It’s Mental Health Awareness Week this week and we’re speaking about the importance of doctors giving themselves permission to thrive and look after themselves.

We have two guests this week! Dr Caroline Walker is a psychiatrist, therapist, coach and host of podcast The Joyful Doctor. Dr Rachel Morris is a GP turned coach and you might recognise her voice from her wonderful podcast You Are Not a Frog. Rachel and Caroline share their top tips for making sure we look after ourselves as well as everyone around us!

Rachel and Caroline’s book recommendations:

Atomic habits by James Clear

Station 11 by Emily St John Mandel

4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman

Stolen focus by Johann Hari

The choice by Edith Edger

The gift by Edith Edger

All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr

To find out more about Caroline:

https://www.joyfuldoctor.com/

To find out more about Rachel:

https://www.shapestoolkit.com/

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This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

Whilst there are lots of system issues holding women back in their careers, do you ever wonder if there is anything in your control to influence how you can rise in your career? Or how you can help other women rise?

This week’s guest is Sally Helgesen, co-author of the bestselling book ‘How women rise: break the 12 habits holding you back’. Sally shares some of the most common habits that research shows holds women back. Don’t panic if you recognise that you do any of these! This episode will help you to understand how you can change your behaviour to help rise in your career and lift others as you climb.

To find out more about Sally:

Website: https://sallyhelgesen.com/

Twitter: @SallyHelgesen 

Sally’s book recommendations:

My life in leadership by Frances Hesselbein

The heart of business by Hubert Joly

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Twitter: @medicalwomenuk

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Back by popular request, you can find the reflective worksheet for this episode here.

For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

Have you ever felt nervous about making a phone call or giving a presentation or speaking up in a meeting? This week’s guest is voice coach and author Caroline Goyder. Caroline shares with us exercises we can do to help strengthen our voices, her top tips for feeling confident when giving a presentation, and how we all have gravitas.

The aim of this podcast is to empower and support as many medical women in their careers as possible, and having the confidence to use our voices and speak up is a really important part of being empowered.

We hope you really enjoy this episode!

Caroline’s book recommendations:

Quiet by Susan Cain

Man’s search for meaning Viktor Frankl

Caroline’s books:

Find your voice, Gravitas, The star qualities

A link to Caroline’s TED talk

To follow Caroline:

Website: https://www.carolinegoyder.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3MoXpEM2tofafwKUr3IlsA/featured

https://www.instagram.com/carolinegoyder/

https://www.facebook.com/carolinegoyder/

https://twitter.com/CarolineGoyder

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Twitter: @medicalwomenuk

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Back by popular request, you can find the reflective worksheet for this episode here.

For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

We’ve explored leadership in several previous episodes, but we’ve focused on individual leadership journeys so this week we examine women’s leadership on a global level. Our guest this week is Professor Rosie Campbell, Director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London.

Rosie discusses the studies that the Institute are doing to examine women’s leadership and how we might cross-collaborate to help improve gender equality.

Rosie’s book recommendations:

What works: gender equality by design by Iris Bonnet

Women & leadership: conversations with some of the world’s most powerful women by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Find out more about the GIWL here

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Twitter: @medicalwomenuk

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Back by popular request, you can find the reflective worksheet for this episode here.

For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

This week we’re tackling everyone’s favourite subject – imposter syndrome! Ok it’s not really anyone’s favourite topic but it tends to be the big elephant in the room that doesn’t always get addressed. It’s time to own our imposter syndrome and address it!

Our guest this week is the fantastic Susie Edwards who is a careers coach with a lot of experience working with medics at all stages of their career. Susie is used to clients speaking about imposter syndrome. We discuss what imposter syndrome is and how to go about addressing it.

Susie gives Nuthana some impromptu coaching, and you can use these questions to coach yourself.

Susie’s book recommendations:

The disease to please by Harriet Braiker

Designing your work life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

What would Freido do? by Arianna Davis

Follow Susie on her website: www.wonderif.co.uk

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Twitter: @medicalwomenuk

Instagram: @medicalwomenuk

Facebook: MedWomen

For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

Welcome to Episode 10!! This week, we speak to the wonderful Dr Olamide Dada who is an FY1 and CEO and Founder of Melanin Medics, a non-profit organisation that supports African and Caribbean medics.

