Life After Medicine: How To Change Careers, Beat Burnout & Find Your Purpose For Doctors

By Chelsea Turgeon

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Are you exhausted by the daily grind of the healthcare system and questioning if your career in medicine is truly the right path for you?

This show helps millennial health professionals leave the system, find their purpose, and turn it into their paycheck.

Listen to discover tangible methods to identify your true purpose. Hear success stories of other health professionals who have pivoted- to gain the inspiration and motivation needed to take your first steps. Join a community of like-minded health professionals seeking something more. 

Hosted by Chelsea Turgeon, an MD who left her OBGYN residency in 2019 and has built an online business generating over $300,000 while living and working in 40+ countries. 

Every Tuesday, Chelsea shares actionable steps and insights to help health professionals navigate career transitions and avoid burnout.
 
Every Thursday, tune in for “pivot profiles,” bite-sized interviews of health professionals making the transition and turning their purpose into their paycheck.

If you’re ready to find a fulfilling career that doesn’t drain you, start by listening to the fan-favorite audio series, starting at Season 2, Episode 7: Let’s Diagnose Your Career Unhappiness.



Episode Date
Does Your Medical Career Lack Purpose? Here’s Why Most Doctors Feel Lost and How to Fix It.
Dec 19, 2024
Why Rediscovering Your Purpose Is The Missing Step To Overcoming Burnout & Thriving In A New Career
Dec 17, 2024
[Permission to Pivot] How Being Selfless Is Killing Your Career Change & Keeping You Stuck In Burnout
Dec 12, 2024
Why Doctors Feel Unfulfilled Even After Checking All the Boxes—Is a Career Change the Solution?
Dec 10, 2024
How to Effortlessly Make the Right Career Change Decision as a Doctor—Without the Mind Drama
Dec 03, 2024
[Permission to Pivot] How to Make a Career Change Even When It Disappoints Others
Nov 28, 2024
How To Stop Frantically Questioning Your Medical Career & Choose Your Perfect Career Path
Nov 26, 2024
[Permission to Pivot] How Leaning on Others Can Help You Overcome Burnout and Find Purpose
Nov 21, 2024
5 Questions You NEED To Ask Yourself Before Quitting Your Medical Career
Nov 19, 2024
[Permission to Pivot] Feeling Trapped in Medicine? Here's the Key to Breaking Free from Burnout And Making a Career Change.
Nov 14, 2024
[Permission to Pivot] The Myth of Realistic Thinking and Why Doctors Need to Dream BIG for their Career Change.
Nov 14, 2024
5 Common Traps Keeping Burnt-Out Doctors Stuck at a Career Crossroads
Nov 12, 2024
[🎙5Days to Career Clarity] How to Figure out What’s Next: The Roadmap For Doctors Facing Career Burnout.
Nov 11, 2024
[🎙5Days to Career Clarity] Overthinking Your Career Change? How to Stop Planning and Start Doing
Nov 10, 2024
[🎙5Days to Career Clarity] What’s Really Keeping Doctors Stuck? It’s Not What You Think
Nov 09, 2024
[🎙5Days to Career Clarity] The Inner Work Formula for a Successful Career Change
Nov 08, 2024
[🎙5Days to Career Clarity] Why Most Doctors Fail to Find Career Direction: Be the 2% Who Succeed
Nov 05, 2024
[🎙5Days to Career Clarity] The KEY Step to Career Clarity That Most Doctors Are Skipping
Nov 05, 2024
What It Really Takes for Doctors to Make a Career Change and Unlock Financial Freedom
Nov 01, 2024
How to Find Clarity in Career Change When You’re Completely Overwhelmed
Oct 29, 2024
Doctors who want to become entrepreneurs MUST to follow this advice (even though you’ll hate it)
Oct 24, 2024
What if I Leave Clinical Medicine and Regret it? How to deal with making the WRONG choice in your career change
Oct 22, 2024
How Doctors Can Create Limitless Opportunities Outside of Their Medical Career
Oct 17, 2024
Feeling LOST in your Career Change? My #1 secret to finding the work you were MEANT to do!
Oct 15, 2024
Is this sneaky habit sabotaging you from making a career change? This is what keeps doctors STUCK.
