Innovation And Entrepreneurship Episodes

In today's episode, I speak to Dr. Manasa Mantravadi, the founder of Ahimsa, the world's first colorful stainless steel dinnerware for kids. She shares her mission to create a safer, kinder, and healthier future for all kids while educating parents along the way and her journey to becoming a pediatrician. Reverting to her roots, Dr. Mantravadi explains how the solution to combat household plastics came from her own home growing up. You'll hear how the biggest key to her success was networking wi...

Dr. Marjorie Steigler is a physician executive and veteran entrepreneur with over ten years of online business experience. From founding a retail start-up, to keynote speaking, consulting, virtual courses, and live retreats, she’s been there and done that. Now, she’s helping other doctors turn the work they love most into more rapid career advancement and profitable businesses that pay the bills. Digital strategy is the best way to grow a medical practice, land a nonclinical job, get booked a...

Dr. Jennifer McKenney is a family physician in her hometown of Fredonia Kansas, a town of approximately 2500 people in southeast Kansas. She has owned and managed an independent practice for the last eleven years. Nine years ago, Dr. McKenney's workload almost spiraled out of control when she found out that another physician at her Fredonia, Kansas-based family practice had passed away unexpectedly. However, with the help of a virtual scribe, she was able to focus on providing patient care and ...

Twenty years ago, Dr. Catherine Toomer, a Family Medicine physician had a 50% chance of living for five more years due to obesity complicated by heart failure. With young babies that she desperately wanted to see grow, she knew she had to do something, quickly. She turned to her medical education for information that turned everything around. She lost 60 pounds in under six months while still eating food she enjoyed and without exercise or weight loss medication. This was two decades ago and she...

How good of a job do you think you are doing as a physician? A positive perception of your self-worth can greatly improve your quality of life, as well as help you succeed in your position and advance on your career path. As a result, it is highly valuable to understand your self-worth at work regardless of your level in your organization. In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Nwando Anyaoku, a Pediatrician with over 31 years of a valuable combination of clinical experience, operational lea...

Even though we as physicians have a substantial earning capacity, generating a 6-figure income does not always translate into the creation of substantial wealth. Nor does it give us the freedom to reduce our workload or focus on retirement. Given that our time is quite limited, it would make sense then, to want to make the most of what little free time we do have by investing in real estate. In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Chiagozie Fawole, a pediatric anesthesiologist and real estate...

In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Ronak Mehta, a physician and the CEO of Nerdbugs. Dr. Mehta's story starts about a decade ago, while she was still in medical school, and decided to write a children's book teaching young kids about the human body. Her ultimate goal (which took her ten years to realize) was to someday create the organs from the book into plush organ toys. Dr. Mehta's passion for medicine and love for plush toys gave birth to Nerdburgs. A combination of the “Why not?” me...

Although parenthood is filled with many joys, it has its stressful and difficult moments too. For many parents, the difficult moments are when their children go through puberty. While the children may not understand what is happening to their bodies, their parents might not know how to start a conversation around this stage. Many opt to let their children gather information from the internet - which can be misleading. In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Trish Hutchison, the co-founder of Girlo...

Has the pandemic negatively impacted your medical practice? While this may be the case with most physicians, the pandemic has been a "blessing" in disguise for Dr. Nerissa Bauer. It gave her a chance to change gears from Riley Hospital to opening her own business, Let’s Talk Kids Heath, that helps kids and parents navigate ADHD. In today's episode, Dr. Bauer speaks about her complete shift to online consultations, her virtual class series, and the importance of transitioning what you can in you...

Dr. Lattisha Bilbrew is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand and upper extremity with Resurgens Orthopedics. She is trained in endoscopic procedures, joint replacement/reconstruction, fracture care and microsurgery in pediatric and adult patients. In today’s episode, Dr. Bilbrew talks to us about how her journey has been, and gives pieces of advice to doctors who are afraid of taking a plunge into entrepreneurship. In addition to her specialty, she enjoys mentoring high school students,...

It all started when Katie Deming, MD, went undercover at a boutique near her office. As a radiation oncologist, Dr. Deming wanted to test first-hand the types of bras on the market for women who had undergone radiation therapy for breast cancer. What she saw made her decide that she was never going to send her patients to that boutique. The bras had all the wrong features - they were scratchy and had an elastic that would irritate the skin. Despite having zero designer experience, Dr. Deming sa...

Who would have thought that Dr. Nina Maouelainin, originally from Morocco, would successfully pursue her dream of becoming a physician in the USA? Not even herself! After completing medical school, she went on the complete her residency and subsequently a fellowship program in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Maouelainin met phenomenal mentors that led one of the first accredited interventional pulmonology fellowships at a time when the field of interventional pulmonology was...