In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Dr. Shivana Naidoo discuss: 

A first time attendee's experience at the 2024 Brave Enough Conference. How to make the most of YOUR FIRST BE conference. Dr. Shivana shares the most helpful and inspiring parts of her BE24 experience, and her top five tips for future first time attendees. 

1- How did you hear about the Brave Enough Conference? 2- What was the most helpful/inspiring part of the Brave Enough Conference? 3- How can a first time attendee make the most of this experience? 4- Share your Top 5 tips for a first time attendee at BE 2025? 

“As a first-time attendee, I found there was no judgment, but rather a harmony of women coming together, with all different perspectives, encouraging and uplifting one another.” -Dr. Shivana Naidoo 

Guest Bio: 

Dr. Naidoo has worked the entire system of mental health care for children and teens- psychiatric and medical emergency rooms, consultation-liaison service, inpatient child and adolescent units,  partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient programs, community mental health clinics with case management, academic outpatient clinics, in private practice both in person and virtually. She has assessed and treated thousands of children, teenagers and young adults who have experienced suicidal thinking, made suicide attempts, and/or engaged in self-harm. She has treated the gamut of mental health disorders for young people including ADHD, ODD, IED, PTSD, GAD, OCD, ASD, MDD, CPDD, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia.

Through working with children and teenagers, she has also worked with countless parents and family systems to support the improvement of child mental health. As a psychiatrist she has expertise in diagnosis, providing therapy, and medications for young people. She has sought additional training in suicide assessment/CAMS, anger management and de-escalation, positive parenting, conscious parenting, autism assessment/ADOS, Integrative Psychiatry, Nutritional Psychiatry, Life Coaching, Energy Medicine, and Emotional Freedom Technique.

She has also started a podcast to help improve awareness of options within the systems of mental health care for patients and their families.  Learn more by listening to her podcast- Thinking It Through with Dr. Naidoo - A child Psychiatrist. 

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt discusses: 

1. Sometimes, the most qualified person for the job does not get the job. 

1. When something is not for you, it may mean that you are being protected for what is. 

1. Do not let small-minded people limit your future 

1. Failure or a rejection is a great time to pause and re-evaluate your why 

1. Sharing your failure or rejection and being honest is key to using failure to grow 

"Success is great, but it teaches you nothing. Failure and rejection are where we learn the most about ourselves and about others who show up for us in hard times."

- Dr. Sasha Shillcutt 

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt discusses: 

• How Dissecting Your Failures Can Positively Change Your Future 

• Letting Go of Past Identities that Hold Us Back 

• How Apologies and Forgiveness Are Critical to Future Success 

• How Helping Others can be a Path to Peace 

“If you want to move through hurt and failure, you have to ask yourself, what identity am I holding on to? Who hurt me through this, or who did I hurt, where forgiveness is warranted? Our future growth and peace depends on it.” - Dr. Sasha Shillcutt  

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt discusses: 

1. Ask for feedback on why not you 

1. Who is an expert, objective, and can give you perspective? Meet with them. 

1. Write down what you learned from this. Don’t let yourself be rejected twice. 

Quote:  

"You will be rejected by people, places, and even friends – where you deserve to be and who you have been nothing but good to. It hurts, but do not let yourself be rejected twice. Give yourself space to learn from it, process it, and move on. Don’t reject yourself."

- Dr. Sasha Shillcutt 

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and her husband, Lance Shillcutt host a few special guests: 

In this special episode, Lance Shillcutt hosts a recap of the 2024 Brave Enough CME Conference.

Hear interviews and recaps from Dr. Tamara Doehner, Joanne Bouda, Dr. Lukens, Dr. Lopa Misra, Dr. Alexia Gillen, Dr. Josee Tardif, and Dr. Nadia Abraham about their personal experiences at the conference. 

