Ep. 15 - Choosing Joy with Dr. Mausumi Syamal

Before she became a board-certified, fellowship-trained voice and airway surgeon, Dr. Mausumi Syamal was an engineer. Then a teacher. And, for a brief moment, she was almost a Broadway performer. And though her career path has been anything but linear or predictable (or 'easy' for that matter), one thing that has remained steady for Mausumi through all of it is her commitment to finding and CHOOSING JOY, over and over again, no matter what.

Today we sit down with Mausumi to discuss the challenges of overcoming perfectionism, the untimely death of her mother, what it means to surrender, how she copes with bias as a woman of color in a male-dominated field, and what she learned from her own near-death experience. This is an episode you don't want to miss!!!

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Quotable:

"The scariest day of your medical career is the first day you're the attending surgeon and you realize everything is on you. Yeah. And you have to be able to manage that fear or you won't have a career as a surgeon."

"There's not a day that goes by that I don't miss my mom. What brings me strength is the way she lived her life- she wasn't afraid of anything. She really forged in us a sense that nothing's that bad. Like you're, you just have to have that mental strength. She had this fearlessness."

"The way you deal with hardship doesn't always look graceful or effortless or easy, but in those situations, there are choices. And that choice isn't always immediate, but it's allowing yourself to go through the process, in however way, and then coming back to that choice and that peace with that choice."

Hosted by:

Marta Kagan

Stef Ziegler

About our Guest: Mausumi Syamal is a board-certified, fellowship-trained voice and airway surgeon whose path has taken her from engineering to teaching to performing to medicine. While the road has not always been linear, the peaks and valleys have always led her to choose joy.

Links:

Mausumi's Instagram