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I used to think medicine was the safe career. Now 44% of physicians say they've thought about leaving it.That's from a J...
11/02/2026

I used to think medicine was the safe career. Now 44% of physicians say they've thought about leaving it.

That's from a July survey of more than 800 physicians. Last year it was 35%.

Turns out I was in that group years before this survey.

About five years into practice, I realized I didn't want to do it anymore. But I had student loans and a family to take care of. I was stuck.

People would say, "You're doctors, you make a lot of money."

Yes. But we have to keep doing doctor to make that money.

When nothing comes in except what you do every day, you're handcuffed to it. The size of the paycheck doesn't change that.

When money comes in from more than one place, you get choices.

Cut back.
Change how you practice.
Stay because you want to.

You don't have to leave medicine. At least release one handcuff.

PS: If your income didn't depend on you, your time, what would you do first?

10/30/2026

You don't need to become a financial expert to understand your own money.

For over 20 years, patients came to me confused by something another doctor had told them. My job was to translate.

Now I expect the same from anyone who handles my money. Here's what I ask them, and what I tell them:

(Whether you already have an adviser or you're about to choose one)

1. "How do you make your money?"
• I ask it early, and I ask it straight out.
• I want a direct answer.

2. "Explain it to me like I'm a 5th grader."
• Medicine has its lingo. So does money.
• If someone won't interpret the lingo for you, they're not the person for you.

3. "Explain the plan you have in mind and how you see it fits my plans."
• You don't have to know every detail of how your money is working
• You do need to understand the concepts and direct the people managing it

If you get a pat on the head and "don't worry, dear, I'll take care of it," find somebody who can explain it.

Having a professional manage your money is fine. Handing over your understanding of it isn't.

Nobody cares about your money more than you do.

PS: Which of these have you never asked?

8 years ago:→ I was a urologist taking night call four days a week→ I spent my days learning real estate and building a ...
10/28/2026

8 years ago:

→ I was a urologist taking night call four days a week
→ I spent my days learning real estate and building a business
→ I'd planned to leave medicine that year, and I wasn't ready

Today:

→ I quit my job in medicine in 2021
→ I host Wealth B-Hers, a podcast where women share how they changed their money stories
→ I help women build the option to stay in a job or leave it

None of it happened in one leap. It took years of early mornings, night call, and some expensive mistakes with rental houses.

What I tell everyone going into medicine, every single one of them:

Don't think it's the last thing you're ever going to do.

Me? I spent over 20 years as a urologist. I liked taking care of patients. I found the work I wanted next anyway.

That's what this page is for. It's for women who've built a career and want more say in what their money does for them. I'll share what I learned while I built my way out, and what my podcast guests teach me now.

PS: Where are you right now? Love your work, want to cut back, or already planning what's next?

10/27/2026

The best money advice I can give you before 2027:

(read this before you invest another dollar)

Stop asking, "Is this a good deal?"
Start asking, "Does this move me toward the life I said I want?"

Before I talk about returns with any woman, I ask her one question about her life:

What do you want this money to do for you?

I rarely hear "I just want the higher return."

I hear:
I want options.
I want to slow down.
I want to protect my family.
I want to stop feeling trapped.

Then I keep asking why. There are a lot of levels. When you get to the one that makes you cry, you got there.

That answer is what every investment has to serve. Skip it, and you can end up wealthy on paper and misaligned in reality.

Money without direction creates noise.

Don't start next year with a portfolio and no purpose.

PS: What do you want your money to do for you in 2027?

This was not a simple “I left my job” story.Dr. Jessica Chandler walked away from a secure physician position with the s...
10/13/2026

This was not a simple “I left my job” story.

Dr. Jessica Chandler walked away from a secure physician position with the salary, benefits, and retirement plan most people are told to protect.

But she was also looking at her real life. Her mother was getting older. Her family needed her. And the time she wanted with them was not something she could put on hold.

What do you do when the secure choice costs you something you cannot replace?

In the first Women Who Dare episode, Jessica talks about choosing presence before regret had a chance to settle in.

"Why do I have to wait 20 years to do the thing I enjoy?"Dr. Jessica Chandler asked herself that as a second-year OB-GYN...
10/11/2026

"Why do I have to wait 20 years to do the thing I enjoy?"

Dr. Jessica Chandler asked herself that as a second-year OB-GYN resident.

The usual path was to deliver babies for decades, then switch to gynecology only, right before retirement.

She didn't wait. She built a gynecology-only career from the start, a path almost no one around her was taking.

One question changed the direction of her life.

Most of us never think to ask questions about our money. We wait. We follow the one path we were taught and hope it's enough someday.

Comment QUESTIONS and I'll send you my free guide, 3 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself Before She Invests.

Dr. Jessica Chandler's dare sounds simple: she wanted to practice gynecology only. No delivering babies.Outside medicine...
10/10/2026

Dr. Jessica Chandler's dare sounds simple: she wanted to practice gynecology only. No delivering babies.

Outside medicine, that may not sound like a big deal.

Inside medicine, it was.

OB-GYNs are trained to do both. You deliver babies. You take call. You build your life around the reality that babies come when they come.

Jessica watched surgeons she admired schedule inductions the night before a surgery day, hoping they could slip away to deliver a baby between operations.

Most doctors who stop delivering babies make that switch 20 or 25 years in, close to retirement.

Jessica knew in her second year of residency. She loved surgery. She loved gynecology. She didn't want to build her life around labor and delivery.

But she wasn't seeing anyone do what she wanted to do.

So she asked herself:

"Why do I have to wait 20 years to do the thing that I enjoy?"

Her dare wasn't loud or reckless. It was deliberate.

She finished her OB-GYN residency. She went after a gynecologic surgery fellowship. She made a deal with her program director to meet her obstetrics requirements. Then she built a practice around the work she actually wanted to do.

The "normal" path isn't wrong.

It just may not be yours.

What's one "normal" path you followed, even if it didn’t feel right, because it was expected?

10/09/2026

She had the salary.
The benefits.
The retirement plan.

Everything that looks secure on paper.

But her mom was getting older. Her grandmother was 93. And Dr. Jessica Chandler was getting home to see them twice a year.

She realized that if she stayed, all she'd have when they were gone was "a bunch of receipts" for things she'd paid for.

So she walked away.

You can always make more money. You can't make more time.

Sometimes the dare isn't choosing more money. It's choosing the time you can't get back.

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