Kate Mangona MD – I am a physician married to a physician and continuously working towards marital interdependence and seriously hustling towards financial freedom. Shortly after COVID began, I realized that despite 6 years of marriage, 5 years as an attending and less than one year away from being financially independent, I had a lifetime more to learn.

And with the new life circumstances COVID brought to town, a whole new level of anxiety arose as our mortality became more tangible… COVID was on our minds 24/7 and we were more serious at home and at work. This was a shock and huge change for us as I am sure it was for you as well. COVID led to a lot of drastic life changes for all of us.

As tensions continued to rise through March and April, I decided to join three women physicians coaching groups, one in May, one in June, and one in July. And that my friends, opened my life to a whole new level of realization I cannot even begin to describe. I started seeing things and circumstances in an entirely new light. Things became lighter and more fun again.

I began working daily on myself and my thoughts, opening myself up to a community of growth and abundance which has ultimately allowed me to intentionally exist with more space for love in my marriage and honestly in every relationship than I have in my life.

And now, it has become my calling to share all I have learned with you. This is why we became physicians right? To help people? This is probably why you became a physician too. And after 17 years in the medical space, I have learned that the burden we place on doctors in today’s healthcare world is so great, that it is sometimes unsurvivable. Doctors throughout the nation are suffering from burnout, from decision fatigue, and from failed relationships at work and at home. And why is this? Why do we, the healers not take care of ourselves in the process of healing others?