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Live and Earn
Ep 39: Thriving Personally and Professionally After Divorce with Attorney Renée Bauer

Live and Earn

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 36:39


“Winning a divorce is not about what you financially gain from it. It's about how each of you become financially independent and thrive mentally, and being a healthier human being.” -- Renee Bauer  Divorce attorney, Renée Bauer, isn't ashamed to admit she's been divorced twice, but that hasn't always been the case.  Renée's second marriage came to an end while she was counseling clients through the very same thing — yet, she felt too embarrassed to tell anyone how well she could relate to the shame and sadness they felt about getting divorced. When Renée finally opened up about her second divorce, her law firm and digital platform became busier than ever before. Renée realized that discussing her personal story in a professional setting wasn't inappropriate; instead, it has helped her make even more authentic connections with her clients at a time when they need it most.  On this episode of Live & Earn, Renée challenges the myth that divorce is something to be ashamed of. She also stresses the importance of financial independence and the one conversation you can't afford not to have before getting married.  What we tackle in this episode:  Why you must talk about money with your partner before marriage  The #1 source of conflict in marriages  Why you should discuss a prenup – but don't necessarily have to have one  How bad finances prolong bad marriages The importance of financial freedom  Overcoming the shame and embarrassment of divorce Resources and links mentioned in episode:  https://www.instagram.com/msreneebauer/ https://renee4c30b8.clickfunnels.com/auto-webinar-registrationtmosnv7p https://course.thedcourse.com/optinmdu2lxlm https://msreneebauer.com/  --- Ready to crush your income goals?  Grab your FREE 1-Page Business Revenue Planner to help you stay on top of your income goals and track your progress throughout the year.   Get your copy by visiting  https://helenngo.com/revenueplanner/

Scaling Up Business Podcast
Getting Real with René Serbon — Dermal Systems Inc.

Scaling Up Business Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2021 32:35


This week's exciting entrepreneur is René Serbon! She is an International Skin Expert and Aesthetician. She helps people grow their skin business in a unique way and René consults fellow Aestheticians, Physicians, and Dermatologists to become confident and profitable entrepreneurs. René not only helps her clients grow, but she also provides additional education on the latest skin treatments, products, and procedures. Her business serves two-fold, both as an education and consulting business as well as a distribution business. René has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. She begged her parents to homeschool her, and when they did, she set up a small clothing shop on the side. She grew up in a very medical-centric family, and decided to follow in her family's footsteps (somewhat). When René stepped into the skin and beauty world, she got bit by the bug. She loved helping people feel confident. She could see in real-time the difference she was making in people's lives and she didn't want to stop! You might think bad skin is such a superficial thing and what's on the inside matters. That's true. However, bad skin, bad teeth, or some sort of unique “human issue” really can wreak havoc on an individual's confidence. It might seem small, but René has personally witnessed people's personalities blossom just by healing their skin.   Interview Links: Renéserbon.com Dermalsystems.com René on LinkedIn Sponsored by: Eonetwork.org   Resources: Scaling Up Workshop: Interested in attending one of our workshops? We have a few $100 discounts for our loyal podcast listeners!Scaling Up for Business Growth Workshop: Take the first step to mastering the Rockefeller Habits by attending one of our workshops. Scaling Up Summits (Select Bill Gallagher as your coach during registration for a discount.) Bill on YouTube

See'rs, Be-ers, Knowers and Doers
How the Best Outcome is the Intuitive Outcome Even When It Doesn't Seem Like It

See'rs, Be-ers, Knowers and Doers

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2021 34:18


I spoke with Renee Fougere on March 29, 2021. She had so much to share about how she became a lawyer from being a naturopath and also how she uses her life skill tools to keep centered and in alignment with her intuition and not her ego when she practices law. Her insights about that and so much more was wonderful to talk about. BioRenée Fougère is a family lawyer practising in British Columbia and Northwest Territories.  Her law firm is located in the small ranching community of 150 Mile House in beautiful British Columbia, but “home” is Shediac, a small seaside community in New Brunswick.When Renée is not advocating on behalf of her clients, she is running a small farming business called Sweet Magnolia Acres where she farms goats and chickens, and works diligently towards self-sustainable living. She has been an avid soapmaker

