INTRODUCING
Empowering Women Physicians
Winter 2022
Coaching Program
The most comprehensive,
collaborative coaching program
to help women physicians
ACTUALLY ENJOY
this life they worked so hard to create.
The Empowering Women Physicians
Coaching Program
helps physicians STOP
sacrificing themselves for others
and finally start prioritizing themselves.
Community.
Support.
Unparalleled inspiration.
Real women physicians just like you.
Life and Business coaching
to help you finally realize
you DO have some choices
you DO have some control
& can start creating life more on your terms.
No matter what.
Starting right now.
Before we talk about the program details,
I want you to know that
you are in the right place.
Too many female physicians who seem to “have it all” feel like something’s missing.
Getting to where you are has been a never ending journey of sacrificing the “now”
for the promise of a better life later.
You excelled in college, put life on hold for med school, and then worked grueling hours during your residency… all so that you would FINALLY be happy once you got a job as an attending.
But then you woke up as an attending physician, and somehow
it still isn’t what you dreamed it would be.
You've arrived...
but somehow haven't arrived at
being happy.
It’s time for you to make a change.
I’m here to tell you that you CAN enjoy the life you’ve worked so hard to create.
What that will look like for you will be 100% unique…
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach.
It's custom. For you. On your schedule.
Helping you find your path.
With private one-on-one
plus group coaching from
certified coaches
who are ALSO women physicians, you can...
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Get clear on what you want and what is important to YOU so you can chart your personal path forward to living the life you want.
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Take control of your own life so you can stop living on auto-pilot and design the life you actually want.
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Stop sacrificing yourself for others so you can finally enjoy this life you worked so hard to create.
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Know what your non-negotiables are so you will feel 100% confident to demand what you’re worth and speak up when you face demeaning behavior.
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Get help from like-minded physicians so you won’t have to feel like you’re alone and won’t have to wonder if your coaches truly know what you’re feeling.
We are all looking for the same result… to finally enjoy the life we’ve worked so hard to create.
When you join the Empowering Women Physicians Coaching Program, our coaches will be 100% focused on helping you believe in yourself and succeed.
The Empowering Women Physician
Coaching Program
c h a n g e s l i v e s.
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Evidence Based
Our very own pre/post data is being submitted to peer reviewed journals at this time. Our coaches. Our clients. It just works. It's an incredibly impactful and meaningful program. We borrow the best practices from Medical Education and adult learning to create a unique comprehensive program for you. In addition, a recent randomized controlled trial in JAMA by the leading experts in physician wellness documented that coaching physicians improves overall quality of life.
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Personal Lives Improved
We normalize and humanize the full lived experience of being a woman physician. We develop a deeper sense of compassion for ourselves, learn it's okay and actually even essential to prioritize our own needs, wants, and even our dreams. Relationship with ourselves and others improve. We learn to meet ourselves right where we are now, always, to be our own best friends, and then say "okay, what's next."
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Clinical Lives Improved
Our clients say they feel more connected with their patients, feel less frazzled and behind, and *gasp* many even have all their charts done on time. Yes, it's possible. We'll show you how.
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New Business / Additional Streams of Income Created
We've helped our clients establish and grow new businesses from ground zero, take their businesses beyond six figures, replace part or all of their clinical income, pursue real estate investing, and diversify their income streams. If you are a physician coach or course creator, there is no where else you'd rather be. We believe in your success even more than you do and have a proven track record.
Real data from hundreds of
women physicians
Real Results, Real EWP Physicians...
We have data from hundreds of physicians in our own program.
Our clients. Our coaches. This just works..
Sunny Smith, MD
- Family Physician
- Former Clinical Professor, UCSD School of Medicine
- Awarded for Excellence in teaching, Humanism in medicine, Outstanding community leader
- Founder of the multi-million dollar international coaching company Empowering Women Physicians focused exclusively on supporting women physicians through coaching, retreats, podcasting, and the EWP facebook group
- Featured in The Residents television series
- Featured in documentaries on physician wellness including Struggling in Silence, Do No Harm
- As seen in Forbes, Discovery Health, The Learning Channel, WebMD, Amazon Prime
- Published in peer reviewed journals, including JAMA
Hi, I'm Dr. Sunny Smith
I wanted to be a doctor because of seeing how the doctors had a profound impact on my family’s life. I wanted to help.
The first time I really experienced the challenges of the culture of medicine was during the first rotation of my third year in med school. A cardiothoracic surgeon told me to drop out and become a secretary. Cue me crying in the call room for days.
