The Brave Enough Show for Women Physicians

Dr. Sasha Shillcutt
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This podcast teaches women physicians, women in healthcare, and professional women strategies to take control of their time and set boundaries to create work life balance. Dr. Sasha Shillcutt teaches women how to own their calendars, say no to unpaid work, and create daily time for themselves to improve their wellbeing.

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  1. Loneliness in Plain Sight: Why So Many Accomplished Women Feel Alone

    EPISODE 1

    Loneliness in Plain Sight: Why So Many Accomplished Women Feel Alone

    In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt discusses:  Loneliness Doesn't Mean You're Broken, It Means You're Human Busyness Is the Most Socially Acceptable Form of Isolation The Armor That Protects You Is Also What Keeps You Alone  Connection Is Built Intentionally, Not Accidentally "The ache you feel isn't weakness, it's your nervous system asking for belonging." - Dr. Sasha Shillcutt   The Boundaries Blueprint, my new, short, on-demand course, is designed to be your toolkit for making small changes that add up to a big reset. In just three easy modules, you'll walk away with your personal plan to: Stop the daily drains on your energy, Set boundaries that stick, Protect a pocket of time that is yours (no excuses). This isn't about overhauling your entire life. It's all about the small shifts that bring powerful change. It's simple, practical, and takes less than one hour! Brave Balance is about transforming your professional and personal life in a safe, small group setting. You will grow deep in self-awareness, set clear boundaries, and develop strong time management skills to create the work-life balance you desperately need (and deserve). Change your mindset to let unhealthy behaviors go, and create long-lasting work-life control so you can live well on YOUR terms. Follow Brave Enough:   WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN Join The Table, Brave Enough's community. The ONLY professional membership group that meets both the professional and personal needs of high-achieving women.

    29 min
  2. The Power of Women Gathering: Connection as Healing

    EPISODE 2

    The Power of Women Gathering: Connection as Healing

    In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Dr. Erica Howe discuss:  How successful women get so isolated  How to come back after a failed friendship  How communities of strangers can be the place to find your true connection "When I am struggling, my default is to withdraw. But it is only when I reach out and am vulnerable with my friends that true healing can begin." - Dr. Erica Howe  Dr. Howe is a board-certified Hospitalist and a nationally known educator, wife, and mother to three crazy kids.  As a prolific speaker and lifelong advocate for improved wellness in medicine, she has given hundreds of talks both nationally and internationally on topics like conflict management and boundary setting.  In 2018, she founded the Women Physicians Wellness Conference in Aruba, Grand Cayman, and Amelia Island exclusively for women physicians.  Then, in 2024, she founded the Women Professionals Wellness Conference –a 3-day event in the Bahamas each January--as a way to bring women from various demanding professions together to share their struggles and their strategies for success. She believes that women are stronger together and wants to inspire them to find the courage, clarity, and community to succeed on their own terms, instead of someone else's.  www.womenphysicianswellness.com  www.womenprofessionalswellness.com   https://www.facebook.com/groups/WPWconference  https://www.instagram.com/wpwconference/    The Boundaries Blueprint, my new, short, on-demand course, is designed to be your toolkit for making small changes that add up to a big reset. In just three easy modules, you'll walk away with your personal plan to: Stop the daily drains on your energy, Set boundaries that stick, Protect a pocket of time that is yours (no excuses). This isn't about overhauling your entire life. It's all about the small shifts that bring powerful change. It's simple, practical, and takes less than one hour! Brave Balance is about transforming your professional and personal life in a safe, small group setting. You will grow deep in self-awareness, set clear boundaries, and develop strong time management skills to create the work-life balance you desperately need (and deserve). Change your mindset to let unhealthy behaviors go, and create long-lasting work-life control so you can live well on YOUR terms. Follow Brave Enough:   WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN Join The Table, Brave Enough's community. The ONLY professional membership group that meets both the professional and personal needs of high-achieving women.

