Women Physicians Flourish. A Podcast About Life and Wellbeing
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRebecca Lauderdale is an internal medicine doctor in the Deep South who is on a mission to make this statement true: Women Physicians Flourish. Dr. Lauderdale brings personal experience, science, stories, and evidence-based practices to help physicians of all types, but especially women, to avoid or heal from burnout and live flourishing lives.
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Episodes
Join Me For A New Adventure!
March 06, 2023 06:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBBelonging In The South: A Guide For Misfits main podcast page - you can go from here to your podcast streaming service of choice to subscribe. The menu option at the top of the page includes the Guest Nomination form! Email list signup for occasional updates and special happenings! Hello my wonderful friends! You know from listening to Women Physicians Flourish that a big theme in my life is belonging, and a lot of what I and the women I interviewed talked about was learning to trul...
The History of Medicine Can Help Us Unravel Toxic Medical Culture
April 18, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBUnderstanding how our medical culture formed is an important step in unraveling the toxicity that has led to burnout and dissatisfaction, and toward building a sustainable, fulfilling, and joyful profession we can be proud to practice. Using some of the information in this paper on the historical perspective on obstacles to physicians’ emotional health, this week’s podcast episode takes a deep dive into the origins of some of our problems, and some possible solutions. The paper’s authors ...
Physicians Don't Have A Resilience Problem
April 11, 2022 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBThis week's podcast episode is taking a dive into two papers studying Self-Valuation behaviors in Physicians. Listen for more on why resilience may not be the panacea for preventing burnout, because physicians already are high in resilience. What we ARE lacking is self-valuation. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work! You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the podcast, and...
Season 2 Trailer
March 28, 2022 06:00 - 5 minutes - 4.11 MBSeason 2 New episodes coming soon! Join me for more science, stories, and people who can help us on our journey to flourishing. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work! You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the podcast, and an occasional newsletter! Support the show
Favorite Things of 2021
February 01, 2022 05:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBFavorite things of 2021! See Transcript here for links! Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work! You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the podcast, and an occasional newsletter! Support the show
Introducing The Table - for Women Physicians
October 06, 2021 07:00 - 10 minutes - 7.29 MBThe Table - a virtual group course for women physicians is enrolling this week from Monday October 4th through Thursday October 7th. Learn more: https://www.rebeccalauderdalemd.com/thetable questions? Email me! [email protected] or DM me on instagram - I'm @dr.lauderdale
Session 3: 3-Part Framework for Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians
October 01, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBHere's the third and final special episode of the Women Physicians Flourish podcast - the audio for session 3 of my 3-part live video series on Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians. This session brought everything together into a curriculum for achieving high life satisfaction. A framework you can use for your entire life.
Session 2: 3-Part Framework for Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians
September 29, 2021 17:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBSpecial Episode! This is the audio from the first session of the 3-Part live video series I'm hosting on Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians. This session we focused on some of the areas that are most responsible for the higher level of burnout and lower levels of professional satisfaction for women physicians compared to our colleagues who are men. We went through an evaluation instrument for measuring self-compassion and self-trust, which are necessary parts of overc...
(updated!) Session 2: 3-Part Framework for Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians
September 29, 2021 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBSpecial Episode! This is the audio from the first session of the 3-Part live video series I'm hosting on Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians. This session we focused on some of the areas that are most responsible for the higher level of burnout and lower levels of professional satisfaction for women physicians compared to our colleagues who are men. We went through an evaluation instrument for measuring self-compassion and self-trust, which are necessary parts of overc...
Session 1: 3-Part Framework for Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians
September 24, 2021 03:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBHi friends! This is a special episode! It's the audio from the first session of the 3-Part live video series I'm hosting on Achieving High Life Satisfaction for Women Physicians. In this recording, I introduce my 3-part framework for understanding and developing high life satisfaction, and also we do one of my FAVORITE exercises - the Inner Mentor guided meditation.
Finding yourself again with Dr. Michelle Quirk
September 20, 2021 06:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBMichelle Quirk is a pediatrician, who in the first year of practice, lost her father to cancer. She was jolted by that experience, realizing the many parts of herself she had lost touch with during medical training. She found her way back through running, which she says allowed her time to notice the world around her and to feel connected and embodied in a way she hadn't before. Today, Dr. Quirk continues to practice pediatrics, and is a run coach. She founded Mindful Marathon to help m...
Dr. Karen Kaufman on Trusting Yourself
September 13, 2021 06:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBToday’s interview is with Dr. Karen Kaufman - she is an allergist/immunologist who started her career in the military, joined a group practice, and then realized she wanted something more than the impersonal, unfulfilling group practice she was in. She made the bold, courageous step to strike out on her own and now has a thriving solo practice in Virginia where she gives patients the type of care she wants to give and is able to practice on her own terms. Dr. Kaufman is a great listener a...
The Power of Transitions with Dr. Judy Wright
September 06, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBThis week, Dr. Judy Wright! She is a Family Physician with over 15 years of experience, writer, speaker, and co-host of the Queens On Call podcast. Last year she was diagnosed with breast cancer just before the pandemic began, and has undergone a significant personal transformation during this time. In our episode, we talk about transitions, prioritizing joy, and her love for DIY projects! In the intro, Dr. Lauderdale discusses the invisible labor imbalance between women and men physicians...
The importance of prioritizing yourself - with Andrea Staneata, MD
August 23, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBFull Transcript Here Dr. Andrea Staneata is a board certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician and is fellowship trained in interventional spine and pain management, and is now practicing at Cape Fear Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, in North Carolina. She has a compelling story: after medical school and two years of orthopedics residency in Romania, she immigrated with her then husband to the united states by winning a lottery sponsored by the romanian government. Upon relo...