Oct 10, 2024
5 Reasons Doctors Dread Going Into Work and What You Can Do To Overcome It
Oct 08, 2024
How the Healthcare System is Keeping Doctors Stuck in Burnout and Limiting True Impact
Oct 03, 2024
10 of the WORST things to do If You Want To Make a Career Change
Oct 01, 2024
Thinking about leaving clinical medicine? Here’s What NO ONE Tells You about making a career change- 6 surprising truths.
Sep 24, 2024
How to Process the Unexpected Emotions of Career Change and Find Fulfilling Ways to Use Your Medical Training
Sep 19, 2024
Burned Out and Stuck? 3 Foolproof Ways to Quit Your Job BEFORE Figuring Out Your Career Change
Sep 17, 2024
Feeling stuck in your career change and unsure of your next step? Try this BRAINSTORM 💡
Sep 10, 2024
Freedom and Flexibility are CLOSER than you think! The key to making a career change that finally sets you free
Sep 05, 2024
What can I do with my medical training if I’m not a doctor? The secret to figuring out your options and making a career change.
Sep 03, 2024
Is Being a Doctor Really Your Calling? Here’s How to Find Out
Aug 27, 2024
Disillusioned with the Healthcare System? Here’s how to design a flexible and fulfilling career after burnout without throwing away your medical training
Aug 23, 2024
The unorthodox but wildly effective question doctors MUST ask when making a career change and finding their purpose
Aug 21, 2024
How to safely make a career change when you are too burned out to figure out what’s next
Aug 15, 2024
Should I Change Careers? 6 Ways to KNOW You are Making the RIGHT Decision
Aug 13, 2024
5 Signs It's Time For a Career Change
Aug 08, 2024
The Dark Side of Being a Doctor: Breaking the Silence on a Toxic Healthcare System
Aug 01, 2024
Burned Out Doctor Seeking a Career Change? Avoid These 5 Common Mistakes
Jul 26, 2024
3 Ways to PROUDLY Tell People You Quit Your Medical Career and Embrace a Career Change
Jul 19, 2024
The SIMPLE trick to making the right decision in your career change
Jul 11, 2024
Why Guilt is a SCAM and How Doctors Can STOP Feeling Bad About Making a Career Change
Jul 02, 2024
What you NEED to know before you pursue a Career Change in Pharma with Dr. Nerissa Kreher
Jun 21, 2024
The Key to Removing Those Golden Handcuffs: Navigating a Career Change for Doctors
Jun 18, 2024
It will NEVER be the “Right Time” to Make a Career Change, so Here's What You Must Do.
Jun 14, 2024
The Three Types of Clarity You ALREADY Have—Even If You’re Burned Out and Unsure About Your Career Change
May 31, 2024
Will I Ever Be Happy in My Career Change?
May 28, 2024
Do You Need to Re-Evaluate Your Financial Priorities? Navigating the Finances of Career Change with Ellyce Fulmore
May 24, 2024
How to End the Mental Gymnastics of Planning a Career Change and Clearly Identify Your Next Steps
May 21, 2024
Here’s What You Must STOP Googling if You Want to Make a Career Change and Recover From Burnout
May 14, 2024
Stop Feeling Drained: 5 Minute Energy Mastery Techniques for Doctors Facing Burnout
May 09, 2024
Making the “Wrong Choice” in Your Career Change Doesn’t Have to Cost You Time or Money
May 07, 2024
The Shift You Must Make to Overcome Your Fear of Career Change and Find Purpose
Apr 30, 2024
Finding Purpose and Embracing Uncertainty on the Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
Apr 25, 2024
I Can’t Just Quit My Medical Career: Managing Responsibilities While Navigating a Career Change
Apr 23, 2024
How to use your medical training on YOUR own terms without the burnout with Dr. Gay Purcell
Apr 19, 2024
The Dangers of Being TOO Independent in Your Medical Career and How It Can Lead to Burnout
Apr 16, 2024
Escape Burnout: Your Path to a Fulfilling Career Beyond Medicine with Dr. Latifat Akintade
Apr 11, 2024
Is Your Doctor Paycheck Worth the Burnout?