Although things got better fourth year,
my internship was the typical grueling schedule
of 80 hour weeks with 36 hours of no rest.
When I started suffering from non-specific neurological symptoms and aphasia, the neurologist dismissed it as me being just another woman with vague complaints.
Eventually, those symptoms progressed and presented as status epilepticus,
due to sleep deprivation, leaving me in a coma for a week...
When I finally woke up, my future was unclear.
My physicians didn't think I could finish residency due to likely anoxic brain injury.
I ended up becoming a Full Clinical Professor, Director of multiple programs, and an awarded educator for Excellence in Teaching and Humanism in Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
I had the husband, the kid, the job, and had “arrived.”
Yet I was overworked and overwhelmed, feeling like I was failing at work and failing at home because there was always too much to do and not enough time.
Life changed forever when I broke both my arms on a trip to French Polynesia.
With my arms and face broken and unable to stand or care for myself,
for the first time ever, I had to simply be still.
I discovered that life could be different.
Turns out that someone else
could do all those things
I thought that I HAD to do myself.
At that time, other women physicians recommended a podcast to manage my thoughts around the accident. Turned out maybe all this forced stillness might be happening for me.
That started my quest to actually determine for myself what I wanted for my life on MY terms.
In addition to being a physician, I then became a Certified Coach for physicians and have built a multi-million dollar business by empowering women physicians to enjoy the lives they’ve worked so hard to create on their terms.
I’ve built the life of my dreams and collaborate with an outstanding team of women physicians to help you build yours.
Real words from our clients
describing the culture of
Empowering Women Physicians....
What some clients had to say:
What's included:
PERSONAL | PROFESSIONAL | BUSINESS | LEADERSHIP
Life & business coaching for physicians by physicians
I'm a Family Physician. We are trained to care for you throughout ALL that life brings you.
I bring that same approach to coaching.
You have a problem? We've got you.
You need a specialist? We've got them too.
WEEKLY 1:1
PRIVATE
COACHING
You'll receive 8 one-on-one personal coaching sessions. Schedule one session per week with the top physician coaches in the industry. On anything you want. I promise, they know EXACTLY what to do.
Easily schedule at a time that works for you with an easy to access online scheduling system. Appointments are available 7 days a week.
SMALL GROUP
COACHING
You'll have the option to meet in a small groups weekly with ~ 8-10 other physicians, where you'll truly get to know each other well, they build connection, community, and friendships that often last well beyond the program.
LARGE GROUP
CALLS
Life Coaching
Entrepreneurial Coaching
Guest Experts and Mentors
These outstanding larger group coaching sessions and workshops are led by the best of the best. Internationally recognized experts and leaders in their space.
ACCESS TO EWP LIBRARY
All calls and training are available 24/7 access during program. You can watch on your phone, iPad, computer, TV or even listen podcast style. You'll have access well after the program ends, so don't worry if you can't attend live.
We have worksheets for those of you who love writing and reflecting. You are the author of your own story.
Other details:
2 MONTH IMMERSION
The time you need for total immersion.
You'll apply core coaching concepts in your life so that you can make lasting changes and take massive action!
EFFECTIVE
PERSONAL & BUSINESS
COACHING
We have experience guiding not only ourselves (every coach in this program has been a practicing physician, was certified as a coach, and started their own business) but also in advising, mentoring, and coaching physician colleagues in the complexities of navigating personal, professional, academic, private practice, career changes, and business.
We get real results for our clients over and over again. More money at work. Leadership positions. Six figure businesses.
Check. Check. Check.
CME CREDIT
Physician wellness is legitimately eligible for
CME for many reasons.
Your health and wellbeing is essential to you, the practice of medicine, and society.
Our Coaching Program Syllabus and reference article to provide to your institution is provided in our FAQ's.
You can enroll right now in our
Winter 2022 Coaching Program
Previous Special Guest Speakers...
Immediate access to a library of incredible sessions
Byron Katie
Byron Katie. She is the Grandmother of thought work. She says "I discovered that when I believed my thoughts I suffered, but when I didn’t believe them I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always. And I invite you not to believe me. I invite you to test it for yourself." She is revered by leaders such as Martha Beck, Tony Robbins and Eckert Tolle. We are excited to have her back with us!
Dr. Kristin Neff
Dr. Neff is an Insight Meditation practitioner and an associate professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review, among others, and her TEDx talk has been viewed over 1.7 million times. She’s also the co-developer of an empirically supported training program called Mindful Self-Compassion, which is taught by thousands of people worldwide, and the co-author of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook as well as Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals. She is also co-founder of the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion
Personal & life coaching workshops
Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996, she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, documenting her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery, spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.
