Episode 49 - My guest this week is Dr. Brian Dooreck. He’s a gastroenterologist in Florida that has seen revolutionary growth in his practice despite being in an incredibly competitive large metropolitan market. He’s going to share his secret practice growth strategies today to help you level up your business. I know that the COVID pandemic and resultant shutdown really messed up a lot of clinical practices. But, with the vaccine coming out and getting into mass distribution, we’re poised to tak...
Mar 08, 2021•57 min•Ep. 49
Sunday Special 10 - I’m really pumped about today’s episode. I feel like it’s wrong to have favorite podcast episodes, like you shouldn’t have favorite kids. But, I’ll just say that this is one of the most inspiring conversations I’ve had on the sunday special yet. Dr. K Kay Moody is an emergency medicine physician who’s had to overcome a lot of serious challenges. She’s battled hospital administrators who were making it harder to care for her patients. She has battled leaders who wanted her to ...
Mar 07, 2021•48 min
Episode 48 - A lot of physicians I’ve talked to have had some bad experiences with private equity. Maybe they got a big payout but they lost so much autonomy and had their workload increased so much that they ended up retiring or leaving the practice because they just couldn’t stand the working conditions. But, I’ve talked with other docs that said the private equity deal they did was fantastic. They got a big payout, they’ve grown their business faster than they thought possible, and the equity...
Mar 01, 2021•52 min•Ep. 48
Episode 47 (bonus) - If COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on your life, you probably find parts of your life feeling off-balance. Most physicians I talk to have felt that way for months! Dr. Dawn Baker has written extensively about how to find and maintain work/life balance , and she joins us on The Scope of Practice Podcast today to share her insights. What if you could feel like you are totally balanced between all the parts of your life? What would it take? What would you give for that? Dr. Baker ha...
Feb 24, 2021•52 min
Episode 47 - Today’s guest is Dr. Sandy Weitz. Dr. Weitz is a pain management specialist who started her own private practice and grew it to 11 providers. She built a 25,000 square foot medical office building to house her clinic and multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center. Dr. Weitz also owned an anesthesia company, imaging center as well as several other vertically integrated medical businesses. She ultimately sold several of her businesses to various partners and retired at 53. That all sou...
Feb 22, 2021•53 min•Ep. 47
Episode 46 - In my last conversation with Dr. Hala Sabry, we talked about balancing career and family aspirations. When you’re driven to succeed in all areas of your life, it’s hard to balance those different ambitions. If you didn't get a chance to listen, make sure to go check that out. In today's episode, we're wrapping up the four part series with Dr. Sabry by talking about the future for women in medicine. The first women to earn a medical degree in the U.S. was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell in 1...
Feb 18, 2021•37 min•Ep. 46
Episode 45 - We’ve talked a lot this month about business and leadership, and today I want to delve into how we balance that drive and ambition with family pursuits. We all want to be devoted spouses and parents, but our careers demand a lot of time and energy. So, how do we strike a balance between those two? Dr. Hala Sabry has extensive experience in that as a physician mom of 5 kids and a serial entrepreneur. I think you’ll really relate to her struggles and hopefully you’ll get some ideas fo...
Feb 15, 2021•38 min•Ep. 45
Episode 44 (bonus) - How do we navigate a social media landscape that is confusing, scary, and overwhelming? 15 years ago, it was just Facebook, but now there are over a dozen platforms. We can't just ignore it, either. Business is increasingly going digital, and a lot of community-building happens digitally too. Fortunately, Dr. Dana Corriel has the answers. She is the founder of Doctors on Social Media, also known as SoMeDocs. In this episode, she walks us through the strategy to create a lege...
Feb 10, 2021•46 min
Episode 44 - Most financial plans center around spending no money or making a ton of extra money to achieve your goals. Dr. Disha Spath, also known as The Frugal Physician, comes on the podcast today to show us how smart money choices give us financial security without limiting our choices or preventing us from having fun. She and her husband got rid of three quarters of a million dollars in debt by making some sacrifices, making tough choices, and just deciding to do things differently. Convent...
Feb 08, 2021•51 min•Ep. 44
Sunday Special 09 - Dr. Michelle Mudge-Riley was one of the early pioneers for physicians embarking on non-clinical career. Over the last 10 years, she has helped hundreds of physicians transition to non-clinical careers or start a part-time small business. She's sharing her expertise on today's podcast episode. Are you thinking about starting a non-clinical career? Burned out from traditional clinical medicine? Struggling to find your place in the field of medicine? If so, join me on this magni...
