We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Maureen Gibbons a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Maureen, thanks for joining us today. Some of the most interesting parts of our journey emerge from areas where we believe something that most people in our industry do not – do you have something like that?

I have practiced emergency medicine for well over a decade and loved it. Before and during medical school, I enjoyed my career as an athletic trainer. The thread tying all of my careers together is my coaching and mentoring. As a serial entrepreneur, I always had the urge to make things better, find solutions. Toward the end of my traditional medical career, however, my beliefs shifted.

One of my mentors in EM told me “the only way to stay on the ground in the ER is to go part time”. This statement became the anchor for my career shift and a foundation for my coaching. We NEED physicians and other high level professionals on the ground, but we don’t need exhausted, depressed burned out ones. We need healthy, thriving humans who intentionally cultivate amazing lives so that energy goes back into our patient and client care.

About a year after I began to truly embrace the shift, I was walking with a dear friend who is still a full time emergency medicine physician. We were in a rather affluent coastal neighborhood and talking about who could afford such homes. She turned and exasperatedly stated “but I can’t WORK any harder!”. She thought that as a high earning speciality she would finally “arrive” to the place she could have her dream home. I was floored and replied “do you think shift work gets you a home like this?” and she did. Years later she is finally starting to understand the toll of the grind, and that the return is not what she thought it would be.

Years later, she is beginning to shift her thinking. If we embrace the truth that working harder does not breed the impact or results we crave, we will gather the courage to get help from those who’ve moved beyond the traditional.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

As a success coach, I use my experience and education to help physicians and other high level professionals achieve health and career transformation. For me, health was the last piece of the puzzle to successfully integrate, but for my clients I want that to be the first. I have a widely accessible community in that regard, as well as an elite coaching space. I do more than move professionals beyond burnout. I am a copilot on their journey to creating a truly intentional, fulfilling life. You can find out more at DrMoeCoaching.com .

What else should we know about how you took your side hustle and scaled it up into what it is today?

My first “side hustle” to turn into my full time job was born of service. I started a health transformation journey of my own and wanted to share my experience to help others. I was in social groups and sites helping the members navigate their own similar paths. People started asking me “can you be my doctor”? And for the first time in my medical career I could say yes! I’d been asked that in the ER but I was only emergency medicine at the time, so it wasn’t possible or desirable to care for people outside of that environment.

As my service to my lifestyle medicine patients grew, my patient base grew as well and I had to hire help to take care of them well. I still am actively involved in my AMS practice and we have a strong sense of community with weekly “happy hour” meetings to get together and learn. Where else can you have three to five of your providers to have an evening chat?

Are there any books, videos or other content that you feel have meaningfully impacted your thinking?

I have a few trusted mentors and books that have been critical on my journey.

My top three are

1. Dan Martell’s Buy Back Your Time
2. Austin Netzley’s From 6 to 7 Figures and
3. The Purpose Factor by Brian and Gabrielle Bosché

Dan Martell’s prolific online presence is an inspiration and instruction book to being successful. There is no such thing as an overnight success, but with consistent work and focus, we can all achieve the lives and impact to make a difference.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://drmoecoaching.com/
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• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doctormoe/
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• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@watchdrmoe
• Other: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drmoegibbons

  Apple Podcast: DrMoePodcast.com (is also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dr-moe-show-health-is-everything/id1773144986 )