I remember clearly the moment I reached financial independence. My husband and I were meeting with our financial advisor, and I suggested we put “zero dollars” in the spot for wages income when he ran our numbers. My husband had retired earlier that year, at age 59. I...
I like change. I started my work life in one practice and after fifteen years, I left and started my own practice. I constantly changed and adapted things in my office, opened a second location, started and led a 400-pediatrician clinically integrated network, and yet...
I recently had a sleepover with some high school friends of mine. Just the girls, staying up late in our jammies, reminiscing about the ‘crazy’ things we did back in the day. Crazy things for us were defying the nuns at our all-girls school by ignoring the dress code...
When I turned 16, I told my Nigerian father that I liked boys…and girls. I didn’t understand it. It went against everything I knew to be “right.” That was the first time it occurred to me that the world can think something is right, even when it is untrue. I was born,...
I have learned many lessons during my four decades as an independent pediatrician. It has not always been easy, and I hope these tips and my personal story will help you. Becoming a doctor and staying the course takes a special person with a calling. My inspiration...
I consume a lot of podcast content, listening as I commute to and from work each day. It was the end of 2019, and the hosts of a new podcast were discussing goal setting for 2020. They recommended selecting a single word to help maintain focus on the goals during the...