Dr. Una on Removing Barriers to Flourishing
August 16, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBDr. Nneka Unachukwu, or Dr. Una as she is endearingly called by her patients and the many doctors she has mentored, is a pediatrician and founder of Ivy League Pediatrics, in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Since founding that practice 11 years ago, she has started many other successful businesses, including teaching physicians the skills of entrepreneurship through her podcast, called EntreMD (short for Entrepreneur MD), and her group teaching program, the EntreMD Business School. She has a goa...
[UPDATED] Dr. Una on Removing Barriers to Flourishing
August 16, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBDr. Nneka Unachukwu, or Dr. Una as she is endearingly called by her patients and the many doctors she has mentored, is a pediatrician and founder of Ivy League Pediatrics, in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Since founding that practice 11 years ago, she has started many other successful businesses, including teaching physicians the skills of entrepreneurship through her podcast, called EntreMD (short for Entrepreneur MD), and her group teaching program, the EntreMD Business School. She has a goa...
Diana Mercado-Marmarosh, MD, on the Superpower of ADHD
August 09, 2021 06:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBDr Diana Mercado is a family physician in Texas, currently serving as clinic medical director at Jackson County Hospital District, and her passion for becoming a physician was born from her experience as the daughter of Mexican immigrant workers. She saw that many immigrants did not seek medical care, and wanted to become a physician so that minority patients would have a doctor who spoke their language and looked like them. Another passion of Diana’s is helping physicians with ADHD. She ...
Dr. Chrystene Nguyen of White Coat Romance on The Power of Community
August 02, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBThis week, Rebecca interviews Dr. Chrystene Nguyen, who has pioneered an online community of single physicians and other high-level healthcare professionals called White Coat Romance. We talk about her experience transitioning to a new practice after 10 years, overcoming self-doubt, and what it’s like to be a single physician during a pandemic. Dr. Nguyen is a shining example of a physician who is flourishing and you’ll love our conversation, regardless of your relationship status! White...
Dr. Alicia Shelly on self-care through exercise
July 26, 2021 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBFull Transcript Here This week’s episode features Dr. Alicia Shelly - she is board-certified in Internal medicine as well as Obesity Medicine and practices in the Atlanta metro area. She is also the host of the podcast: Back On Track: Overcoming Weight Regain, where she shares her advice and personal experience to help others with weight regain after significant weight loss including from bariatric surgery. We had a wonderful conversation about her practice of exercise as self-care, her...
Episode 6 - Joy, Weight, and Body Image
July 19, 2021 06:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBThis week, Rebecca talks about joy and our tendency to allow "dress rehearsing tragedy" to keep us from feeling joy, and the way to overcome that. She also discusses issues of weight and body image as relates to women physicians and how being vulnerable about struggles with body image and weight can free us from shame about our bodies. This can also help us be good examples to our patients, as people who have self-compassion in dealing with our personal struggles instead of trying to be pe...
Episode 5 - The Power of The Posse
July 12, 2021 06:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBThis week's episode is short and sweet, recorded while my family thought I was packing for vacation! I talk about the "independent woman" archetype and how that can keep us from seeking support - which requires vulnerability, but is essential to letting others see who we are and what we need. Brene Brown's The Gifts of Imperfection Kasia Urbaniak's Unbound and her website. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work! You can ge...
Episode 4 - Taming the Inner Critic, Part 2
July 05, 2021 06:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBIn this episode, Rebecca continues the discussion of evidence-based ways to work with your inner critic - a dysfunctional version of a very normal and healthy process contributed to by our phonological loop. Everything from personifying the critic to the surprising effect of placebos. Rebecca Lauderdale, MD's website and instagram email: [email protected] Tara Mohr - Playing Big Ethan Kross, PhD - Chatter Brene Brown, PhD - The Gifts of Imperfection Support the podcast on ...
Episode 3 - Taming the Inner Critic - Part One
June 28, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBIn this episode, Rebecca discusses the neuroscientific basis for the inner critic - a runaway part of the phonological loop - how it arises, how to recognize it, and how to begin untangling from this dysfunctional aspect of a helpful, natural phenomenon that develops as we learn language as babies. This work can allow us to become free from unhelpful critical thoughts that we internalize from our environment throughout our lives. It can allow us to be more willing to take healthy risks, to ...
Episode 2: The Science of Flourishing
June 21, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBLove and belonging aren't things we talk about much in medicine. But they're irreducible needs of humans. Join Rebecca Lauderdale, MD, for an introduction to the burgeoning science of human flourishing, and why we as physicians can benefit from understanding it. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work! You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the podcast, and an occasional n...
Episode 1: The First Domino to Fall
June 21, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBIn this episode, Rebecca introduces herself and talks a bit about her journey from burnout to flourishing. She talks about her passion for helping other women physicians change the culture of medicine by first liberating themselves from unhealthy patterns and conditioning. She lays a foundation of concepts for proceeding through a curriculum for flourishing for women physicians which includes some surprising, yet evidence-based research findings that can be liberating and life-changing. ...
Women Physicians Flourish Podcast Trailer
June 13, 2021 22:00 - 2 minutes - 2.02 MBMy name is Rebecca Lauderdale, and I’m an internal medicine doctor in private practice in the deep south. About 7 years ago, I suffered from severe burnout and depression. I had three kids under 12, a demanding career, and I felt like I was failing at every role in my life. This was around the time that the first big data on physician burnout was published, and nobody outside academia had much awareness about the issue, much less any physician wellness or burnout prevention programs. And ...