Episode #3 - Portia Gibson, the Post Op Nurse: From nearly giving up on business altogether to a sell out workshop (Case Study)
Release Date: 09/09/2024
Episode #14 - Emma Presern: The Return! (Case Study)
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Dr Emma Presern is back for a second episode! We first spoke in Episode 9 of the first series which was recorded in March 2023. This was before Emma launched her first cohort of Rebellious Medics. Now she has navigated a successful launch and is about to go for the second cohort. Emma is a GP who has had a real journey. She has suffered with burnout and is now supporting others who feel the same. She has taken time out of programme and she has completely changed her life and lives in the hills in North Wales. She is an incredible role model to so many now and has so much to give other...
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Episode #13 - Dr Aileen Alexander - Lifestyle Medicine leading to sustainable weight loss (Case Study)
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Aileen Alexander is a medic who has done what so many medics hope to do. She’s now running an incredibly successful online lifestyle medicine business with clients across the globe. In this episode we talk about how she started off on this path as a bit of an accident but has had the same struggles and hurdles as us all along the way. Pricing, imposter syndrome, failed launches… Her story will inspire you to keep moving forward one step at a time. Dr Aileen Alexander is a former NHS GP who left in 2019 to pursue a career in Lifestyle Medicine specialising in sustainable weight loss and...
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Episode #12 - Dr Sui Wong - Finding your inspiration in the creative process (Case Study)
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I can think of no better way to wrap up the first series of the podcast than with a case study episode from one of my founding members. Dr Sui Wong is an expert in her field. Working within the NHS and private sector splitting her time along with her research post and running a business… and writing books! She’s amazing. In this episode Sui shares, warts and all, her journey into business. The highs, the lows, the struggles and the things she’d do differently now. Some incredible advice to her early entrepreneurial self Find what inspires you and enjoy the creative process and the...
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Episode #11 - Jo Randall - Setting up a website that suits you (Expert)
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Jo Randall is a website designer who create stunning and strategic Squarespace websites for savvy female service-providers who are ready to make an impact. She started out in design many years ago, but of a different kind (interiors), veered wildly off-path into the corporate world and recently returned to design, this time focused on websites, which feels like coming home for her. Jo spends most of her time most days on Squarespace but, when she’s not doing that, she loves hiking and camping with her dog, and also has a side-hustle creating mosaics and running mosaic workshops. She has...
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Episode #10 - Shannee Baker - Get some legal back up and getting the basics in place (Expert)
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Something a little bit different today as we chat with a lawyer who lives and breathes the issues around Medics and GP’s. As Medics we tend to avoid lawyers like the plague. Shanee Baker is a strong corporate commercial lawyer, having qualified at the Bar of England and Wales. She has held a number of senior roles in large corporations including Capita PLC and the British Medical Association as Senior Counsel to the General Practitioners Committee. She is the founder and creator of LMC Law and has grown, what started as a small consultancy, into a business that covers...
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Episode #9 - Emma Presern: A Journey from burnout to Role model (Case Study)
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My guest today is Emma Today I am sharing something a bit different. People have been telling me to do a Podcast for a little while and I when we were in Canada during the winter I decided to just get on and DO it. So, I asked one of my clients, Emma Presern to be my first guest. She said yes and we hit record while I was in my Zoom office which is a switched off sauna while we are in Canada during the winters. This was very unplanned. I had a vague idea of hanging the interview off some pillars but it was really just a good chat. Emma is a GP who has had a real journey.She has suffered...
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Episode #8 - Rosie Khan: Going with your gut, and being consistent (Expert)
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Chatting to Dr Rosie Khan is always a pleasure. She is a calm, knowledgable and inspirational GP who has followed her gut and her own path out of full time GP and into a world that has given her skills such as coaching, NLP, hypnosis and lifestyle medicine. Rosie gives an honest account of what it takes to move into the entrepreneurial space and shares her reflections. We discuss the use of AI and showing up on social media. Rosie talks about the importance of taking the right advice at the right time from others. Rosie;s advice to her early entrepreneurial self was very...
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Episode #7 - Tanya Lynch: The Power of journalling (Expert)
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Tanya Lynch is a therapeutic journalling coach and expert retreat facilitator. Her company Ease Retreats specialises in collaborating with all sorts of authors, both well known and first timers on her writing retreats. She is most alive when supporting people in their journaling and making real life experiences rich and rewarding for others. Tanya and I connected via Twitter over 9 years ago, we met, had a coffee and have remained firm friends ever since. Tanya is a cheerleader and genuine positive energy on the end of an email, a substack post or instagram and her personality is...
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Episode #6 - Dr Rebecca Ryell: Building a travel business while being a GP Partner and having three busy boys (Case Study)
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Dr Rebecca Ryell, Bex, is one of my clients yes, but more importantly, we go back a long way, she is a great friend and inspiration to me and my family. Becs helped give us the push we needed to decide to take a year out and travel with the kids back in 2017 which led to me wanting to work more remotely to fit it around more travel in our lives. Now, 7 years later she’s on her own journey doing just that alongside a medical career that she also loves. Bex is a GP partner, a trainer and a medical educator at Swansea University. Recently, Bex and Pete and...
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Episode #5 - Rachel Harington: How to start and scale an online business (Expert)
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I first connected with Rachel back in January 2018 when I went to a networking event at Allbrights in London. She was offering an online training programme to get people doing their first 10km run at the time and we connected as I was asking her about software. She jumped on a call with me in August 2019 with me when I was weighing up my options and introduced me to Kajabi the software I continue to use today. At the time we were operating a local business with no online element but it was on the to do list. In Dec 2019 we invested in 3 months of coaching with Rachel to...
info_outlinePortia is innovative, relentlessly passionate about helping others and a pleasure to work with. Portia has been a part of The Start Up Support Programme and The Digital Doctor Membership for 9 months and has been on every twist and turn along the way.
This interview tells us more about this and the mindset it took to keep going.
Portia shares her sound advice and top tips and is always looking for ways to learn, develop and grow personally and professionally.
I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did!
You will find Portia at
Website https://www.postopnurse.co.uk/
Social Media @postopnurse.portia
Email: [email protected]
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