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What happens when you love the work, but not the practice? This comes up frequently for Physicians who want to spend more time with their patient, but struggle with the requirements of the insurance companies and the churn of traditional outpatient practices. Today my guest is Dr Katrice Brooks, and she shares how she decided to walk away from her employed position to build a Direct Primary Care practice that allowed her to do the work she wanted to do, in the way that she wanted to do it.

Dr Katrice Brooks is a Double board-certified Physician in Family and Lifestyle Medicine, with over 10 years of experience in Primary Care after completing her medical training at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, followed by residency at West Surburban Family Medicine Residency in Oak Park. She values spending time with her patients, and connecting with them in order to provide whole-person care. She is passionate about health equality and patient autonomy, as well as improving lives by reducing medication burden. In 2021 she founded Quench Clinic Fitness and Spa, a wellness center to accomplish this serving Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Chicagoland area. The DPC offers a virtual gym to patients, and Dr. Brooks offers medical aesthetics with a passion for making darker skin glow.

To connect with Dr Brooks, find here in these places:

Website: Www.quench.clinic

Instagram: @KatriceBrooksMD

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katrice.brooks.md/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/katricebrooksmd

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Do you struggle to sit still?

How many notebooks do you have filled with half-done to-do lists?

Why is it so hard to relax when you finally have the time?

In today's episode, we're tackling toxic productivity. That compulsion we so often feel to do more, check boxes and keep busy, even though we also complain that we are overwhelmed and too busy. I'll unpack how we got here, and some ways that you can get started letting go of the toxic part of the equation.

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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My guest today is Dr Cindy Croy, a  fellow Family Medicine Physician, who has the perspective of working as a PCP in an employed position, as a small Private Practice owner, as well as forays into Direct Primary Care models. She talks today about her experience of not only shaping her career to fit her life, but also choosing to transition out of medicine when it was no longer a good fit. She now works as a Clinical Expert Consultant for a healthcare-tech company, and started her own YouTube Channel where she shares recipes and teaches people how to cook.

To connect with Dr Cindy and learn more about her cooking program, you'll find her in the following places:
Website: www.Drcindysrecipes.com 
YouTube: Dr Cindy's Recipes
Instagram: Drcindysrecipes 
Facebook: Dr. Cindy’s Recipes 
Twitter: Drcindysrecipes

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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My kids *should* be in school.
The park *should* be open.
I *should* be working.

Should, should, should. As someone who is trying to build her anti-shoulding muscles, this week has been a challenge! In today's episode, I talk about shoulding on yourself and other people and how this blocks us from being present and having the bandwidth to navigate challenges. Oh, and also, I nerd out on some favorite movies from my childhood, so there's that too (should I even mention that? Eek, there we go again!).

Should you listen? Yes!

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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So many of us have fantasized about quitting medicine, or leaving our current position, convinced that we will feel better. My guest today, Dr Mary Leung is an employed Hematology/Oncology Physician who believed this too for many years, but didn't want to leave the life she had outside of medicine, and so felt stuck. Until she found coaching that is. Through coaching, she was able to see how her thoughts were influencing her experience, and by using the tools she learned, she was able to become not only more efficient at her work, saving her precious time, but she was more effective, more present in her life, inside and outside of the exam room. She now shares these tools with other Physicians, and we talk today about how coaching can help us get unstuck.

Dr Leung practices in Long Island, NY as a employed Physician, and is board-certified in Hematology and Medical Oncology. She studied at the University of Buffalo, and is originally from Hong Kong. She has her own Physician Coaching Business outside of her medical work, and loves spending time on the beach, and pursuing her love of desserts!

To learn more about Dr Leung, including her work coaching Physicians, head to her website at  www.shiningwithgratitudemd.com 

You can also follow her on social media:
Facebook: Mary Leung 

LinkedIn: Mary Leung, MD

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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Today we are talking about a term that started on TikTok, called "Quiet Quitting." And yes, I had to look up what it meant, and who started it, and no, I'm not on TikTok, but I digress. I want to approach the conversation though from the perspective of "is it quiet quitting, or is it setting boundaries and valuing yourself?" Because these two things are different. And I think many of us may have had the experience of saying "to hell with it!" and throwing our hands up in despair during periods of burnout, and perhaps cutting down on our work in some way. But in my experience, we don't succeed with actually doing less, and often end up feeling guilty and lazy, rather than relaxed and balanced. So let's dive in and discuss, shall we?

Should out my friend Lynne for enthusiastically selecting this topic from a few I posed to her! If there is something you want to hear more about, drop me a line at [email protected]. I'd love to hear what matters to you, what you struggle with, and what you are thinking about because I can guarantee you are not alone!

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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My guest today is Dr Jia Ng, who is a board-certified nephrologist and a clinical researcher at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell. She is also the founder of PublishedMD, where she helps clinicians publish research papers by up-leveling their research and academic writing skills through digital products, so that they can build authority and achieve their academic goals. 

She shares her story of extreme physiologic exhaustion during fellowship, and how her experience not only changed the way she took care of herself, but also her self-concept, moving from imposter syndrome to feeling that she was a part of a community.

 To learn more about Dr Jia's work, you'll find her in the following places. 

Check out my youtube channel. I give bitesize tips on how to write papers, and how to have a smooth academic life. https://www.youtube.com/c/PublishedMD 

Website: www.publishedmd.com 

Instagram: @publishedmd 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jia.ng.31 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiahweing/ 

Twitter: @jiahweing

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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Today's episode is all about 1 little sentence: "I just can't." There are times when this rolls off of the tongue easily, but much of the time, this sentence is pinging around in our brains, and it is contributing to how you feel. We'll dive into the impact it may be having for you, and how you can change your relationship with it.

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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Dr. Myrdalis Díaz-Ramírez is a dual Board-Certified Anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Management Physician, Medical Expert, Professor, Author, Speaker, Podcaster, Entrepreneur, and Mastermind Facilitator. In her maxAllure Mastermind, she helps physicians who feel overwhelmed regain and retain control of their lives through entrepreneurship. She is a born and self-made entrepreneur. She has owned different clinics which she successfully sold in the past. Has also owned other businesses, including an entertainment company. Her passion is to help other physicians who, as she experienced in the past, might feel lost in medicine and burnout. 

Find more about Dr Diaz-Ramirez and her maxAllure Mastermind at her website, https://maxallure.com/  You can also check out her podcast, "Design Your Physician Life," available on your favorite podcast app.

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To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

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I don't care how smart you are, sometimes your thoughts are not correct, not helpful, and/or not kind. Sometimes our brains are jerks. In this episode, we talk about why this happens, and a simple practice that helps you to start being more aware of your thoughts, so that you can decide whether or not you, the driver of your body and higher level thinking, will choose to believe each thought that happens to pass by.

If you are interested in getting on the wait list for my upcoming program, "Healing Perfectionism in Physicians," please click this link, and I will be in touch soon. In this dynamic program, we work in a small community of like-minded Physicians on better understanding our thought patterns and behaviors, and learning to make choices that are more in alignment with our authentic selves. Think less perfectionism, scarcity, and self-judgment, and more calm, creativity and self-compassion. The program starts up again in September, and I would be honored if you would join us!

Support the show

To learn more about my coaching practice and group offerings, head over to www.healthierforgood.com. I help Physicians and Allied Health Professional women to let go of toxic perfectionist and people-pleasing habits that leave them frustrated and exhausted. If you are ready to learn skills that help you set boundaries and prioritize yourself, without becoming a cynical a-hole, come work with me.

Want to contact me directly?
Email: [email protected]

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