"I promise we will all do better if you lift up and empower other women, because guess what when the time comes and you need a favor they will then return it to you. We need to stop this you or me mentality and competition. I think women are pitted against each other more than men are and I'm like there is enough to go around, I promise."

This episode is with Dr. Tiffany Moon, an anesthesiologist in Dallas, Texas.

In this episode we talk about:
- Having twin girls as an attending
- Her decision to go back to work after 6 weeks of leave
- Her thoughts on distribution of work and time at home during the little kid years
- Starting a wine company with her husband
- Starting a candle company during the COVID pandemic, somewhat accidentally
- Writing a memoir, which comes out in Spring 2025
- Creating the LeadHer Summit to empower women

LeadHer Summit Nov 8-10, 2024:
- Click here to register
- Use code "MOM" for $300 off registration

Connect with Dr. Tiffany Moon @tiffanymoonmd:
- Instagram
- Tiktok
- X
- Youtube

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- Instagram @moms_of_medicine
- Momsofmedicine@gmail.com

"I feel like I was able to spend those years of fellowship really asking this question of how do I want this career to fit into my life. Before I never really
understood what it was going to feel like to be a mom or to be a wife or what it was going to feel like to just want to be Rene and who I am and the rest of the things. For so long, understandably so, the main focus was how do I become the best doctor and that's what you need to get through medical school and residency to get the best training to be a good doctor but I started to realize that if I was only thinknig about my career and that was it and I wasn't giving ample priority to the rest of the things around it, then I would eventually hate my job for what it was taking away from the other parts."

This episode is with Dr. Renee Rodriguez Paro, a pediatric cardiologist in California.

In this episode we talk about:
- The decision to change your name
- Being married to a physician - the good and the bad!
- Starting a podcast with her husband called "Reconciling Medicine"
- Having a baby in pediatric residency and going back to work after 6 weeks
- Starting fellowship with a 6 month old baby and questioning if she should leave fellowship
- Considering surgery and ultimately deciding she wasn't sure want to be part of a two surgeon family and she loved clinic just as much if not more than the OR
- Shifting career priorities pre- and post-kids
- Making the decision to leave academic medicine
- Her view on part-time work for herself as well as globally for other physicians
- Becoming department chair
- Running marathons!

Connect with Renee:
- Instagram @drreneeparo

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- Instagram @moms_of_medicine
- Momsofmedicine@gmail.com

"We both knew that one of us would need to be able to still be a default parent and I actually wanted that role, which I'm sure we'll talk about it's also very hard to be a default parent and a doctor, but that was sort of the thing I didn't want to give up when I went into medicine."

This episode is with Dr. Molly Brett, a primary care physician in Colorado.

We talk about:
- Deciding early on that she wanted to be a primary care doctor for multiple reasons
- Being in a dual physician family
- Being the default parent and wanting this role
- Camping with babies
- Negotiating a part-time job that allows her to be truly part time so that she can go off grid and go camping with her family
- The guilt around hiring a nanny to help her family in the mornings
- How she chooses which projects to say yes to and which ones to say no to
- Choosing the daycare that works for your lives (i.e. long hours) and not the most "fancy" childcare
- How to advise women to choose a specialty/career that works for them


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- Instagram @moms_of_medicine
- Momsofmedicine@gmail.com