In 2008, she gave the first TED talk that ever went viral on the Internet, which now has well over 26 million views. Also in 2008, Dr. Taylor was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's “100 Most Influential People in the World” and was the premiere guest on Oprah Winfrey’s “Soul Series” webcast. Dr. Taylor’s new book Whole Brain Living is now available.
The Henrietta Lacks Family
The Lacks family has enthralled audiences across the country by talking about their mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Henrietta Lacks, and her transcendentally important contributions to science. The international success of Rebecca Skloot’s New York Times bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has left people keenly interested in the Lacks family and Henrietta’s legacy.
With their visits, members of the Lacks family put a personal face on such issues as the dark history of medical experimentation on African-Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over informed consent.
Despite what the Lacks family has endured, they are proud to honor the memory of Henrietta and her unparalleled contributions to science.
Their story, as told in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has sold nearly 3 million copies around the world, and has also been made into an HBO film produced by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball.
Hala Sabry, DO
Dr. Hala Sabry is a mom, ER doctor, Social Media Medicine Expert and Medical Community Builder, and founder of Physician Mom Group, bringing together women physicians, who are also parents, so that they can collaborate and support each other in personal, professional and educational pursuits while sharing their medical expertise.
Being a mother of five, including two sets of twins, Hala has a unique expertise and skill set to help other parents in the medical field. She also offers high performance coaching to professional women in male dominated professions. She believes she has a responsibility to forge a path for other women and to elevate her fellow physician mothers, encouraging and empowering them to embrace joy, vulnerability, and abundance.
Christine Moutier, MD
Dr. Christine Yu Moutier knows the impact of suicide firsthand. After losing colleagues to suicide, she dedicated herself to fighting this leading cause of death. As a leader in the field of suicide prevention, Dr. Moutier joined AFSP as Chief Medical Officer in 2013.
She has testified before the U.S. Congress and co-anchored CNN’s Emmy Award winning Finding Hope on suicide prevention.
Dr. Moutier has been a practicing psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry, and medical director of the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at the VA Medical Center in La Jolla, treating diverse patient populations from Asian refugees to veterans to corporate and academic leaders. Dr. Moutier has authored numerous articles and book chapters for medical and general audiences.
Business coaching sessions
James Wedmore
James has been one of the most influential people in Sunny's business success..
If you ever see him live or work with him in a workshop or go to an in-person event, it's just magic. He can take anyone's business idea and turn it into a magical copy (the writing on the page). The things you say. How you present yourself to your audience. He is one EWP's absolute favorites.
His whole thing is Rise of the Digital CEO, meaning YOU are the CEO of a company (not a "solopreneur" doing all the things). He gives people step by step by step, yet the most important part is that he gets the mindset work deeply.
Group Coaches
LIFE
Sunny Smith, MD
Founder of EWP
Family Physician
Dr. Sunny Smith helps women physicians enjoy this life they worked so hard to create, coaching women who are struggling and want to create the best version of their life through work on acceptance, self-compassion, compassion for others, setting boundaries, dreaming of possibilities and making them come true.
Milene Argo, MD
Doctor Coach
Internal Medicine
Dr. Milene Argo started her coaching journey with weight loss, then her clinical practice, using coaching techniques with her patients.
She helps us discover our motivators so we can decide what actions we want to take to achieve our goals. She believes you’re just one thought away from achieving the balance that puts you in the driver’s seat of your life.
Sarah Smith, MD
Charting Champions Program
Family Physician
Dr. Sarah Smith is the Charting Coach for Physicians and a practicing Rural Family Physician in Alberta Canada.
She helps physicians get Today's Work Done Today and Getting Home with their Charting Done.
She has a passion for reducing Burnout and Overwhelm resulting from the administrative burden of Clinical Medicine using Evidence Based Coaching to help Physicians find their most simple solutions.
Sonia Wright, MD
Sex/Passion Coach
Radiology
Dr. Sonia Wright is best known as a sex coach. But is also a certified Master Life Coach and can tackle ANY topic.
Bring all the things. Sonia is an expert on all things sex, romance, body image and all. She can address the typical hard working physician with little to no desire, spouses not seeing eye to eye, dating confidence or just learning to make things more fun again.
Krista Olsen, MD
OB/GYN
Krista is an OB-GYN and certified Life and Weight Loss Coach through the Life Coach School. She helps other female physicians dig into their brain…examine food or other areas, “buffers”, they would like to manage and create the life they want through coaching!