Apr 09, 2024
From Doctor to Sober Living: Escaping Burnout and Finding Purpose
Apr 04, 2024
I Love My Job, But the Burnout is Killing Me: A Doctor's Guide to Career Change
Apr 02, 2024
Escape the Doctor Burnout Trap: Find Your Passion, Keep the Paycheck with Katarina Astrup
Mar 28, 2024
How I quit medical training with $120,000 in student loans
Mar 26, 2024
What to Do When Your Medical Career Isn't What You Thought It Would Be with Dr. Taylor Nichols
Mar 21, 2024
You DON’T need another degree for a career change. Here’s why!
Mar 19, 2024
Leaving the Healthcare System Even When It Costs You Everything: A Career Change Story with Dr. Katie Deming
Mar 14, 2024
Three Sneaky Reasons Doctors Struggle to Figure Out Their Career Direction: Near Enemies, Far Enemies, and Their Antidotes
Mar 06, 2024
The Paradoxical Approach to Lasting Burnout Recovery with Dr. Bryce Bowers
Feb 29, 2024
Bonus: Soooo…. What’s the diagnosis for your burnout?
Feb 23, 2024
Day 8: Why Do You Feel Burned Out Despite Helping People?
Feb 22, 2024
Day 7: What Happens When Your Medical Career Doesn't Align With Your Strengths: Overcoming Physician Burnout
Feb 21, 2024
Day 6: Is Your Medical Career Leading to Burnout?
Feb 20, 2024
Day 5: The Three Requirements for a Fulfilling Career Change for Doctors Facing Burnout
Feb 19, 2024
Day 4: Career Change Strategies for Doctors Facing Burnout that Actually Works
Feb 18, 2024
Day 3: What if we STOPPED blaming the healthcare system for Physician Burnout?
Feb 17, 2024
Day 2: Is it burnout causing me to hate being a doctor?
Feb 16, 2024
Let's Diagnose Your Career Unhappiness - Day 1: Introducing the 8 part FREE audio course for Career Change and Burnout
Feb 15, 2024
Career Change and Transitioning from Medical Career to Entrepreneurship with Dr. Ali Novitzky
Feb 08, 2024
Making a Career Change Is Ridiculously Simple When You Learn This Technique
Feb 01, 2024
The Myth of Sacrifice and the Rise of the Part-Time, Well-Rounded Doctor: Career Change and Finding Purpose with Dr. Kristine Goins
Jan 23, 2024
Official Trailer: Life After Medicine with Chelsea Turgeon
Jan 20, 2024
3 actions to Jumpstart Your Career Change So You can STOP feeling trapped in the wrong career.
Jan 18, 2024
5 Reasons Doctors Feel TRAPPED in their Medical Career (and how to fix them!)
Jan 11, 2024
Burnout to Breakthrough: 7 Lessons from My Nomad Cruise Journey
Dec 24, 2023
The Cause of Burnout No One Talks About
Nov 30, 2023
5 Things To Do BEFORE Quitting Your Job for a Career Change with Dr. Sonia Ashok
Nov 23, 2023
What to Do When You’re Profoundly Unhappy in Your Medical Career
Nov 16, 2023
The HUGE Payoff in Running Towards a Career Change with Dr. Chris Loo
Nov 09, 2023
Why Taking a Break is Essential for Doctors to Prevent Burnout
Nov 03, 2023
Breaking the cycle of anxiety to relieve burnout
Oct 26, 2023
STOP Normalizing Sleep Deprivation: A Real Conversation about Clinician Burnout and Finding Purpose with Dr. Laura Vater
Oct 19, 2023
The 3 MOST CRUCIAL steps to take when something feels off in your medical career
Oct 11, 2023
How to Create an Action Plan to Minimize Uncertainty During a Career Change for Doctors
Oct 05, 2023
Are You a Burned Out Doctor Dreaming of a Career Change? What to do when your career feels all wrong?
