It's Not Just You with Dr. Kara Pepper
Episodes
2.68: Making yourself findable and forms
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
in today's episode, we talk about the patient arc - the mental pathway by which patients recognize they have a problem, they id...
2.67: Nervous system regulation in entrepreneurship
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of med...
2.66: Avoiding Exhaustion in Entrepreneurship
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you for nominating "It's Not Just You" as the Best Career Transformation Podcast in the 2026 Doctor Podcast Awards. I’m deeply honored.&n...
2.65: You don't need confidence, you need a plan
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine...
2.64: How to get it all done - Do/Decide/Delegate/Delete
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What got you here (hard work, managing every detail, longer hours, and self sacrifice) is not whawt will make you a successful entrepreneur. Dis...
2.63: Ask This Before You Ever Set a Price
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most physicians starting a private practice ask the wrong question first. They want to know how much to charge, which model to use, or whether they sh...
2.62: How to fill your schedule
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I hired a new physician for the practice who walked into a full schedule. How did I do that? I explain eight ways to fill your panel in to...
2.61: Stop Resenting Your Practice
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Resentment is a compass that points you towards exactly what you need. It can be a powerful tool to direct you in entrepreneurship. I disc...
2.60: How to know you are ready to hire a clinician
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I am hiring a physician to join my solo practice, and this year has been a lot of work in preparation for her arrival in November. How did I kno...
2.59: Dr. Scott Korotkin - Malpractice Insurance
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Scott Korotkin shares how his company AutonomyMD is disrupting the malpractice insurance industry, making it more affordable for pr...
2.58: 5 Wins in Your First Week of Practice
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to build a practice in 4 days - free workshop October 13-16, 2025. Crash course on how to build a practice - yes there will be a checkl...
2.57: How to set your prices
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to build a practice in 4 days - free workshop October 13-16, 2025. Crash course on how to build a practice - yes there will be a checklist!....
2.56 Dr. Brad Block- Doctor Podcast Network
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Need real-time support as you build or grow your practice? With Coach in My Pocket, you’ll have weekday access to me through Voxer—a wa...
2.55 Hiring a Virtual Team
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Need real-time support as you build or grow your practice? With Coach in My Pocket, you’ll have weekday access to me through Voxer—a walkie-t...
2.54 Independent Practice with Dr. Megan Melo
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Need real-time support as you build or grow your practice? With Coach in My Pocket, you’ll have weekday access to me through Voxer—a walkie-talkie...
2.53 Value-Based Care Success with Tom Davis
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future of medicine. You...
2.52 Dr. Mark Shrime - From surgeon to Decision Science expert
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mark Shrime is a surgeon, coach, author, and decision science expert, but his career wasn’t always this aligned. In this episode, he shares how ...
2.51: "Big Beautiful Bill" - 7 things every physician needs to do now
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” was passed by both houses of congress and signed into law by the president on July 4th, 2025. This bill will ha...
2.50: Three questions to ask before Google ads
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before paying for google ads or any other marketing, you must be able to articulate a clear message. Caroline Harbin of COR Marketing met with th...
2.49: Top 5 steps to a successful practice launch with Dr. Brittany Anderson
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Brittney Anderson, a board-certified family physician and founder of a thriving private practice in Alabama. ...
2.48: Seven ways to protect your peace as you build a medical practice
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I share seven ways to burnout-proof entrepreneurship - especially for physicians building medical practices. 1. Start wi...
2.47: Four foundational items to launch a micropractice
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the excitement of launching a practice wears off and the messy middle begins, many new entrepreneurs feel overwhelmed with what feels l...
2.46: Five Key Actions for Financial Success
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The number one questions I am asked about how to build a practice, is "How much is this going to cost?" In cliff notes from the Mastermind, we re...
2.45: Top mistakes I made when launching my practice
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I had no idea what I was doing and no community for support when I launched my medical practice. It was scary and overwhelming. Today...
2.44: How to launch a medical practice
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I walk through the fundamentals of starting your own private practice, from the basic information needed to get started, malpractice in...
2.43: Four things you must do before leaving your practice
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we graduate the first cohort of the Micropractice Mastermind, I review four things you must do before leaving your practice. &n...
2.42: Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt - building new systems
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of It’s Not Just You, we are honored to welcome Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, a leading expert in the field of eating disorder treatment. ...
2.41: Dr. Erica Bove - Infertility
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future o...
2.40: Dr. Una - Entrepreneurship and her mission to reach 100,000 physicians
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In cliff-notes from the Micropractice Mastermind, we talk about the power of community, where to find it, and why it is critical transformat...
2.39: Dr. Jon Russell - leaving academics to build a center of excellence
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before founding The Russell Center, Dr. Jon Russell was the Director of the Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery at Johns Hopkins and led the T...
2.38: Make your job easier
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we talk about how to make your job easier - how to convert your hard earned expertise into marketing materials, build patient trust,&...
2.37: How to get unstuck and believe that you can create a sustainable career
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I walk you through the stages of change that I guide my coaching clients through when transitioning from employed, overworked, and ex...
