The Blk Doctor ® Collective

In this episode, I'm getting honest about closing this chapter of the BLK Doctor business - the coaching practice, the one-on-one work, all of it.

And before you spiral, I promise it's actually a good thing. 😊

I'm sharing the full story - how burnout sent me on a journey of rediscovery, how negotiation coaching became my calling, and why knowing when to pivot is one of the most powerful skills you can develop.

I talk about my mentees, my plants, my travels, and everything that's helped me build a life that truly fills my cup.

Because here's what I've learned: you are so much more than your MD. And prioritizing yourself is never the wrong decision.

In this episode:

• Why I'm ending this phase of the BLK Doctor business
• What burnout taught me (twice 😅)
• The gap nobody trains you for in medicine
• How I rediscovered who I am outside of my white coat
• What's coming next (I'm not telling everything yet 👀)

I'm not going anywhere forever - I've still got some incredible guest episodes dropping. And you can keep up with me over on Instagram @theblkdoctor where I'm living my full lady-of-leisure, gardening, globe-trotting life. 🌱✈️

Thank you. Genuinely, thank you for every listen, every DM, every moment of community. This has meant more than I can say.

Now let's see what's next. 🤍

📲 Connect with Dr. Sheneka:Instagram: @theblkdoctor🎙️

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Y'all, this episode is one of those conversations that just flows - because Dr. Janeeka Benoit is not only a colleague and fellow New Yorker, but honestly she might be living my parallel life in a different body 😂Dr. Janeeka is an internal medicine and sports medicine physician who graduated from her fellowship at Meharry Medical College right in the middle of the pandemic in 2021 — which, as you know, is a whole story in itself. With sports basically shut down and W-2 primary care not feeling like the right fit, she made a bold move into locum tenens medicine. And honey, that decision opened up a whole world.

In this episode, we talk about:

• - How she got into locums when traditional doors weren't opening — and why she refused to settle for a life she didn't want
• - The real talk on negotiation — she literally hired her own negotiation coach because nobody in medical school or residency taught us how to ask for what we're worth (and that needs to change!)
• - Getting creative when the answer is no — from negotiating flights home to targeting rural hospitals willing to let her blend specialties
• - The grind to get into hospitalist medicine — three months of eating lunch in her car calling recruiters, and why she walked away before she had the next thing locked in
• - Building her own telehealth practice from scratch — and designing it with connection at the center because she saw exactly what was missing from every company she worked for
• - Her niche: high-achieving women who deserve a physician-partner who sees them, hears them, and can meet them where they are.

One of my favorite takeaways from this convo: Don't risk staying comfortable at the expense of going after what you really want. The money might be good. The work might be fine. But if you're not happy, that matters. You are allowed to be grateful AND want more. Period.

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Dr. Janeeka Benoit is a Double Board-Certified Internist, Sports Medicine physician, and founder of Invessel Health & Wellness. She helps high achieving women achieve sustainable weight loss to lower their risk of chronic disease and live longer, healthier lives. Her approach is grounded in both clinical expertise and personal experience. Despite leading an active lifestyle, she experienced unexpected weight gain and rising cholesterol herself, revealing the gap between conventional weight loss advice and true metabolic health.

Today, Dr. Janeeka's mission is centered on helping women achieve Less Weight. Less Risk. More Years so they can spend more of life healthy, active, and living life on their own terms.

How to stay in touch with Dr. Janeeka:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/drjaneekabenoit_do/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janeeka-benoit-do-dr-j-107a90200/

Website: https://invesselhealth.com

Sunday Clinic Webinar: https://link.invesselhealth.com/widget/form/hJTMBsBT9sy19TcmemMJ

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Until next time. 💛

There's a belief that sounds like wisdom.

It feels like self-awareness. Like being realistic about how the world works.

I held it for years.

"If I ask for too much, I will lose what I already have."

I was negotiating. Getting good outcomes. Teaching other physicians to ask for more. And still leaving things on the table — because the belief was making my decisions without my permission.

