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THE BRAVE ENOUGH SHOW

A Podcast by Dr. Sasha Shillcutt

 

Dr. Sasha Shillcutt interviews change-makers, leaders, influencers, and overcomers on this show to elevate your spirit and encourage you to define success on YOUR terms.

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Season 12: 
Stressed to the Max

Highlights from Brave Enough 2023

Season 12 Episode 1: January 5, 2024 

In this episode of the Brave Enough Show, we share stories and highlights from the 2023 Brave Enough Conference!

Enjoy these stories from women in the Brave Enough community and make sure you join us in 2024!

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DeStressing in the New Year: 3 Steps to Remove Stress

Season 12 Episode 2: January 12, 2024 

In this episode, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt shares three easy steps for us to have less stress in our lives in the upcoming year. Stress seems to be the “norm” in our lives, and it can have deleterious effects on our health, on our relationships, and our productivity.  

  • How to do a quick stress self-assessment 
  • Physiological symptoms of stress 
  • Acute stress vs. Chronic stress 
  • The power of the “Instant No” 
  • Simple ways to schedule a recharge  

Quotes:

"We, as women, are conditioned to live in a constant state of stress. We take on the responsibilities of everyone around us which results in chronic stress, and can lead to serious health issues that we ignore.” Dr. Sasha Shillcutt 

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Breaking "Norms" As Leaders to Overcome Stress and Burnout

Season 12 Episode 3: January 19, 2024 

In this episode, Dr. Sasha talks with leadership gurus Michelle Troseth and Dr. Tracy Christopherson to discuss  

  • Unhealthy Leadership Norms that Hold us Back 
  • Breaking up with the “Us vs. Them” Mentality 
  • The difference between Doing and Being 
  • How Culture work is KEY to stress relief in the workplace 

Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth are co-founders of MissingLogic®. The core of their work is to help leaders to overcome leadership norms that cause suffering, achieve work life balance, create healthy work cultures and environments by leveraging Polarity Intelligence™. Tracy and Michelle are co-authors of the book Polarity Intelligence: The Missing Logic in Leadership and co-hosts of The TRU Leader Podcast (previously known as Healthcare’s Missing Logic Podcast). The dynamic duo is known for helping leaders balance leading and living so they can be TRU leaders—thriving, resilient, and unstoppable. 

Quotes:

“All change starts inside. You can’t change external environments without first changing yourself internally.” 

“Many problems leaders struggle with are not actually problems – they are polarities, and understanding the difference is key to being a good leader.” 

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How Stress Affects our Weight and What to Do about It

Season 12 Episode 4: January 26, 2024 

In this episode, Dr. Sasha talks with Dr. Ali Novitsky to discuss

  • Stress and Sleep and the Negative Feedback of Weight Gain
  • Emotional Regulation and Walking
  • How 5000 steps a day can change your life
  • How to understand your genetic stress response 

Ali Novitsky, MD is the CEO and founder of The FIT CollectiveTM, www.thefitcollective.com. She is Triple Board Certified in Obesity Medicine, Pediatrics, and Neonatology. She is also a Certified Master Coach, Nutrition and Fitness Expert, International Speaker and Fitness Trainer, Blogger, and Host of The Podcast “Fit Woman CollectiveTM”.  

Ali attended Temple University School of Medicine and completed her Pediatric residency and Neonatal Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson/AI duPont Hospital for Children. She completed her coach training at The Life Coach School and her master coach training at The Coach Firm.  

Ali helps high performing women to achieve optimal health by optimizing their unique potential with simple strategies backed by science. Ali also offers CME coaching programs designed for women physicians. Her programs are ever evolving and currently include Fit Woman CollectiveTM, Transform®, and Transform® Energy.  

Ali has a trademarked nutrition program called Mindful Macros® where she combines an intuitive and gentle nutrition approach to achieve optimal health results. Ali is married to her medical school sweetheart, Mark, who is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist and co- founder of The Fit CollectiveTM. Together, they leverage neuroscience to help their clients achieve sustainable health results.

Quotes:

“Collecting data allows people to start being honest with themselves and also decreases a large amount of stress as you move toward understanding your optimal health.” - Dr. Ali Novitsky

Connect with Dr. Novitsky:

The Fit Collective

Transform

Instagram

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Stress Triggers: What Are Mine, and How Can I Know?

