Happy In Medicine with Dr. Christina Arnold

Dr. Debbie Stein is a Pediatric Nephrologist at a leading academic medical center. Inside this episode, she shares her journey inside of Next Level Freedom — how coaching helped her build a career centered on her strengths: patient care, teaching, mentoring, international speaking. Promotion. All without leaving medicine or burning out.

You'll learn:

• How exactly to get charts closed so your p...

Every year as a physician, you should be making more money while working fewer hours. Negotiation gets you there. Tax strategy gets you there. And so does manifestation — faster than either of the others.

When someone first said "manifestation" to me, I rolled my eyes straight out of my head. 

And then I got honest. Because every big thing I'd ever done — medical school, my marriage, retiring at 45 — I had s...

When my husband and I walked out of medical school, we had over $500,000 in student loan debt between us. Two medical degrees. One baby. One condo. Two cars. Half a million dollars.

Our classmates went into emergency mode: pay it off as fast as possible.  I wanted to as well!

But my husband had us do the math instead.

We decided to pay the minimum on the med school loans. Attacked our high-interest debt. Bought a house. H...

What if your employer was already willing to give you an extra $20,000 a year — and all you had to do was say yes?

No negotiation. No meeting. No asking anyone for anything.

You just... claim it.

Most physicians aren't claiming it. This week's episode is going to fix that.

Here's what we cover:

- Why the employer match beats a $20,000 bonus — by a lot (the math will make you want to log in today)

- The pre-tax concept t...

I just figured out how to give myself an at least $10,000 raise every year of my life. I have to tell you about it.

I finally sat down with a trusted accountant — someone who specializes in high-earning physicians — and she showed me I could save at least $10,000 a year on my taxes.

Now — if taxes give you the heebie-jeebies, if money talk makes you want to close this email right now, go back to the beginning of t...

If you've ever looked at booking a family vacation and thought “that's four extra urgent care shifts” — this episode is for you.

If you think about splurges like a new TV, a designer purse, or sending your kids to a high-end summer camp in terms of how many urgent care shifts you need to pick up — this episode is for you.

Because that's not freedom. It's a trap.

In this system, the only w...

I found tens of thousands of dollars I didn't know I had.

Not from a new contract. Not from a raise. Not from picking up extra shifts.

It was sitting in my own accounts — money I was already earning, already saving — and I just hadn't looked closely enough to see it.

Here's what I found when I finally did look.

A subscription I thought I'd cancelled five years ago. Still running. **$250 a month.** Over six years, that's...

What does moving to California with no house, no plan, and 80% of your belongings in a donation pile have to do with your career as a physician woman?

Everything.

I just survived one of the hardest transitions of my life — selling in Colorado, landing in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country, and getting the house anyway. And every single lesson I learned applies directly to your job.

These aren't soft ...

Early in my career, a very senior woman in my field decided she didn't like me, even though we had never spoken.

She rejected every paper with my name on it. She openly challenged every leadership nomination. At one point, she told me she was going to destroy my career.

She didn't. Because I had a Promotion Coalition.

In last week’s episode, I taught you how to build a Promotion Coalition (make sure you check it out!). 

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One senior male physician left a scathing anonymous Amazon review on one of my books. He called us authors "the mafia," trying to tank our sales, publicly humiliate us.

I was horrified. Humiliated. Embarrassed. 

I didn't go looking for a fight. I didn’t have to. I had a Promotion Coalition — women physicians looking out for me in rooms I wasn't even in. 

Because he didn't have a Promotion Coalition, his career...

I walked into my first annual review nervousssss!

My chair looked me dead in the eye and said:

"The point of this annual review is to make you feel bad so you work harder."

Gulp. I wanted to ask for schedule support. I never got a word in.

She talked for the next 60 minutes about her vacation home in Hocking Hills.

I never let that happen again.

This episode will give you everything you need to use your one hour Annual Review to le...