2025 is HERE!!! New beginnings!

Happy New Year! My hope for all of my readers is that you have had a wonderful start to the new year; if instead, it has been challenging, I am sending my thoughts and will share a practice that has helped me in trying times –  Gratitude In our most difficult times, coming back to…

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Ahimsa

As I mentioned in last week’s blog, I spent time in Koh Samui, Thailand at a beautiful yoga retreat center called Vikasa.  I spent the week meditating, attending yoga classes, receiving thai massage therapy, relaxing by the pool, hiking to a waterfall and visiting an elephant sanctuary.  It was a quiet, gentle trip in which…

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HipCamp and other year-end reflections

I’m in Thailand!!!!!! The island of Koh Samui to be exact. I’m sitting on the porch of my private cabana. The waves are crashing around the rocks on the “secret beach” in front of my room. Coconuts hang from a tree immediately in my sightline. Rain falls intermittently; sometimes heavily, other times in light drops.…

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 Gratitude

One cannot be upset, angry or fearful when being grateful…Consider adding a gratitude practice daily:Name 3 things you are grateful for each morning and in the afternoon too! Ready to make a career transition to pharma/biotech… want to explore a way to use your medical training and knowledge in a fulfilling way without nights and…

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Gratitude

GRATITUDE I’m working on this practice… I told you last week I was at Tony Robbin’s Unleash the Power Within (UPW) event recently.  I WALKED ON HOT COALS!!! Tony’s teachings were transformational. Yes, lots of “WHOO” – and it was AMAZING! GRATITUDE –  Take a few minutes today, as you read this post, to reflect…

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What are you thinking that is holding you back?

When I coach physicians that are interested in transitioning to a fulfilling career in the pharma/biotech industry, 95% of them come to me with LIMITING BELIEFS. Thoughts that are running through their heads, programmed in early in their lives usually AND especially during their medical training! These limiting beliefs GET IN THEIR WAY OF SUCCESS!…

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Veterans Day

Today’s blog isn’t about pharma or biotech… It’s about learning and growing. How many times do we just roll through life doing things without really understanding why? It struck me that tomorrow is Veteran’s Day –  And yes, I know it is to honor our military veterans. My dad was a veteran. My brother is…

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Choices

Continuing October’s theme of learnings from PIMDCON 2024, today I am sharing something that resonated from Eric Tait’s talk.  Eric is a physician and President of Vernonville Asset Management, LLC.   Here’s what I wrote in my notebook (yes, I’m still a pen and paper note-taker!!) ***Doing NOTHING is a CHOICE*** Although I know this, his…

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Stoic Philosophy

Not only did we get to hear from Ryan Holiday at PIMDCON, the small mastermind group I’m a part of got to meet Ryan and walk away with a signed copy of one his books… pretty cool! Here are a few of my notes from his talk – they don’t require any explanations: “Whether something…

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OOCEMR

In last week’s blog, I told you I attended PIMDCON in Dallas.  As promised, I will be sharing learnings from PIMDCON for the rest of October (and maybe into November – there was so much great content!) A small group of physicians met prior to PIMDCON for our semi-annual Momentum MD mastermind group.  During this…

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