Happy In Medicine with Dr. Christina Arnold
Welcome to the Happy In Medicine podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Christina Arnold. I am an expert-certified coach & physician Mom. I help women physicians go from Burnout to HAPPY in Medicine.
Episodes
My department chair had a little box on the annual review form: Do you want a raise?
Check yes, you meet with the chair to discuss the raise. Check no, you don't get a raise.
Every single year, the white men checked yes: “because why not????” one said to me. He didn’t wonder if he’d done enough or had been there long enough.
The women? Mostly checked no. Even though they were more qualified, worked harder, and were more well-liked ...
I stopped sleeping. Here’s what happened:
I had 20 new clients join all at once. I was ON. Inspired. Fired up. Checking Voxer after dinner. Solving problems in my dreams — literally dreaming about my clients and waking up at 2 a.m. excited to email them back.
I'm a physician. I know better. And I still broke my own sleep.
So I fixed it. And I turned everything I did into this week's podcast episode — because my one-on-one clients h...
We can’t choose when life happens.
In September my beloved (best dog ever) died unexpectedly.
I spent almost a month in Germany where the grief felt suspended, and coming home made the house feel even emptier.
My grief was so severe, I thought I might have been clinically depressed and reached out to my doctor.
We’ve adopted a rescue sweetie named Lucy and she is keeping us busy.
We’re packing to put our house on the market in Jan...
At a very busy private practice, the last hire now leaves at 4 p.m. every day—and it took one week to build.
She wasn't in a slow group or a place where no one notices.
She didn't shift work onto others.
She didn't damage her relationship with her boss.
She actually strengthened it.
In this week's episode you learn how you too can leave at 4pm everyday, even if you're in a busy center, the most junior faculty, or a fellow.
Here's...
In this special case study episode, you get to go behind the scenes with Dr. Natalie Freed--- surgeon turned senior pathologist extraordinaire in a busy private practice and mom of 4 (!!). She is an expert certified Trauma-Informed Physician Leadership Coach who specializes in health and wellness coaching.
Here's what you get in this episode:
❤️How a busy mom of 4 made time for certification!
❤️How trauma-informed skills helped h...
In this special case study episode, you go behind the scenes to hear from Dr. Laurel Kilpatrick on her journey inside of Trauma-Informed Physician Coach Training & Advanced Certification. She founded Audacious Medicine and helps women physicians get funding & protected time for their passion projects so they can amplify their career.
She shares how she transitioned from Senior Leader to launching her coaching practice and ...
Make your next $100k faster as a physician coach: Fix your job, Sign your first high-ticket client, Then match and exceed your clinical salary
Here's what's included: ➡️ Fix your job using our $100k Coach Your Chair Method, even if you never become a coach ➡️ Double your annual hospital bonus in one hour by signing ONE high-ticket client with our $100k Value First Method ➡️ Build a list of 3,200+ high-intent buyers with our $100k ...
In this special case study episode, you get to learn more about Dr. Caissa Troutman's journey inside of Trauma-Informed Physician Coach Training & Advanced Certification. She is a Quadruple Board-Certified Obesity & Menopause expert with 20+ years of experience. She provides menopause & weight loss care for midlife women. Lose weight. Master menopause.
In this episode, she shares how she joined TIPCT never planning to b...
Here's what you get inside of this special Make Medicine Optional with Physician Coaching Private podcast episode:
Even if you never leave Medicine, here's how becoming a coach delivers a $100k ROI this year: *Here’s your $100k ROI even if you never become a coach *How coaching gets you prioritized for top pay, bonus, schedule, and career opportunities *Why coaching has your colleagues and boss respecting & valuing you more
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Here's what you get inside of this special Make Medicine Optional with Physician Coaching Private podcast episode:
Here’s how i make more than a doctor by coaching about 1 hour a day: → You don't have to "sell coaching" to replace your clinical salary → The 2 steps to sign $20k clients → The biggest mistake physician coaches make that tanks their business AND how to avoid it
Trauma-Informed Physician Coach Training (TIPCT) is the...
Here's what you get inside of this special Make Medicine Optional with Physician Coaching Private podcast episode:
Get started making medicine optional in only ONE HOUR A WEEK: → Why women physicians only need one hour a week to get started building a Million dollar coaching practice → How your busy physician schedule is your biggest competitive advantage → Don't have one hour a week right now? NO PROBLEM, I'll create it for you. ...
Here's what you get inside of this special Make Medicine Optional with Physician Coaching Private podcast episode:
How I retired from medicine at 45 | intro to Trauma-Informed Physician Coach Training (TIPCT): → Why I retired from Medicine at 45 → My current schedule is now that I'm fully in physician coaching → How we have more cash than ever before-- pivot your physician career WITHOUT taking a pay cut
Trauma-Informed Physician ...
Four years after leaving clinical medicine, I finally let my medical license expire.
Not because I had to.
Because it was time.
This wasn’t an easy decision at all.
Fear told me I needed a backup plan.
What if my husband died? What if he was disabled? What if my coaching practice needed to cover all our bills, two kids in college, and unexpected medical expenses.
In this very special podcast episode, you get the behind the scenes ...
Andrea sat in her office staring at the school calendar. Four kids. Twelve weeks of summer. And a job at an academic center where summers off simply didn’t happen.
She was the breadwinner. She carried the benefits. She had convinced herself she wasn’t allowed to want something this big.
When she joined the program and I asked for her dream result, she finally said it: “I want the entire summer off.”
She spoke like it was a secret. ...
One physician walked into my program convinced she couldn’t negotiate.
She’d never been trained in Negotiations.
She worked at an Academic center.
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Support isn’t optional in medicine — it’s the currency of a healthy career. Without it, promotions get delayed, our salary stalls, and we get the worst schedules.
And what do you do if the person with the most power to help you... doesn’t.
Maybe they never respond to your emails. Maybe they overlook your work. Maybe they just don’t like you.
You can still get their support.
In this week’s episode, I’m showing you five strategic mov...
I thought I’d live in Colorado forever.
I can see the Rockies from my house.
I love everything about this state— the land, the adventure, the people.
This is where I became a life coach.
This is where I retired from Medicine.
This is where my kids call home.
This is home to me.
And now I’m packing it all up.
In today’s episode, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes story of the move none of us saw coming: 💗How it unfolded. 💗What shi...
A new client came to me worried she was catching her colleagues’ burnout. She said, “Everywhere I look, people are miserable — complaining about coworkers, staying until 8p and coming back on the weekends, sending terse emails. I DON’T want to end up burnout.”
Here’s what I told her: you can guarantee to never be burned out.
In this week’s episode you get the burnout prevention plan I built for her.
It’s what I created me, my priva...
One of my first bosses was a total micromanager. She emailed at 10 p.m. on Friday nights. She called while I was on vacation. She even showed my cases to the clinical team without me.
And still—I built a great career and a strong relationship with her.
If your boss watches every move, this week’s episode gives you 5 new strategies to shift the dynamic without having to generate any more RVUs.
✅ Structured boundary scripts that st...
If your schedule feels unfair, you’re not imagining it. It is.
It shows up as us staying later, coming in on weekends, dragging work home, and missing our own doctor’s appointments.
You might even find yourself spending hours counting up the call shifts, case load, and RVUs in the department– only to find what you already knew….
Your schedule isn’t fair.
Here’s the good news — unfair schedules aren’t...
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