Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Olga Deengar

Dr. Olga Deengar aka Coach Olga MD
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☕ Welcome to the Coffee Playdate Podcast! Join Dr. Olga Deengar (Coach Olga MD) for short, real, and fun conversations with entrepreneurs and physicians doing incredible things beyond medicine. Each week, Dr. Deengar sips coffee, plays rapid-fire games, and dives into money, mindset, and business with her guests. We talk about: • Personal finance wins (and fails!) • Side hustles & investing • Work-life balance hacks • Favorite books & best advice …and so much more. 🎧 New episodes 5 am every Thursday ! Recorded and edited at Riverside.fm Listen on: 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts 🎥 YouTube 📺 Watch full videos + 30-sec clips on YouTube, Instagram, and LinkedIn 👉 Subscribe for bite-sized wisdom from real entrepreneurs and physicians. 💬 Got a question? Drop it below — it might be featured on the show! #CoffeePlaydate #DoctorFinance #MedTwitter #DoctorEntrepreneur © 2025 Coacholgamd

  1. 2d ago

    Problems Are Puzzles Ep 47: Emily Floyd on Pediatric Billing

    ☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Emily Floyd Emily is founder and CEO of Altus Pediatric Billing. Yale MBA. Corporate ladder. Then a job that was personal: her mother is an independent pediatrician who started the practice when Emily was in high school. Twelve years and hundreds of pediatricians later, she is still in it. Why the work matters Pediatrics is often overlooked and underpaid. Independent practices stay open only if the revenue actually comes in. Altus is not “bill the visit, get paid.” It is: what are your goals, a second location, another provider, and what do we do with the money you were already owed? Mindset Problems are puzzles, not crises. What do we have? What do we need? Make a plan. Growing to a team of about 40 forced the founder-to-CEO shift. She cannot touch every denial anymore. The insurance fight Denials are not uniform, and you cannot take them at face value. Phones do not get answered. Holds run two or three hours. The team stays curious, builds the argument, and appeals. Every person knows they are fighting for kids, not just a code. Advice Don’t wait to be ready. Done beats perfect. Free resource Pediatrician’s Guide to Getting Paid — they mail it free if you ask. Timelines 00:26 – Welcome + black coffee or cream ☕ 01:08 – Rapid Fire (claims, revenue, culture) 02:21 – Take a Sip (three matches) 03:26 – Who Emily is + Mom’s practice 05:02 – What excites her: goals, not just visits 06:31 – Problems are puzzles 07:41 – Founder to CEO, team of 40 08:59 – EOS, processes, leaders 10:26 – Insurance denials, holds, appeals 13:17 – Remote wins and shout-outs 14:17 – Dallas leadership retreat 16:09 – Don’t wait to be ready 17:15 – 10x Is Easier Than 2x 18:30 – Site, email, free book More from Emily Floyd CEO of Altus Pediatric Billing → https://altuspediatricbilling.com/Email → emily@altuspediatricbilling.comFree book → Pediatrician’s Guide to Getting Paid🔗 WATCH + LISTEN 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeartRadio 🎥 YouTube 🎥 Instagram @coacholgamd 💬 Subscribe & share with a pediatrician who is still doing billing at 10 p.m. Independence is a billing problem as much as a clinical one ✨ — Dr. Olga Deengar, Coach Olga MD © 2026 Coach Olga MD. All rights reserved.

  2. Oct 1

    First Kinsey Soderberg Said “Ew” to AI Ep 46: Then She Built a Successful Business on It.

    ☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Kinsey Soderberg Kinsey is founder of Authentic AI and co-founder of Her AI Era / Her AI Club, teaching women entrepreneurs to use AI without sounding like a robot. She was not an early fan. “I don’t need a robot to write my emails.” Then the light went on: AI is not the problem. How humans use it is. Authenticity was already her core value. AI became the through-line. Sister brand, then a full pivot She ran her original business for ~five years, launched Authentic AI as a sister brand (trademark, Instagram, SEO), walked her audience over, then let the first brand go. Partnership origin She met Joyce Hamilton in The Mixer Mind. Joyce hired her to brand Only Boldly. They co-hosted the first Her AI Era Summit (~3,500 attendees), each launched a membership, then merged into Her AI Club within a month. More success together than either had alone. Women are less likely to take on business partners. They did it anyway. Mindset Copying Jenna Kutcher / Amy Porterfield left her exhausted. Showing up as herself made the work feel like play. You do not have to know every AI update. Pick a lane. Be 10% ahead of the people you serve. Human bits Surprise Iceland camper-van trip for her husband’s 40th (she cannot keep a secret). BTS birthday shirt for Joyce, who had ChatGPT build a concert study guide. Timelines00:25 – Welcome + Americano ☕ 01:23 – Rapid Fire (AI edition) / Take a Sip 04:11 – Authentic AI, Her AI Club, “I was anti-AI at first” 06:14 – Sister brand → full pivot 09:18 – Meeting Joyce, Mixer Mind, Only Boldly, the summit 14:00 – Why women hesitate to partner 18:22 – Stop copying other experts. Be yourself. 23:24 – You can’t teach “all of AI.” Pick a lane. 10% ahead. 26:07 – Building a StoryBrand More from Kinsey Authentic AI → https://authenticai.co/Her AI Club → https://heraiclub.co/Instagram → @ai.kinsey🔗 WATCH + LISTEN 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeartRadio 🎥 YouTube 🎥 Instagram @coacholgamd 💬 Subscribe & share with a woman who still thinks using AI means she is “cheating.” Tools don’t steal your voice. Bad prompts do ✨ — Dr. Olga Deengar, Coach Olga MD © 2026 Coach Olga MD. All rights reserved

  3. Sep 24

    Where There’s Gratitude, There’s No Fear Ep 45: Dr. Pradnya Mitroo on Private GI Practice

    ☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Pradnya Mitroo Dr. Pradnya Mitroo is a gastroenterologist in Fresno and President of Fresno Digestive Health. She grew up in New Jersey, trained at Mount Sinai and Thomas Jefferson, and built a career around a simple why: her mom lived with GI illness and never got the care she needed — especially as a woman. She drinks tea, not coffee. Black tea, cardamom, no sugar. The path She almost stayed in academics and clinical-trials research. Politics and a lack of impact pushed her west in 2007. She joined a solo GI (rare on the East Coast), grew a largely female patient panel (about 90% women, plus their husbands and sons), then became an owner. The group later consolidated. Her point: independent practice still exists if you treat it as a business. What she is proud of Quality at a lower price than hospital-based care. Outpatient ASCs can run about a third of hospital procedure cost. Autonomy beats a hospital job — she says she would leave medicine before she would work for a hospital. The hard part they never taught Insurance cuts every year. You have to innovate. Med school taught GI, not how to run a practice. If the practice is not viable, you cannot take care of patients the way you want. Culture is part of that: gratitude journals for staff, first 10 minutes of the day, mini retreats since COVID, reminder that they are not “pushing papers” — they are saving lives. Staff voice = retention. Turnover is expensive. Advice Get a mentor. You will not see every pitfall. Failure teaches more than a win. Book Who Not How — it is the who, not the how. Extraordinary life is built on extraordinary connections, not only achievements. Timelines 00:25 – Welcome + cardamom tea 🍵 00:53 – Rapid Fire 01:35 – Take a Sip 02:17 – Who she is + Fresno practice 03:11 – Sinai, Mom’s GI story, why private practice 06:12 – Cost, ASCs, why not a hospital job 08:46 – Insurance cuts + learn the business 10:35 – Morning gratitude: “where there’s gratitude, there’s no fear” 11:50 – Culture, voice, retention 12:47 – Staff retreats after COVID 14:09 – Mentorship 15:16 – Who Not How + close More from Dr. Pradnya Mitroo - President, Fresno Digestive Health https://www.fresnodigestivehealth.com/ 🔗 WATCH + LISTEN 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeartRadio 🎥 YouTube 🎥 Instagram @coacholgamd 💬 Subscribe & share with a physician who still thinks “business” is a dirty word. Autonomy is the point ✨ — Dr. Olga Deengar, Coach Olga MD © 2026 Coach Olga MD. All rights reserved.

