Happy In Medicine with Dr. Christina Arnold
I retired from Medicine in 2023 at age 45. I'm on track for a $16MILLION retirement. Check out the podcast to learn how you too can Leave Medicine without Leaving Your Physician Paycheck.
Episodes
Everyone told us: Never go to bed angry. Talk it out. Stay up all night if you have to.
TERRIBLE advice for us. 😂
We’d stay up trying to fix the problem. The next day, we still had the original problem. Plus now we were de...
My first money breakthrough came from this realization: Our relationship with money is like any other relationship.
OMG. If money were my child, CPS would have been called.
If money were my spouse, we would have divorced years ago.
I neglected it. Avoided it. Criticized it for never being enough. Panicked when it left.
No wonder our relationship was terrible. 😂
This week on the podcast, I’m sharing one of the earl...
I used to think the stock market was scary. Risky. Dangerous.
Plus, my money ptsd convinced me I was bad with money. Hated math. Avoided my finances.
I really could have used the financial literacy version of the birds and the bees talk. 😂
So this week on the podcast, I’m giving it.
10 Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Investing in the Stock Market.
Including:
💎The ridiculously simple calculation I used to determine exact...
She told me she can’t afford to retire.
She took out $120,000 in student loans, did everything to pay them back aggressively, and didn’t prioritize retirement.
Her plan is to work until she can’t. Because there is no retirement.
This breaks my heart.
And I've heard this story many times. From many extraordinary physicians.
Because we aren’t taught about how to have an exit plan from Medicin...
When we graduated college, our friends got gorgeous salaries, condos, nice cars, and started having babies.
We didn't.
It was four years of med school, four years of residency, three years of fellowship. We scoured campus for free meals, made a 20 year old car go a little further, shared a one bathroom apartment with four other med students.
That's 11+ years of being told: have the baby later, buy the house later, live your life...
Because we physicians are high earners, it’s easy to think “I’m going to be financially okay forever.”
But there’s one gigantic problem with a physician salary: It only pays us while we can keep working.
Unless your retirement plan is to work forever, never get sick, hope no one you love ever dies or gets sick…we NEED a better plan.
A physician salary made us high earners. In this episode, we ta...
I haven’t contributed one penny to my retirement account since leaving medicine three years ago.
And we’re still on track for $16 million.
Trust fund baby? Nope. I inherited debt, not wealth.
Huge physician salary? I was an academic pathologist. In physician terms: BROKE.
Perfect financial plan? Absolutely not. I forgot the 529. Saved nothing for son’s college. And yet...$16 million.
Welcome to my Unhin...
Dr. Cigdem Himmetoglu-Ussakli is a GI and Molecular subspecialized pathologist in academics. She came to the United States as an international medical graduate after training in Turkey. She’s built a successful career, expanded her interests in advocacy, leadership, and coaching, while also being a wife and mom. She is also one of the very first OGs to join Next Level Freedom! Hear her very special journey in this episode!
In...
Recruiters told Dr. Reyhan Ertekin the same thing. As a fellow with no experience and an IMG, just take the first job that comes to you. Do not ask for anything. Be grateful you have a job at all.
She came to me. Inside of Next Level Freedom we created customized scripts for her. We supported her through the in person interviews, the emails, the salary discussions. She created TEN dream job offers. A raise of over $100,000 over wha...
Dr. Jessica Robertson-Patera is a Hematopathology subspecialized pathologist trained at the Cleveland Clinic, with experience in both private practice and academic medicine, a busy family life, and a passion for helping others escape burnout. In this case study, she shares how she used the Coach Your Boss Method to land a dream job, a four day work week, 75% remote work, and an entire month of July off.
In this episode, you get:
This is THE BEST OF highlights of the Part-Time Hours, Full Doctor Pay Masterclass. In under 60 minutes, we compressed a full week of training. Saw none of it and have the replays on your to-do list? ENJOY THIS ONE HOUR. Take this off your to-do list. Saw some of it already but not all? ENJOY THIS ONE HOUR. Saw all of it and now you have questions? ENJOY THIS ONE HOUR. After the one hour class, I answer questions and tell you ...
Here's what we're covering TODAY in Day 3 of the Part-Time Hours, Full Doctor Pay Masterclass Series!
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How I created $40,000 in 8 seconds.
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The 6-figure raise, 5-figure bonus, and 4-day work week Process.
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How to get the Yes without jeopardizing your physician contract
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Here's what we're covering TODAY in Day 2 of the Part-Time Hours, Full Doctor Pay Masterclass Series:
- My exact schedule of how I cut back from 70 hour work weeks to part time hours at full pay at every job I’ve had
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How to GUARANTEE part-time hours at full pay at any job
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Shave 20 hours off your work schedule per week witho...
Here's what we're covering TODAY in Day 1 of the Part-Time Hours, Full Doctor Pay Masterclass Series!
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How he lost his job over an anonymous Amazon.com review. How to make sure this never happens to you.
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Become un-fireable. It’s the first step to part-time hours at your full pay.
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Create legal protection that protects your job with any boss.
Dr. Susan Karki is a double-board-certified pathologist who used Next Level Freedom to learn the skill of being home by 4pm. No pay cut. Even as a first year attending physician in a busy private practice setting. In this case study, she shares how you can too!
In this episode, you get:
- Why she believes trainees should join coaching as Preventative Medicine– you never have to experience burno...
Dr. Camilla Sulack is an ER physician and a new mom with a passion for patient care, National Parks, coaching, and teaching/mentoring. In this case study, she shares how she learned to lead her career in a challenging health care system. In this episode, you get:
- The first question Dr. Sulak asked herself that moved her from a challenging work situation into a dream new job
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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...
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