
28 episodes

Empowering Women Physicians Sunny Smith MD
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- Health & Fitness
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4.9 • 228 Ratings
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Medicine is truly the most noble profession. It is an honor and a privilege to be responsible for the health and well being of our society. As physicians, we aim to relieve human suffering. Then why are so many of us unhappy, stressed, and even considering leaving medicine?
Characteristics of self sacrifice and delayed gratification allowed women physicians to get through medical school and residency. Yet these very same traits can cause increasing distress and may no longer be serving us. This podcast encourages women physicians to reflect on the wise words of the Hippocratic Oath and consider what more they could be doing to maintain the utmost respect for their OWN human life and its quality.
Women physicians are strong, intelligent, resilient, hard working, insightful, and live their lives in service of others. Through this podcast, Dr Sunny Smith reminds them that they must first care for themselves so that they may care for others. As a practicing physician and certified coach, she offers tools that can be used to help them take a closer look at their life right now, what they love and what they'd like to change. She helps physicians set goals and empowers them to take steps toward creating their best lives starting today.
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Episode #28 - Indoctrination
In this episode we talk about the indoctrination all of us went through during our medical training. In the next episode we will discuss learned helplessness, unlearning, and re-learning agency and self-efficacy.
References and resources mentioned in this podcast
References
1. Greenawald MH MD, FAAFP, Pipas CF MD, MPH, FAAFP. The Power Of Coaching: Supercharge Your Personal and Professional Well-being. Fam Pract Manag. 2022 Sep-Oct;29(5):12-16.
2. Shanafelt TD, West CP, Dyrbye LN, Trockel M, Tutty M, Wang H, Carlasare LE, Sinsky C. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians During the First 2 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Mayo Clin Proc. 2022 Sep 14;S0025-6196(22)00515-8.
Empowering Women Physicians resources for you
Sign up for the EWP Coaching Program Waitlist
The Ultimate Coaching Guide for Women Physicians
Books We Love Guide
References (RCT & academic journal articles on physician coaching)
Dr. Katrina Ubell session inside EWP
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Episode # 27 - There is no badge of honor
In this episode we talk about the important role of "micro-mentoring" in facebook groups for women physicians.
We also discuss one such example where women physicians reflect on and call out beliefs we have or actions we take, as if there were a badge of honor for sacrificing ourselves for others.
Let's tell the truth - from our own painfully gained knowledge that there is NO badge of honor for .... (insert some BS thing here that we have been led to believe we "should" do.
References
Knoll, Miriam A. MD; Jagsi, Reshma MD, Phil. Cumulative Micro-Mentorship: How Social Media Is Facilitating the Advancement of Female Physicians. Academic Medicine: October 2019 - Volume 94 - Issue 10 - p 1404-1405. -
Episode # 26 - The Power of Our Stories
Human beings are enthralled by stories and use them as tools to connect, to make sense of the world, to engage and transmit information from one person to another, one community to another, and one generation to another. Our stories influence our beliefs and our culture. Personal heartfelt stories engage our brain in unique and powerful ways. We'll talk about why we encourage others to tell their stories inside EWP, why micro-mentoring matters, and why Social Learning Theory suggests most human learning occurs observationally through modeling. One woman physician telling her story has the power to change the world around her. Thousands of women physicians telling their story has the power to change the culture of medicine.
References
Dr. Uri Hasson Lab at Princeton (Suzuki et al. Dialogues: Science and Power of Storytelling. J Neuroscience 2018 Oct 31; 38(44): 9468–9470. TED talk , Youtube Storytelling impacts our future) & Dr. Paul Zak. (Neuroscience of stories)
Bandura A. Social Learning Theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; 1977.
David Foster Wallace - This is Water.
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Episode # 25 - What we really do
We are thrilled to be back after a year long break from releasing new episodes to bring you more of the Empowering Women Physicians podcast. In this episode, we hope to help you reflect on what you really do and the meaning and impact you have on people's lives.
Dr. Edith Eger's powerful book The Choice can be found here.
The free anonymous confidential Physician Support Line can be found at 1.888.409.0141.
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Episode # 24 - Dr. Milene Argo's internal & external transformation through coaching
Dr. Milene Argo started her journey with coaching 3 years ago, which started with 80 lb weight loss, she then applied this work to optimizing her clinical practice, to managing her inbox, finally leaving work at work, no more charting at home, self acceptance, COVID, and even recent anti-racism awareness.
She is one of the best I know in using coaching techniques with her patients during routine office visits and helping them get real results.
She is now not only a client of mine for well over a year, but is now also a colleague and coach in the EWP program in addition to having her own coaching practice.
Check out her physical transformation in this video, which now matches the internal changes she has created through applying this work to all aspects of her life.
https://thedoctor-coach.com/start-here
Milene's coaching can be found in her own practice at https://thedoctor-coach.com/
and as a part of EWP coaching at https://empoweringwomenphysicians.com/coaching/
Dr. Nora Vasquez can be found at
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Episode #23 - Dr. Sonia Wright (sex, mentoring, racism, continuous transformation)
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Sonia Wright about her journey, continuous transformation from her time in college, postbacc, residency, fellowship, parenting, mentoring, coaching, sex, intimacy, racism, and her experience living in the Twin Cities, MN during recent months and the anti-racism movement.
https://soniawrightmd.com/
PDF guide: bit.ly/sexualintimacyguide
Customer Reviews
Amazing pod
Sunny is an amazing host and coach. She clearly loves what she does and sharing it with others. She is warm, authentic and most importantly reforming/ providing support in a profession that deeply needs it.
“People say words….. is it true….. how do you know that”
These are some of Dr. Smith’s most endearing lines that play in my head …… especially when it matters.
Dr. Smith is changing the lives of so many women physicians through the powerful work of mindset and evidence based coaching. She is authentic, powerful, has walked a million miles in shoes that many of us have and do wear, she’s generous and she is simply brilliant. I really think she is doing the work that she was destined to do right now, in this moment as a “mother of the movement” of female physician wellness and empowerment.
Amazing podcast
All women physicians should listen to every episode. This will change your life as well as change the culture of medicine ❤️