Sep 29, 2023
3 Truths About “Realistic Goals” for Career Change That Nobody Told You
Sep 21, 2023
How to STOP Spinning your Wheels and Finally Figure When is the Right Time for a Career Change
Sep 14, 2023
3 Beliefs Keeping Doctors Trapped in The Wrong Career
Sep 07, 2023
The Key to Career Change and Finding Purpose for a Financially Healthy Future with Colleen Patel
Aug 31, 2023
Embracing Career Change: How Doctors Can Learn From Their "Mistakes" and Find Purpose
Aug 24, 2023
Slowing Down and Pivoting to a Career Change in Medical Writing with Dr. Mandy Armitage
Aug 17, 2023
If You’re Burnt Out, Here’s The Career Change Lifeline You’ve Been Waiting For
Aug 10, 2023
How to Efficiently Create More Fulfilling Patient Relationships and Avoid Burnout with Dr. Bradley Block
Aug 03, 2023
All The Weird Ways I Made Money Before My Career Change Took Off
Jul 27, 2023
Is it Possible to be a Doctor AND a Human with Dr. Sapna Shah-Haque
Jul 20, 2023
Take Control of Your Time to Avoid Burnout and Stop Being a Time Victim
Jul 13, 2023
Permission to Follow Your Joy: A Guide for Doctors Facing Career Change (I Promise It’s Not Selfish!)
Jul 11, 2023
The Power of Self-Trust: Forging Your Path to Fulfillment and Career Change
Jul 06, 2023
Breaking Free from Burnout: Finding Purpose and Career Change with Dr. Sherita Gaskins-Tillet
Jun 29, 2023
Permission to Start Over After Burnout: How to Overcome Fear and Embrace Your Authentic Career Path
Jun 22, 2023
Prioritizing Yourself: Permission to Disappoint Others in Your Career Change
Jun 08, 2023
How Human Design Can Help Doctors Transition from Burnout to a Purposeful Online Career with Eden Carpenter
Jun 02, 2023
How to Navigate a Career Change When You’re Burned Out....Start Here
May 26, 2023
How to Veto Your Inner Critic and Embrace a Career Change with Athena White
May 18, 2023
Celebrating 100 Episodes of Navigating Career Change and Finding Purpose Beyond Burnout
May 11, 2023
How I Overcame Burnout: The HARDEST Parts of My Career Change After Medicine
May 04, 2023
Breaking the Silence on Burnout: How to Speak Up When You Are NOT Okay with Dr. Natasha Holmes
Apr 27, 2023
How to Give Yourself Permission to Pursue a Career Change and Find Your Purpose
Apr 20, 2023
Finding Purpose and Practicing Medicine on Your Own Terms with Dr. Amie Skilton
Apr 13, 2023
How to Recognize When It’s Time for a Career Change: Why I’m Not a Full-Time Digital Nomad Anymore
Apr 06, 2023
The Simple Tool for Reclaiming Your Power After Burnout with Dr. Sunny Smith
Mar 30, 2023
Enough is a Decision: Overcoming Perfectionism and Physician Burnout with Dr. Kara Pepper
Mar 22, 2023
How I Overcame Burnout: 3 Pivotal Moments in My Career Change Journey
Mar 14, 2023
How to STOP Letting Burnout Run Your Life with Dr. Manuela Rodrigues
Mar 09, 2023
How to Navigate a Career Change Without Feeling Like You Are Jumping Off a Cliff
Mar 04, 2023
When You've Checked All the Boxes but Still Feel Burned Out
Mar 03, 2023
Longing for a Career Change: Feeling Guilty About Seeking More Than Just a Medical Career
Mar 02, 2023
Understanding Career Burnout: What it Means When You’re Unhappy in Your Medical Career
Mar 01, 2023
What's My Identity if I'm Not a Doctor?
