W2 has perks. Benefits, admin support... W2 is safe (Or is it?). What if you want to practice your profession on your terms? Spend as long as you want with clients. W2 has constraints. My guest on the Lean Out Podcast this week is Aimee Lowe. Aimee has been described by a good friend as …
How I Do Work-Life Balance
[To listen to this article as a solocast, scroll to the bottom of this post] Happy Labor Day! If you look up the holiday, it will ironically say something about a “tribute to the achievements of American workers”. But you know how I feel about the word achievement 😄 If you delve …
The Conflict of Being an Anti-Hustle Entrepreneur
Part of my work-life balance involves writing, podcasting, and coaching. But wait… don’t those things involve some amount of "hustling" to get business? There are messages everywhere telling entrepreneurs to “go big or go home”, “leverage to grow,” and “scale scale scale”. I have definitely …
How to Deal With Impostor Syndrome
How impostor syndrome came up for me recently, and what I did to deal with it I pulled up to the big hospital near downtown in the dark of the early morning. Six police cars surrounded the yellow-taped entrance to the ER. After parking, I filed through the main entrance. This involved a bag …
An Appeal to Physicians to Normalize Infertility
I've talked a fair amount about infertility on this site. But how does it dovetail with designing your ideal work life balance? Physicians (and other professionals, for that matter) are conditioned to put our heads down and keep working. To not appear weak. To not ever get sick. But the reality …
Book Review: From Strength to Strength
Every once and again, a book comes along that impacts me so much, I feel the need to do a review. You can find my reviews of other books here: Thrive Better Than Before Mindset Four Tendencies Solve for Happy The Book Today, I want to discuss From Strength to Strength by …