SaaS Growth Stacking - with Dan Martell
How To Raise Successful Kids To Be Winners

SaaS Growth Stacking - with Dan Martell

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 14:55


Check Out: My Integrated Life Micro-Doc - http://bit.ly/2Z5hSvM -- As a 3x successful business-owner and founder, my biggest fears about having kids were: I would be an absent father I would accidentally raise entitled kids Those two thoughts made me sweat. I was terrified. I was good at business... but what about being a good father? What if I messed it up? I thought maybe my obsessive drive meant I shouldn’t ever have children. Kids aren’t something you can quit if it goes wrong. So when my wife Renée fell pregnant, it lit a burning need in me to get good at the one thing I felt afraid of. I NEEDED to be an authentic and present father for my children. I had to get good at this. I hired the best mentors, coaches and parenting experts, I took the classes, read the books… I trained. Hard. And I’m not perfect. Many of my lessons weren’t taught to me from a book, they were learned from mistakes. But today I’d like to share a new video with the most valuable lessons I can offer you. Here is how to raise successful kids to be winners. My kids are the biggest blessing that’s ever happened to me. I wasn’t expecting it… I was so afraid about not giving them the right life that I never stopped to think about how much love and light they would bring into mine When Renée got pregnant, we were living in San Francisco and I had just closed a round of $1.6M in funding for my company Clarity. 3 months after the birth of our first son we found out we were having another. Max and Noah are 11 months apart, and I LOVE my boys with all my heart. That’s why this video is so important to me. I’m proud to say I overcame my fears and I am 100% a family man AND an entrepreneur at the same time. But the only way I got there was by truly living the lessons I discovered and shared in today’s video. Check it out and drop a comment with your best parenting advice. We all could use it. -- Dan Martell is a serial entrepreneur, an investor in 40+ startups like Intercom, Udemy, and Unbounce and the creator of SaaS Academy, helping over 500 B2B SaaS founders scale faster. He’s founded five SaaS companies and successfully exited three of them. If you want to scale faster without hitting the usual roadblocks, make sure to follow him on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn & Twitter. Check Out: My Integrated Life Micro-Doc - http://bit.ly/2Z5hSvM

Post Session Podcast
Episode 33- CJ Hobgood on More Than Surfing

Post Session Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 96:33


When Ren invited pro surf vet, CJ Hobgood, on the podcast the girls were stoked. There’s nothing quite like getting perspective from someone who has been to the top. But this discussion turned into so much more. Surfing opened the door for CJ to share his real gifting with the world. PSP holed up in … Episode 33- CJ Hobgood on More Than Surfing Read More » The post Episode 33- CJ Hobgood on More Than Surfing appeared first on Post Session Podcast.

Breaking Beauty Podcast
#DamnGoods Special! Gothamista’s Renée Chow Spills the Secrets of Her At-Home Skincare Routine

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020 46:26


When Renée Chow – a.k.a “Gothamista” – recommends a skincare product, watch it fly off store shelves. In today’s special edition of the #DamnGoods, the New York-based blogger and YouTuber plays guest co-host, in her first podcast ever! With a tagline like: “I Try Stuff So You Don’t Have To,” Renée boasts a hyper-curated #topshelf that helps inform the purchases of her “Skin Squad” community of over 500,000 fans. Today, you’ll hear her complete at-home facial routine – so if you want to achieve her enviable glow, get those shopping carts ready!! Plus, Renée fills us in on the best complexion advice she’s ever received – and the skincare trend she thinks will pop off next.   For any products or links mentioned in this episode, check out our blog: www.breakingbeautypodcast.com/blog   Thank you to our show partners. When you support them, you support the creation of Breaking Beauty Podcast!  CAUSEBOX Go to Causebox.com/beauty and use the code BEAUTY for 30% off your first box! For just $39, you’ll receive 6-8 full-sized beauty and lifestyle items curated from ethical, sustainable brands — valued at over $250— with free shipping in the U.S.  *Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, all products reviewed are gratis media samples submitted for editorial consideration.*   Get social with us and let us know what you think of the episode! Find us on Instagram, Twitter,  Join our private Facebook group