Latifat Akintade, MD
Money Fit MD
Gastroenterologist
Dr. Latifat Akintade is a practicing Gastroenterologist. She's also a mom of 3 little ladies and a money coach who helps women create a rich life by transforming their relationship with money. She has published articles in her field of Gastroenterology, and has also written on the impact of racism on health. As a coach, she wants to enforce a growing narrative that money is a tool to be used for good, for social justice to effect change, while having a crap load of fun.
Tracy Levitt, MD
Pathology
Tracy is a life and parent coach for multitasking physician moms. She knows what it’s like to feel guilt, resentment and overwhelm while working or at home.
She understands that the problem is not you, it’s your brain. Her approach is empathic, judgement-free and will help you learn how to take charge of your brain so you can enjoy work, home, parenting and all of your relationships.
Noelle Nelson, MD
The Practice of Feeling Better
Internal Medicine
Dr. Noelle Nelson is a practicing internal medicine physician who came to coaching from a place of misery in her personal and professional life. Now, she helps other physicians crawl out of endless survival mode and into a life of more daily joy.
Common coaching topics include: how to feel better, finally lose the weight, relationship challenges, and time and priority management.
Linda Street, MD
Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist
Dr. Linda Street is a board-certified Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist and Life Coach who focuses specifically on Physician Negotiations. She is the Founder and CEO of Simply Street MD Negotiation Coaching, where she helps female physicians take charge of their lives and negotiate the salary they deserve. She lives and breathes to close the gender gap.
BUSINESS
Maiysha Clairborne, MD
Family Physician
Dr. Maiysha Clairborne is an Integrative Family Physician, Master Practitioner & Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis & Time Line Therapy®, & founder of the Mind Re-Mapping Academy. Through her NLP trainings, Dr. Clairborne focuses on helping highly trained professionals transform their lives by helping them master their thoughts, beliefs & communication, while eliminating fear, imposter syndrome, self doubt, negative emotions, & passed down trauma that get in the way of their ability to experience full joy, productivity & peace of mind.
Dave Moreno
Entrepreneur/Author
Dave is the Badass Business Coach and serial entrepreneur! He has built multiple six and seven figure businesses and his greatest skill is being able to see past the bullshit to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses no matter what. He is a life and business coach, podcaster, author and speaker, who is dedicated to building a life full of passion and fulfillment for himself and everyone around him.
...and many more!
Simone Seol
Joyful Marketing
Simone is creating a revolution in how life coaches market online. She teaches coaches how to get fully booked by putting love first, leaning into their messy genius, and not being afraid to get a little weird. In the past 2 years, Simone has created over $2 million and helped countless life coaches grow their businesses with joy. She is the host of the top-rated Joyful Marketing podcast, and author of The Fearless Marketing Bible for Life Coaches.
Autumn Witt Boyd
The AWB Firm
Autumn Witt Boyd is an experienced copyright and trademark lawyer who helps online businesses protect their brands and content. The Law Office of Autumn Witt Boyd PLLC is the go-to law firm for successful online business owners, particularly those who create online courses, digital downloads, and online tools for business.
Nneka Unachukwu, MD
Pediatric Specialist
Dr. Una has been the CEO of Ivy League Pediatrics, an award-winning private practice for the last decade. She went from being a great clinician with no idea how to run a business to a serial entrepreneur. Armed with her depth of experience and wealth of knowledge, she founded EntreMD, a company designed to fulfill her passion of helping physician entrepreneurs build profitable businesses.
Nii Darko, DO
Trauma Surgeon
Dr. Nii Darko is a Board-certified General Surgeon who is pushing past the limits of the status quo. He hosts Docs Outside the Box, an Apple Podcasts Top 100 in Careers – where he highlights stories of doctors doing extraordinary things outside of medicine to inspire other doctors to think outside the box, empowering them to have the lifestyle they deserve.
Then there ARE our amazing
One-on-One Personal Coaches
These are Real Physicians, Real Coaches you will have access
to this Winter for Private Coaching to offer you the best coaching on the "how" to apply this to YOUR life.
Want to learn how to manage your mind around any issue in your life?
There IS NOTHING else like this out there.
Anywhere.
Ever.
This is like the mecca of women physician coaches, all-in-one program.