2.36: Use your voice - how to share your expertise
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, we discuss the acute need for physicians to share their expertise and combat misinform...
2.35: Dr. Nancy Echefu - Hair Restoration
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, we discuss our Unique Value Proposition (UVP). Articulating your UVP is a practiced s...
2.34 - Dr. Heather Signorelli - Revenue Cycle Management
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today's cliff-notes from the Mastermind, we discuss our Unique Value Proposition (UVP). Articulating your UVP is a practiced s...
2.33 - Dr. Mima Geere - Precision Longevity
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future o...
2.32 - Dr. Sally Daganzo - Eating Disorder Care
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future o...
2:31 - Dr. Jessica Mendelsohn - Family Medicine
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future o...
2.30: Dr. Sadaf Lodhi - GYN and intimacy coaching
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future o...
2.29: Dr. Carolynn Francavilla - Leveraging systems for professional freedom
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future o...
2.28: Dr. Dana Gibbs - Beyond the Thyroid
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the fu...
2.27 Dr. Mitra Sadhu - Building lean practices
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the fu...
2.26: Dr. Daniel Hochman - Psychiatry and Addiction
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the fu...
2.25: Dr. Mary Reilly - Emergency Medicine to Functional Medicine
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to start your own practice. Join this physician community as we change the future o...
2.24: Dr. Elizabeth Lowden - Endocrinology career alignment
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Liz Lowden, an endocrinologist, left her corporate medicine job, opened a private practice, worked in telemedicine, went through a buyout, did con...
2.23 - Dr. Ritha Belizaire - Colorectal Surgery and Impostor Syndrome
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any tim...
2.22: Dr. Laurel Fick - IM academics to Micropractice
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micro Practice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any ti...
2.21: Dr. Amy Vertrees - General Surgery and Practice Ownership
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micro Practice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any ti...
2.20: Dr. Andrea Austin: EM/processing healthcare trauma
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Micro Practice Mastermind - starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time. "When I think back about what has traumatized me as a...
2.19: Dr. Rebecca Berens - Early Career DPC
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rebecca Berens is a board-certified family physician and international board certified lactation consultant. She opened her DPC pr...
2.18: Dr. Jillian Bybee - Critical Care/Organizational Wellness
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jillian Bybee, a pediatric critical care medicine physician, medical educator, coach, and wellbeing leader is creating wellness within t...
2.17: Dr. Emma Jones: Onc/Palliative care
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Emma Jones shares what lies beneath the pivotal hard moments in her career. From the fantasy of being the "everything to everyone" pedi...
2.16: Authorship with Drs. Jessi Gold and Jonathan Fisher
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Would you be frustrated if someone else wrote this first?" This question posed to Dr. Jessi Gold encouraged her to finally start writing the boo...
2.15: Dr. Shamita Trivedi - Endocrinology and Yoga
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Shamita Trivedi, an endocrinologist, allowed the flow of her career from the typical track of academic medicine, to private practic...
2.14: Dr. Erin King-Mullins - Colorectal Surgery
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Erin King-Mullins is a Colorectal Surgeon, podcaster, and author. When she was offered a pay cut in the midst of the pandemic, she deci...
2.13: Dr. Keira Barr - Psychodermatology and Trauma-informed Care
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Keira Barr's "mess became her mission" when chronic stress led to life threatening skin problems. Her skin was signaling underlying dis-ease ...
2.12 Dr. Mel Thacker - ENT/non-conformity
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We hear from Dr. Mel Thacker as she is transitioning from her group ENT practice to a solo, direct care model of practice. Always the...
2.11: Dr. Kelly Wright - MIGS/culture change
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We don't often associate autonomy and culture change with large academic employers, but Dr. Kelly Wright is reinventing healthcare around these values...
2.10: Dr. Errin Weisman - The Messy Middle
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Errin Weisman, a board certified Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine doctor, was no longer aligned with her work and burning out again. Sh...
2.9: Dr. Becky Lynn - Women's health
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After 20 years in traditional practice, Dr. Becky Lynn, a board certified OBGYN, started a comprehensive women's health clinic in February 2020.&...
2.8: Dr. Rachel Rubin - Urology/Sex Med/Social Media
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rachel Rubin, a board certified urologist and fellowship trained sexual medicine physician, who is carving her own path forwar...
2.7: Dr. Shane Purcell - Direct Primary Care
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Shane Purcell is a Family Medicine doctor and founding member of the Direct Primary Care Alliance, an organization that provides education, m...
2.6: Dr. Anita Bangale - Emergency Medicine
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Anita Bangale is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician who struggled with burnout early in her career. Knowing that emergency ...
2.5: Arden Miller - Non-Competes
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week I interview Arden Miller, a health care transactional attorney who helps health care workers and dentists through contractual nego...
2.4: Dr. Chitra Ramasubbu - Pain
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Chitra Ramasubbu had two weeks to make a decision: stay with her established practice or take the unplanned risk to start her own. In the wak...