, or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 1-844-227-0302.    Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya
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Mistconceptions Podcast
Episode 61: All Time Low

Mistconceptions Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2020 65:08


When Ren jeopardizes the secrecy of the Crew's hideout, they flee to the abandoned Darkwater Detention Facility to escape police pursuit. There, the Crew has a discussion about what their next move should be. Help us reach $400 a month on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mistconceptionspod Music in this episode: Mythos Calling by Chris T. Richardson Doll Dancing by Puddle of Infinity Tribal Percussion Hunt by Bobby Cole

On the Brink with Andi Simon
143: Ask Andi—How To Find Your Blue Ocean Strategy® Step 1

On the Brink with Andi Simon

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 24:46


Ready to find your Blue Ocean Strategy and soar? Listen in!  Tired of competing against all those "others" that you have been benchmarking yourself against for years, without much benefit? Are you ready to carve out a new market space and make the competition irrelevant? It might be time for you to find your Blue Ocean Strategy, the amazingly successful methodology that helps you see, feel and think in new ways about your business in these rapidly-changing times. In this "Ask Andi" podcast, I'll take you through the initial steps of a Blue Ocean Strategy so you can learn how to apply it to your own business.Listen and learn! Blue Ocean Strategy helps you create a market space where you are the "only" — at least for a little while The basic premise of Blue Ocean Strategy is not to do more of the same, cheaper, or to stay within the same market space, or to compete with others in the same industry that you're in today. Neither is it about digging deeper into a consumer's profile and selling them more product. Blue Ocean Strategy is about identifying your customers' (and potential customers') problems, their pain points, their unmet needs, so you can offer them your innovative solutions. When Renée Mauborgne and Chan Kim conducted their original research which led to their groundbreaking book, "Blue Ocean Strategy," they studied 150 companies, looking for ones that thrived. What they found was that the businesses that excelled did so because they solved a problem differently from their peers. Not simply finding ways to do things cheaper or faster, they created their own unique solution to consumers' needs. They saw completely differently. They looked at the market with fresh eyes. Here are some well-known examples of Blue Ocean thinking: Starbucks, Uber, [yellow tail] wine, Cirque du Soleil and Airbnb. Every day, more come on the scene. So, how do you find your Blue Ocean Strategy? The first step is to take stock of where you are now, how you're competing in the industry you're in, and what you're offering from the buyer's perspective backwards. The tool that helps you see, feel and think about your business in new ways is called a strategic canvas. It's an interesting and simple tool, but often hard to use, because a lot of business people aren't really sure what parameters they're competing on or who their competitors are.   Think of the strategic canvas as an analysis that depicts the way an organization structures its products or services to buyers in relation to the offerings of other companies who are trying to solve the same problem in the same way. This will help you clarify whether you're in a "me-too" position or really out ahead of the pack. Everybody is wedded to what they know and the new is terrifying Your job in finding your Blue Ocean Strategy is to begin to see, feel and think in new ways before you go and do anything. In my next Ask Andi (How To Find Your Blue Ocean Strategy® Step 2), I'll talk about the importance of visual exploring. I'll explain the places where you can go and hang out, take pictures and videos, and begin to see what's really happening out in the marketplace. You'll learn to observe what people are actually doing with your product, what are they not doing, and what go-arounds they're using when they can't find what they're looking for. With Blue Ocean Strategy, change and growth are waiting for you. Stay tuned! In this episode, I discuss: Who's going to be your customer in three years Creating your strategic canvas Identifying key competing factors Finding new market space you can capture Looking for non-customers Think from the buyer's perspective backward Who could use you who isn't To learn more, check out these blogs, podcasts and white paper Blog: Are You Ready to Find Your Blue Ocean® And Get Growing? Blog: 5 Best Tools to Do Your Blue Ocean Strategy® for Changing Times Podcast: Maria Gallo—DelVal University Is Now Soaring Thanks To Blue Ocean Strategy® Podcast: Dusty Rubeck—How Blue Ocean Strategy® Transformed An Organization White paper: Time To Find Your Blue Ocean Strategy?  Resources My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants Get the full transcript of this Ask Andi episode here.

