The Medic Today

GP, Aesthetician, Business Woman and Mum of 3 - Dr Ericka Good shares openly how she navigated her career as a doctor to becoming an entrepreneur and how personal development and being part of a community that instilled her with confidence, energy and wellbeing transformed the experience of her life. We discuss the importance of mindset and perspective in discovering the possibilities of freedom and fulfilment in every area of life. She is also known as The Mojo Maker! So if you feel you've lost your mojo - check Ericka out on her platform @drerickagood We are honoured to have Ericka as a speaker at IGNITE 2022 - the first of its kind empowerment conference for medics looking to re-ignite their career and their life: www.timetoignite.co.uk Find out more about The Medic Today Community @themedictoday

Founder and CEO of You Okay, Doc?, Dr Daniel Gearon shares his journey from being an athlete in the USA to becoming a doctor and now participating in the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. He takes us through the genesis of his charity, the challenges of entrepreneurship and how he transformed his vision of impacting mental health into an organisation that is sustainable and focused on building a community, educating its users and providing mental health services directly to doctors and to the NHS. Dan will also be speaking at IGNITE 2022 - the first of its kind inspirational conference for doctors looking for personal development: to elevate their career and life experience. This is an event that is proudly supporting You Okay Doc? charity. Find out more here: www.timetoignite.co.uk You can find Dan on Instagram [@dangearon] and his charity [@youokaydoc] here: www.youokaydoc.org.uk

Dr India Duane trained as a doctor, but found herself wishing for a more creative and challenging career. Underwhelmed by the traditional career paths available to her, she decided to carve her own route. She is now the founder of Dr Duane Med Comms, and a career coach at The Disillusioned Medic. India shares her advice for getting out of the medical bubble, finding your biggest supporters and exploring creative opportunities. If you feel like there's "something missing" from your career, this is the episode for you.

After graduating from medical school, Dr Hana Ali took a year out, moved to Berlin, worked for a digital health start up and is now the Founder and CEO of her very own digital health venture: Gaia Medical. Her work aims to transform the state of mental health in the Middle East and North African region. Hana shares her humbling reflections on her decision to leave clinical medicine right after graduating and how listening to her gut feeling has lead her to where she is today. @gaia.medical

How jury service resulted in a resignation and a completely transformed life: Dr Anjalee Perera, founder of The Disillusioned Medic, talks through her story of what it was like leaving medicine. Now a marketing consultant and careers coach for doctors who are looking for a change in profession, she is out to normalise and empower the conversation around the well-being and career transition for doctors. 

Dr Claire Edwin gives her raw, unfiltered experience of expedition medicine through the global organisation who support communities in sustainable development: Raleigh International. We hear the nitty gritty in being a Raleigh Medic from the the application process to the sustainability projects, from living on a football pitch to medical evacuations within a completely different community and health infrastructure - and so much more. Heartfelt and inspiring, this is an episode not to be missed! Claire is a Raleigh Medic Alumni, Core Surgical Trainee and she will be a part of the National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow Scheme in September 2021. We are also joined by Katya Alldis, International Medical Lead for Raleigh International, who tells us all about the current projects available to get involved in: www.raleighinternational.org

Dr Ross McKean is currently working as a GP trainee working in Cambridge, and has a huge interest in how we can improve the career trajectories of doctors and their wellbeing. He created Medizom that offers up solutions to how we can stop being medic zombies in our careers and experience its underlying beauty, having stripped it of its hard institutional exterior. You can find out more about Medizom at: www.medizom.com Dr Ross McKean IG: @rosstopher1

Boom! Want to know how to springboard your life? Dr Claire Kaye talks through looking at motivators, mindset tweaks, the power of language, failure-directed success and the 3 R's to totally propel you in your life. Where best to get this advice than an executive coach specialising in careers, a former portfolio GP and the Lead GP advisor to BMJ LIVE. She also has a passion for medical education and has won multiple awards in this area, as well as being a CQC inspector, setting up an award winning nationally recognised housebound service for frail elderly patients and being on the primary care advisor board of a health tech company.

A whistle-stop journey through the life of Dr Adam Harrison who is a GP and lawyer turned medical director, to now being an executive coach, currently based in New Zealand! Already intrigued? Alongside his career journey, we take a peek into the 5 ways to well-being and how different mindsets can lead us in different directions. Watch out for Part 2 when we dive DEEP into the world of emotional intelligence and growth mindsets.

Ever look back at what it was like choosing Medicine as a career? In fact, choosing what you thought was medicine and not knowing what it could really be like as a life lived? In this conversation, Dr Liz Taylor who is now in her 20th year as a GP as well as being a life coach, talks through how mind-boggling it is to make a decision at such a young age about a profession 'for life', at a time when you may not necessarily know who you are. Find her @themedicscoach

Want to know how to work WELL from home? How to avoid interruptions and distractions, how to keep your body and mind well when WFH? Dr Katya Miles who has released her Working Well from Home Online courses tells us exactly how to do this powerfully. We also discuss being-with and breaking-through stigma associated with mental health and how working on individually is just as important to tackling this at the level of our community and society. Find her @working_well_doctor. Note episode recorded before Christmas 2020.

We talk deeply about the current status of well-being for medics: from medical careers to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on burnout and tools to bring forth calm and clarity in times of high pressure and stress. Dr Sarah Goulding is a GP, Training Programme Director, coach specialising in careers and a passionate advocate for well-being for medics. Sarah shares her journey as a doctor, how she discovered herself as a coach and her commitment to infusing personal growth into our profession.

We are in conversation with Dr Zainab who is known for her blog 'Mind the Medic', talking authentically about her experiences and transition to a career and life OUTSIDE of medicine. She currently hosts her own podcast, 'Project Millennial' and her YouTube channel 'Zed the Millennial' aimed at inspiring burnt-out professionals seeking an alternative career. Find her on Instagram @MindtheMedic

Katya Alldis is the International Medical Lead at Raleigh International: a global organisation set out to create lasting change through sustainable community development initiatives. Volunteers are sent on an expedition to support communities around the world for causes including water, sanitation and hygiene, natural resource management and youth and livelihood development. Katya shares her heart-warming stories of volunteering in Nepal as well as the personal transformation that an experience like this has left her with. She also shares her perspective of being a healthcare professional and how we as doctors and nurses can play a significant role in contributing to the work of Raleigh. Want to get involved? Let us know!

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