My department chair had a little box on the annual review form: Do you want a raise?

Check yes, you meet with the chair to discuss the raise. Check no, you don't get a raise.

Every single year, the white men checked yes: “because why not????” one said to me. He didn’t wonder if he’d done enough or had been there long enough.

The women? Mostly checked no. Even though they were more qualified, worked harder, and were more well-liked by patients and colleagues.

The gender pay gap in medicine is not an accident. It's predictable. The people who get paid are the people who ask.

And by the time you're thinking about asking? You're already overdue.

In this week’s podcast, I break down exactly when and how to ask for your next $100k raise. Here's what's inside:

🔥 The exact specific moments you should be asking– The Women Doc Raise Timeline

💰 A 5-step process for making your ask so compelling your chair can't say no

🎯 10 Raise Sprints you can use this week — including The Scope Shift Ask, The Annual Review Flip, and the Maternity Leave Power Move

Will you please do me a favor? Forward this email to all your besties. And then Rate and Review this podcast episode– he helps tell me what you love AND helps our podcast reach more listeners just like you. Thank you!!!

Reply back to tell me everything!, xoxo, Christina

P.S. Next Level Freedom is the only women physician coaching community focused on getting you paid top dollar on part-time hours. This program includes LIFETIME access to weekly group coaching calls, curriculum, private podcast for on-the-go listening, community, bonus trainings and guest speakers, and so much more. The investment is a one-time payment of $2500. Join us THIS WEEK by booking your free sales call here: https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920

I stopped sleeping. Here’s what happened:

I had 20 new clients join all at once. I was ON. Inspired. Fired up. Checking Voxer after dinner. Solving problems in my dreams — literally dreaming about my clients and waking up at 2 a.m. excited to email them back.

I'm a physician. I know better. And I still broke my own sleep.

So I fixed it. And I turned everything I did into this week's podcast episode — because my one-on-one clients have been asking me the SAME question nonstop: "I'm not sleeping. Help."

If your sleep isn’t absolute perfection, this episode is made for you.

Here's what's inside:

✅ A cognitive trick that knocks out overthinkers in minutes, one is from Oprah’s life coach

✅ The one sentence that took all the pressure off my sleep

✅ The boring British man on YouTube who is now part of my bedtime routine (you'll thank me). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAiRjIeKN3s&list=PLari4ODEnihqJ1OJoGiiirm2Y_ob7JaeB

✅ 10 Sleep Sprints — short, tactical experiments you can try TONIGHT (including one designed for combat soldiers)

You deserve to sleep.

Not in a "someday when life calms down" way.

TONIGHT.

Will you please do me a favor? Forward this email to all your besties. And then Rate and Review this podcast episode– he helps tell me what you love AND helps our podcast reach more listeners just like you. Thank you!!!

Reply back to tell me everything!, xoxo, Christina

P.S. Did you know that rest and sleep is an entire module inside my coaching program AND we coach on it live every week? If you're done lying awake wondering what's wrong you that you can’t sleep, book a free sales call today and join my coaching program THIS WEEK! Schedule here: https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920

We can’t choose when life happens.

In September my beloved (best dog ever) died unexpectedly.

I spent almost a month in Germany where the grief felt suspended, and coming home made the house feel even emptier.

My grief was so severe, I thought I might have been clinically depressed and reached out to my doctor.

We’ve adopted a rescue sweetie named Lucy and she is keeping us busy.

We’re packing to put our house on the market in Jan and move across the country. 6,000 square feet of memories to be packed, stored, de-cluttered.

The holidays are near. The world. Politics. And all the rest.

We don’t choose when life happens.

In this week’s podcast you get MY FAVORITE coaching question when I’m feeling completely out of sorts. When the grief is too much. When the move feels too big.

It’ll takes less than 5 seconds.

It replaces pushing, forcing, grinding, and hustling with….softness. Ease.

Use it for yourself, loved ones, colleagues– they will thank you.

If you’re a physician coach, use it for your clients- they will be healed by this.

This episode is designed to let you take a big, healing, relaxing deep breath.

Give it a try and tell me everything, Christina

PS. Want help bringing softness into your big, busy, physician life? You can join my program Next Level Freedom THIS WEEK by booking your free call here: https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920