Happy In Medicine with Dr. Christina Arnold

186: Your $100k raise hiding in plain site | and how to claim it

I found tens of thousands of dollars I didn't know I had. Not from a new contract. Not from a raise. Not from picking up extra shifts. It was sitting in my own accounts — money I was already earning, already saving — and I just hadn't looked closely enough to see it. Here's what I found when I finally did look. A subscription I thought I'd cancelled five years ago. Still running. **$250 a month.** Over six years, that's $18,000. I found several charges like that. Tens of thousands of dollars quietly leaving my accounts every month because I was too anxious to open the statements. You're not failing at money. You inherited a story about it. Most of us did. By the time we were eight years old, we'd already absorbed our parents' beliefs — about whether money was safe, scarce, dangerous, or dependable.  My kids noticed. If they wanted to talk about money, they'd go find my husband in the other room. I knew I didn't want to pass that forward. So I did the work. And today you get the best lessons I’ve never shared before….because I just invented them! * The Money Map — the exact exercise I run with every client inside Next Level Freedom that consistently reveals millions of dollars they didn't know they had (the look on their faces never gets old) * The Monthly Money Date — a simple line-by-line practice that found $18,000 in forgotten subscriptions in my own accounts — and why most physicians are hemorrhaging cash the same way right now * The underspending leak no one talks about — why playing it safe with your money is costing you more than any latte ever could, and how I turned $10K into $130K by finally letting money do its job * The inherited story running your finances — what you absorbed about money before age eight, how it's making your decisions for you today, and the reframe that changes everything * 5 money sprints you can do this week — none of them require a financial advisor, all of them make you more money without one single RVU This episode isn't about budgeting. It's not about cutting back. It's not about skipping your daily Starbucks luxury coffee. No Thank You! It’s about creating a $100k raise from what’s in your accounts righ tnow. And if you're ready for your $100k raise, join Next Level Freedom today. Book your free sales call and be immediately onboarded: [Book your free call →]: https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920   See you inside! Christina P.S. In July I'm running a brand new three-day live free training exclusively for women physicians — all about your next $100k raise while cutting back your clinical hours. No side hustles. No extra RVUs. No waiting. Get ready to register for this free live event!

185: I moved with no house lined up. Here's what that taught me about your job.

What does moving to California with no house, no plan, and 80% of your belongings in a donation pile have to do with your career as a physician woman? Everything. I just survived one of the hardest transitions of my life — selling in Colorado, landing in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country, and getting the house anyway. And every single lesson I learned applies directly to your job. These aren't soft lessons. They're the exact moves that work when the path isn't visible yet, the market isn't cooperating, and waiting is no longer a strategy. If your job isn't working and you're done hoping something changes on its own — this episode is your starting point. Inside this episode: * The $3M decision I made in under an hour — and why your next conversation with your chair requires the same move * What eight rejected offers taught me about the decade of data sitting in your employment contract right now * The moment I stopped spinning at 2am and started winning — and how to find that moment in your job * Why the most powerful thing I did wasn't fight harder — it was know exactly when to stop * The one belief I repeated on every flight, every rejected offer, every hard day — and why it's the only mindset that gets you to part-time hours If you are in a season that is asking more of you than you expected — this episode is for you.  Next Level Freedom is where we do that work. Part-time hours. Full-time doctor salary. In under 90 days. Most women see results in the very first call. Join us this week by booking your free sales call here now.https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c You are moving towards better. Way better. — Christina PS. Forward this to the women physicians in your life who need to hear it. And if the podcast has been useful to you — a rating and review means everything. It takes two minutes and it helps us reach more listeners just like you. PPS. If you are ready to stop waiting and start moving — Next Level Freedom is where we do this work. Join today. The only women physician community focused on getting you part-time hours at full-time doctor pay. Lifetime access. One-time investment of $2500. Join us this week by scheduling your free sales call now: https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920

184: How to protect your Promotion Coalition from parasites, jealousy, & sabotage

