We recently connected with Leah Cordovez and have shared our conversation below.

Leah, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

Risks have defined my life.
Two big risks have been inflection points in my life, taking the chance on myself twice has catapulted my life into this wonderful place where my vocation feeds my love for life.
I made a big decision to move from the US back to my home country of Panama not having the security of housing or steady income to attend Medical School. After 6 years of uncertainty, frustration and very little savings, that risk paid off and I became the doctor I had dreamt of becoming my entire life. It required a tremendous amount of patience and trust that eventually it would all turn out, sometimes more that I thought I could handle.
Fifteen years later, while at my job as an attending in Internal medicine, I faced a situation where I was forced to make a decision which would change the course of my career. I will never forget the day I looked one of my dearest patients in the eyes and told him that the next time he got that sick I wanted to see him immediately. His response was, “I made this appointment THREE WEEKS AGO” and i realized how little ability I had as a doctor in a large system to provide the level of attention that I felt was appropriate. I couldn’t resist trying to find the solution, status quo was not an option.
I decided to go to business school and I took the big risk starting my own practice. I bet on myself that delivering gentle, kind and personalized care centered around the patient rather than the system would allow me to practice the kind of medicine I always imagined.
I am happy and fulfilled. I spend my days taking great care of great people and I truly love my patients and what I do.

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

As a triple board-certified physician in the Nashville area, I provide concierge primary care centered on whole person health. We work to carefully curate therapies and lifestyle interventions that meet the patient’s specific needs and tailor treatments to their particular issues, taking into consideration the things that fit their lifestyles. We make it easy for people to foster their own good health.
We are particularly proud of how meaningfully we cultivate our relationships; we take the health of our patients seriously. We take pride in providing nimble care to those patients with time-sensitive needs and solving health issues for our patients even when they are traveling by leveraging technologies that allow visual and audio exams.

What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?

Every single person is important. Every relationship, every interaction matters. It has been said that some relationships are for a reason, some are for a season, and some are for a lifetime. Being open to authentic and unselfish human interactions is the warmth that incubates what that relationship will be. Allowing relationships to evolve organically provide the backbone to your business. It is a good relationship that may influence or determine the next great deal or the next great failure. It’s not enough to have a great business if we are not actively seeking to be good human beings.
It is on the basis of good relationships that our practice has grown and it is because of these that we thrive.

How do you keep your team’s morale high?

In order to manage a team and maintain high morale both in the workplace and at home, it’s very important to understand how each of us is motivated and what how we each define self-realization and success. Each person should be treated as an individual. Work goals and productivity should be designed to match the individual’s motivation. By the same token, each person should have their feedback delivered in a way in which they would best receive it. All of this requires the investment of time to get to know your key people on a truly human level. Once numbers get so large that this is impossible to handle one-to-one, then this very important aspect is delivered by tiers, but it should never be presumed that we will all interpret or respond the same to a given situation.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.bewellihp.com
• Instagram: @cordovezmd
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-cordovez-md-facp-mmhc-aboim-a7b32034/