Here's what I get into:

• The belief that felt like wisdom — and what it was actually costing me

• Why being self-aware doesn't always protect you from your own limiting beliefs — sometimes it makes the costume more convincing

• How the belief hides inside your reasons — the timing isn't right, you should wait for the next review cycle, you should be grateful — and why those reasons feel completely logical

• The belief flow in action: how one belief quietly creates every thought, feeling, and action that follows

• Why I stayed in a dysfunctional environment longer than I should have — and the belief underneath that decision

• How to find YOUR belief — the one running your career without your permission

• The sentence to finish out loud: "If I ask for exactly what I want, I'm afraid that..."

• What changes the moment you finally name it

  
  

This is one of the final episodes of the season. I am is headed into summer break — but not before this one, and not before the season finale next week.

Subscribe so you're there for both.

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The Blk Doctor Collective Podcast is hosted by Dr. Sheneka Horne — pediatrician, physician coach, and first-gen American. Built for Black physicians who are done shrinking and ready to build careers that actually belong to them.

This episode is not about burnout.It's about the thing that happens before burnout. The quieter version. The one that's harder to name — and harder to catch because it doesn't announce itself.Dr. Sheneka calls it the drift.

It's the slow, accumulating distance between the career you imagined when you started medical school and the one you've been silently settling into — one small concession at a time.That's exactly how the drift works.

In this episode, Dr. Sheneka names it — and then tells you what to do about it.

Here's what she gets into:- The difference between the drift and burnout — and why the drift is harder to catch- The pattern of small decisions that adds up to a career that fits everyone except you- The difference between adapting to a job and disappearing into one- Why women without children are especially targeted for having their time taken- How to start taking up space again — one ask, one boundary, one conversation at a time- The one thing you've been putting off asking for that you could do something about this week

You did not work this hard to build a career that fits everyone else.The shrinking happened gradually. The reclaiming can happen the same way, just in the other direction.

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The Blk Doctor Collective Podcast is hosted by Dr. Sheneka Horne — pediatrician, physician coach, and first-gen American. Built for Black physicians who are ready to stop settling and start building careers that actually belong to them.

A few episodes left before summer break. Subscribe so you catch every one.

You asked. Now what?

Everyone prepares for the ask. Nobody prepares for what comesafter it — and that moment right after you put something onthe table is where most negotiations are quietly won or lost.

In this episode, Dr. Sheneka gets into the part of negotiationnobody talks about: the three scenarios that happen after you ask, and exactly what to do in each one.

Whether they say yes, they say no, or they go completely silent, you need a plan for all three. Because without one, your brain will fill the silence for you. And it won't fill it in your favor.

Here's what we cover:

• The trap of talking past the close when they say yes(and why immediate agreement sometimes triggers panic)

• Why no is a data point, not a verdict — and the onequestion to ask when you get it

• How to survive the silence without offering to takeback what you just asked for

• The hedging language that signals uncertainty even when you're completely certain

• Why whoever speaks first after the ask tends to be ata disadvantage — and how to make sure it isn't you

• Dr. Sheneka's counting trick for staying calm when thesilence feels unbearable

• How to follow up after silence in a way that's clear,direct, and not apologetic

If you have a negotiation coming up — an offer, a crucialconversation, a role that needs to change — save this episodeand come back to it before you walk in the room.

The asking is not the finish line.What you do in the moment after is where it's actually won.

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The Blk Doctor Collective Podcast is hosted by Dr. ShenekaHorne — pediatrician, physician coach, and first-gen American.New episodes every week for Black physicians who are donesettling and ready to build careers that work for their lives.

Subscribe wherever you listen so you don't miss what's coming.

Dr. Kimmy Reynolds is back — and she came with ALL the updates.

In this raw, real, and deeply honest episode, Dr. Sheneka andDr. Kimmy sit down to unpack the last six months of Dr. Kimmy's life — and it has been A LOT.