Feb 07, 2021•46 min
Episode 43 - What got you here, won't get you there! Whatever you've done to get to this point in your business may not be enough to keep you growing. As your business grows, you have to grow along with it. You must adapt to ensure that your business will continue to adapt as well. Dr. Hala Sabry (founder of Physician Moms Group) joins us today for part 2 of our four part series on business and leadership. Today, we explore what it takes to start your business. Then, one the business begins to g...
Feb 03, 2021•42 min•Ep. 43
Episode 42 - If you want to succeed in any area of your life, find out what a successful person has done and mirror that. Dr. Hala Sabry is my guest on the podcast today, and she is a leader worth emulating. I'm thrilled that she's coming to share her business and leadership acumen with us. This is part one of a four part series with Dr. Sabry on leadership, business, work/life balance, and the future of Women in Medicine. She spent 7 years at the Disney corporation learning leadership and busin...
Feb 01, 2021•39 min•Ep. 42
Episode 41 - The COVID pandemic and the resultant global economic shutdown in 2020 proved to us that there is no such things as financial security. Even physicians are not immune to global pandemics, it seems. So, how do you become financially independent as a physician? What does it take to gain financial freedom? My guest this week is Dr. Christopher Loo, and he has some ideas about how to do that. He became financially independent while he was still in his final year in medical school, which ...
Jan 25, 2021•53 min•Ep. 41
Episode 40 - Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, so they say. In this episode, we're talking about TAXES!! Specifically, what strategies can you employ to maximize your tax savings in 2021? What are the tricks? What are some hacks we can employ? My guest this week is Anjali Jariwala. She's the founder of FIT Advisors and is a tax professional. In this episode we talk strategy as well as tactics. We discuss longterm strategies you can use to minimize your tax burden over the cou...
Jan 18, 2021•55 min•Ep. 40
Episode 39 - If you're waiting for a change in the government to save you, you're going to wait a long time. No one is coming to rescue your business. You are not going to get any special treatment from the current or the incoming administration that will save you. If you want to grow your business in 2021, you need to take things into your own hands! This week, we explore the top 10 things you can do to grow your business in 2021. This isn't a wish list. It's highly practical, actionable, usefu...
Jan 11, 2021•58 min•Ep. 39
Episode 38 - To start 2021 off, I thought it would be fun to do something different. Instead of bringing you an interview this week with a fellow physician or an industry expert, I thought it would be fun to talk to you myself (Dr. Brent Lacey). People are making a lot of New Years' Resolutions around this time of year, and what better resolution could you make than to get your personal finances on track, especially after the crazy year that we just had? This week, we’re going to go through the ...
Jan 04, 2021•59 min•Ep. 38
Sunday Special 08 - Dr. Brent Lacey started The Scope of Practice Podcast to teach busy healthcare professionals how to manage their businesses more successfully and master their personal finances. He saw the lack of knowledge of how to run a business and the huge burden of student loan debt that physicians have and realized there was a tremendous need for that kind of teaching. Today on The Scope of Practice Podcast, he shares his personal spiritual journey and how God called him first to a car...
Jan 03, 2021•39 min
Episode 37 - Do you still have the career joy you had when you started your practice? Or, have the administrative regulations, patient complaints, and decrease in reimbursement crushed your soul and sucked the joy out of medicine for you? If you’re feeling these days like things just aren't as good as you'd like them to be in your job, then you need to hear this episode from Dr. Kenneth Magid. He has been in practice for 50 years. Can you believe that? 50 years!! After a half century, he still l...
Dec 28, 2020•43 min•Ep. 37
Episode 36 - Do you ever feel like your career isn't quite what you thought it would be? Like you're living someone else's dream or trying to fit into a mode that doesn't quite work for you? My guest today is Dr. Francis Yoo, and he suggests that most physicians are failing to live what he calls their "authentic self." When we're in medical school and post-graduate training, we work hard to become excellent at the craft of medicine, but are we abandoning our own dreams in favor of a prescribed c...
Dec 21, 2020•51 min•Ep. 36
Episode 35 - It's common for us to talk to our patients and yet not be able to communicate effectively. If we can't talk to someone in a way that helps them actually understand what we're trying to say, we're not effectively communicating with them. Dr. Brad Block has some great insights into how to effectively communicate with our patients. How do you know when it's ok to tell a joke? What kind of non-verbal cues are you using to make your point? Is eye contact important? Maybe interrupting the...