Go Solo Live
EP 042 Reconnect with Nature, Reconnect with Yourself

Go Solo Live

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2017 41:45


When Renée Rivard was going through her second divorce, something clicked inside her. She was living in San Diego at the time and she was just working to make a living. She decided it was time for her to move and get a different kind of scenery. As someone who loves nature and has always wanted to learn Spanish, she decided to move right into the rainforests of Panama. On the show, Renée shares her experience of living in a foreign country solo for the first time, caring for her parent, and how those profound experiences sparked a new business career.   Key Takeaways: *What kind of things has Renée learned about herself from her solo adventures? *Renée moved to Panama about 4 years ago. It was on her bucket list to speak Spanish fluently! *What kinds of challenges has Renée faced while traveling solo? *Renée had to move back home to care for her mother during her last years. How did Renée manage the transition from Panama to back home? *After Renée’s mother passed, what lead Renée to Australia? *If you’re grieving and mourning, there’s no better place to be than in nature. *What places have been the most memorable for Renée from a nature standpoint? *Traveling gets you out of your comfort zone and that’s where most of your growth will come from. *It’s an interesting mix to be able to work remotely in nature. Despite being in the middle of the rainforest, you’re still so reliant on technology. *Why is Renée focused on good nutrition and how did she find this line of work?   Mentioned in This Episode: Transformviatravel.com Transform via Travel on Facebook @GoSoloLive on Twitter Email: Jennifer@TransformviaTravel.com Patreon.com/gosololive   Connect with Renée: Facebook Instagram Twitter Healthyfoodhappygenes.com Isdiseasehereditary.com Panama Adventure eBook: I Had A Sloth In My Tree: And Many More of Life's Little Adventures Living in the Panama Rainforest, by Renée Rivard   Leave a Review: Did you like this episode? Please leave an honest review on iTunes with your feedback! Also, please subscribe to the Go Solo Live podcast on iTunes, to get notified when a new episode gets released. I appreciate your listening to this week’s show. And tune in next week for another great guest.  