Season 12 Episode 5: February 2, 2024 

Do you know your specific stress triggers? Do you ever find certain people, or places, stress you and you are not sure why? In this episode, I share my simple strategies to recognize your own specific stress triggers and how to identify, avoid and control your response to them. I chat about: 

  • How our core motivations shape our stress triggers 
  • The mental effects of stress 
  • How overcommitment is a red flag 
  • The power of LESS multi-tasking 
  • Simple ways to reset in a crisis 

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Season 12 Sponsor - The Coach Firm

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How Our Internal Thoughts Are Vital to De-Stressing

Season 12 Episode 6: February 9, 2024 

In this episode, Dr. Sasha talks with Rachael Gilbert to discuss:

  • How the Triangle Effect changes your behaviors
  • How exercise can decrease OR increase stress
  • What to do with a racing mind
  • How self-coaching and brain dumps work 

Rachael Gilbert, MMFT, is a wife, mom, trauma-informed therapist, owner of BBC Health, and podcast host of Real Talk with Rachael. She combines her clinical expertise and personal experience to help women overcome fear and insecurity to walk confidently in their God-given dreams. A frequent speaker and article writer, Rachael lives near Dallas with her husband Matt and their three children. www.rachaelgilbert.com 

Quotes:

“Your racing thoughts need an outlet or they will continue to cause stress. Don’t be afraid to do a brain dump by writing them out bullet style, or talk to a friend, or self-coach and talk them out.“ Rachael Gilbert

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Season 12 Sponsor - The Coach Firm

The Coach Firm is a women-owned business that certifies life coaches in our signature method that focuses on mindset, coaching tools, and emotional regulation.

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How to Assess Stress in Your Life & Steps to Remove it - instantly

Season 12 Episode 7: February 16, 2024 

In this episode, Dr. Shillcutt and Dr. Tiger discuss: 

  • The most common symptoms of stress and which ones NOT to ignore 
  • Ways to combat both chronic and acute stress 
  • Easy breath work that may save your life 
  • How stress is our #1 Killer  

Robyn Tiger, MD, DipABLM is a double board-certified physician in Diagnostic Radiology and Lifestyle Medicine. As founder of the physician wellness practice, StressFreeMD, she uniquely combines her trainings in medicine, yoga therapy, meditation & life coaching to teach other physicians a whole person approach to elevate their overall health and happiness. Her innovative CME courses, coaching, presentations, retreats and podcast focus on the key topics of stress relief, nutrition, fitness, sleep and social connection for complete physical, mental, and emotional well-being, resilience and longevity.  

Dr. Tiger serves as lead faculty and subject matter expert in stress management for the Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Manual, host of the StressFreeMD Podcast and Western Carolina Medical Society Healthy Healer Partner.  

When she’s not busy supporting her colleagues, Robyn can be found enjoying her own self-care through hiking, paddle boarding, meditating, yoga, playing with her dog, husband and kids in the mountains of Asheville, NC. 

Quotes:

“If you feel yourself moving farther away from yourself, it is likely from chronic stress and it is time to evaluate what is going on.” - Dr. Robyn Tiger  

“Stress is America’s number one killer.” - Dr. Robyn Tiger  

“Stress is the umbrella that our chronic symptoms call fall under and when we don’t feel ourselves, it is time for us to take a step back and evaluate.” - Dr. Robyn Tiger  

Episode Links: 

Brave Balance Masterclass

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Season 12 Sponsor - The Coach Firm

The Coach Firm is a women-owned business that certifies life coaches in our signature method that focuses on mindset, coaching tools, and emotional regulation.

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Am I Stressed or Burned Out: How Do I Know?

Season 12 Episode 8: February 23, 2024 

In this episode, I share how to tell if you are burned out or if you are under chronic stress. I walk through the symptoms of each and what to do if you find yourself in either camp. You do not want to miss this episode!  

  • The Symptoms of Chronic Stress 
  • What Burnout Looks Like 
  • Differences between men and women and burnout 
  • The FIRST step to take if you are chronically stressed 
  • How to address burnout stat 

Quotes:

"Every single human is on the stress path somewhere. The question for you is, where are you heading? Away from chronic stress, or towards burnout?” Dr. Sasha Shillcutt 

Episode Links:

Brave Balance Masterclass

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Season 12 Sponsor - The Coach Firm

The Coach Firm is a women-owned business that certifies life coaches in our signature method that focuses on mindset, coaching tools, and emotional regulation.

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How to Psychologically Protect Yourself from Stress

Season 12 Episode 9: March 1, 2024 

In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Dr. Joanne Sotelo discuss: 

  • What chronic stress looks like in our brain 
  • How self-assessment is the key to removing ourselves from toxic environments 
  • How giving yourself time off or changing your FTE can be life-saving 
  • Red flags that signal you are under chronic stress and how to change it 

Dr. Joanne Sotelo is a Psychiatrist and a Life and High-Performance Coach. Her coaching focuses on Mental and Emotional Well-being.

Joanne helps women physicians conquer their overwhelm and create defined steps towards their dreams to regain harmony, avoid burnout, and live a fulfilling and joyful life.

She has had a mission of bringing mental health awareness and prevention especially for female physicians and coaching has been a beautiful gift for herself and to promote health-seeking behaviors. 

Joanne is a best-selling author, enjoys cooking, reading, personal development and spending time with her two teenager sons.

Joanne is from Puerto Rico which helps her understand the cultural differences and expectations, and best of all, she can coach in Spanish.

