What do you want to be known for?
I was recently asked, "What do you want to be known for?"
This is such a GREAT question. So clarifying. I will share my thoughts and experience answering it. Ni-Cheng and I also have an upcoming podcast that delves deeper into this.
But first....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?
When you are clear about what you want to be known for, your decision-making changes.
You can use it as a filter to chart your course. It can serve as direction and orientation.
Boundaries are easier to set.
Your 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 and what you say no to.
It helps you distinguish between what is expected and what is worth your time, energy, and attention.
What do I want to be known for?
What would Love do?
And sharing this as a decision-making tool and a way to choose actions that are humane, sustainable, and aligned—especially in high-stakes environments like medicine.
Helping physicians recognize burnout, overwhelm, exhaustion, and disconnection as predictable responses to a culture that normalizes things that should not be normalized.
For offering life solutions that actually work—not performative wellness or resilience training that asks individuals to adapt endlessly to broken systems.
I want to be known for changing the lives of women physicians—for 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.
And for bringing authenticity, wisdom, lived experience, and courageous truth-telling into spaces that often reward silence and endurance instead.
I also want to be known for offering unparalleled physician wellness retreats and CME offerings.
There's a lot else I want to be known for outside of my 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. Then shift your GPS in that direction to make this happen.
Coaching and retreats are two of the best ways I know to get there.
I hope you will join me for one or both in 2026.