Mindful Practice
Podcast
Give Yourself Permission to Evolve.
With Bertina M. Hooks, MD — Physician · Coach · Author
New · Since March 2026
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The Mindful Practice Podcast is a space for honest, necessary conversations about the real issues facing healthcare professionals today — and the freedom that comes from facing them.
From disability in medicine to DEI, physician entrepreneurship to burnout recovery, career pivots to reinvention — this podcast gives you tools, perspective, and above all, permission. Permission to question. Permission to change. Permission to become.
Disability in Medicine
Voices and experiences that medicine rarely centers — but desperately needs to hear.
DEI in Healthcare
Honest conversations on equity, inclusion, and what real change looks like in medicine.
Physician Entrepreneurship
How physicians are building businesses, brands, and practices on their own terms.
Career Clarity & Reinvention
Navigating transitions, pivots, and the question of what comes next.
Burnout Recovery
Moving through exhaustion toward alignment, capacity, and renewed purpose.
Permission to Evolve
The throughline of every episode — you are allowed to become someone new.
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You've Explored the Possibilities. Now Build the Plan.
Through the Mindful Practice Podcast, you've learned about navigating burnout, exploring different clinical and non-clinical career options, and developing a strategic plan to position yourself for the career and life that are more aligned. If you want further support, take the next step with structured guidance.
Navigating Burnout
Recognize the signs, set boundaries, and begin rebuilding capacity and alignment.
Exploring Career Options
Survey clinical and non-clinical pathways that fit your skills, values, and goals.
Strategic Positioning
Develop a deliberate plan to secure the career and life that feel aligned.
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Beyond her work with the Mindful Practice Podcast, Dr. Bertina M. Hooks regularly joins physicians, entrepreneurs, healthcare leaders, and patient advocates for conversations about resilience, career reinvention, disability, leadership, and her memoir, From Fire to Freedom.
Explore Dr. Hooks's Podcast AppearancesMeet the Host
Bertina M. Hooks is a board-certified internal medicine physician, business coach, author, and advocate for physician wellness and equity.
After navigating her own journey through burnout, identity, and reinvention — including a life-altering medical crisis — she created the Mindful Practice Podcast to give voice to the conversations medicine too often silences.
Dr. Hooks is also the founder of Pinnacle Business Academy, where she coaches physicians through career clarity and reinvention.
What the Podcast Is About
The Mindful Practice Podcast, hosted by Dr. Bertina M. Hooks, explores the intersection of medicine, innovation, professional identity, entrepreneurship, leadership, resilience, and personal transformation.
Through authentic conversations and meaningful storytelling, we highlight the people, experiences, and ideas that are changing how healthcare professionals practice, lead, innovate, and live.
Our goal is to introduce listeners to possibilities they may never have considered, share lessons from real-world experiences, and encourage thoughtful conversations about the future of healthcare and life beyond traditional professional expectations.
What Makes A Great Guest
We welcome physicians, healthcare executives, entrepreneurs, innovators, authors, thought leaders, and professionals who are making a meaningful impact in healthcare and beyond.
We are particularly interested in guests with expertise or compelling experiences in leadership, career transitions, entrepreneurship, physician well-being, burnout recovery, resilience, personal transformation, healthcare innovation, and professional development. We also welcome individuals with inspiring stories of overcoming adversity, reinventing themselves, and creating purpose-driven careers and lives.
Expertise We're Looking For
Inspiring Stories We Welcome
Interested in Being A Guest?
If you have a compelling story, meaningful expertise, an innovative perspective, or practical strategies that would benefit our listeners, we'd love to hear from you.
All guests must complete an application at mindfulpracticepodcast.org/be-a-guest.
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