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My guest today is Dr. Rashmi Schramm. Dr Schramm is a Family Medicine Physician as well as a a Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Integrative Wellness Coach and Meditation Instructor. She trained at University of Virginia School of Medicine before completing residency at St Vincent’s FM Residency. She lives in Florida with her family, and is the CEO of Optimal Wellness, where she coaches and teaches meditation and integrative wellness.

To learn more about Dr Schramm and her work:
Website: https://optimalwellnessmd.org 

Instagram: @dr.rashmischramm 

Facebook: @dr.rashmischramm 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashmi-schramm-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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In today’s episode I am speaking with Dr Chelsea Turgeon, author of the #1 Bestselling book, “Residency Drop Out,” and a Career and Burnout Coach for healthcare workers seeking fulfillment and happiness in their careers. Through pivoting to writing and coaching, Chelsea has been able to become a digital nomad, and speaks to us today from Equador.

 To find out more about Chelsea and her upcoming program, 5 Days to Career Clarity, head to https://coachchelsmd.com/clarity/. You’ll also find her on Instagram @coachchelsmd, on Facebook as Chelsea Turgeon MD, and on LinkedIn simply as Chelsea Turgeon.

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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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We're going deep in this episode. When was the last time you felt like you belonged? For many of us in medicine, this can feel like a challenge, and there are clear reasons why we feel this way. We talk through ideas of belonging and fitting in, as described by Brené Brown in her wonderful book, The Gifts of Imperfection.

To learn more about my upcoming program, where we dig into The Gifts of Imperfection, head to my website at www.healthierforgood.com/upcoming-events. The doors for this round will close May 10th, 2022, and spots are limited.

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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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Join me today as I speak with my friend, Dr Tamara Beckford of UR Caring Docs and the Docs Who Care Podcast. She is a board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician, as well as a wife and mother, and she shares her story of being on the front lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic and facing her own mortality, and how she began her self-care journey. Today she has a thriving community for professional women, the UR Caring Society, where she coaches and empowers women to take an active role in their health and wellness, starting with prioritizing yourself for just 2 hours per month.

To learn more, check her out on social media:
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drtamarabeckford  
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/URcaringdocs 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urcaringdocs
Docs Who Care Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ur-caring-docs/id1553710706 

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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 am thrilled to be joined in this episode by Dr Sarah Smith, aka the Charting Coach. She is a Family Physician in rural Alberta Canada and CEO and Physician Coach in her program, Charting Champions. After years of struggling with charting backlog and an overflowing inbox, she shares her journey of developing systems to get through the clinical day with ease, and how she now brings this to Physicians and other Healthcare Providers.

To learn more about her, head to www.chartingcoach.com, or follow her on Instagram with the handle @ChartingCoach

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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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Trigger Warning: In this episode we talk about suicidal ideation and eating disorders. If these subjects are difficult for you to hear, please join us for a different episode.

Today I am speaking with my special guest and friend, Dr Jillian Rigert, MD, DMD. Dr Rigert has completed training in Dentistry and Medicine, and is currently working as both a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Radiation Oncology at MD Anderson in Houston, as well as a Professional Coach. She lives with her dog, Reece. She has written many articles on KevinMD, and been featured on the KevinMD podcast as well, and is the creator of the FB Group, "Permission to Pivot"

To learn more about Dr. Rigert's Coaching Work:
https://www.jillianrigertcoaching.com/

To read her articles on KevinMD:
https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/jillian-rigert

Find her on Facebook and Linked in by searching her name.

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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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March 30 marks National Doctor's Day (as well as National Something on a Stick Day!), and March 25-31 is National Physician's Week. These are generally occasions that are "celebrated" with swag (mugs, paperweights and scarves, oh my!), and/or pizza or doughnuts, perhaps a card or an email. And how many of us turn these gestures into weapons, resenting them as signs of our (low) value? The only ones who really lose here, are us.

In this episode, I share a way to start to change this for ourselves, to start to choose to feel differently about these kinds of gestures, as well as little gifts from patients.

And hey, if you want a party, plan yourself and your Physician friends a party! Why not?

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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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In this episode, we talk about how it isn't time that is the enemy (we all have the same 24 hours after all), but it's the number of things that we need/"should"/want to do with our time that is the problem. And when we carry this list with us, stuck in our heads, we endlessly "should" on ourselves, making it very difficult to relax during the actual time off (weekend, day off, vacation, etc).

To learn more about me and my coaching practice, please head to www.healthierforgood.com

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.

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A recent article by Dr. Chelsea Turgeon in KevinMD highlighted learned helplessness as a major harmful side effect of our training. We were trained to tune out the needs of our bodies and minds during medical school and residency, and we get so good at tuning ourselves out that we keep doing it; often until we can't anymore.

Check out the article here.

Find Dr. Chelsea Turgeon, aka Coach Chels MD here.

And as always, connect with me at my website www.healthierforgood.com

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.

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It may seem obvious, but the Pandemic delivered some unseen "extras" in terms of challenges for Physicians. The politicization of masking for example. The pressure to convince fiercely skeptical people to get vaccinated. The increased risks to our own health and safety and that of our loved ones.  If you've been struggling, it makes total sense. But we can only move on if we can recognize where we are getting stuck.

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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@MeganMeloMD