Podcast Categories: Self-Improvement

The Defiant Career is a podcast about career strategy for women in medicine, hosted by Dr. Qaali Hussein, a double board-certified trauma surgeon and mother of six. It teaches women physicians how to advance their careers and navigate hostile workplace cultures without burning out.

For three years, I interviewed accomplished women on this show. Surgeons, founders, lawyers, executives. Different fields, different decades, different lives.

Every one of them had been handed the same advice: work twice as hard, prove yourself, earn your seat, and figure out the rest of your life on the side. Every one of them paid the same price. Burnout. Exhaustion. Health and relationships. No guarantee the success was even waiting at the end.

I know, because I am one of them. After 15 years of becoming a trauma surgeon, raising six children, and following every rule I was given, I nearly walked away from medicine in my first year as an attending.

That is not bad luck. When the same advice produces the same outcome across every field and every decade, it is not a personal failing. It is a strategy problem.

I call it the compliant strategy. It works exactly as designed. It just was not designed for you to win.

This show is about the alternative. I call it the Defiant Career Strategy, and it is what I built out of necessity the year I almost quit.

Every other week, I go deep on one decision the compliant strategy has been quietly making for you: when to speak up and how to survive it, what caregiving actually costs your career, how to advance inside a workplace culture that was never built for you, and why the burnout was never a discipline problem.

This is for women in medicine who are done being told to persevere. Women of color who have watched their specific challenges go unaddressed even in the rooms built to address them. Physician mothers who were promised the career and the flexibility and only ever got the career.

You cannot out-excel a system that was never built for you.

Two places to start:
Take the 2-minute Career Diagnostic to see what the compliant strategy is costing you: https://www.defianceacademy.com/defiance-career-diagnostic

Join the Strategy Room inside Defiance Academy: https://www.defianceacademy.com/the-strategy-room

New episodes every other week. Subscribe so you don’t miss one.

Formerly the Professional Muslim Women Podcast.

Dr. Qaali Hussein is a double board-certified trauma surgeon, founder of Defiance Academy, and author of DEFIANCE: A Career Strategy for Women the Rules Weren’t Written For.

Thrive IN® is a life coaching podcast for college students. Believe me, you’re in the right place if you’re excited to become the highest and truest version of yourself while making the most of your time in college.

Join your host and life coach Dr. IJ, each week as she shares tips and mind shift strategies to help you achieve your biggest goals and navigate your toughest life experiences as a young adult in college.

For more information visit thriveinpodcast.com.

Connect with Dr. IJ on FB, IG, TW: @DRIJCLC

Explore your spiritual superpowers at Soul-utions! This unique advice podcast will help you create positive changes by understanding how to align with your mind’s power and your Soul’s wisdom.

This is a revolutionary spiritual empowerment collection of life-changing tips, tools and advice to help you transform your stress into strength and struggle into greater freedom, confidence, and success.

Michaiel is a spiritual healer, hypnotherapist, and metaphysician. He’s studied metaphysics, personal development, spiritual fulfillment for 35 + years.

Email your questions to info@soul-utions

This show takes an in-depth look at the Epiphanes that we have every day and their meaning. Tell Art your Epiphanes and he’ll take an in-depth look at them. Guests will share their Epiphanes and how they used them in their lives.No matter how intelligent, educated, or smart you are, life certainly has a fair share of lessons in store for you. The secret of success lies in learning from everyday experiences. But isn’t it time-consuming and mentally draining?
Well yeah, it kind of is!
So do you want to know a faster way around? It’s learning from the experiences of others – and this is exactly what our show ‘Shower Epiphanies’ is all about!
It offers a platform turned community for you to share your stories about cherishing pleasant moments, overcoming challenges, and dealing with negative circumstances. Do you ever feel you’re just playing out a script that has already been written? Well, our show gets you! No matter what happens in life, in the end, it always works out just the way it was meant to be. Every big and small event in life is meant to teach us a lesson to help us grow as individuals. So, let’s all learn from each other’s experiences and try to get the reins of our lives in our hands. Only when you know how to manage expectations can you lead a happy, content, and fulfilling life!

Join the OverComing You podcast host, Josh Knutti, as he has candid conversations with professional & Olympic athletes, thought leaders, business owners, C-level executives, and everyday inspirational individuals on how they overcame life’s obstacles.

Richelle Howard is a life coach, speaker, counselor, and the host of Coffee and Convos–An open space in which she leads her listeners through transparent stories & jovial dialogue related to walking with Christ, relationships & love, entrepreneurship & business, and other everyday topics of life!

Coffee and Convos explores the world of raw truths, revelation, and practical insight to empower women to heal, grow, and confidently evolve in their identity and their God-given purpose, one step at at time.