Mar 31, 2022

Negotiation is a highly portable and transferable skill. As physicians, we don’t immediately associate negotiation with what we do on a daily basis, but influencing our patients makes us far more skilled negotiators than we think. 

I’m joined by a physician who took the negotiating skills she picked up in her...

Mar 24, 2022

So you’ve successfully negotiated for a contract that aligns with you, but when you show up to work, you realize that it’s not what you signed up for. 

Maybe it’s a total bait-and-switch situation, or there are some small boundaries that aren’t being honored. When reality doesn’t quite match with what was...

Mar 17, 2022

People think confidence is something that’s magically bestowed upon someone - you either have it or you don’t. This mindset has a lot to do with how we define confidence as a society. 

What if we could back away from the conventional definition and take things back to the Latin root of the word?  

Confidence is...

Mar 10, 2022

Every physician is an entrepreneur, even if you’re employed. The sooner we lean into this, the closer we get to the kind of contracts that reflect our worth, and make us giddy with excitement. 

We are our highest appreciating asset, and we simply can’t afford not to invest in and advocate for ourselves, even when...

Mar 3, 2022

Pay parity is one of those things that sound really, really amazing and attractive. It feels like so many challenges female physicians face could be solved if everyone just earned the same, right?

Well, oftentimes pay parity can create its own set of imbalances that breed discontent, frustration, and being underpaid...