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Conversations for physicians navigating healing, reinvention, career change, entrepreneurship, and life beyond traditional medicine.
The Mindful Practice Podcast explores the realities of medicine and the many ways physicians can redefine success, purpose, wellness, and professional freedom. Below you'll find the themed series, featured experts, and career pathways that make up the show — so you can jump straight to the conversations most relevant to where you are right now.
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Featured Podcast Series
Each series focuses on a distinct dimension of the physician journey — from healing to entrepreneurship to reinvention.
Healing the Healers
Medicine asks physicians to care for everyone else, often while neglecting themselves. Healing the Healers explores physician burnout, moral injury, wellness, mental health, boundaries, identity, relationships, recovery, resilience, and what it means to build a life that is sustainable both inside and outside of medicine.
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Physician Entrepreneurship Series
Physicians possess valuable expertise, leadership skills, and problem-solving abilities — but most were never taught how to build a business. This series features conversations with physicians and multidisciplinary experts who help doctors understand entrepreneurship, business ownership, leadership, and building income and impact beyond traditional clinical practice.
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Career Reset
Sometimes the answer is not leaving medicine. Sometimes you need space, perspective, boundaries, or a different way of practicing. The Career Reset Series explores ways physicians can reassess what is working, identify what is no longer sustainable, and make intentional changes before a major career transition.
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Career Pivot
For physicians who know something needs to change, the Career Pivot Series explores how to intentionally move toward a different role, environment, specialty, business, or professional identity.
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Career Pathways
There is no single way to be a physician. This series introduces specific professional opportunities and lets you hear directly from people working in those spaces.
Locums
Explore how locum tenens work can provide physicians with flexibility, additional income, geographic freedom, and an alternative to traditional employment.
Medical Expert Witness Work
An introduction to the medical expert witness field, including how physicians can use their clinical expertise in legal and case-review environments.
Consulting
Explore ways physicians can use their expertise to advise healthcare organizations, businesses, startups, attorneys, and other professionals.
Pharma & Biotechnology
Opportunities for physicians within pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology, medical affairs, drug development, safety, strategy, and related areas.
From Chart to Courtroom
Your medical expertise can have an impact far beyond the bedside.
As part of our exploration of alternative physician career pathways, the Mindful Practice Podcast is taking a closer look at the world of medical expert witness work — an area where physicians can use their clinical knowledge, analytical skills, and professional experience in an entirely different setting.
Those conversations are also helping inspire something new. From Chart to Courtroom is an upcoming educational experience being developed for physicians interested in understanding the medical expert witness field and learning how clinical expertise translates into meaningful work within the legal system. The program is currently being developed and finalized.
More Information Coming Soon
Explore Every Career Pathway the Podcast Covers
From locum tenens to medical expert witness work, consulting to pharma and biotechnology — dive into the conversations that open new doors for physicians seeking professional freedom and fulfillment.
Featured Experts
The Mindful Practice Podcast brings together physicians and experts from across healthcare, business, law, finance, leadership, wellness, and other industries to provide practical insight physicians can use in their careers and lives.
Phoenix Physician Freedom Expert Series
Podcast Conversations · Live Webinars · Expert Guidance
Featuring leading physicians, healthcare executives, attorneys, financial advisors, and career transition specialists who share actionable insight for physicians redesigning their professional journey and building lasting freedom.
✨ More details on featured guest experts coming soon.
Have a Story or Expertise to Share?
The Mindful Practice Podcast welcomes physicians, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, and multidisciplinary experts who can contribute meaningful, practical, and thoughtful conversations to our audience.
We are especially interested in guests with experience in:
What the Podcast Is About
The Mindful Practice Podcast explores the intersection of medicine, leadership, entrepreneurship, personal growth, and well-being. Hosted by Dr. Bertina Hooks, a board-certified internal medicine physician, author, and entrepreneur, the podcast features candid conversations with physicians, healthcare leaders, innovators, and changemakers who are redefining success, navigating career transitions, overcoming adversity, and creating meaningful impact. Through inspiring stories and actionable insights, the show empowers healthcare professionals to lead with purpose, embrace new possibilities, and thrive personally and professionally.
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.
Apply To Be a GuestYou'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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