—and a lifestyle—you can actually live with.

🏙 Why Miami is one of the most competitive—and misunderstood—medical relocation markets
🏡 Housing realities for residents vs. attendings
⏱ How traffic and commute patterns quietly shape daily life
💰 Median price points and what they really get you in Miami
🏢 Condo buying pitfalls, HOA fees, and Florida-specific challenges
🌀 Four-point inspections, insurance hurdles, and why deals fall apart
🤝 How being married to a physician changes how Guillermo works with clients
📍 Why hyper-local knowledge matters more than social media credibility

Guillermo Freixas is a Miami native, Compass real estate agent, and founder of My Block Miami, a content platform focused on the history, neighborhoods, and realities of living in South Florida. Married to a physician and surrounded by family in medicine, Guillermo brings rare insight into the pressures medical families face when relocating—especially in a high-cost, high-competition market like Miami.

He is known for his hyper-local expertise, candid commentary, and commitment to helping families make informed, sustainable decisions.

📸 Instagram and everywhere: @myblockmiami

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/

📸 Instagram: @movingmedicinepartners

📘 Facebook: Moving Medicine Partners

💼 LinkedIn: Moving Medicine Partners

✉️ Email: [email protected]

There’s a moment in every medical move where the search stops being practical and starts becoming personal.

It happens when commute times begin to compete with dinner routines. When school districts feel heavier than square footage. When one partner is thinking about call schedules while the other is trying to imagine whether this place could feel like home.

This episode begins there.

Zoe Taylor and Lauren Swoboda talk candidly about what it really means to buy a home in Tampa as a medical family—through the lens of residency moves, attending transitions, dual-income realities, and the often-invisible labor carried by physician spouses.

Lauren brings both professional expertise and lived experience, having navigated medical training moves alongside her physician husband while repeatedly rebuilding her own career across states. Together, they explore Tampa as a medical hub, the neighborhoods physicians gravitate toward, and why “where we live” so often becomes shorthand for deeper questions about lifestyle, identity, and sustainability.

This isn’t a conversation about finding the perfect house.

It’s about making a decision your family can live inside—long after the boxes are unpacked.

🏡How buying during residency differs from buying as an attending
⏱ Why commute time quietly shapes family life more than most people expect
📍Tampa neighborhoods medical families are drawn to—and why
💰Realistic price points and dual-income considerations
🏢Condo buying explained (warrantable vs. non-warrantable, in plain language)
🌀Florida-specific insurance hurdles and four-point inspections
🤝Navigating compromise between physician and spouse priorities
🌱Why community often matters more than the house itself

Lauren Swoboda is a Tampa-based realtor with nearly two decades of experience—and a deep, lived understanding of what medical families face when relocating.

Lauren met her husband at 18 and has walked through every stage of the medical journey alongside him: medical school, residency, fellowship, and attending life. With each move, she rebuilt her own career—earning real estate licenses in Florida and the Washington, D.C. region—while navigating the realities of frequent relocation, shifting priorities, and the invisible labor often carried by physician spouses.

Today, Lauren works primarily with physicians, trainees, and healthcare professionals moving to the Tampa area. Her work goes far beyond buying and selling homes. She helps families think through commute realities, neighborhood fit, insurance hurdles, condo complexities, and the quieter lifestyle decisions that shape daily life long after closing day.

Grounded, candid, and community-driven, Lauren is known for helping medical families find not just a house—but a place that genuinely supports the life they’re building.

📸 Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/lauren_swoboda

🏡 Compass Profile:

 https://www.compass.com/agents/lauren-swoboda/

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more… 

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
📸 Instagram: @movingmedicinepartners
📘 Facebook: Moving Medicine Partners
💼 LinkedIn: Moving Medicine Partners
✉️ Email: [email protected]

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that settles into a medical family long before the boxes are packed.

It shows up in quiet evenings and crowded spreadsheets. In cities compared side by side. In school districts studied like case law. In the steady attempt to make the right decision with incomplete information—because medicine rarely offers certainty, only timelines.

When a family moves for medicine, the change does not stay contained. It reaches into daily rituals, friendships, children’s sense of belonging, and the unspoken agreements that hold a household together. It asks spouses to become researchers, translators, emotional anchors—often without language for the weight they’re carrying.

This work begins there.

Not with answers, but with attention.

With the understanding that choosing a place to live is never only about geography. It is about who you are allowed to become in that place. How your family breathes. Whether the pace of life aligns with the values you’re trying to protect.

Here, medical moves are examined not as transactions, but as thresholds. As moments that require discernment, patience, and an honest reckoning with what matters most.

This is a space for families standing at the edge of a decision that will echo for years—and for those who know that home is not found by accident, but built, deliberately, over time.

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.

🌐 Website: https://movingmedicinepartners.com/
📸 Instagram: @movingmedicinepartners
📘 Facebook: Moving Medicine Partners
💼 LinkedIn: Moving Medicine Partners
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Zoe Taylor is the founder of Moving Medicine Partners and someone 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. Learn more…