The Developing Doctor

Dr. Ben Reinking
  • 5.0 (3)
  • Self-Improvement
  • Updated Bimonthly

The Developing Doctor Podcast helps physicians and high achievers rediscover purpose, balance, and joy in both medicine and life. Hosted by Dr. Ben Reinking, a pediatric cardiologist and coach, each episode explores the real stories, struggles, and strategies that help you grow beyond burnout, reconnect with what matters most, and use your heart more—not less.

  1. 17h ago

    How Sleep Disorders Shape Lives: A Conversation with Dr. Maria Sokolina

    Welcome back to The Developing Doctor, the podcast where we bring the heart and soul back to healthcare, no matter where you are in your career journey. I’m your host, Dr. Ben Reinking, pediatric cardiologist and physician coach. Today, we’re diving into a unique intersection of dentistry, sleep medicine, and personal growth with Dr. Maria Sokolina—dental sleep medicine specialist, founder of Harmony Dental Arts in NYC, and author of the newly-released book Breathless: A Narrative Journey Through Real Patient Stories Behind Sleep Disorder Breathing. In this episode, we explore Dr. Sokolina’s inspiring journey from medical and dental school in St. Petersburg, Russia, to building successful practices in New Jersey and New York City. We discuss the challenges of navigating new healthcare systems, the importance of mentorship and networking, and how embracing storytelling can improve care and replenish joy in the healing professions. Dr. Sokolina also shares expert insights on sleep disorder breathing—why it matters for both children and adults, how it’s often overlooked, and what clinicians and families can do about it. Whether you’re a provider just starting out, an experienced practitioner wanting a fresh perspective, or simply interested in the powerful stories that shape healthcare, this episode is for you. Let’s get started. Connect with the guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-sokolina-dds-7711aa15/

  2. Jul 14

    Supporting Future Physicians: Career Advising and Wellness in Medical Education

    Welcome back to The Developing Doctor podcast, the show dedicated to exploring how to stay human in medicine and lead with heart. This week, Dr. Ben Reinking welcomes Billie Ruden, the academic and career advising manager at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine. With years of experience guiding medical students, residents, and fellows through some of the toughest stretches of training, Billie Rudin brings invaluable insights into what truly helps future physicians thrive. In this episode, she shares her journey into medical education, reflects on the challenges and growth medical trainees experience, and discusses what medical education gets right—and where it can still improve. Tune in for an honest conversation full of wisdom about resilience, the importance of asking for help, prioritizing wellness, and what gives hope for the future of medicine.

  3. Jun 30

    Redefining Wellbeing: Foundational Habits Over Quick Fixes in Healthcare and Life

    Welcome to another episode of The Developing Doctor, with your host Dr. Ben Reinking. In a world where healthcare professionals are trained to treat and prevent disease, the art of true wellbeing often gets overlooked—not just for our patients, but for ourselves as clinicians. Today, we explore what it really means to thrive as a whole person, beyond the confines of clinic protocols and quick-fix wellness trends. Joining us is Jacob Frederick, a wellbeing coach and founder of Intentionally Selfish, who brings a fresh perspective from outside the medical system. Jacob Frederick's approach is all about challenging the "wellness as willpower" narrative, focusing instead on sustainable, foundational habits that fit real, busy lives. Together, we dive into the struggles unique to healthcare professionals—like time scarcity, the myth of extreme discipline, and the importance of social connection. We’ll discuss how simple practices like gratitude, movement, and setting boundaries can shift our mindset and create long-term fulfillment. Whether you’re in healthcare or just searching for a more intentional path to wellbeing, this episode is packed with practical, meaningful insights to help you be well—on your own terms. 🩺 ABOUT DR. BEN REINKING━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━I'm a practicing pediatric cardiologist, Fellowship Program Director, and Master Certified Physician Development Coach with 20+ years in academic medicine. I've been through serious burnout — and I coach physicians through what comes next.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📌 WORK WITH ME━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📅 Free 30-min Coaching Consultation (no pitch, just a conversation) → thedevelopingdoctor.com/contact📘 Mastery & Wellness: How to Thrive as a Physician Online course | CME credit included | Self-paced → https://courses.thedevelopingdoctor.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ THE DEVELOPING DOCTOR PODCAST━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-developing-doctor/id1851251067━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📱 CONNECT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Instagram → instagram.com/the_developing_doctorLinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/ben-reinking-md-03987a101Website → https://thedevelopingdoctor.com━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏷️ ABOUT THIS CHANNEL━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The Developing Doctor is for physicians and medical professionals who want to lead better, communicate more effectively, beat burnout, and build careers that are actually sustainable. New content weekly.#PhysicianCoaching #PhysicianBurnout #TheDevelopingDoctor

  4. Jun 16

    From Nigeria to Texas: Physician Innovation and the Rise of Membership Medicine

    Welcome to The Developing Doctor, the podcast where we dive into the journeys and innovations of physicians striving to reclaim the heart of medicine. In this episode, we welcome Dr. Frank Okosun, a board-certified internist, medical director, and clinical assistant professor who has spent over two decades navigating the complexities of primary care. From his early medical training in Nigeria to his years as a leader in Texas healthcare, Dr. Frank Okosun brings deep insight into what it takes to thrive in a changing medical landscape. Today, we'll explore his bold move to transition his practice to the MDVIP model—a hybrid approach focused on prevention, personalized medicine, and an enhanced doctor-patient relationship. We’ll discuss the challenges and opportunities of switching to a more patient-centered care model, the lessons learned from practicing medicine across continents, and what this shift means for the future of healthcare. Whether you’re a physician looking for new possibilities or simply interested in how medicine is evolving, this conversation promises to be a source of inspiration and valuable lessons.