    44 min
  3. Loneliness and Your Nervous System

    EPISODE 3

    Loneliness and Your Nervous System

    In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Guest, Dr. Ashley Smith discuss:  Loneliness is a call to action How to break out of thought spirals How to create authentic connections in the busy years How to turn anxiety into a positive response  "We are intended to live in community, but we are living in a hyper independent society, and our nervous system is craving real connection." - Dr. Ashley Smith    Guest Bio: As an award-winning psychologist, international speaker, author, and co-founder of Peak Mind: The Center for Psychological Strength, Dr. Ashley has a knack for translating psychology and brain science into digestible, actionable insights that audiences can immediately use. Born with a rare degenerative retinal disease that makes her legally and increasingly blind, she also practices what she preaches. Her blend of professional and personal experiences puts her in a unique position to educate and inspire. She is passionate about helping others understand how their minds work so they can live bold, happy lives while performing at their peak!    The Boundaries Blueprint, my new, short, on-demand course, is designed to be your toolkit for making small changes that add up to a big reset. In just three easy modules, you'll walk away with your personal plan to: Stop the daily drains on your energy, Set boundaries that stick, Protect a pocket of time that is yours (no excuses). This isn't about overhauling your entire life. It's all about the small shifts that bring powerful change. It's simple, practical, and takes less than one hour! Brave Balance is about transforming your professional and personal life in a safe, small group setting. You will grow deep in self-awareness, set clear boundaries, and develop strong time management skills to create the work-life balance you desperately need (and deserve). Change your mindset to let unhealthy behaviors go, and create long-lasting work-life control so you can live well on YOUR terms. Follow Brave Enough:   WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN Join The Table, Brave Enough's community. The ONLY professional membership group that meets both the professional and personal needs of high-achieving women.

    35 min
  4. When Women Hurt Us: Healing Female Wounds Without Hardening

    EPISODE 4

    When Women Hurt Us: Healing Female Wounds Without Hardening

    In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Dr. Zarya Rubin discuss:  The importance of Vitamin "J"  How to downregulate our nervous system  Our stress response and why it is important to understand in building female relationships  "Social media is the Saber-tooth tiger of our generation." -Dr. Rubin    Guest Bio:   Dr. Zarya Rubin is a Harvard-educated functional medicine physician, TEDx speaker, and burnout  expert, specializing in helping smart women heal from chronic stress and burnout that is  impacting their physical and mental health. She studied neurology at McGill University and the  Neurological Institute at Columbia in New York. She trained at the Institute for Integrative  Nutrition, studying with Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Deepak Chopra and other  holistic health leaders, and went on to become certified in Advanced Functional Medicine at the  School of Applied Functional Medicine.  Download your FREE burnout toolkit    Listen to the Outsmart Burnout Podcast   The Boundaries Blueprint, my new, short, on-demand course, is designed to be your toolkit for making small changes that add up to a big reset. In just three easy modules, you'll walk away with your personal plan to: Stop the daily drains on your energy, Set boundaries that stick, Protect a pocket of time that is yours (no excuses). This isn't about overhauling your entire life. It's all about the small shifts that bring powerful change. It's simple, practical, and takes less than one hour! Brave Balance is about transforming your professional and personal life in a safe, small group setting. You will grow deep in self-awareness, set clear boundaries, and develop strong time management skills to create the work-life balance you desperately need (and deserve). Change your mindset to let unhealthy behaviors go, and create long-lasting work-life control so you can live well on YOUR terms. Follow Brave Enough:   WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN Join The Table, Brave Enough's community. The ONLY professional membership group that meets both the professional and personal needs of high-achieving women.

