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After an extended break from the podcast, Dr. Bybee returns with a special episode to share a personal story that shaped her career path in physician well-being.

This story from her early career reveals how confronting toxic medical culture led her to create the support systems she desperately needed during her own training.

It also highlights how she:
• Developed from personal advocate to Wellness Director supporting 400+ trainees annually
• Created the support system she wished existed during her own training
• Emphasized that trauma exposure should never be normalized in medicine
• Advocated for processing experiences rather than suppressing them

If you're looking to get started on transforming your own work environment, this is your podcast. Small steps are the first steps to transformation.

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• Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
• Instagram: Jillian Bybee, MD (@lifeandpicu)
• LinkedIn: Jillian Bybee, MD | LinkedIn
• Threads: @LifeandPICU
• Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)

If you’re ready to kickstart your journey (or your team's journey) to a less stressed life, I’m ready to help you! You can get in touch about 1:1 coaching or inviting me to facilitate a workshop for your group, get in touch via my website.

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In today's episode, Dr. Bybee talks to Dr. Jared Rubenstein, a pediatric palliative care physician, medical educator, and fellow creative.

In their conversation, they discuss:

• How Jared got into medicine (including his unconventional dinner table conversations!)
• Practices that can be helpful for navigating the challenges associated with working in high stress environments
• The importance of communication, including active listening
• Building a supportive work culture
• Creative expression as self-care including Jared’s video series
• Advice for medical trainees

This episode has something for everyone, even if you're not in healthcare!

Things mentioned in the episode:

• Jared’s first video: Palliative Care PSA - We’re the fire department, not the fire. (youtube.com)
• Anti-Racism in Medicine Animation Series – Dr Princess Dennar | Dennar Medical Erudition
• Plotagon

Connect with Jared:

• Jared Rubenstein (@drjrubenstein) • Instagram photos and videos
• Jared Rubenstein | LinkedIn
• Jared Rubenstein, MD (jaredrubensteinmd.com)

Upcoming workshop announcement: If you’re feeling overwhelmed or looking for practical strategies to stress less and find more balance in your day, join Dr. Bybee in her upcoming workshop (early 2025), Transform Your Day: Stress Less with 3 Simple Strategies.

It’s designed for busy professionals who want to take control of their well-being without adding more to their plates.

If you’d like to be the first to hear details about the workshop and how you can get registered, head to Dr. Bybee's newsletter, Humans Leading and sign up for updates.

Join me for more over on social media:
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Are you struggling under the weight of impossibly high standards and the constant pressure to over-deliver?

Discover the subtle art of easing up on perfectionism with Dr. Jillian Bybee, a pediatric critical care medicine physician, medical educator, and coach, as she shares life-changing insights from her own experience with burnout recovery.

Tune in to learn how giving just 1% less effort in non-priority areas can help you break free from the cycle of overworking and reclaim much-needed time for rest and recovery.

This short episode delivers 3 actionable strategies for getting started in your own life today.

Join me for more over on social media:
Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)
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Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
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Threads: @LifeandPICU

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On this episode, host Dr. Jillian and guest Chris Anselmo discuss the importance and difficulty of asking for and accepting help.

Chris Anselmo is a writer whose life was changed by a rare disease diagnosis in his 20’s. He writes the publication Hello Adversity which grew out of his own lived experience. In it, he shares personal stories and lessons learned that are applicable to all of us because we all experience adversity.

In this conversation, you'll hear:

• How Chris uses writing to process his experience and connect with and help other people
• How to ask for help
• The barriers that keep us from asking for help, including how we act as barriers to ourselves
• How asking for help builds trust and opens the door for others to share their own struggles with us

Where to find Chris:

• Hello, Adversity
• LinkedIn

Other things mentioned in this episode:

• Hype Yourself by Lucy Werner

Join me for more over on social media:
Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)
LinkedIn: Jillian Bybee, MD | LinkedIn
Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
Instagram: Jillian Bybee, MD (@lifeandpicu)
X: Jillian Bybee, MD (she/her) (@LifeandPICU) / X
Threads: @LifeandPICU

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Today, Dr. Bybee chats with Jane Galloway, a firm believer in making the most of life and not saving things like our best stationary for the “perfect occasion.”

Jane is the Founder and Director of Quiet the Hive, working to help women identify a life they love and arm them with the toolkit and confidence to go get it.

Through her work as an award winning coach, speaker and facilitator, she helps women to play bigger, make brave choices and step into their potential so that they live a life they love with a sense of purpose and fulfillment.

Jane is a lover of costume jewellery, a recovering runner, thinks that chocolate and peanut butter absolutely go together, a stationery addict and would always rather be by the sea (preferably bobbing). She is a Mum to two hilarious boys and lives near a wood in Surrey, England.

In this episode they discuss:

• The difference between “what we do” and “who we are”
• The benefits of gratitude and gratitude journaling for you and other people
• Jane’s own experience with her gratitude practice and how it helps in the hardest times
• The beauty of Glimmers
• The Three Good Things practice
• How to start to recover when you have mental health struggles
• Imposter syndrome and quieting your inner critic- including why you should give yours a name
• The epiphany Jane had at 40
• The joy of finding your why

Where to find Jane:

• Instagram
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Website
• Listen to the Podcast
• Join a Your Life Less Ordinary Weekender

Things mentioned in this episode:

1. Hype Yourself | Lucy Werner | Substack
2. Drs Rich and Lisa Orbe-Austin
3. Three Good Things
4. How to feel better when you feel exhausted or burned out
5. Dr. Bybee on Jane’s Podcast

Join me for more over on social media:
Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)
LinkedIn: Jillian Bybee, MD | LinkedIn
Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
Instagram: Jillian Bybee, MD (@lifeandpicu)
X: Jillian Bybee, MD (she/her) (@LifeandPICU) / X
Threads: @LifeandPICU

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In this episode, Dr. Bybee talks to Dr. Amna Shabbir, a fellow Substack writer, physician, and coach.