  5. Jun 3

    Taking Charge: How Physicians Can Own Their Name, Practice, and Professional Identity

    Welcome to another episode of The Developing Doctor, where we explore what it truly takes to grow as a clinician—not just in medicine, but in business, branding, and life. Today, Dr. Ben Reinking sits down with Ashley Gay, founder of Digital Ash Agency and a seasoned brand strategist who helped take her husband’s medical practice from zero to over a million dollars in its first year. As someone who has navigated the high-stakes world of medical practice ownership from both the physician and spouse perspective, Ashley Gay brings unique insight into what it means to own your name, your story, and your future in medicine. From building a brand and referral network to tackling skills gaps and finding meaning and autonomy beyond the clinic walls, today’s conversation is packed with practical advice and empowering stories for any physician ready to shape their own path—whether that means going independent or creating a lasting identity within a larger institution. Let's dive in!

  6. May 14

    Sustaining High Performance in Medicine: Navigating Burnout, Energy Management, and Self-Awareness

    In this episode of The Developing Doctor, host Dr. Ben Reinking explores the concept of high performance in medicine—not simply doing more, but understanding how to sustain excellence and purpose over time without burnout. He is joined by Dr. Diane Malaspina, a psychologist, performance coach, and yoga teacher specializing in stress and burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, and optimal performance. Drawing on her background in both academic psychology and Eastern wellness practices, Dr. Diane Malaspina combines scientific research with mindfulness and breath work to help high performers in healthcare find balance and resilience. Listeners will hear a discussion on redefining what it means to be a high performer, the importance of managing energy over time, the value of physiological data in understanding personal wellbeing, and how coaching can help healthcare providers gain crucial self-awareness. This episode is designed for anyone in medicine seeking to cultivate sustainable high performance and personal growth.

  7. Apr 29

    Why Listening Matters More Than Ever in Medicine

    Welcome back to The Developing Doctor! In this episode, host Dr. Ben  explores the often-overlooked skill at the heart of great healthcare teams: truly listening. While medical training equips us with impressive technical abilities, we rarely learn how to listen with intent and compassion. Today, Ben is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Parks, a communication scholar and expert in listening, who has dedicated her career to understanding how the way we listen shapes relationships, leadership, and communities. Together, they dig into why listening is frequently undervalued in healthcare—even among those who care deeply—and how it can be cultivated as a practical skill. Dr. Elizabeth Parks shares the roots of her passion for listening, from her experiences in the Deaf community to working with international nonprofits, and introduces her evidence-based LISTEN framework. The conversation covers the cultural and relational nature of listening, the essential link between listening and trust, and strategies for navigating challenging conversations and organizational bias. If you’re ready to rethink what makes a healer effective, and how listening can transform your practice and your team, you won’t want to miss this episode. Today’s guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethshun-chingparks?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios Check out: https://www.elizabethsparks.org

  8. Apr 14

    Building Trust Between Providers and Administrators for Better Healthcare

    On this episode of The Developing Doctor, we dive into one of healthcare’s quietest sources of tension: the complex relationship between physicians and administrators. Too often, these essential partnerships are marred by miscommunication, misunderstanding, and the false belief that we’re working on different teams. But when trust and shared purpose are present, these relationships can transform healthcare into something truly rewarding—and more human. To explore this dynamic, Dr. Ben welcomes two extraordinary guests with decades of experience on the administrative side of medicine. Roxanne Meyer and Kris Zeller have helped practices grow from small teams into thriving healthcare organizations, navigated tremendous changes like EMRs and COVID, and learned firsthand the power of mentorship, leadership, and relationships. Together, they share the highs and lows of running medical practices, the crucial role of communication and mutual respect, and the changes—sometimes challenging, sometimes inspiring—shaping healthcare today. Whether you’re a physician, administrator, or just invested in the future of healthcare, this conversation is a timely reminder: our system works best when we see one another as partners, not adversaries.

See All (17)

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
3 Ratings

About

The Developing Doctor Podcast helps physicians and high achievers rediscover purpose, balance, and joy in both medicine and life. Hosted by Dr. Ben Reinking, a pediatric cardiologist and coach, each episode explores the real stories, struggles, and strategies that help you grow beyond burnout, reconnect with what matters most, and use your heart more—not less.

Information

  • Creator
    Dr. Ben Reinking
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dr. Ben Reinking
  • Show Website
    The Developing Doctor

You Might Also Like