Early in my career, a very senior woman in my field decided she didn't like me, even though we had never spoken. She rejected every paper with my name on it. She openly challenged every leadership nomination. At one point, she told me she was going to destroy my career. She didn't. Because I had a Promotion Coalition. In last week’s episode, I taught you how to build a Promotion Coalition (make sure you check it out!).  In this week’s episode, I teach how to keep your Promotion Coalition from falling apart. Inside this episode, here’s what you get: * What to do when someone isn’t pulling their weight * How to handle jealousy to create even more advocates * When jealousy turns into sabotage — and exactly how to shut it down Ready to build your Promotion Coalition? Join Next Level Freedom today. We are your Promotion Coalition! — weekly group coaching, lifetime access, and a framework that gets women physicians promoted early while working less. One-time investment: $2,500. Your $100k raise we help you get will more than cover it!  Weekly group coaching. Lifetime access. Book your free call here. https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920 [https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920]   Reply and tell me everything! Christina   P.S. Would you please forward this to your besties? Then rate and review the podcast — it helps me know what you love AND gets this into the hands of more women physicians who need it. Thank you!

183: He lost his job over an Amazon review: how a Promotion Coalition protects your career

One senior male physician left a scathing anonymous Amazon review on one of my books. He called us authors "the mafia," trying to tank our sales, publicly humiliate us. I was horrified. Humiliated. Embarrassed.  I didn't go looking for a fight. I didn’t have to. I had a Promotion Coalition — women physicians looking out for me in rooms I wasn't even in.  Because he didn't have a Promotion Coalition, his career at that prestigious center was over. The review was traced back to his personal computer. He ultimately lost his job. Here's what I know for sure after years in medicine: this field is full of ego, bad leadership, and people who will absolutely threaten your schedule, bonus, office, and job without blinking. We've all watched physician careers disappear overnight. A Promotion Coalition is how you make sure yours doesn't. It doesn't matter if you're in academics, community practice, private practice, or industry. It doesn’t matter if you don’t care about promotion or you’re already promoted. Every woman physician needs one. This episode shows you exactly how to build yours — including: * How it zooms your career ahead 10 years while getting you home more * How to put your promotion on autopilot — while you're on service, your coalition is moving everyone's careers forward * Who to recruit to make it bulletproof — and how to lead it so nobody can take it down with one anonymous Amazon review Ready to build yours? Join Next Level Freedom, we become your Promotion Coalition — weekly group coaching, lifetime access, and a framework that gets women physicians promoted early while working less. One-time investment: $2,500. Your $100k raise we help you get will more than cover it!  Weekly group coaching. Lifetime access. Book your free call here. https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920 [https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920]   Reply and tell me everything! Christina   P.S. Would you please forward this to your besties? Then rate and review the podcast — it helps me know what you love AND gets this into the hands of more women physicians who need it. Thank you!

182: Turn your Annual Review into Early Promotion with these 3 steps

I walked into my first annual review nervous as hell. My chair looked me dead in the eye and said: "The point of this annual review is to make you feel bad so you work harder." Gulp. I wanted to ask for schedule support. I never got a word in. She talked for the next 60 minutes about her vacation home in Hocking Hills. I never let that happen again. This episode will give you everything you need to use your one hour Annual Review to leap frog your career by 5 years.  What’s inside: 🩺The 3-steps to guarantee you have time to make your asks when your Chair doesn’t want to hear it 🩺The perfect number of asks to make, what to ask for, and exactly how to say it 🩺Why you always want your Chair to speak first- and how to use it to your advantage! 🩺What to do if you have no formal annual review — and why waiting twelve months between conversations with your chair is quietly costing you years.   This one hour meeting handled correctly can deliver MILLIONS of dollars over your career…. …If you have the trauma-informed physician coaching skills required to lead the meeting. This episode includes everything you need for your next $100k raise. Want support for your next Annual review?Join Next Level Freedom today! One-time investment of $2,500 (the $100k raise we help you get will more than cover it). Weekly group coaching. Lifetime access. Book your free call here. https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920 [https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/bd3b6a3c/appointment/33598962/calendar/5849920]   Reply back and tell me everything!! Christina   PS. Will you please do me a favor? Forward this email to all your besties. And then Rate and Review this podcast episode– it helps tell me what you love AND helps our podcast reach more listeners just like you. Thank you!!!