  4. Sep 17

    Your Symptoms Are Real and You’re Not Crazy Ep 44: Dr. Boram Han on Menopause Care

    ☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Boram Han Dr. Boram Han is back. Internist, obesity-medicine physician, and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner in Boston. She treats menopause and midlife weight together, teaches residents how to prescribe hormone therapy, wrote on midlife weight for the Women for Women anthology, and runs Hormone Lab, a menopause book club for Korean American women. What we cover Perimenopause = fluctuating hormones and symptoms (can last years). Menopause = 12 months after the last period. Postmenopause = the new, more stable chapter.Quieter symptoms: joint pain, brain fog, memory worry, anxiety — not only hot flashes.Hormone therapy’s, newer evidence is more reassuring for many healthy women closer to menopause (often within ~10 years / under 60).Midlife weight: falling estrogen shifts fat from hips/thighs toward visceral belly fat and raises insulin resistance. That is biology, not laziness.Her advice Your symptoms are real. You are not crazy. Do not suffer quietly. Start the conversation. If your doctor is uncomfortable, ask for a referral. Use The Menopause Society practitioner directory. Free resource 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Her Doctor about Menopause and Perimenopause — https://boram-han-md.kit.com/10-questions-menopause Timelines 00:25 – Welcome + lattes vs cappuccinos ☕ 03:04 – Who Boram is 07:16 – Perimenopause vs menopause vs postmenopause 11:15 – Quieter symptoms beyond hot flashes 13:32 – Hormone therapy, the WHI scare, and what research says now 18:47 – Why midlife weight feels different 26:18 – “You’re not crazy” + how to find care 30:00 – Free 10-questions guide More from Dr. Boram Han Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boramhanmd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boramhanmd/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@boramhanmd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boramhanmd Website: https://www.boramhanmd.com/   🔗 WATCH + LISTEN 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeartRadio 🎥 YouTube 🎥 Instagram @coacholgamd 💬 Subscribe & share with a woman — or a physician — who still thinks this is “just stress.” One conversation is the first step ✨ — Dr. Olga Deengar, Coach Olga MD © 2026 Coach Olga MD. All rights reserved.

  5. Sep 10

    One Property. Huge Tax Impact. Ep. 43: Amanda Han, CPA on Real Estate Tax Strategy

    ☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Amanda Han, CPA Amanda Han has been a CPA for 25+ years and co-leads Keystone CPA with her husband. Most people find her because their current accountant is reactive. She is not. Her firm works nationwide with investors who want to use real estate, entity structure, retirement planning, and alternative investments to build wealth and pay less tax — legally. Two myths she hears constantly: Tax benefits are only for people with huge portfolios. Not true. You have to do real estate full-time. Also not true.We also talk about: How she landed in real estate tax by accident at a Big Four firmWhy wealthy clients call their CPA before they make decisionsWriting tax books in plain English instead of code-speakWorking with her husband (she’s the visionary; he’s the technical filter)Hiring before it feels “affordable”Looking at out-of-state rentals as investments, not vacation homesAI tools like Hospitable and strIQSpecializing like a physician instead of being a “do everything” accountantThe One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay PapasanIf you are a physician or high earner who keeps saying “I should look at real estate,” this episode is the planning conversation most people never have with their accountant. Timelines 00:00 – Welcome + pineapple strawberry tea ☕+ Opening games 02:38 – Who Amanda is + Keystone CPA 04:26 – Two big real estate tax myths 06:45 – How she got into this work 08:20 – Why they wrote the books in plain English 09:44 – Working with her husband 10:35 – Mindset: hire for profit, not “cost” 13:09 – First property fear + out-of-state investing 14:48 – AI in rentals (Hospitable, strIQ) 16:16 – Team cruise after tax season 18:14 – Advice: pick a specialty 19:56 – How she keeps learning 21:24 – Book pick: The One Thing 22:41 – How to find Amanda Want more from Amanda Han? Keystone CPA → https://www.keystonecpa.com/Instagram & YouTube → Amanda Han CPABook → Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor (Amazon, Barnes & Noble)🔗 WATCH + LISTEN 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeartRadio 🎥 YouTube 🎥 Instagram @coacholgamd 💬 Subscribe & Share. If this conversation helped you think differently about taxes and real estate, send it to a colleague who is still waiting until December. One intentional step at a time ✨ — Dr. Olga Deengar, Coach Olga MD © 2026 Coach Olga MD. All rights reserved.