2.3: Dr. Kristine Goins - Nomadic Psychiatry
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Dr. Kristine Goins shares how she was able to fast track to financial freedom via geo-arbitrage while caring for patients from a...
2.2: Dr. Elizabeth Pearce - ENT
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Elizabeth Pearce shares her decision to change her Otolaryngology practice model to better serve her community in Maine. Dr. Pearce open...
2.1: Dr. Kara Pepper - Telemedicine
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This season on the "It's Not Just You" podcast, we hear from physicians across the country who are redesigning healthcare, creatin...
26. Workplace Bullying with Dr. Adam Harrison
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I think that's why it slapped me in the face. If this can happen to me, what the hell are my female, IMG, gay, and disabled colleagues ...
25. Disenchanted Parenting with Dr. Kathleen Young
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"They don't always like their kids. They love them, but they don't always like them, and that turns into guilt and shame. When you have guilt and sham...
24. Violent/COVID loss
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I've been blessed to be at so many people's deathbeds. I just run toward death. I really enjoy those sacred moments with patients and their families,...
23. Rebel with Dr. Kristin Yates
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Dr. Kristin Yates, an OBGYN, started listening to her intuition, a skill that was definitely not taught in medical school, she began to rebe...
22. Earthquake with Dr. Christine Gibson
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christine Gibson's identity and career was forever changed as a survivor of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Who do you become when being a ph...
21. Post-Partum Depression with Dr. Amna Shabbir
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We have to stop giving advice to young moms. It shouldn't be *Do this.* It should be *How are you?* A true *How are you?* and *How can I suppor...
20. Post-Partum OCD with Dr. Brittany Busse
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"To the point of obsessively counting everything. And the fear that accompanied that was really difficult for me to cope with. Everything just felt ou...
19. Early Career Wellness with Dr. Tonya Caylor
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What lights your soul on fire or breaks your heart? For Dr. Tonya Caylor, a family medicine physician in Alaska, witnessing the suffer...
18. Whiteness in Wellness with Dr. Jill Wener
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Dr. Jill Wener and I discuss her transition from practicing physician to meditation teacher, tapping practitioner, and anti-racism work.&nb...
17. Identity with Dr. Rachel Miller
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you remove the labels of what you do for a living and who you are relationally to other people, how would you introduce yourself? Who ar...
16. Difficult Conversations with Dr. Jeffrey Cohn
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are taught how to have difficult conversations in our training. Often, the toll of these conversations can be depleting and we create di...
15. Second Victim Syndrome
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's not IF, but WHEN we experience unanticipated loss in healthcare. Everyone has a story - the details may vary, but our responses a...
14. ADHD with Dr. Diana Mercado
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the many, many high performing neurodiverse folks with invisible symptoms, life may feel like being left-handed in a right-handed world&...
13. Foster parenting with Dr. Krystal Sodaitis
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I love her. She is a part of us. To imagine my life without her is devastating. If anyone asks how many kids I have, I just tell them two." This...
12. Permission to be Human with Dr. Tracey O'Connell
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the core tenets of being a great physician is supporting one's colleagues. There is no one who can uniquely understand the wonder and com...
11. Anti-Fat Bias with Dr. Trina Dorrah
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Content warning: use of the world ob*sity, discussion of eating disorder behavior, discussion of racism Dr. Trina Dorrah internalized at an ear...
10. Infertility with Dr. Dawn Baker
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you have ever wondered how to fit a career in medicine around your life (instead of squeezing your life into the cracks around medicine), you need ...
9. Worthiness with Dr. Jillian Rigert
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jillian Rigert, a board certified physician and dentist, in her quest for worthiness via achievement, experienced the deterioration of h...
8. Systems of Wellness with Dr. Jonathan Fisher
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we create healthcare systems that are well? One person at a time. Dr. Jonathan Fisher shares what it took to ask for help and be we...
7. Caregiving with Dr. Mariah Robertson
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
6. Parenting a Trans teen with Dr. Stella Evans
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In support of the Trans community, Dr. Stella Evans and I share our imperfect experiences of loving, supporting, and raising our Trans teens. We discu...
5. Perfectionism with Dr. Melissa Hankins
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Perfectionism is an adaptive set of behaviors that help us avoid feelings of discomfort. Specifically, they create emotional and physical safety...
4. Not Just Burnout with Dr. Errin Weisman
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you tell the difference between burnout and other forms of "I don't feel good?" Dr. Errin Wiesman - family doc, farmer's wife, mother of dragon...
3. Sobriety with Dr. Gabriel Bosslet
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gabriel Bosslet and I discuss Gray Area Drinking and what led to our mid-life decision to choose sobriety. Dr. Bosslet's Medpage article ...
2. Quitting with Dr. Taniqua Miller
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Self-described “first generation everything,” Dr. Taniqua Miller - a Black, Caribbean physician with an Ivy League education - had a successful ca...
1. Surviving with Dr. Kara Pepper
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to "It's Not Just You." As a physician, coach, and friend, I hear about people's most intimate life experiences. As they describe the tough th...