Empowering Women Physicians
Episodes
Episode #32 - Oprah & Inner Knowing
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our last episode was a conversation with Dr. Edith Eger on how we always have a choice. No matter our situation, we always have a choice. This e...
Episode #31 - Dr. Edith Eger
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Edith Eger who is a 97 year old Holocaust survivor, clinical psychologist, and New York Times Best Selling autho...
Episode #30 - Learned Helplessness Part 2 (Learning Control)
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we examine the evolution of the understanding of Learned Helplessness. We review the neuroscience that explains how helplessness is ...
Episode #29 - Learned Helplessness Part 1
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we learn about Martin Seligman's initial experiments on Learned Helplessness. This context can help us better understand ourselves a...
Episode #28 - Indoctrination
15 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about the indoctrination all of us went through during our medical training. In the next episode we will discuss learned hel...
Episode # 27 - There is no badge of honor
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about the important role of "micro-mentoring" in facebook groups for women physicians. We also discuss one such examp...
Episode # 26 - The Power of Our Stories
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Human beings are enthralled by stories and use them as tools to connect, to make sense of the world, to engage and transmit information from one perso...
Episode # 25 - What we really do
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are thrilled to be back after a year long break from releasing new episodes to bring you more of the Empowering Women Physicians podcast. In this...
Episode # 24 - Dr. Milene Argo's internal and external transformation through coaching
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Milene Argo started her journey with coaching 3 years ago, which started with 80 lb weight loss, she then applied this work to optimizing her clin...
Episode # 23 - Dr. Sonia Wright (sex, mentoring, racism, continuous transformation)
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Sonia Wright about her journey, continuous transformation from her time in college, postbacc, residency, fellowship,...
Episode # 22 - Dr Stella Evans (pediatrician in Minneapolis during recent uprisings)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Stella Evans reflects on the last few months and how our paths crossed when she reached out while she was on quarantine for fever and cough. S...
Episode # 21 - Dr. Sarah Watler (Intern year in NYC, COVID, racism)
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sarah Watler is one of my former medical students who has spent the last year as an Intern in New York City in the largest medical center in the a...
Episode # 20 - How are you feeling? (Affect labelling)
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are you feeling? No really, how are you feeling. Pick a word. See if you can name how you are feeling right now. Affect labelling (naming an emoti...
Episode # 19 - Offering some hope (including Dr. Krista Olsen's story of being COVID+, recovering, and returning to clinical care)
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While the COVID pandemic is spreading, I wanted to encourage us to manage what is within our control, including flattening the curve. This episode als...
Episode # 18 - COVID-19 pandemic
14 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Today, March 13, 2020, the United States declared a national emergency. ...
Episode #17 - Megan's story
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode, Dr. Megan Galaske tells her story. Her journey of transformation, from suffering to thriving in just a few short months...
Episode # 16 - National Women Physicians Day
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we learn how National Women Physicians Day became a holiday four years ago from one of the women that made this happen. On Febru...
Episode # 15 - Hala Sabry Founder of Physician Moms Group (PMG)
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome the beloved Hala Sabry, founder of PMG. You'll hear how PMG came to exist from a night she was feeling worry and anxiety sitting all alone o...
Episode # 14 - Real client interview series. Bonnie Koo MD (Money for Women Physicians)
13 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's now officially a year since this podcast started! This episode will start a series of interviews of real clients, real women physicians, who have...
Episode # 13 - The data on coaching physicians
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr Sunny Smith shares the brand new Randomized Controlled Trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine documenting that coaching decreas...
Episode #12 - Choose your own adventure
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I encourage you to consider periodically looking at your life with the playful childlike lens of a "Choose your own adventure" story. Maybe find a chi...
Episode # 11 - She believed she could so she did
21 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What you think over and over, your automatic thoughts, become your beliefs. What you believe is possible for your life is often what you create in you...
Episode # 10 - A Woman Physician in the House & Opportunities
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we celebrate the arrival of the first woman physician in Congress, Dr. Kim Schrier. Woo hooooo!!! As well as celebrating ov...
Episode # 9 - Results in the New Year
30 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we reflect on the past year and how to get the results we want in the New Year. We reinforce, review, and build on some of the tools...
Episode #8 - Scientific Method / Experiments
22 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss how you can apply the scientific method to your life. As children we are natural scientists and experiment with the worl...
Episode #7 - Narrative, Attention, & Socratic Method (Empowering Questions)
16 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss how important it is to have control of our own narrative. We also discuss how cognitive psychology studies reveal that we notice things onl...
Episode # 6 - Speaking up & conference highlights
08 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses how women can speak up and advocate for themselves by advocating for others (the mama bear effect). We then discuss key take...
Episode #5 - Choices
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr Sunny Smith describes how she quite literally fell into a situation that left her realizing she didn't really HAVE to do all the t...
Episode #4 - Plan (decide, commit)
20 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Just as we are used to making an assessment and plan in medicine, we are going to talk about making an assessment and plan for your life. This episode...
Episode #3 - Subjective vs Objective (The Story of Your Life vs "Just the facts ma'am")
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode describes how to separate facts from the stories we are telling ourselves about them. It helps us identify the narrative and empowers us ...
Episode #2 - Assessment (taking a look at your current life)
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode talks about the need to become aware of your thoughts about your life right now. There are perhaps some things you love, some things that...
Episode #1 - Intro & Why This Matters
06 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll talk about a little bit about the context in which we current practice medicine, history, the Hippocratic Oath, and what you ca...