Latest Physiciancontracts Podcast Episodes
Language Matters: The Power of Choosing Your Words Wisely
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - March 09, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn any negotiation or conversation, language matters. Our choice of words has the power to either create a collaborative environment or an antagonistic one, and we can better inform the outcome when we practice beforehand. Our mindset flavors the conversations we’ll have, and before the n...
When Work is Actively Hurting You: How to Tell if Your Job is Psychologically Unsafe
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - March 02, 2023 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsThe sad truth is, toxic work environments are still alive and well in medicine. This isn’t just minor annoyances - we’re talking work cultures where something undesirable has mutated into something that’s genuinely psychologically unsafe. As a physician, you have a human, basic right to f...
3 Ways to Optimize Your Happiness At Work
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - February 23, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsFor many physicians, the idea of being happy in your job feels like just that - an unrealistic idea or pipe dream, but it doesn’t have to be. There are things we can do to foster happiness at work so that showing up every day doesn’t feel like diving into a wormhole of depression and job ...
You Agreed, But It's Not Reflected In Your Contract: What Now?
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - February 16, 2023 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsYour negotiation went well. You came to an agreement that reflects your worth, but then you get your contract and those stipulations are absent. What steps can you take if the conversation and the contract end up being two different things? This happens a lot more often than you think, an...
Assembling Your Negotiation Dream Team: 3 People You Need in Your Corner
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - February 09, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsJust like building a home, successfully negotiating your contract is not a solo effort. You need a team of key players to cheer you on and help you navigate the process with your sanity intact. The earlier in the process you assemble the team, the smoother your negotiation will be and li...
Your First Contract Negotiation: How to Advocate For Yourself Effectively with Dr. Tonya Caylor
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - February 02, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsFor residents making the leap into their very first job, navigating interviews, contracts and salary negotiations can feel like a minefield. On one hand, you want to make sure the value you bring to the table is reflected, but on the other hand, you’re socialized to take whatever’s offered becau...
The Forces of Fairness in a Negotiation & How to Make Them Work for You
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - January 26, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn any negotiation, fairness is usually a front-of-mind concept - in fact, it’s often the measure with which we judge the success of the entire process. But here’s the challenge, fairness isn’t as simple as a singular yardstick. It’s actually made up of multiple facets that sometimes conflict wi...
Stop Using Grit Against Yourself: How to Quit When the Job Becomes a Dealbreaker
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - January 19, 2023 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsGetting a job that serves us often requires us to tweak or modify our current work environment, but what if the situation is too far gone and too toxic to salvage? Many of us are guilty of staying in negative situations a lot longer than we should, damaging not only our careers but also o...
The End of Non-Compete Clauses? Removing This Barrier Would be a Massive Win
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - January 12, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsNon-compete clauses have never been beneficial to physicians. They are notoriously difficult to negotiate out of. They keep us trapped in toxic work cultures, and they back us into career moves that can be harmful. I’d also argue that non-competes also harm employers and the economy as a ...
Edit Out the Extra: Why 'Less' Is My Word of the Year
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - January 05, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIf you really think about it, most of the goals and resolutions we set at the beginning of the year are often based on having more - more money, more stuff, and more responsibilities. In the spirit of un-goals and values, what if we set the intention to have less? Could we achieve more by...
Job Values: How to Identify the Intangibles that Preserve Your Happiness at Work
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - December 29, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsWhen we talk about finding that right-fit job, the checklist is usually centered on salary, benefits, schedule, and the tangible things that ensure that it reflects our worth. The less tangible things also require some thought too, and they can have a bigger impact on how well we thrive in...
The Surprising Benefit of Not Setting Goals: Why I'm Trying Un-Goals Instead
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - December 22, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsFrom finishing med school to reaching a certain income level, most of us live our lives by outcome-based, tick-the-box goals - but what if this approach just limits us? We’ve been indoctrinated with the idea of setting goals, but having such concrete resolutions can rob us of opportunitie...
Survival Mode: When Does It Help Us & When Does It Work Against Us?
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - December 15, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratings‘Tis the season for functioning in survival mode. With busy schedules, to-do lists, holiday plans, and the usual end-of-year stuff, sometimes all we can muster is just “good enough”. We can’t always be in peak achievement mode, and that’s okay. But when survival mode becomes less a tempor...
Don't Ignore Your Intuition: Why It Might Be Your Greatest Ally in a Negotiation
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - December 08, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsCall it gut instinct, a weird vibe, your sixth sense, or your brain picking up subtle cues, intuition is something we all have. As physicians, we get so caught up in the logic of things, it’s really easy to shrug off a gut instinct as unreliable, but what if the little nagging feeling holds a lo...
Holidays are Perfect for Transformational Conversations: Here's How to Make Them Happen with Ali Novitsky
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - December 01, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsConversations - the ones we have with ourselves, and the ones we have with others - are such everyday, autopilot things, we can easily forget how powerful they can be. By fine-tuning our conversational skills, we can tap into a world of possibilities and create moments of transformation, ...