*coaches are subject to change
Milene Argo, MD
Internal Medicine
Krystal Sodaitis, MD
Pediatrics
MJ Walsh, MD
Family Medicine
Michele Dorfsman, MD
Emergency Medicine
Tracy Levitt, MD
Pathology
Rebecca Caldwell, MD
OB/GYN
Nora Vasquez, MD
Internal Medicine
Payal Ghayal, MD
Integrative Pediatrics
Deanna Larson, MD
IM/Hospitalist
Maneesha Ahluwalia, MD
Infectious Disease
Miriam Rhew, MD
General Pediatrics
Stella Evans, MD
General Pediatrics
Noelle Nelson, MD
Internal Medicine
Stephanie Byerly, MD
Anesthesiology
Lil Surprenant, MD
Internal Medicine
Jess Schaefer, DO
Rheumatologist
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Real words from Real EWP Coaches
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Get the coaching you need to enjoy the life you've worked so hard to create!
Your investment:
$10,000
Frequently Asked Questions:
Email
admin@empoweringwomenphysicians.com
with any additional questions.
We will continually update this list of FAQ as more questions come in.
What are the dates?
Program Dates: Orientation begins February 20, 2022. The program is 8 weeks long through April 16, 2022.
So... your question about dates really is...
Is now the right time to join?
The answer is 100% yes.
Today is THE perfect time.
Now is all we ever have. Ever.
So many women physicians tell me they waited, and waited, until the next time, and then the next time.
Their number one regret is that they didn't join sooner.
Come on in.
We're doing this.
The only question is.... Are you?
Does this really count for CME? If so how much?
Yes, this counts for CME.
Real live CME.
Yes, you can submit it to your work for reimbursement. We have literature, physician wellness videos, worksheets, etc.
Physician wellness is legitimately eligible for CME for many reasons. Your health and wellbeing is essential to you, the practice of medicine, and society. We can send you a syllabus along w your receipt if needed.
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Continuing Education, Inc. and Empowering Women Physicians. Continuing Education, Inc. is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation: Continuing Education, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Can I get details on Private Coaching?
You will receive full bios of each coach as well as videos of them teaching a coaching concept important to them. All trained at The Life Coach School with Brooke Castillo and are trained in the same coaching tools and techniques during their sessions.
You then get access to an online scheduling link with access to all coaches. You look for available times that line up easily and get started. You can continue with the same person or switch any time. Access to many coaches all in one program is a unique asset of this program.
I only want Private Coaching. I don't want any of the group sessions.
No problem. Come on in. This is the most comprehensive program for one on one private personalized coaching for physicians by physicians.
Remember we have outstanding data for these coaches in this program. It works.
It will work for you.
You take what you want.
You leave the rest.
It's like a choose your own adventure.
90% of the physicians who signed up for our program completed 8 out of 8 private coaching sessions.
Physicians are busy. Time is their most valuable resource. That tells you how valuable these coaching sessions are.
If you do that alone, you have done enough.
You can watch zero minutes of any live or recorded content in our physician coaching portal and STILL get all the results you need, just by coming to the 1:1 coaching sessions.
You get all that PLUS way more available to you in this program.
It's an outstanding value for the impact it can have on your life no matter how much of the group content you watch or participate in or don't.
I've enrolled in other programs, how do I know this will be any different?
We have data. Real pre/post data from hundreds of women physicians just like you and it is unparalleled in the physician wellness or coaching space.
Our completion rate is outstanding.
90% of our physicians complete ALL eight of their one on one coaching sessions.
That completion rate is unheard of in the online world (often more like 15%). Even in clinical trails with strict screening criteria and follow up, 95% completion rate is hard to find.
What does this mean?
Our busy physicians really value their coaching sessions. Even during a pandemic when they may be busier, more stressed, or more burdened than ever before, they make time for them. You will too.
And if you are falling "behind", we'll reassure you that there is no behind. And we'll help ensure you get all your sessions in. That's what we do.
Why is there life, professional, and business coaching all in the same program? What if I only want traditional physician coaching / life coaching on a certain area of my life? (relationships, work, etc.) How do I know it's for me?
This program is absolutely for you.
We have designed it to meet all coaching needs of physicians. We have worked with MANY physicians just like you. You'll be surprised just how much we all have in common.
Physician coaching is effective in ALL areas of our lives.
If you want to work on life, relationships, academics, career change, distress, business, all of it. We've got you.
We really can help you change
your clinical experience
your personal life
and even help you stop overworking or over eating.
We even have people who focus their coaching on charting, weight, taking call, sex, etc.
Yes, this is an exceptional value for you no matter WHAT you are working on.
If you are a physician, and needing a coach, yes this is the place for you.
You have your own private personal coaching sessions.
You also have regular group calls focused only on "life" meaning no business questions at all.
What documents do I bring to my institution for reimbursement?
I did not know how much I needed it until I was in it.
It has really exceeded my expectations and
the changes I have made have been bigger and better than I would have ever thought.
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