Dec 14, 2020•50 min•Ep. 35
Episode 34 - Did you know that up to 50% of female physicians report having PTSD from their jobs! We all know that burnout is common, but PTSD is upwards of half of all female physicians? That’s unacceptable. That’s insane . It’s no wonder that half of all physicians surveyed in 2018 reported plans to go part time or retire early in the next few years. Our guest this week is Cecille Ahrens. She’s a mental health professional and host of the Get Mental Podcast. Cecille has over 20 years of applie...
Dec 07, 2020•54 min•Ep. 34
Sunday Special 07 - Sometimes our greatest accomplishments come without accolades or fanfare. Sometimes it’s as simple as getting back up after being knocked down. Other times, it’s doing what you said you would, just because integrity means something. Our guest today is Dr. Holden Graves, and he faced some real challenges when he and his wife were trying to pay off all of their student loans. They had a few false starts, but they got it done and now they are living a great life, debt-free and f...
Dec 06, 2020•48 min
Episode 33 - My guest this week is Dr. Charlotte Akor. She is a pediatric ophthalmologist but she has carved out a cool niche for herself: teaching billing and coding to doctors. A few years ago, after I had been in military medicine for about 7 or 8 years, I realized I had utterly no idea how to bill and code properly. Frankly, since my salary never really depended on it, I never bothered to learn it. I certainly didn’t have any training during residency or fellowship on how to do it properly, ...
Nov 30, 2020•54 min•Ep. 33
Episode 32 - Have you ever watched a physician get interviewed on TV and thought, "I could definitely do this better than them and that should be me on TV?" How do you think Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz got to be famous? Do you think it's because they know more than everyone else or is it because they prioritized personal branding and hired the right PR firm? Our guest this week, Kris Ruby, shares the publicity secrets behind TV doctors and how you can use media to build your practice. Kris is the CEO of...
Nov 23, 2020•57 min•Ep. 32
Episode 31 - If you've struggled with burnout, feelings of doubt or inadequacy, or wondering whether you were making a real difference, you're not alone. Our guest this week is all too familiar with burnout and the problems plaguing physicians these days. Dr. Maiysha Clairborne had to overcome serious depression induced by burnout and rise up to create her incredibly successful business. After nearly losing her life to burnout, she started a new business and grew it from scratch to an incredible...
Nov 16, 2020•52 min•Ep. 31
Episode 30 - Too many of our colleagues are facing burnout these days. Over half of all physicians report plans to go part-time or reduce their hours. Up to 70% of physicians report experiencing burnout. This week's podcast guest, Dr. Katrina Ubell, experienced that too. After a decade in private practice as a pediatrician, she was feeling burned out and left medicine altogether. She decided to reinvent herself, starting a highly successful weight loss coaching program for busy women physicians....
Nov 09, 2020•47 min•Ep. 30
Episode 29 - More and more physicians feel burned out, jaded, and fed up with corporate health care systems. But, over half of all physicians remain in the employed physician model. If that's the best path for you, no problem! But, Dr. Tom Davis thinks that it's worth it to be your own boss. In today's episode, he'll tell us how he built a small three-person clinical practice in rural Missouri into a regional powerhouse. Eventually, he sold it for $132 million! You think that couldn't be you too...
Nov 02, 2020•47 min•Ep. 29
Sunday Special 06 - If you're drowning in debt, unsure if you're going to have enough money saved for retirement, or just not secure in your current financial situation, this week's podcast guest knows exactly how you feel. Dr. Jeff Anzalone has been debt-free for years, but it wasn't always that way. Just 2 weeks before he graduated from residency, he lost his job opportunity that he'd planned on. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, an interest-only mortgage, and a new baby were waiting o...
Nov 01, 2020•51 min
Episode 28 - Over 50% of physicians report plans to go part-time or get out of a medical career entirely. If you're one of those physicians, then today's conversation will encourage and equip you to make some changes! Dr. John Jurica is a family medicine physician who has been blogging and podcasting for years about physician non-clinical careers. He joins us on the podcast today to discuss transitions away from clinical medicine. Most physicians don't necessarily have to retire early, but many ...
Oct 26, 2020•48 min•Ep. 28
Episode 27 - Have you ever had the feeling that you "just don't belong here"? I think we all get caught with Imposter Syndrome at one time in our lives. For women, this is especially common, especially in medicine. Dr. Barbara Hamilton knows what it's like to be a woman in a male-dominated specialty. Blogging as the Tired Superheroine, she has been instrumental in empowering young generations of physicians to break barriers and plow right through obstacles so they can achieve the career success ...
Oct 19, 2020•55 min•Ep. 27