Dr. Joanne Sotelo is a Psychiatrist and worked as the Division Director of the Psychiatry Department for Baylor Scott & White, Round Rock/Austin Region for the previous 16years. In addition, Dr. Sotelo is the Chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee for BSW South Region and Co-Chair for the System's Ethics Committee for all of BSW. She has been part of the Faculty for the Texas A & M Medical School since 2007. She is also one of the Psychiatry Attendings for the RR BSW Family Medicine and the Internal Medicine Residency Programs. Dr. Sotelo obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Puerto Rico Medical School, where she is from; and her Psychiatry Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. 

Dr. Joanne Sotelo has been involved in personal development education and training for herself and for her Psychiatry Practice. Dr. Sotelo was certified as a High Performance Coach and she has been able to incorporate the tools and skills for her own growth, leadership for her team, for her patients and to serve. She also completed additional training in Physician Wellness and Burnout Prevention. 

Connect with Dr. Sotelo:   

theharmonizedhealer.com 

Instagram 

Facebook 

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Season 12 Sponsor - The Coach Firm

The Coach Firm is a women-owned business that certifies life coaches in our signature method that focuses on mindset, coaching tools, and emotional regulation.

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Stress and Mindset

Season 12 Episode 10: March 8, 2024 

In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Dr. Kristi Angevine discuss how to recognize when stress has become a HABIT. They break down: 

  • All or Nothing Thinking 
  • The power stress can have over our thoughts 
  • How to stop ruminating and second-guessing ourselves 
  • Changing our lives by 3 power minutes a day 

Kristi H Angevine, MD, FACOG is a board certified Ob/Gyn and master certified life coach. She specializes in helping high achievers change unhelpful habits into intentional ones. Whether it’s perfectionism, overthinking, people pleasing, excess scrolling, overeating, mindless shopping, or simply feeling chronically preoccupied with a running mental to do list, she helps them unpack the root causes of their habits. She has a natural warmth that helps all of her clients feel at ease and have fun while they work on mindset. In addition to master coach certification through The Life Coach School, she is also Internal Family Systems-informed and an Advanced Certified Deep Dive Coach. 

Connect with Dr. Angevine:

Habits On Purpose

Habits On Purpose Podcast

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Quote:

“Our limiting beliefs serve us at some point and we don’t realize how they are damaging us now. We can change them with spending even 5 min with ourselves each day.” - Dr. Kristi Angevine 

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The Scoop

Season 12 Sponsor - The Coach Firm

The Coach Firm is a women-owned business that certifies life coaches in our signature method that focuses on mindset, coaching tools, and emotional regulation.

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How To Combat the Physical Effects of Stress

Season 12 Episode 11: March 15, 2024 

In this episode of The Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha Shillcutt and Dr. Roxana Mehran discuss: 

  • Stress and the physiological risks that is places on our bodies 
  • How to process and remove the daily stress from your body 
  • How to decrease stress, anxiety and poor sleep as risk factors for cardiovascular disease 
  • How to reinvent yourself as a woman physician 

Roxana Mehran, MD, is an internationally renowned interventional cardiologist and clinical research expert in the field of cardiovascular disease. She leads a globally-respected academic research center focused on designing and implementing randomized clinical trials, outcomes research projects, and high impact academic publications. She has served as principal investigator for numerous global studies, developed risk scores for bleeding and acute kidney injury, participates regularly in developing clinical guidelines, and has authored >1,500 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Mehran currently serving as a member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Board of Trustees. She is a founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). Dr. Mehran is named Director of the Women Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital, spearheading a new program that represents a collaboration across multiple disciplines and designed to meet the unique needs of women’s cardiovascular health. She has been included for the past seven consecutive years in Clarivate Analytics:  “Most Cited Researchers – Top 1%” as well as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” (Thomson Reuters).  

Dr. Mehran has spoken and attended over 400 presentations, leading the Lancet Commission on Women’s Cardiovascular Diseases, which has brought together leading researchers from around the world to identify and bridge gaps in scientific discovery, clinical trials, and care for women with cardiovascular disease.  She was recently named Director of the Women Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Sinai Heart, spearheading a new program that represents a collaboration across multiple disciplines and designed to meet the unique needs of women’s cardiovascular health. In 2019, she founded Women as One, dedicated to advancing opportunities for women in medicine. 

Dr Mehran is a recipient of several awards including the 2016 American College of Cardiology Bernadine Healy Leadership in CV disease award, the 2018 Nanette Wenger Award from Women’s Heart for excellence in research and education, the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the 2019 ESC Silver Medal and Andreas Grüntzig Lecture plaque. In 2022, she received The Terry Ann Krulwich Physician-Scientist Alumni Award at Mount Sinai; the Linda Joy Pollin Heart Health Leadership Award from Cedar Sinai Medical Center; Doctor Honoris Causa Degree at Università della Svizzera Italiana; Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award from American Heart Association; and the Pulse-Setter Champion Award from The Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Lastly, in 2023, Dr. Mehran was awarded the Bahr Award of Excellence by the American College of Cardiology. 

Women as One

Quote: 

“We all need coaches to help us understand that if you are doing your best, whatever you accomplish in life is enough.” - Dr. Mehran 

“Every time you are escalating and climbing the ladder as a woman, you have the responsibility to lift others in the process.” - Dr. Mehran 

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