  6. Aug 27

    Measuring What Matters Ep 42: How Dr. Steve Moore Is Changing Preventive Healthcare with Technology

    ☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Steve Moore In this episode I sit down with Dr. Steve Moore — chiropractor, entrepreneur, and leader at Get Healthy USA / Live Better Longer. Steve shares his unconventional path: he started pre-med aiming to become an orthopedic surgeon, but a shift toward root-cause care led him to chiropractic school. While studying in Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom, a side hustle with new health technology grew into a multi-million-dollar business — and he never went into traditional practice. We talk about: Why he believes physicians are trained in a way that can actually work against entrepreneurshipThe power of fully committing to goals so your mind looks for solutions instead of excusesKey mindset books that helped him push through early doubts (The Greatest Secret in the World by Og Mandino, Think and Grow Rich, The Answer)A skin-based technology that measures antioxidant status in 15 seconds and how it’s being used to drive real wellness conversationsWhy most people can’t get optimal nutrition from food alone in today’s food systemBuilding a grassroots movement around preventionTimelines 00:25 – Coffee talk + Games☕ 03:12 – Background & pivot from orthopedics 05:51 – Evolving Business & 10x growth mindset 09:22 – Power of focus & community 12:13 – Mindset tools 18:00 – Book recommendations 23:32 – The antioxidant scanning technology 30:42 – Making the technology accessible 34:07 – Connect with Steve + Wellpath 360 Want to learn more about Dr. Steve Moore? Get Healthy USA → https://drsteve.gethealthyusa.com/CEO of Live Better Longer / leadership team at Get Healthy USA https://www.linkedin.com/in/drstevemoore/ https://www.instagram.com/dr_stevemoore?utm_source=qr 🔗 WATCH + LISTEN         🎥🎧 Spotify         🎧 Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeartRadio         🎥 YouTube         🎥 Instagram @coacholgamd 💬Subscribe & Share! If Steve’s story inspired you, hit subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, or Deezer and share it with a friend who’s dreaming of more flexibility in life. One intentional step at a time ✨ — Dr. Olga Deengar, Coach Olga MD © 2026 Coach Olga MD.

  7. Aug 20

    Charting Conquered Ep 41: How Dr. Junaid Niazi Helps Physicians Reclaim Their Evenings

    ☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Junaid Niazi In this episode I sit down with Dr. Junaid Niazi, double-boarded internist and pediatrician in Minneapolis, physician coach, and creator of the Charting Conquered program. Junaid shares how his creative side (drawing, music, drums) felt sidelined by medical training, and how discovering coaching during the intense early pandemic years in Minneapolis transformed both his mindset and his career. What started as personal exploration grew into a five-year group coaching program that has helped hundreds of physicians and APPs finish their charts before leaving the clinic. We talk about: Why so many physicians feel uniquely broken by chartingThe hidden mindset beliefs that make notes feel emotionally heavyTreating entrepreneurship like a game / escape room so it stays funThe danger of being the bottleneck in your own businessRealistic expectations around AI scribes (they often save less time than people think)Why getting imperfect work out into the world beats perfect work that never shipsPractical advice for physicians starting a side coaching or entrepreneurial pathA grounded, practical conversation for anyone drowning in administrative burden or building something on the side. Timelines / Chapters 00:25 – Welcome + coffee talk ☕ 02:13 – Take a Sip game 03:15 – Junaid’s background & path into coaching 06:57 – Still energized after 5+ years of Charting Conquered 08:53 – How he helps physicians with charting & burnout 10:38 – Biggest mindset shift: treating the business like a game 12:17 – Example: finally launching the website 14:27 – Challenge of being the bottleneck + outsourcing 16:53 – Realistic take on AI scribes 19:00 – Advice for physicians starting out 20:08 – Book recommendation: Get Scalable by Ryan Deiss 20:52 – Where to find Junaid Want to learn more about Dr. Junaid Niazi? Prosperous Life MD → https://prosperouslifemd.com/ 🔗 WATCH + LISTEN 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeartRadio 🎥 YouTube 🎥 Instagram @coacholgamd 💬Subscribe & Share! If Junaid's story inspired you, hit subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, or Deezer and share it with a friend who’s dreaming of more flexibility in life. One intentional step at a time ✨ — Dr. Olga Deengar, Coach Olga MD © 2026 Coach Olga MD. All rights reserved.

