The Hippocratic Hustle

In today’s Friends Talk Finance episode, we discuss the the taboo topic of Prenuptial Agreements. Why are people afraid to talk about them? Should you sign one or not as a physician? What are the financial implications of not getting a prenup? All of these questions are answered today as Bonnie and Carrie discuss all things to do with Prenups!

EP 048 Physician Mortgages with Peter Kim, MD

In today’s episode, we chat with Dr. Christen Behzadi about her journey into starting her own business, The International Intercultural Consulting Firm. Dr. Behzadi became engrossed in Persian Culture when she first met her husband in medical school. She shares her journey from meeting her husband’s family, learning about their culture, feeling transformed by the experience of all things Persian to eventually writing her own book to help other non-Persian Brides.

Bonnie and Carrie are both on their journey to FI (Financial Independence) and want to share their path and why they feel it is one of the most important things for women physicians to start as soon as possible. They talk about how Bonnie fired her financial advisor and why Carrie ended up hiring her ironically. Both friends discuss how a financial advisor helped them organize their financial lives, make estate plans and guide them on their FI journey.

In today’s episode, we are so happy to welcome back our most frequent guest of the podcast. She is the multi-talented Emergency Medicine Physician and Founder of FeminEM, Dara Kass, MD. Today, Dr. Kass is back again to tell us all about the most rewarding physician job she has ever had as a camp doctor and how you can become one too! She also tells us all about her newest venture with Camp Health Consulting and how she is leading the way in camp healthcare.

Dr. Nii Darko is a trauma surgeon living in Pennsylvania and also the creator of the wildly popular Docs Outside the Box Podcast. In his podcast, Nii interviews ordinary doctors doing extraordinary things.  Nii’s guests have broken the typecast of doctors as just being doctors. He has interviewed physicians that are also media moguls, activists and trend setters. He has also recently written a book and manages a locums company.

Dr. Nicole Swiner is a family physician, mother of two, author, speaker, professor and owner of her own publishing company. Her interests include: minority health, women’s health, and pediatrics. She is an author of many books including, “How to Avoid the Superwoman Complex: 12 Ways to Balance Mind, Body and Spirit.” In this episode, she talks to us about how she thought of the idea to write this book, and how we can all apply it to our busy lives as physicians to gain health and happiness.  

This week’s episode is all about F.I.R.E. If you don’t know what F.I.R.E. is yet you can check out Episode 39 with the Physician on FIRE himself for a much deeper explanation. Miss Bonnie MD and I chat about all things F.I. (Financial Independence) and R.E. (Retire Early) and what it means to us and our personal lives. I do apologize in advance this show was recorded a couple months back, and never released until now, but I felt it was still valuable information for all of you to hear.

Happy 4th of July to everyone! Happy Birthday to our country and to our podcast too! As the podcast turns one year old, I would like to sincerely thank each of you for being loyal listeners. This is our 41st episode and we have just reached over 50,000 downloads! That is incredible! Our 41st episode is super fun. We have some exciting Life Updates from Carrie and Miss Bonnie MD since it has been a while since we got together.

Dr. Nina Shapiro is one of America’s leading physicians. With more than two decades of experience in clinical and academic medicine, she’s a trusted expert whom her patients and the media rely on routinely to set the record straight about the latest health fads and misconceptions. In today’s episode, I discuss her newest venture, her myth-busting and evidence-driven book: “Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not.”

Please welcome, Physician on FIRE, the anonymous anesthesiologist who started the very popular blog by the same name. Physician on FIRE (PoF) shares his extensive knowledge on topics about financial independence (F.I.) and retiring early (R.E.). He is an anesthesiologist who attained financial independence at the age of 39, and now teaches other physicians to do the same.

Dr. Dawn Baker is an anesthesiologist, blogger, author, mother and cancer survivor. In this episode, we discuss how she started her blog Practice Balance as a way to relieve stress during a difficult time in her life and how it has grown into so much more over the past seven years. She gives us great tips for stress management, blogging and how to practice balance in all areas of your life as a busy physician and mother.

Sara Cheng is an anesthesiologist, skincare consultant, TKD Blackbelt and photographer specializing in family and children's portraiture and lifestyle photography. We have so many things in common – working at the same hospital and having the same nanny among others. In this episode, we discuss how her side gig as a photographer helps her in her practice as an anesthesiologist. We talk about how her professional photography business started from mommy guilt and grew into a full-fledged business.

How do you start an Emergency Medicine program in a region without emergency rooms? How do you start an overseas non-profit? Heather explains how she and a few friends helped a rural community in Uganda start a non-profit, then grew into an entire program for training nurses and other health care providers to run the unit. It’s truly amazing how helping a community solve one small problem then grew into a larger and larger service. Learn how you can volunteer for this amazing program as well!

In this episode, we talk about our LIFE UPDATES and the WCI Conference!