What Do You Want to Be Known For?
I was recently asked, “What do you want to be known for?”
It’s such a clarifying question.
Before I share my answer, I want to ask you:
What do you want to be known for?
And equally important—what are you currently known for?
Also important—what do you not want to be known for?
Why is this question so important?
When you’re clear about what you want to be known for, your decision-making changes.
This becomes a filter. A compass. A GPS.
It helps you chart your course.
Boundaries get easier to set. Leadership, partnering, and parenting become more intentional. You stop defaulting to what is expected and start choosing what is aligned.
Knowing what you want to be known for clarifies:
What you say yes to
What you say no to
What’s expected vs. what’s worth your time, energy, and attention
What I want to be known for
I want to be known for “What would love do?” Not as a slogan. As a decision-making tool. A way to choose actions that are humane, sustainable, and aligned—especially in high-stakes environments like medicine.
I want to be known for helping physicians recognize burnout, overwhelm, exhaustion, and disconnection as predictable responses to a culture that normalizes things that should not be normalized.
I want to be known for offering solutions that actually work— not performative wellness, and not resilience training that asks individuals to adapt endlessly to broken systems.
I want to be known for changing the lives of women physicians—helping them reclaim energy, joy, purpose, and agency. For supporting them in staying in medicine if they want to… and leaving if that is the most honest choice.
I want to be known for work that reaches beyond individuals—to department chairs, institutions, and medical conferences—transforming the culture of medicine through mindfulness and compassionate leadership.
I also want to be known for bringing authenticity, wisdom, lived experience, and courageous truth-telling into spaces that often reward silence and endurance instead.
I want to be known for offering unparalleled physician wellness retreats and CME offerings.
What I want to be known for outside of work
Being calm. Healthy. Hopeful. Optimistic. Kind. Loving. And fun to be with.
Someone who makes your day better and brighter.
I would love to hear what you want to be known for. Once you clarify it, I hope you will shift your GPS in that direction—and start making choices that match it.
*If you want support clarifying your direction and making aligned choices, explore physician coaching. If you want an immersive reset and a powerful reorientation, view physician wellness retreats.