Happy In Medicine with Dr. Christina Arnold

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...

Threatening bosses are a fixture in medicine.If you don’t know how to handle them…

…work becomes unbearable. 

…you’ll dread every shift, feel anxious at work, and make more mistakes.

…your career and marriage will become unstable. 

.. you’ll overeat (or stop eating well), lose sleep, and fight more with your kids.

This episode breaks the cycle. 

You’ll learn how to manage a threatening boss with 4 new strategies I’ve never shared b...

You don’t need to reinvent your career to make it work better. You just need to stop doing everyone else’s job.

In this week’s episode I show you exactly how to do JUST your job. When you do, you’ll love your job again. Here’s what you get in this week’s episode:

➡️The 10% Expansion Strategy- save 20 hours THIS week 

➡️The Delegation Trading System- every year your job gets easier with THIS

➡️Task Retirement- simplify your schedu...

When was the last time someone just listened to you? Not to fix, not to advise, not to tell you to calm down—just to witness you.

It doesn’t happen. We love our spouses, but they’ll just try to solve the problem. Your boss’ll tell you what to do. Your sister will interrupt to tell you her gripe. Nothing wrong with our spouses, boss, and sister AND ALSO….

When we’re not heard, the stress compounds and the anxiety heightens. Our ...

Right now, many of us are running on empty. Work doesn’t slow down, kids’ schedules are chaotic, and the holidays are closing in. When reserves run this low, everything feels sharp and hard. Small things turn into big crises. I'm sure feeling it.

Doing it all alone is what we’re used to—but it makes everything worse.

In this week’s podcast, I share a strategy I’ve never talked about before: Girlfriend Project—your hidden produc...

Sabbaticals have broken out of academia. In 2025, hospitals, tech firms, and even private practices are paying physicians to step away—because they know the doctor who returns refreshed, skilled, and connected is the one who drives revenue, boosts retention, and avoids costly burnout mistakes.

Done right, your sabbatical isn’t time off—it’s a million-dollar career accelerator. You come back bullet-proof, promoted, and having cele...

The world feels heavy, chaotic, and overwhelming right now. I felt it myself—I woke up from one of the most disturbing nightmares of my life. Behind the scenes, my private clients have been asking for support on how to stay grounded during this relentless news cycle. I created a brand-new training for them and I shared it at the top of my weekly group call. Here's a clip of the call so you get this bran...

True story: when I had my C-section, I only got two weeks off.  That experience taught me the most important lesson of my career: if you don’t know the policies in writing, you’ll lose benefits you already earned.

In this podcast episode, I break down exactly how physicians can stop leaving benefits on the table and design maternity leave that actually works. Here’s what you’ll hear:

➡️The GOLDEN RULE that keeps you from losing w...

Medicine will do you dirty UNLESS you have this PTO Playbook: 10 Hacks Every Physician Needs to Know. Ask me how I know…

• I worked through a GI bug to not burden colleagues by taking a sick day.
• I didn’t know I could take paid time off for my 8 year old daughter’s surgery.
• My Chair threatened to not let me use my PTO.

Here’s what you get in this week’s Paid Time Off Series podcast episode

🔥 The $25K mistake and how to ...

📅Welcome to our new series on how to get Paid Time Off. 

👀I'm revealing everything you’ve never heard about how to get work-life balance WITHOUT having to ask your boss, change a hospital policy, or sneak out.

💥With today’s podcast episode, you can get up to 25 hours back THIS WEEK.

• That’s 1,200 bonus hours THIS YEAR. More family dinners. 
• EIGHT MONTHS of paid vacati...

🚨LISTEN RIGHT NOW FOR THE SPECIAL 48 HOUR BONUS | $100K PRIVATE CALL!🚨

Women docs-- When my Chair threatened to fire me, I didn’t spin out – I negotiated.

I kept my job, dropped call & frozen sections (worsts part of my job ever), eliminated RVU pressure, got a new leadership title, extra funding, and full support. I turned this crisis into the best physician job that’s every existed AND built a stronger relationship with my ...

Every hospital has a salary ceiling. 

It doesn’t matter if you’re the department workhorse, the highest RVU generator, your boss’s favorite, the national expert, or the one with all the papers…

EVEN IF you invented one pill that cures cancer, dementia, obesity, and depression, you won’t get paid 1 penny more…

At some point, you’ll hit the salary ceiling and the job won’t even keep up with inflation.

Your schedule will erode. Your j...

If you don’t know how to Negotiate, you’ll soon see the male fellow you trained hired at a higher salary than you. Ask me how I know….

He had no experience. No leadership positions. He showed every hard case to me.

I was his attending with lots of papers, books, leadership, experience.

And he got hired at a higher base salary than me. PS. I don’t fault him– GOOD FOR HIM!

The solution isn’t to underpay fellows (of course not!), the ...

In this episode, I tell the behind the scenes story of how my Chair came after my job and (never shared before) the 4steps I took to save my job. The Chair accused me of hiding my coaching business—threatened legal action, job loss, and financial penalties—and how I used negotiation to turn the entire situation around. Instead of losing everything, I gained protected time, a leadership title, and full control of my business.

This...

Today’s episode is something you won’t find in a CME training but your body has been begging for:

A way to feel calm, even in the middle of a crazy bananas workday, a terrible schedule, and a worse boss.

If you’re tense at the nurses' station, clenching your jaw in meetings, or collapsing at home after holding it together all day…

You’re not too sensitive.

You're in survival mode in a high-pressure job that hasn’t given you any saf...