    39 min
  5. Reinventing Your Career After 40: Your Experience Is Your Power

    EPISODE 5

    Reinventing Your Career After 40: Your Experience Is Your Power

    In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Lindsay Pinchuk discuss:   How to reinvent your career after 40  How to protect your boundaries when you are in a career transition  How to find the community YOU need to thrive  "When you don't want to put yourself out there, when you want to cancel the girl's night out and stay in, the answer is always NO. GO. Get in front of your girlfriends. Go on the girls trip. ALWAYS say yes. You need other women to thrive." -Lindsay Pinchuk   Lindsay Pinchuk is an award-winning entrepreneur, consultant, and small business mentor who's among the less than 1% of female founders to successfully lead her company through an acquisition. She built her first company, Bump Club and Beyond, from just $500 into a 7-figure brand with partnerships that included Target, Nordstrom, Huggies, and Unilever, reaching over 3 million people every month before selling the business to a large agency holding company. Today, Lindsay is the founder of Dear FoundHer..., a top 1.5% podcast and community supporting women business owners over 40. Through her podcast, newsletter, mentorship program, and her signature SWEEP framework, she helps entrepreneurs simplify their marketing, grow their businesses, and build long-term success.   Newsletter Website   The Boundaries Blueprint, my new, short, on-demand course, is designed to be your toolkit for making small changes that add up to a big reset. In just three easy modules, you'll walk away with your personal plan to: Stop the daily drains on your energy, Set boundaries that stick, Protect a pocket of time that is yours (no excuses). This isn't about overhauling your entire life. It's all about the small shifts that bring powerful change. It's simple, practical, and takes less than one hour! Brave Balance is about transforming your professional and personal life in a safe, small group setting. You will grow deep in self-awareness, set clear boundaries, and develop strong time management skills to create the work-life balance you desperately need (and deserve). Change your mindset to let unhealthy behaviors go, and create long-lasting work-life control so you can live well on YOUR terms. Follow Brave Enough:   WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN Join The Table, Brave Enough's community. The ONLY professional membership group that meets both the professional and personal needs of high-achieving women.

    32 min
  6. Friendship in the Digital Age: Fake Connection vs. Real Community

    EPISODE 6

    Friendship in the Digital Age: Fake Connection vs. Real Community

    In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt discusses:  Digital familiarity is not emotional intimacy  Why high-functioning women are especially vulnerable to fake connection  Your nervous system can't regulate through a screen   Real community requires intentionality in a digital world  "Fake connection fills your time. Real community fills your soul." - Dr. Sasha Shillcutt    The Boundaries Blueprint, my new, short, on-demand course, is designed to be your toolkit for making small changes that add up to a big reset. In just three easy modules, you'll walk away with your personal plan to: Stop the daily drains on your energy, Set boundaries that stick, Protect a pocket of time that is yours (no excuses). This isn't about overhauling your entire life. It's all about the small shifts that bring powerful change. It's simple, practical, and takes less than one hour! Brave Balance is about transforming your professional and personal life in a safe, small group setting. You will grow deep in self-awareness, set clear boundaries, and develop strong time management skills to create the work-life balance you desperately need (and deserve). Change your mindset to let unhealthy behaviors go, and create long-lasting work-life control so you can live well on YOUR terms. Follow Brave Enough:   WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN Join The Table, Brave Enough's community. The ONLY professional membership group that meets both the professional and personal needs of high-achieving women.

    24 min
  7. What Adult Friendship Really Looks Like (and Why It's So Hard)

    EPISODE 7

    What Adult Friendship Really Looks Like (and Why It's So Hard)

    In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt, Krystal Eicher, & Wendy Guth discuss:  How "having it all together" can keep us from meaningful friendship  Why friendship is so important for women leaders and entrepreneurs  Why "messy" friendships matter  "Women have shared wisdom and the ability to listen to problems without the need to "fix" things. We have empathy, compassion, and can say, "me too," that can help us more than answers to our problems."  - Serendipitous Rebel   Guest Bio:  We're Wendy and Krystal—founders of Serendipitous Rebel, creators of the SAVOUR™ framework, and your guides for building a business (and life) that you don't need a vacation from Website   The Boundaries Blueprint, my new, short, on-demand course, is designed to be your toolkit for making small changes that add up to a big reset. In just three easy modules, you'll walk away with your personal plan to: Stop the daily drains on your energy, Set boundaries that stick, Protect a pocket of time that is yours (no excuses). This isn't about overhauling your entire life. It's all about the small shifts that bring powerful change. It's simple, practical, and takes less than one hour! Brave Balance is about transforming your professional and personal life in a safe, small group setting. You will grow deep in self-awareness, set clear boundaries, and develop strong time management skills to create the work-life balance you desperately need (and deserve). Change your mindset to let unhealthy behaviors go, and create long-lasting work-life control so you can live well on YOUR terms. Follow Brave Enough:   WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN Join The Table, Brave Enough's community. The ONLY professional membership group that meets both the professional and personal needs of high-achieving women.

    36 min
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This podcast teaches women physicians, women in healthcare, and professional women strategies to take control of their time and set boundaries to create work life balance. Dr. Sasha Shillcutt teaches women how to own their calendars, say no to unpaid work, and create daily time for themselves to improve their wellbeing.

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