Specialty Stories
29: What is OB/GYN? A Community Doc Shares Her Thoughts

Specialty Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2017 46:42


Session 29 Dr. Renée Darko is a community-based OB/GYN. In our podcast, she talked about her path to OB, what you should be thinking about during med school, and some tips as you're going through the process of deciding whether OB/GYN is right for you. If you haven't yet, please listen to Episode 127, I dove into the residency match data for OB/GYN. [01:30] Community Setting Practice Renée practices in a community setting. Although at one point, she considered an academic setting while she was in residency but shortly before she graduated from residency, she started realizing that she needed to explore a little bit more of the setting she wanted to be in so she began doing Locum Tenens in terms of practice rather than joining a group or an academic center. During the time she was doing Locum right after she graduated from residency, she also did a Health Policy Fellowship to give her a little bit of time to think of what she wanted to be and what she wanted to do. Renée graduated from her residency in 2010 so she has been practicing for seven years now. [02:44] An Interest in Pediatrics to OB/GYN Renée did not want to be an OB/GYN when she first entered medical school. In fact, she says it was the last thing she ever wanted to do. She actually wanted to be a pediatrician. The she did her pediatric rotation in her third year of medical school and she hated it, not because of the kids or the parents, but she just didn't enjoy the medicine of pediatrics and realized it wasn't for her. During the last rotation of her third year was OB/GYN and knowing it was the last rotation and knowing she wasn't going to like it, she thought she didn't know what to do. But upon her first week of OB, she absolutely loved it. She loves the versatility of it as well as going to the OR, doing the deliveries, and doing the procedures in the office. She then realized considering an OB/GYN more seriously. Renée's experience in pediatrics was somewhat a repetitive cycle which she didn't like. She didn't enjoy it because she didn't think she was very good at it mainly because it didn't interest her. Whereas she found OB to be a lot more versatile even as a generalist. They were doing things that could be potentially considered as subspecialties like surgery. She basically likes the fact that she can work with her hands and do a bit more to keep herself busy. Before she started her path to OB/GYN, Renée had not considered a procedure-based practice. She never really thought about the procedures being a major part of what she would be doing as a physician. She thought that if she liked a particular population, being a new mom and that she loves kids, then that's the population she wants to work with. She realized she needed more than just the population. She needed something that was going to motivate her, keep her busy, and something that she was going to enjoy. So to her, the practice of OB/GYN was just of more interest to her. This is another example of keeping an open mind going into medical school. [07:15] Traits that Lead to Becoming a Great OB/GYN One trait that leads to becoming a great OB/GYN is being a good listener and allowing the patients to feel comfortable with you. When Renée was in residency, one of the things her attending used to say to her is that you're not your patient's social worker. Part of the reason she was being told that is because she would go in doing more than just prescription or procedure. She would actually sit down and listen to patients as they tell her their lives and all things that affect people outside of just looking at their differential diagnosis. Hence, Renée recommends thinking about the things affecting your patient's health. She adds this is a very intimate type of specialty so you need to go in thinking that and realizing that the patient is going to tell you intimate details and for you not to shy away from listening to those details otherwise you might miss things. [09:22] Keeping an Open Mind Renée was so dead-locked on being a pediatrician that she didn't let herself open to looking at other specialties. Apparently, she was so hooked to pediatrics until their peds rotation when she realized she didn't like it. Again, it was only till the end of his third year that she did an OB rotation so she felt she missed a lot of other opportunities and that she should have considered other specialties. That said, Renée loves OB/GYN and she says she wouldn't trade it for the world. [10:25] Types of Patients and Typical Day As an OB/GYN, you deal with patients on the OB (obstetrics) side composed of pregnant patients and the Gynecology side consisting of non-pregnant patients ranging from teens to the elderly. Aside from pregnant patients, she also sees patients trying to conceive, those with fertility issues, menstruation issues as well as women going through menopause. Basically, she sees a wide variety of patients and this is what makes her job more interesting instead of just one diagnosis she sees constantly throughout the day. Renée's typical day would be going into the office at around 8:45 and sees about 10-12 patients in the morning and around the same thing in the afternoon. The first patient may be a pregnant patient and if it's her first visit, she has to assess all of her risk factors - her age, previous pregnancies and/or complications, genetic disorders (including the father), medical conditions. The she does an exam on her to make sure she's doing okay and measure the size of her uterus. If she's far enough along, Renée can listen to the baby's heartbeat. Then they make a plan as to how the pregnancy is going to go, things to expect, follow-up appointment, and what to expect for next time. Every patient may be a different diagnosis and coming for a different problem. The