We're talking a surprise ADHD diagnosis found on TikTok, shutting down a successful coaching company, going back to clinical medicine after five years away, and somehow navigating all of it while holding herself - and her identity - together.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• How Dr. Kimmy discovered her ADHD through a TikTok rabbit hole (and why that's more common than you think)
• The real reason high-achieving Black women get missed or misdiagnosed — and how perimenopause complicates everything
• The invisible contracts we sign with our communities the moment we become doctors — and what happens when we break them
• The loneliness of stepping away from medicine and how identity gets tangled up in a title
• How to actually move through that lost, in-between season
• Why daydreaming is a legitimate strategy for rebuilding your life
• What it looks like to return to medicine — on flexible,intentional, self-chosen terms

This is part one of a two-part conversation. Part two is coming,and trust us — you don't want to miss it.

If you are a high-achieving woman who has ever felt like shedoesn't know who she is outside of what she does, this episode was made for you.

#BlackWomenInMedicine#PhysicianLife#ADHDDiagnosis#BlackWomenWithADHD#PhysicianCoach#WomenInMedicine#IdentityShift#PhysicianBurnout#BlackDoctors#ADHDWomen

I quit my job.

And while I'm not ready to share every detail, I am ready to share what this experience has taught me.

In this episode, we're talking about the difference between hard and harmful workplaces, why boundaries are really about what you will do, the fear of retaliation, and why being prepared to walk away changes every negotiation.

This is a personal one.

If you've been questioning whether it's time to leave, wondering if you're staying too long, or trying to make sense of a situation that no longer feels right, I think you'll find yourself somewhere in this conversation.

Let's get into it.

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Negotiation is not always polished.

Sometimes it looks like chest pain.

Like waking up at 3AM replaying conversations.

Like talking yourself out of asking for what you need before anyone else even says no.

In this episode, I’m talking about what happens when negotiation stops feeling like a professional conversation and starts feeling personal. When your nervous system is fully activated and your body is responding like you’re in danger.

Because honestly? A lot of high-achieving women, especially Black women, have been taught that asking for more comes with consequences.

So we overthink. We shrink. We make backup plans before we’ve even had the conversation. But fear is not the same thing as fact.

We’re talking about:

• why negotiation can feel physically overwhelming• how to separate fear from reality

• the questions you need to ask yourself before making a decision

• and how to stop negotiating against yourself before anyone else gets the chance.

This one is honest, messy, emotional, practical… all of it.

If you’re in the middle of a hard career conversation right now, this episode is for you.

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#BlackDoctorCollective #NegotiationCoach #CareerBurnout #BlackWomenInMedicine #PhysicianLife #SalaryNegotiation #WomenWhoNegotiate #DoctorLife #CareerGrowth #WorkplaceWellness #BlackWomenAtWork #ContractNegotiation #PhysicianCoach #WomenInHealthcare

A friend of mine got asked one simple question:
“What salary are you looking for?”

…and she froze.

Not because she didn’t know how to negotiate.
But because she hadn’t asked herself the questions that come before that one.

This episode is about that moment.

And why negotiation isn’t something you do when you get the offer…
it’s something that starts way earlier than that.

If you’ve ever felt unsure, unprepared, or like you’re just picking a number and hoping for the best… this one is for you.

#CareerGrowth #WorkLifeBalance #PhysicianLife #BlackDoctors #CareerClarity #BurnoutRecovery #careerdoctor #WomenInMedicine #ProfessionalGrowth #MindsetShift #Careernegotiation #NegotiationCoach #drsheneka

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately… How we can be in a job that looks “good on paper”… checks a few boxes… gives us some flexibility… and still feel like something isn’t right.

And instead of leaving, we stay.

Not because we love it, but because a part of us is convinced… “this is probably the best I’m going to get.”

In this episode, I’m walking through the very real, very human thought patterns that keep us stuck in roles we’ve outgrown.

We talk about:

• Why your brain convinces you what you want doesn’t exist
• The fear of leaving something “good enough”
• Feeling grateful… while also feeling deeply unhappy
• The quiet belief that maybe you don’t deserve more
• And how to start shifting out of that stuck

Because the truth is… you’re not stuck.

Your brain is just trying to keep you safe… even if “safe” is slowly draining you.

This is a conversation about awareness, choice, and starting to imagine something different… without immediately shutting it down.

If you’ve been feeling that tension… this episode is for you.

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Find Me On Social Media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblkdoctor/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sheneka-horne

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