The Double-Edged Sword of Gratitude & How to Get on its Right Side
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - November 25, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsGratitude is one of those things we’re socialized to believe is always positive, but there’s a lot more nuance to it. Sometimes saying thank you can go a long way, other times we use gratitude as an excuse to not ask. What are the advantages of showing gratitude? Where can grat...
They Can’t Read Your Mind: How to Communicate What You Need From Your Job
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - November 17, 2022 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTo have a job that truly serves us and allows us to thrive at the highest level, certain boundaries and conditions need to be present. We may be acutely aware of what these things are for ourselves, but our employers can’t read our minds. We have to express our unique needs and spell them...
Victory Hangovers: What to Do When a Huge Win Feels Underwhelming
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - November 10, 2022 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsBig wins, leaps, and accomplishments are often associated with endorphin-rich highs and tons of elation, but what happens when the joy is short-lived, and we’re left feeling a little underwhelmed about the whole thing? Sometimes the after-effect of a win is more anticlimactic than we thou...
Does Your Body Language Match Your Ask? A Guide to Non-Verbal Influence
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - November 03, 2022 06:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsWhen we show up to a negotiation (or any conversation for that matter) it’s not just the words we say that make the ask, our body language does some speaking of its own too. If we’re making a big, bold ask, but our body language screams small - our words won’t pack as much of a punch, mak...
How to Wear Your Boundaries Like Armor & Protect What Matters Most...Your Health with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - October 27, 2022 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsBoundaries are associated with protecting ourselves from negativity, and even great things can become toxic without boundaries. Many of us love our jobs, but because we have so much on our plates, we’re always one stressful moment away from completely falling apart. In healthcare, i...
How to Break Out of Binary Thinking & See the Infinite Possibilities
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - October 20, 2022 06:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsAll-or-nothing, dichotomous thinking is a little evolutionary trait that all human beings have. Though it can be helpful in many scenarios, it can be limiting at the negotiation table. When it feels like win or lose are the only options available to us, it makes us blind to the fact that ...
Before You Celebrate the Yes, Make Sure It's Backed By Execution
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - October 13, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn a negotiation, not all yeses are created equal. Sometimes ‘yes’ is said to make you stop asking, and it’s not really backed by action or execution. How do we tell the difference so we don’t end up feeling stuck in limbo or getting strung along? Before we pat ourselves on the back and b...
You Can't Control Other People: 2 Ways to Cope with This & Still Show Up as a Boss
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - October 06, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsOne of life’s biggest truths is that we have very little control over other people and how they show up and act. Even in a negotiation, we can have all our ducks in a row and the best intentions, but we still can’t control how people respond to us advocating for ourselves. The real challe...
Multi-Party Negotiations: How to Create a Win-Win Scenario for Everyone
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - September 29, 2022 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsFor many doctors, a negotiation isn’t as simple as a one-person to one-organization scenario - collective negotiations are pretty common. There are many ways things can get a little dicey when multiple parties with different priorities, goals, and needs are involved. Whether you’re negoti...
How to Overcome Overeating, Trust Your Body & Keep the Weight Off Forever with Dr. Katrina Ubell
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - September 22, 2022 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsNegotiation and self-care routinely go hand-in-hand. Feeling like our best selves can make it easier to focus our attention on our negotiations and negotiating a job that works for us helps us to have the time and energy to truly focus on ourselves. However, the diet programs we see everyw...
Feeling Crappy After Your Negotiation? How to Change Your Mindset & Redefine Winning For You
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - September 15, 2022 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsYou walk out of a negotiation, and instead of feeling hopeful and excited, you have a deep, sinking feeling and the nagging question - “Did I blow it?” As physicians, we navigate our fair share of situations that leave us feeling crappy but struggle to apply that mindset to other aspects of ou...
Quiet Quitting & Quiet Firing Are Both Dangerous & Damaging...How Do We Fix Them?
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - September 08, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsRegardless of the reason, only doing the bare minimum at work actually does us a huge disservice - why tread water in a place you hate when you can move on to something better? Quiet quitting isn’t just a one-sided practice on the employee side, it has an employer-driven sibling known as q...
The Lord of the Rings: What Can Frodo's Epic Quest Teach Us About Negotiation?
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - September 01, 2022 06:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsNavigating a negotiation is an epic but daunting quest to reach an important purpose - like Frodo Baggins’ journey to destroy the One Ring. There’s so much about his journey that we can extract and apply to our own quest to get paid what we’re worth - from the resources we need, to the pe...
Quit or Stay? The Powerful Little Tool That Simplifies the Decision
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - August 25, 2022 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsWhen a job is toxic and soul-sucking, quitting is a no-brainer, but what happens when the reasons to stay or go aren’t so obvious, and we’re unsure about the next step? It’s hard to gain clarity on our next move until we critically evaluate the outcome, and sometimes it comes down to maki...
Guilt and Shame: The Ugly Cousins Keeping You From Advocating for Yourself
Simply Worth It: Physician Negotiations with Dr. Linda Street - August 18, 2022 06:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsGuilt and shame aren’t emotions we typically associate with our negotiations, but these ugly cousins actually show up all over the place. For starters, most of us feel guilty about asking for what we want, but that’s not the only way it manifests. The other way these emotions creep in is ...
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