next patient may be an elderly woman having the hot flushes. So her patients vary everyday in terms of the number and versatility of patients she sees. [13:58] Taking Calls For Renée, she doesn't take a lot of calls although previously, she had to take calls three to four times a week which can get pretty hectic. Basically, the number of calls you take as an OB/GYN depends on how many people you have in your call rotation. Calls vary as well in that there are different models of OB. One of the more popular ones is the Laborist model where you're in the hospital and that's all you do so you typically won't see patients in the office. Renée didn't practice this in the past. However, if you see patients in the office and take calls at night, you can either take call from home if you live close enough. You can take call in the hospital where you have to stay in the hospital overnight or you can take call from home and do something called second call, the most recent kind of call she has taken, which Renée describes as when someone else is taking the primary call. For example, the family practice doctors who practice OB (common in a rural setting) are the first line of call so they take care most of the pregnant patients that come in. But if they ran into a problem such as a complication or the patient is more high risk than they anticipated or if the patient needs a C-section, she will then be called and she will come in from home into the hospital. [16:40] Work-Life Balance Renée says she has work-life balance right now but she has significantly changed how she practiced. She is currently doing independent contracting so she gets to choose when to work and when not to work which is not a typical model most OB's would follow. But she describes her previous model as difficult and cumbersome to balance your home and work life, bringing work at home a lot of times or staying at work late to finish things. In fact, sometimes when appointment ends is when work has only begun such as notes to catch up on, accumulating messages in her inbox, and looking at lab results coming in which she ordered days before for her previous patients. Renée typically goes home at around 7:30-8:00 pm. She still has to put dinner and decompress then go to sleep and do it all over again when she's not on call. [19:50] Path to Residency OB/GYN residency takes four years. Typically in your first year of residency, you're doing mostly general OB and GYN rotations. For Renée's residency, she did OB rotations in different hospitals as well as a GYM rotation along with GYN ER where she saw patients in the emergency room as an OB/GYN resident. In your second year, you're going more into the subspecialties such as MFM (Maternal Fetal Medicine) or high risk obstetrics dealing with not just pregnant patients but also those with high risk issues, Gynecologic Oncology dealing with women's health type of cancers, and Urogynecology which entails a lot of surgical experience. In your third year, you're expected to take on a little bit more of responsibility. By your third year residency, you're considered a senior resident and you may have a team that you're actually leading. Your team may be made up of a second year and a first year resident and you're leading that team. Throughout your residency, you're also doing "night float" which means taking night call maybe from 6 pm one night to 6-7 am in the morning. You're doing this for four to five days out of the week. Again in your third year, you're taking a little more responsibility with your OB rotations so maybe you're making more decisions and the same thing with gynecology in the OR doing a more advanced type of procedures. Whereas in your first year, you may have been doing minor procedures like tubal ligations or LEEP. In your third year, you might be doing a little bit more of hysterectomy (removal of the uterus). Then your fourth year is even more responsibility. You're leading a team and doing night float but you're doing OB, GYN, and potentially maternal fetal medicine. All these are broken up into rotations so you're not going to be doing these all at once but you're doing it four to six weeks at a time. Renée describes it as a pretty busy residency but you get so much out of it. [23:45] Matching Into OB/GYN and Choosing a Program Renée says matching into OB/GYN can be competitive and she recalls her year to be a pretty competitive year. She adds the importance of going into doing audition rotations like your sub-internships pretty early in your fourth year and seeing where you want to be so you're not blindly picking where you want to go. It's a surgical specialty so you want to be sure that wherever you go, you're going to be in a place that does enough surgery. Delivering babies is fine but if you have a program that is so obstetrics-heavy and not enough gynecology, especially surgeries, Renée suggests reconsidering going into that program. At the end of the day, you have to really know how to work your hands to do surgery. You will learn how to deliver a baby wherever you go but doing hysterectomy, particularly vaginal hysterectomies and other types of gynecological procedures, you're going to really want to get good training in that. So when inquiring about the program or doing a Sub-I or interviewing, be sure to ask about it and get a sense of what your training is going to look like, particularly your surgical training. [26:30] Bias towards DO's Renée is a DO and applying to residencies, she actually never experienced any bias. She did the MD match and chose to opt out of the DO match because at that time, there weren't enough programs in the region she wanted to be. She is from New York so she wanted to come back to the New York/New Jersey area and there weren't enough DO programs at that time that she was interested in. Anyway, she didn't experience any type of bias. In fact, their program chair specifically told