63. Understanding The Enneagram with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt
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63. Understanding The Enneagram with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt

Understanding your Enneagram type can help you identify your core values and how you can apply them to your life. Dr. Sasha Shillcutt joins me to talk about the Enneagram, describing the different types, and explaining how knowing how your type applies to your life can be revolutionary.

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62. Creating Boundaries to Grow with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt
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62. Creating Boundaries to Grow with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt

Establishing boundaries is one of the healthiest practices you can do for yourself as a woman. Dr. Sasha Shillcutt joins us for her second episode all about boundaries. Why we set them, how to set them, and how life unfolds once we do.

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60. Dr. Ashley Sandeen On Finding Herself Again
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60. Dr. Ashley Sandeen On Finding Herself Again

Exercise, healthier coping methods, and safe group spaces can have an enormous effect on your life. Dr. Ashley Sandeen joins me to talk about how she rediscovered her self-worth, broke up with the scale, and shifted her mental perspective through group coaching.

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59. Dr. Tonya Caylor on Thinking Outside The Box
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59. Dr. Tonya Caylor on Thinking Outside The Box

Coaching is such an important practice, and it’s one that has proven benefits for physicians. Dr. Tonya Caylor joins me to talk about group and private coaching, releasing other people’s expectations, and the importance of self-care.

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58. Dr. Pete on Compassion Fatigue
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58. Dr. Pete on Compassion Fatigue

It’s a very real thing to experience burnout from being kind and caring all the time. It’s called compassion fatigue and it can have some pretty serious health complications. I’m joined by Dr. Pete Economou to talk about overcoming compassion fatigue, making peace with your body, and grace.

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57. Dr. Stierman on Breaking Up with the Scale
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57. Dr. Stierman on Breaking Up with the Scale

When body image issues and limiting beliefs stem from childhood, it can be so difficult to be content with your adult body. Contentment comes not just from healing these traumas, it also comes from removing triggers from your daily life. Dr. Sarah Stierman talks about how she broke up with the scale and feels good at her new stronger and smaller, though heavier, size.

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56. Transformation Amidst Covid-19
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56. Transformation Amidst Covid-19

It’s so easy to let yourself become less important during catastrophic events. But as Dr. Katie Jobbins talks about, if you’re not looking after yourself, you won’t have the long-term capacity to care for others. Self-care is important, especially through a pandemic.

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55. Dr. Komal Patil on Slow and Steady Transformation
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55. Dr. Komal Patil on Slow and Steady Transformation

Slow and steady wins every race, and as Dr. Komal Patil explains, it’s about finding that consistency in your routine. When you are working on your health and wellness goals consistently, you make steps towards them every day - even if you don’t devote hours to your end goal.

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54. Dr. Monica Milas on Transformation Through 100 lb Weight Loss
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54. Dr. Monica Milas on Transformation Through 100 lb Weight Loss

Getting weight loss sleeve surgery is one way to lose weight. It’s usually approached when you’ve exhausted all other methods of weight loss. I’m joined by Dr. Monica Milas to talk about why she elected to have sleeve surgery and what her reality is after the procedure.

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53. Dr. Harita Raja on Mind-Body Transformation
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53. Dr. Harita Raja on Mind-Body Transformation

Accountability, small goals, and thought work are the keys to long-term success. It all starts with the thought piece. Dr. Harita Raja joins me to talk about her mind-body transformation and how life opened up for her in the last year.

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52. Dr. Stephanie Byerly on Healing the Healers
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52. Dr. Stephanie Byerly on Healing the Healers

We all know that you can’t pour from an empty cup. It’s especially true for physicians who spend their days healing others. Dr. Stephanie Byerly joins me to speak about her own experience with burnout and how she adopted self-care practices to heal herself.

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51. Dr. Daisy Ramirez-Estrada On Learning to Prioritize Self-Care
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51. Dr. Daisy Ramirez-Estrada On Learning to Prioritize Self-Care

When you start putting yourself first, your life can absolutely change for the better. We’re so used to coming last in our list of priorities, but it’s detrimental to all aspects of our life. Dr. Daisy Ramirez-Estrada joins me to speak about how she’s transformed her life through life coaching, where she learned to prioritize herself and self-care.

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50. Dr. Lindsey Davis on Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
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50. Dr. Lindsey Davis on Overcoming Limiting Beliefs

Creating lasting body transformation changes could be as easy as letting go of what you think you know. Dr. Lindsey Davis joins me to talk about how she released the beliefs that carbohydrates were evil and you shouldn’t exercise to lose weight.

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49. Dr. Andrea Strathman On Achieving Sustainable Results
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49. Dr. Andrea Strathman On Achieving Sustainable Results

Sometimes it is hard to commit to something long-term because we think it is forever. But in reality, it just takes small, incremental steps towards healthier habits that award sustainable results. By focusing on the way these healthy habits make you feel, you can achieve the health goals you desire and maintain them.

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48. Dr. Laura Demoya on Discovery Self-Worth
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48. Dr. Laura Demoya on Discovery Self-Worth

So many women physicians have come close to or have experienced burnout and it can be completely debilitating. Dr. Laura Demoya shares how she used her experience with burnout to rediscover her self-worth and how she chooses happiness daily.

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47. From Burnout to Business Owner with Dr. Michelle Quirk
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47. From Burnout to Business Owner with Dr. Michelle Quirk

From burnout to renewed passion and vigor. I’m joined by Dr. Michelle Quirk who shares her transformation story from a run-down and dispassionate clinical pediatrician who found her joy by starting a side business as a running coach. This transformation ignited a passion in all parts of her life again.

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46. Dr. Jennifer Moranda on Finding Food Freedom
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46. Dr. Jennifer Moranda on Finding Food Freedom

Dr. Jennifer Moranda started working with me in March 2020, at the start of the pandemic. She speaks on this podcast about how transformative this experience continues to be and what other physicians need to know about weight loss and healthy eating.

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45. Dr. Megan Zeien on Transformation Through Strength Training
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45. Dr. Megan Zeien on Transformation Through Strength Training

If you’ve ever decided NOT to strength train because you’re afraid it’ll make you bulky - this episode is for YOU. My incredible client, Ob/GYN Megan Zeien, joins me to talk about how she not only overcame her fear of strength training but completely transformed her mindset and relationship to lifting weights!

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44. My Body Was Built For This with Christine D'Ercole
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44. My Body Was Built For This with Christine D'Ercole

I am, I can, I will, I do. These are the words Christine D’Ercole lives by. It’s the power of positive self-talk and affirmations that changed the game for Christine. She realized she could embrace her stronger body and encourage others to be true to themselves.

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