This Was Not The Break I Needed
Send us Fan Mail This was not the break I needed. That was the thought running on a loop years ago, when I finally took time off because I wasn't sleeping and couldn't keep going. A few days in, my th...
15 Sep 30min
The Decision Won't Make You Feel That Way
Send us Fan Mail Raise your hand if you have ever made a big decision based purely on how you thought it would make you feel afterward. If your hand is not up right now, I am calling you a liar, becau...
8 Sep 25min
What Do You Want Your Tuesday to Look Like?
Send us Fan Mail You don't actually want to leave medicine. You want to leave whatever is happening to you right now. Those are two completely different problems, and only one of them has a fantasy at...
1 Sep 20min
How to Make It Easier (Not More Organized)
Send us Fan Mail Back to school season hits different when you're the physician, not the kid with the new backpack. But that Target aisle full of fresh pens and Trapper Keepers is tapping into somethi...
25 Aug 26min
The Words You Use About Yourself
Send us Fan Mail "I'm just a family doc." "Oh, you can call me Megan, that's fine." "Ugh, I'm so lazy." We say these all day long and almost none of us hear ourselves say them. I was at a coaching ret...
18 Aug 25min
The Decision You're Sitting On
Send us Fan Mail There is a decision you are not making. It finds you in the car on the way to work. It finds you after a hard clinic day. It finds you at 11pm when you are trying to fall asleep. And ...
11 Aug 26min
"How Am I Supposed To _________?!?"
Send us Fan Mail There is no algorithm for being everything to everyone. There is no version of you that can close every note, remember every modifier, sort every piece of garbage correctly, and never...
4 Aug 41min
Reimagining The 3rd Place
Send us Fan Mail Tell me a place in your life that is not home and not work where you feel fully like yourself. And no, sitting in your car in the driveway does not count. This week we are talking abo...
28 Jul 25min