her she wanted Renée to be in the program. [28:20] Subspecialty Opportunities You can just do OB although Renée recommends that if you're just coming out, you probably want to do OB/GYN. You can also just do GYN. Other subspecialties are Maternal Fetal Medicine (high risk obstetrics dealing with pregnant patients with high risk issues) which consists of a three-year fellowship, Urogynecology (an additional three years and very surgical-heavy), Gynecological oncology (dealing with cancers, another surgery-heavy specialty which is also an additional three years), and Pediatric Gynecology which is one year. There is also the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, which Renée was originally interested in and where you deal with infertility patients and other endocrinology disorders which is another three-year fellowship. [31:00] Working with Primary Care Renée explains that depending on what organization you talk to, OB can be considered primary care. But she doesn't think it's primary care in the sense of how they look at it. I personally think it's primary care for women's health but there's still a primary care physician for a woman's overall care. Nevertheless, she wants primary care physicians to understand that they are the first line for women's health so it's important they have a relationship with primary care physicians with regard to women and women's health. Renée sees some women going to their family practice doctor and they've seen them for years but they haven't had a pap smear or breast exam in years. She adds family med doctors are pretty good at doing mammograms but the breast exam is still recommended. As an OB/GYN, Renée stresses that the clinical exam is still extremely valuable in evaluating patients. These are the kinds of things she wants for the primary care physicians to keep in the back of their minds to always ask their women patients if they've seen their OB/GYN or if they've already had their pap smear. This is even important with teenagers because Renée says there are a lot of instances where they could have treated or prevented issues but they've missed the boat on that. [34:30] The Laborist Model What she wished she knew about OB/GYN which she didn't know going into it is how flexible it actually can be. The Laborist, also called the OB Hospitalist Model, is currently getting popular. As a laborist, you're primarily in the hospital rather than being in the office and having to take calls and having to do everything in one day. Now that she knows that, Renée is actually taking more advantage of it and seeing it as her saving grace being a new mom and so it's really important for her to spend time with her baby. She gets that flexibility of being able to work in the hospital alone and set her schedule in the hospital where she gets all the work done in the hospital so she doesn't have to bring her work home and be able to spend more time with her son. [36:35] Most and Least Liked Thing What she likes most about being an OB/GYN is talking with patients. She is very candid with her patients so they would feel comfortable talking with her especially about sensitive topics where they may feel ashamed of so they're trying to hide it such as domestic abuse or sexual abuse or postpartum depression. Sometimes, they're not comfortable telling a perfect stranger but Renée sees it as a privilege for someone to be able to say that to her. So it's all about the trust her patients put into her that she's carrying for them. On the flip side, what she likes the least about being an OB/GYN is when it gets too busy where she feels like she doesn't have the time she needs to either talk with her patients or have the time she needs with her family. Another thing she doesn't like is having bad outcomes especially on the obstetrical side when you're dealing with either miscarriages or stillborn which is heartbreaking. These are the things Renée says you never get used to such as bad diagnosis of, say, cervical cancer. [40:10] Changes in the Field Renée explains there is always something coming down the pipe. In particular, she sees genetics to become really big where there are a lot of genetic technologies coming down the pipe for OB. Most recently, cell-free DNA has come out which can give a lot of information about a fetus during pregnancy, something we didn't have in the past. Policy-wise, Renée sees the fight with women's health so it's interesting to see what policies are going to be emerging with regards to women's health in the next few years. [42:30] Final Words of Wisdom Renée gives her last pieces of advice to medical students looking at OB/GYN as a future career. First, don't underestimate it and don't not consider it. Don't tunnel-vision your way. She was lucky that when she did OB, she liked it. If you like using your hands and you like using your brain, OB/GYN is something where you can help a lot of women. You may never see a male patient again which Renée humorously sees as a blessing but they do circumcisions as OB. Nevertheless, you're going to help a lot of people. One of the things Renée and her husband learned during their medical mission about women's health is that women are typically the gatekeepers to their family's health which is very important. When you take care of a woman, there's a very good chance you're taking care of their entire family. If they prioritize their own health, they will do the same for their children, their husbands, their mothers, their sisters. They are the people who tend to keep the family healthy. Renée says it's very important to consider that when you're considering OB/GYN, you're not only helping that person sitting in front of you but you will also be helping potentially their entire family which is a beautiful thing. Links: Send Ryan an email at ryan@medicalschoolhq.net Locum Tenens Specialty Stories Podcast Session 127: A Deep Dive into OB/GYN Residency Match Data