  8. Aug 13

    From Burnout to Mosaic Ep 40: How Dr. Alexia Gillen Reclaimed Medicine on Her Own Terms

    ☕ Coffee Playdate Podcast with Dr. Alexia Gillen In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Alexia Gillen — board-certified family physician, functional medicine practitioner, and founder of Mosaic Medicine in the Black Hills. Alexia shares her nonlinear career path: from traditional primary care and urgent care leadership to medical information officer roles (including implementing EPIC), multiple rounds of burnout, and ultimately deciding she could no longer stay in a system that didn’t allow her to care for the whole person. After nearly three years away from direct patient care, she took a leap of faith and opened Mosaic Medicine, a functional and integrative clinic focused on weight, hormone, gut, and autoimmune health. We talk about: The hardest identity shift when leaving traditional medicineWhy real relationships with patients matter more than pure autonomyThe financial and emotional reality of the first year in private practiceLearning to delegate and stop being the “rate-limiting step”Simple boundary practicesThe book that helped her believe she was enough to put herself out into the world (Worthy by Jamie Kern Lima)Practical advice for physicians thinking about starting their own practiceThis is an honest, grounded conversation about burnout, reinvention, and building a practice that finally feels aligned. Timelines / Chapters00:25 – Welcome + coffee talk ☕ 03:13 – Alexia’s background & Mosaic Medicine 06:09 – How the idea for Mosaic was born 10:29 – The fear of leaving a steady paycheck 12:31 – The mindset shift that kept her going 13:31 – Biggest challenges & learning to delegate 16:23 – Boundary tip: leaving the laptop at the clinic 17:49 – Would she do her career differently? 20:36 – Advice for physicians starting out 23:37 – Navigating social media & medical truth 24:41 – Book recommendation: Worthy by Jamie Kern Lima 26:14 – Where to find Alexia Want to learn more about Dr. Alexia Gillen? Mosaic Medicine → https://www.mymosaicmedicine.com/Instagram → @alexia_gillenFacebook → Mosaic Medicine 🔗 WATCH + LISTEN 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeartRadio 🎥 YouTube 🎥 Instagram @coacholgamd 💬Subscribe & Share! If Alexia’s story inspired you, hit subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, or Deezer and share it with a friend who’s dreaming of more flexibility in life. One intentional step at a time ✨ — Dr. Olga Deengar, Coach Olga MD © 2026 Coach Olga MD. All rights reserved.

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☕ Welcome to the Coffee Playdate Podcast! Join Dr. Olga Deengar (Coach Olga MD) for short, real, and fun conversations with entrepreneurs and physicians doing incredible things beyond medicine. Each week, Dr. Deengar sips coffee, plays rapid-fire games, and dives into money, mindset, and business with her guests. We talk about: • Personal finance wins (and fails!) • Side hustles & investing • Work-life balance hacks • Favorite books & best advice …and so much more. 🎧 New episodes 5 am every Thursday ! Recorded and edited at Riverside.fm Listen on: 🎥🎧 Spotify 🎧 Apple Podcasts 🎥 YouTube 📺 Watch full videos + 30-sec clips on YouTube, Instagram, and LinkedIn 👉 Subscribe for bite-sized wisdom from real entrepreneurs and physicians. 💬 Got a question? Drop it below — it might be featured on the show! #CoffeePlaydate #DoctorFinance #MedTwitter #DoctorEntrepreneur © 2025 Coacholgamd

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