**As a content warning, there is a brief mention of suicide and depression in this episode. If you are struggling with your own mental health, you can always reach the national suicide and crisis line by calling or texting 988.**

Episode details: They discuss...

• The importance of having supportive people in your life while in medical training and the loneliness of being an early career physician
• Dr. Shabbir’s experience with burnout as an early career physician including how she finally recognized that she was struggling
• The importance of pausing to recognize that our time on this earth is finite and the need to ask ourselves what we really want to be doing with our time
• The link between imposter syndrome and overwork
• The importance of slowing down
• The “arrival fallacy”
• The both/and of individual and systemic change
• How to begin to recover from burnout
• The importance of asking for and accepting help
• The crisis of physician suicide and how this impacts the general public
• The importance of self-compassion
• ...Much more!

Things mentioned in this episode:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Quotes by Sean Covey | Goodreads

Dr. Erinn Weisman’s Podcast | Burntout to Badass

The arrival fallacy: “Happiness is not waiting for the future you”

Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline - Call. Text. Chat. (988lifeline.org)

The Physician Support Line

Where to find Dr. Shabbir

Instagram: Amna Shabbir, MD, NBC-HWC, CPC-Coach (@dr.amnashabbir)

LinkedIn: Amna Shabbir, MD, NBC-HWC, CPC | LinkedIn

Early Career Physicians Institute: Early Career Physicians Institute

Substack: Early Career Physician Wellness | Amna Shabbir, MD, NBC-HWC, CPC

Join me for more over on social media:
Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)
LinkedIn: Jillian Bybee, MD | LinkedIn
Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
Instagram: Jillian Bybee, MD (@lifeandpicu)
X: Jillian Bybee, MD (she/her) (@LifeandPICU) / X
Threads: @LifeandPICU

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On this episode, Jillian talks to mindset trainer and fellow Substacker Caroline Ferguson.

They cover a lot of ground in their chat including:

• Self-Awareness, which Caroline describes as the ability to “know ourselves deeply and being able to hear what’s going on with our self-talk"
• The number of thoughts we experience each day (including the stories we tell ourselves!) and why it’s important to recognize them
• The importance of tuning into your thoughts and how it’s like tuning into your “inner radio
• The “world’s most important question” to ask yourself as you’re learning to navigate tuning into your thoughts and feelings
• Carolines PACES tool
• The importance of tuning in when you’re feeling good (not just when you’re feeling bad)
• How the stories we tell ourselves lead to our emotions
• How to tune into what you’re feeling in order to make a conscious choice about what to do next
• Emotions as data
• The importance of responding instead of reacting
• Caroline’s “emotional ladder” metaphor
• “When we have a ‘must’ we have an ‘or else’”
• Messages around self-worth

Where to find Caroline:

• Substack: Something More

You can find out more about coaching with me at my website: Jillian Bybee, MD- Physician Leader, Coach, Speaker (jillianbybeemd.com)

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Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
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Threads: @LifeandPICU

If you’re ready to kickstart your journey (or your team's journey) to a less stressed life…then I’m ready to help you! You can get in touch about 1:1 coaching or inviting me to facilitate a workshop for your group, get in touch via my website.

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In this episode, Dr. Bybee speaks with Dr. Jenna Miller, a fellow pediatric critical care medicine physician and advocate.

In their conversation, Dr. Miller shares a bit about her own experience with infertility and how this led to her writing a book on the topic. Her book, Navigating Infertility as a Woman in Medicine, is a vital resource for individuals, leaders, and organizations. As Dr. Miller discusses in the episode, infertility is not just a "women's issue."

This episode also discusses:

• The scope of infertility in the general population and in medicine
• A refresher on the biology of fertility
• The ongoing grief of experiencing infertility and undergoing infertility treatment
• The guilt and shame that one can experience as a result of experiencing infertility and the importance of seeking support.

Article mentioned in this episode: Dr. Lauren Rissman: Good Enough | Humanities | JAMA | JAMA Network

Where to find Dr. Miller:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenna-miller-602703161/

X: Jenna Miller, MD (@JennaMillerKC) / X

Website: Dr. Jenna Miller, MD | Pediatric Critical Care Physician (jennamillermd.com)

Get her amazing book here: Navigating Your Fertility as a Woman in Medicine by Jenna Miller, MD | BookBaby Bookshop

Join me for more over on social media:
Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)
LinkedIn: Jillian Bybee, MD | LinkedIn
Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
Instagram: Jillian Bybee, MD (@lifeandpicu)
X: Jillian Bybee, MD (she/her) (@LifeandPICU) / X
Threads: @LifeandPICU

If you’re ready to kickstart your journey (or your team's journey) to a less stressed life…then I’m ready to help you! You can get in touch about 1:1 coaching or inviting me to facilitate a workshop for your group, get in touch via my website.