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Latasha Ferguson discuss: 

1. The biggest lessons we learn from setbacks 

1. How limiting beliefs can creep in from unexpected places 

1. How to not allow prior failures to stop us from taking brave steps and big risks 

1. How community and peers are critical to our overcoming setbacks and failure  

Quote: 

“Often, as women, we count ourselves out before even thinking of counting ourselves in. We need community to help us remember who we are and what we can be.” - Latasha Ferguson 

Guest Bio: 

Latasha is an educator, workshop facilitator, and leadership coach with over 20 years in the trenches as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and now director of instruction. Because of her experience as a woman of color climbing the ladder, she has a deep desire to see women of color professionals whole. She’s also the founder of the Mahogany Table Community, where black women professionals gather to reclaim their time, rediscover joy, and trade survival mode for full-on thriving. 

When she’s off-duty, Latasha’s likely on a run, binge-watching a show, diving into a good book, or laughing so loud you’ll hear her from across town. She’s all about exploring new cities, tracking down food that feels like a hug for the soul, and cherishing time with her husband, four daughters, one grandson, and the beloved friends who keep her grounded (and laughing). 

Upcoming Exhale retreat for black women professionals: www.latashaferguson.com/mahoganytable 

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Dr. Lindsay Semler discuss:

1. The difference between Moral Distress versus Moral Injury and what it means to those of us in healthcare 

1. How to process failure in our jobs and our lives 

1. How to speak up even when you don’t feel safe to do so.  

Quote: “The majority of decisions we make every day in healthcare are ethical, moral decisions. They are the hard ones, and the ones where we must feel we have a voice.” Dr. Lindsay Semler 

Guest Bio: 

Dr. Lindsay Semler is the Executive Director of Clinical Ethics and Department of Medicine Faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Founder & President of Semler Ethics Consulting, LLC. Her background includes critical care and emergency nursing experience, as well as education, quality improvement, and leadership at UPMC and Penn Medicine. She was also the director of the system-wide Ethics program at INTEGRIS Health. Lindsay obtained her BSN and MSN from the University of Pittsburgh, Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with a focus on moral distress from Johns Hopkins, and the Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics certificate from the University of Washington. She is certified as a Healthcare Ethics Consultant (HEC-C) and critical care nurse (CCRN). Her bioethical areas of interest focus on organizational and preventive healthcare ethics, addressing moral distress, and teaching future generations of healthcare providers.   

Lindsay Semler, DNP, RN, CCRN, HEC-C  

Executive Director | Ethics Service, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 

Co-Chair | Ethics Committee, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 

Faculty | Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 

Lecturer | Harvard Medical School 

Member | Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School 

Founder & President | Semler Ethics Consulting

https://semlerethicsconsulting.com  

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt discusses:

The science failing well, and evidence of the top three steps to take when you are facing failure or rejection. 

• Pause & Process 

• Share Your Failure with A Trusted Peer 

• Take the Next Small (Winnable!) Step 

Quote:

“Hiding our failure and rejection does not serve us. We must invite silence and reflection in to process our hardest moments in order to succeed in the future.”

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Dr. Lydia Kang discuss:

Dr. Lydia Kang’s journey as an author and how she balances her writing with her work as a physician. They talk about how to receive negative feedback and how rejection can be a stepping stool to deep growth. In this episode, they touch on: 

• How to filter feedback to assure it is useful to you 

• How to craft criticism in a way that people respond and grow from it 

• The beauty of sharing your rejections and failures with another person  

“When you put yourself in big places and try bigger things, you are going to experience more failure and rejection. It is normal and more common that people understand in our shiny world of posting all the positive things on social media.” Dr. Lydia Kang 

Dr. Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing physician and associate professor of Internal Medicine who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve medical accuracy in fiction. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Great Weather for Media. She believes in science and knocking on wood, and currently lives in Omaha with her husband and three children. 

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In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt discusses: 

• Her top 3 lessons learned from failure 

• How rejection opens doors 

• How to process failure and rejection so it doesn’t hold you back 

“Success is wonderful, but the truth is, we don’t learn anything from it. What we truly learn in life comes from walking through hardship, failure, and even rejection.” - Dr. Sasha Shillcutt  

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