Olamide shares her leadership journey, why she thinks it is important to discuss intersectionality in medicine, and how we can all be allies to one another.

Olamide’s book recommendations:

Boundaries by Dr Cloud and Dr Townsend

Start Now Get Perfect Later by Rob Moore

Olamide’s Twitter: @olamide_dada

Melanin medics Twitter: @MelaninMedics 

Website: melaninmedics.com 

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Twitter: @medicalwomenuk

Instagram: @medicalwomenuk

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For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

We’ve got one of our male honorary members on the show this week! Mr Simon Fleming is an orthopaedic registrar who is passionate about combating bullying, undermining and harassment in healthcare. More recently, he has been speaking up about sexual harassment and assault in surgery.

Simon shares with us why it’s important for all of us to speak up and tackle bullying and harassment so that together we can change culture from ‘this is how it is’ to ‘this is not ok’.

Follow Simon on social media:

Twitter: @OrthopodReg

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Twitter: @medicalwomenuk

Instagram: @medicalwomenuk

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For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

It’s Mothering Sunday in the UK this coming Sunday, and whilst many of our members may be mothers, we wanted to explore motherhood in a way that would be applicable to all listeners regardless of their parenthood status. There are many parallels between being a parent and being a healthcare worker.

Our guest this week is Zoe Blaskey, who is a coach and has a very successful podcast called Motherkind. Zoe discusses the importance of boundaries, looking after ourselves so we can look after others and the importance of having compassion for ourselves.

Zoe’s book recommendations:

How to do the work by Dr Nicole Le Pera

The high 5 habit by Mel Robbins

The power of now by Ekhart Tolle

Follow Zoe on social media:

Website: https://www.motherkind.co/

Instagram: @motherkind_zoe

Twitter: @motherkind_

Podcast: Motherkind 

The Family Reset Plan is free for all medical professionals working in the NHS: The Family Reset Plan

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For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

On this week’s podcast, we are discussing a topic that doesn’t usually get discussed – money.

An important aspect of being empowered in our careers is being confident in managing our money. But few of us have been taught about our finance at school or medical school. This week, we speak to Dr Nikki Ramskill, GP and women’s money coach, to discuss how we can get started managing our money. Nikki shares practical advice for budgeting as a student and junior doctor, the importance of understanding our NHS pensions, and planning for your financial future.

** Our Spring Conference is on the 22nd of April at Mary Ward House in London. Registration is open! Abstract submission closes Sunday 20th March. We have bursaries for medical students and junior doctors. Click here to find out more and register. **

Nikki’s book recommendation:

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Follow Nikki on social media:

Website: https://thefemalemoneydoctor.com/

Twitter: @FemaleMoneyDoc

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Website: Click here to join the Medical Women’s Federation or sign up to our free newsletter

Twitter: @medicalwomenuk

Instagram: @medicalwomenuk

Facebook: MedWomen

For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

** Special episode klaxon! **

Happy International Women’s Day 2022! You are in for an extra special treat this week – why speak to one inspiring medical woman when you can speak to 21 MWF Presidents!

We will be hearing from our Presidents from 1992-2022 who share with us their favourite memories of MWF, why it is an important organisation to them, their advice and lessons they have learnt, achievements they are proud of, and why MWF remains an important organisation in 2022.

Nuthana also wanted to pay tribute to MWF founders and Past Presidents who are no longer with us, and she shares their stories from documents in the MWF Archives.

This is an episode to download and save for those tough days when listening to some inspiring medical women will help lift your spirits.

Thank you to Ms Jenna MacKenzie for her incredible hard work in editing this episode, Ms Katie Aldridge for liaising with all MWF Presidents, Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram for composing additional music for this episode and to all of the Presidents who took the time to record themselves or let Nuthana interview them.

We hope you enjoy this episode and please share it with all your medical women friends and colleagues.

Follow the Medical Women’s Federation on social media:

Website: Click here to join the Medical Women’s Federation or sign up to our free newsletter

Twitter: @medicalwomenuk

Instagram: @medicalwomenuk

Facebook: MedWomen

For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email [email protected]

To get in touch about the podcast, email [email protected]

This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Miss Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.