What does following your inner knowing actually look like — not in theory, but with a mortgage, three kids, and twenty years inside an institution?

In this solo episode, Jessie shares more of her story from Kaiser pediatrician to successful small business owner to retreat leader to TEDx stage. Jessie shares what becomes possible when we stop overriding our inner knowing — and what changes for the people we love most when we do.

Food can become another area where we try to get it right, especially during midlife, perimenopause, and menopause. Eating can start to feel like one more project to manage, optimize, or perfect.

In the episode, Jessie is joined by Dr. Heather Awad, a family physician. They explore a kinder, simpler way to think about mindful eating in midlife and menopause. Rather than adding more rules, we suggest returning to nourishment, awareness, and self-trust. Self-compassion matters more than striving when we are trying to care for ourselves well. 

This episode also shares a peek into the approach to nourishment at Jessie’s Pause & Presence Nicasio Creek Farm CME retreats for women physicians.

Physicians are trained to accommodate. But there is no one right way — there are many. Jessie Mahoney MD, and Ni-Cheng Liang, MD on the mindful pause between compliance and conflict, and what becomes possible on the other side.

A mindful approach to charting for physicians tired of pajama-time documentation. Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang on EHR overwhelm, perfectionism in notes, and a sustainable way to finish charts.

Mothering on purpose is not about fixing more, doing more, or worrying harder. It's about presence. Trust. Holding your tongue. Letting them figure things out. Recognizing that your urgency is not theirs. Join us to walk through the mindfulness tenets — patience, non-judgment, trust, letting go, acceptance, curiosity, generosity, gratitude, and paying attention on purpose — as a framework for intentional mothering.

Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang share their slow, non-linear paths towards more aligned lives — and why there's no way to skip the uncomfortable middle.

In this episode, Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang explore the idea that curiosity is not random. It has causes and conditions in specific environments, rhythms, relationships, and practices that either support it or shut it down. When we understand what those conditions are, we can start intentionally creating more of them.

AI struggles are usually translation problems, not intelligence problems. Real use cases include lease review, job searching, SEO discovery, and show notes creation. How communicating with AI mirrors mindful communication with humans.

Why AI feels so charged for physicians and high-achieving women and how to relate to it with awareness, discernment, and self-compassion instead of fear.

What happens inside us when things do not go as planned? How can we meet those moments with more mindfulness, compassion, and grace?

It’s not possible to avoid disruption in tech, and in life, but we can notice our patterns of reactivity and choose a different response.

High quality coaching is a practical, humane, and skillful form of support for physicians navigating modern medicine.  Sustainable excellence does not require us to care less or lower our standards. It asks us to build different skills than we were taught in medical training — including regulation, reflection, discernment, and intentional action. Mindful physician coaching teaches you these skills.

This episode explores decision fatigue through the lens of physiology, neuroscience, mindset, and intention.

Choices that are delayed, avoided, overthought, or made from depletion are expensive.

Intention and physiologic awareness are tools that can make decisions simpler, steadier, and less draining.

This episode is an invitation to remember: connection is not a luxury and being cared for is a practice.

We talk about what changes when we step into a small, safe community of women physicians and why yoga, breath, stillness, and sound can support the nervous system in a way insight alone sometimes can’t.

Slowing down is not a luxury. It is a meaningful way to restore perspective, strengthen relationships, and reclaim agency in medicine. When physician partners in dual physician marriages slow down together it’s a powerful opportunity to reconnect with each other and what matters most in your lives.

Explore what it can look like to end well, pause through a transition, and begin well—especially for those of us who have been trained to override our own inner signals.

In this episode, I share what has helped sustain my long-term relationship over four decades. 

I don’t have secrets; I have an approach.

Resentment grows from silent expectations. Shifting from expectation to intention makes more room for connection.

Since I started approaching my relationship with intention, it is better than ever.

We are celebrating 300 episodes with an incredible question - "What do you want to be known for?" This question can be a decision-making filter, a boundary-setting tool, and a compass for alignment. It can help you lead with love and live closer to your true self.

One thing we want to be known for --- this podcast. We hope it has been helpful for each and every one of you. And we are beyond grateful that so many of you listen to it and us.

This episode explores how default identities take hold and the high cost of being known for things that no longer serve you. We offer the question - "what do you want to be known for?" as a tool to help you make mindful, values-aligned choices about how you want to show up in your work, your life, and the world.

In this special co-released episode, we’re joined by Dr. Melissa Parsons—fellow retired pediatrician, coach, and kindred spirit—for a conversation about living through a “fun filter.” We explore what it looks like to let joy, ease, and alignment guide our decisions instead of obligation, striving, or outdated beliefs.

This conversation is not about leaving medicine. It is about staying in medicine without disappearing ourselves in the process.

Many of us were trained to endure quietly and trust that relief would come later. What we are exploring instead is the possibility of choosing ourselves now, even gently and imperfectly.

Coaching and retreat spaces are one way we practice this shift together.  Not to fix ourselves, but to remember that our lives matter now, not someday. We are allowed to live full lives alongside meaningful work.

Today’s conversation is an invitation to notice overfunctioning with compassion. It may have helped you succeed in medicine, but it often costs you intimacy, energy, and connection.  

Overfunctioning and underfunctioning, along with the resentment that follows, are a familiar relational dynamic in women physicians. Overfunctioning is not a personality flaw; It’s a role we step into. It is shaped by our training, context, and culture.