Feb 22, 2023
The Missing Piece to Finding Purpose Beyond Burnout
Feb 16, 2023
How to Beat Burnout and Find Your Purpose When Your Self-Care Routine Isn’t Cutting It with Dr. Shivani Barto
Feb 09, 2023
Beat Doctor Burnout By Fill Your Own Cup First with Dr. Shivani Barto
Feb 03, 2023
From Bedside Nurse to Vibrant Chef: A Career Change Journey with Heather Flowers
Jan 25, 2023
How to Overcome Fear of the Unknown During a Career Change for Burned-Out Doctors
Jan 19, 2023
How to Move from Confusion to Clarity in Your Career Change and Find Your Purpose
Jan 13, 2023
How to Prepare for a Career Change: 5 Essential Steps Before Quitting Your Job with Dr. Sonia Ashok
Jan 10, 2023
What Most Doctors Get Wrong During a Career Change
Jan 05, 2023
How Mental Health Impacts Physician Burnout
Jan 01, 2023
How to Turn a "Pipe Dream" into a Real Career Change
Dec 23, 2022
Overcoming Physician Burnout and Reclaiming Wholeness with Halie Devlin
Dec 18, 2022
How to Speak Up For Yourself at Work and Avoid Burnout with Dr. Amanda Brisebois
Dec 12, 2022
How Mindset Monsters Keeps Doctors from Making a Career Change and Finding Purpose
Dec 04, 2022
How to Make an Unattainable Career Change Possible
Nov 23, 2022
How to Let Go of the Shoulds and Navigate a Career Change to Find Your Purpose
Nov 20, 2022
How to Navigate Career Change When You’re Burned Out and Unhappy at Work
Nov 14, 2022
Leveraging Telemedicine to Recover From Burnout with Dr. Cherisa Sandrow
Nov 07, 2022
Why You HAVE to Slow Down and Stop Living on Autopilot to Avoid Burnout with Dr. Cindy Tsai
Nov 01, 2022
How to Redefine Your Medical Career and Find Purpose on Your Own Terms with Dr. Keeyana Lock
Oct 27, 2022
What you Need to Burnout Proof Your Career
Oct 24, 2022
Career Change From Robotic Healthcare System Worker to Becoming a True Healer with Altynay Abdirakhmanova
Oct 13, 2022
The Secret to Finding a Career Change You'll LOVE!
Oct 06, 2022
Finding Purpose and Learning to Live for Yourself as an Asian American with Toni Liu
Oct 03, 2022
Why Embracing Yourself is Crucial for a Successful Career Change and Finding Purpose Beyond Burnout
Sep 28, 2022
Why Inner Work is Essential for a Career Change with Julie Stroup
Sep 26, 2022
How Understanding Your Type Can Aid in Career Change with Erika Davey
Sep 18, 2022
Here’s Why You Feel So Isolated (and How a Career Change Can Help You Beat Burnout)
Sep 12, 2022
Finding the Courage for a Career Change with No Guarantees
Sep 05, 2022
Following Your Curiosity for a Fulfilling Career Change with Dr. John Jurica
Aug 29, 2022
The Cause of Burnout No One Talks About
Aug 22, 2022
Let’s STOP Normalizing Burnout and Toxicity in Healthcare System with Diana Page
Aug 15, 2022
How to Avoid the 3 WORST Mistakes When Facing Burnout in Your Medical Career
Aug 07, 2022
From Doctor to Entrepreneur: Ignite Your Passion and Purpose with Dr. Marjorie Stiegler
Aug 01, 2022
How the Healthcare System Uses Guilt to Manipulate Doctors and Fuel Burnout
Jul 25, 2022
Thriving in a Broken Healthcare System and Reclaim Your Confidence to Prevent Burnout with Dr. Jimmy Turner
Jul 18, 2022
My Exact Framework for a Career Change and Finding Your Purpose
Jul 14, 2022
Creating a Career Outside the Box and Beat Burnout with “OTs Gone Rogue”
Jul 10, 2022
How to AVOID Making the WRONG Career Decision when Facing Burnout
Jul 03, 2022
Burned Out Doctor Finds Healing Through Ayurveda
Jun 26, 2022
Be Brave Enough to Forge Your Own Path: How a Career Change Can Help You Find Your Purpose with #1 Female Travel Blogger Kristin Addis
Jun 19, 2022
When YOU Become The Patient: Important Life Update About My Recent Accident
Jun 13, 2022
How Career Change Can Help You Find Your Purpose
May 30, 2022
Mindset Shifts Doctors Must Make to Prevent Burnout with Dr. Megan Melo
May 22, 2022
3 Types of Overwhelm You May Experience When Making a Career Change (and how to overcome them)
May 15, 2022
Beating Burnout Living as a Healthcare Hero with Dr. Emily Silverman
May 08, 2022
Understanding the Root Cause of Your Burnout to Move Forward with Dr. Andrew Tisser
May 01, 2022
Stop Caring What Your Medical Career is 'Supposed to' Look Like and Find Your Purpose with Karen Calcaño
Apr 24, 2022
How to Make a Career Change for LESS Hustle and MORE Happiness
Apr 17, 2022
Retooling Yourself and Exploring Non Clinical Jobs for Physicians with Dr. Una
Apr 10, 2022
Here's How to STOP Feeling Indecisive About Your Career Change
Apr 03, 2022
How Ignoring and Suppressing Your Desires Contributes to Burnout
Mar 30, 2022
The Truth About Burnout and Workaholism with Dr. Errin Weisman
Mar 28, 2022
5 Steps to a Career Change and Finding Your Purpose
Mar 20, 2022
How to Set Healthy Boundaries for Burned Out Doctors with Dr. Maryna Mammoliti
Mar 13, 2022
How to Prepare for a Career Change
Mar 09, 2022
Designing a Flexible Career Change to Fit Your Lifestyle with Dr. Cherisa Sandrow
Feb 27, 2022
Why Finances Play A Role in Contributing to Burnout with Dr. Jessica Louie
Feb 20, 2022
5 Reasons You Can't Find a Career Change That Aligns with Your Purpose
Feb 13, 2022
How Not Doing Fulfilling Work Contributes to Physician Burnout and Stifles Career Change
Feb 07, 2022
What it Really Takes to Overcome Physician Burnout and Find Your Purpose with Dr. Matthea Rentea
Jan 30, 2022
How to Cultivate a Beginner's Mindset for a Career Change: Embracing Imperfection While Finding Your Purpose with Dr. Kricia Palmer
Jan 23, 2022
When the Burnout Is Too Much: A Guide for Doctors Seeking a Career Change and Finding Purpose
Jan 16, 2022
Creating a Balanced Life: A Guide to Career Change and Finding Purpose for Doctors with Dr. Dawn Baker
Jan 09, 2022
A Radically Different Approach to New Year's Resolutions for Beating Burnout
Jan 03, 2022
How to Take Responsibility for Your Burnout Recovery and Find Your Purpose with Dr. Shola Ezekoli
Dec 26, 2021
How to Avoid Burnout and Find Purpose This Holiday Season for Doctors
Dec 19, 2021
Surrendering to Your Career Change Journey with Dr. Jill Wener
Dec 12, 2021
How Productivity Impacts Career Change and Burnout for Doctors
Nov 28, 2021
Here's Why You Can't Stop Working
Nov 21, 2021
One Key Shift Doctors MUST make to Beat Burnout in their Medical Career
Nov 15, 2021
5 Questions Doctors Should Ask BEFORE Making a Career Change
Nov 07, 2021
The REAL secret to Making a Career Change and Finding Your Purpose with Dr. Laura Brenner
Nov 01, 2021
How Suppressed Emotions Can Cause Burnout in Doctors: with Dr. Sogol Pahlavan,
Oct 25, 2021
Finding Purpose within your Burnout with Dr. Brent Jackson
Oct 18, 2021
Making a Career Change Won't FIX your Burnout: Here's What WILL!
Oct 11, 2021
The Secret to Preventing Burnout in Your Medical Career with Kylee Nelson
Oct 04, 2021
Why Highly Sensitive Doctors Burnout in the Healthcare System with Becky Corbett
Sep 27, 2021
How Doctors Can Creatively Design Nonclinical Jobs that Are the PERFECT Fit with Dr. Rachel Mandel
Sep 20, 2021
How Doctors Can Decide: Is it Just Burnout or Do You Truly Hate Your Job?
Sep 13, 2021
Making a Career Change to Honor the Calling of Your Soul After Medicine with Dr. Chelsea Gonzalez
Sep 06, 2021
Making a Career Change and Finding Your Purpose One Step at a Time with Dr. Shivani Barto
Aug 30, 2021
The UGLY truth of burnout in the healthcare system with Dr. Jessica Phillips
Aug 23, 2021
Doctors SHOULDN'T Change Careers Until Doing THIS
Aug 16, 2021
How to Quit Your Medical Career and Achieve Financial Freedom for Doctors with Dr. Christopher Lo
Aug 02, 2021
My Story of Burnout and Career Change: finding purpose after my medical career
Jul 28, 2021