DRIVE TIME DEBRIEF: A Physician Wellness Podcast with The Whole Physician
Drs. Cazier, Dinsmore and Morrison
🔥 Doctors Feeling the Burnout? We’ve Been There—and We’re Here to Help You Climb Out of the Fire. 🔥
Drive Time Debrief: A Physician Wellness Podcast
Welcome to Drive Time Debrief, the anti-burnout podcast built just for physicians and healthcare providers who are ready to reclaim their joy, purpose, and well-being.
Hosted by the physician-coaches of The Whole Physician, this podcast delivers honest conversations, evidence-based tools, and practical strategies to help you navigate burnout, set boundaries, and find fulfillment in and outside of medicine.
Whether you're heading into a shift, decompressing on your commute home, or sneaking in a sanity-saving moment during your day, you’ll get bite-sized insights that speak to the *real* challenges of medical life—with compassion, candor, and a dose of humor.
If you’re tired of white-knuckling your way through your career and ready to feel like yourself again, you’re in the right place.
Episodes include:
- Physician burnout recovery stories
- Coaching tools for stress, imposter syndrome, & difficult dynamics
- Self-compassion, mindset shifts, and boundary-setting
- Conversations on career pivots, family life, and rediscovering joy
Hit subscribe and join us for a weekly debrief—because your well-being deserves to be non-negotiable.
You wouldn’t head into battle without armor, so why are we sent into the chaotic Dumpster Fire of Medicine without the tools we need to protect ourselves?
Medicine was supposed to be your calling. Instead, it feels like it’s breaking you—turning altruistic, purpose-driven, bright minds into frustrated, disillusioned, and exhausted shadows of who we used to be.
How do we know? We’ve been there. We’ve lived the long shifts, the impossible expectations, and the emotional toll. And we’ve watched too many of our peers struggle silently.
We’re The Whole Physician—three Board-Certified Emergency Physicians (and physician burnout experts) on a mission to rewrite the story of medicine. Our podcast isn’t just another pep talk. It’s a lifeline—and a quick remedy for burnout you can take with you wherever you go.
Whether you’re driving to your next shift, heading home after a long day, or taking a rare moment to breathe, our episodes are packed with practical tools and mindset shifts that actually work:
- Find hope for the future and a renewed sense of purpose
- Rediscover joy in your work and life
- Repair and strengthen relationships (even the one with yourself)
- Quiet the mental chaos and ease emotional exhaustion
- Realize you are NOT alone.
This is your space. A space where doctors like you—who keep showing up no matter what—get the care, support, and tools you deserve. You are our people. It’s about time someone put YOU first.
🎧 Ready to reclaim your hope and joy? Listen now.
Learn more at www.thewholephysician.com.
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Drive Time Debrief: A Physician Wellness Podcast
Welcome to Drive Time Debrief, the anti-burnout podcast built just for physicians and healthcare providers who are ready to reclaim their joy, purpose, and well-being.
Hosted by the physician-coaches of The Whole Physician, this podcast delivers honest conversations, evidence-based tools, and practical strategies to help you navigate burnout, set boundaries, and find fulfillment in and outside of medicine.
Whether you're heading into a shift, decompressing on your commute home, or sneaking in a sanity-saving moment during your day, you’ll get bite-sized insights that speak to the *real* challenges of medical life—with compassion, candor, and a dose of humor.
If you’re tired of white-knuckling your way through your career and ready to feel like yourself again, you’re in the right place.
Episodes include:
- Physician burnout recovery stories
- Coaching tools for stress, imposter syndrome, & difficult dynamics
- Self-compassion, mindset shifts, and boundary-setting
- Conversations on career pivots, family life, and rediscovering joy
Hit subscribe and join us for a weekly debrief—because your well-being deserves to be non-negotiable.
You wouldn’t head into battle without armor, so why are we sent into the chaotic Dumpster Fire of Medicine without the tools we need to protect ourselves?
Medicine was supposed to be your calling. Instead, it feels like it’s breaking you—turning altruistic, purpose-driven, bright minds into frustrated, disillusioned, and exhausted shadows of who we used to be.
How do we know? We’ve been there. We’ve lived the long shifts, the impossible expectations, and the emotional toll. And we’ve watched too many of our peers struggle silently.
We’re The Whole Physician—three Board-Certified Emergency Physicians (and physician burnout experts) on a mission to rewrite the story of medicine. Our podcast isn’t just another pep talk. It’s a lifeline—and a quick remedy for burnout you can take with you wherever you go.
Whether you’re driving to your next shift, heading home after a long day, or taking a rare moment to breathe, our episodes are packed with practical tools and mindset shifts that actually work:
- Find hope for the future and a renewed sense of purpose
- Rediscover joy in your work and life
- Repair and strengthen relationships (even the one with yourself)
- Quiet the mental chaos and ease emotional exhaustion
- Realize you are NOT alone.
This is your space. A space where doctors like you—who keep showing up no matter what—get the care, support, and tools you deserve. You are our people. It’s about time someone put YOU first.
🎧 Ready to reclaim your hope and joy? Listen now.
Learn more at www.thewholephysician.com.
Sound credit:
_________________________________
Fresh by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0
Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2PK8m0A
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/YqRO_qgBB1c
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Episodes
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Apr 21, 2022 • 14min
#6: Thought Errors 2/5
In this episode, we continue our 5 part series on the 15 most common thought errors. In episode 3, we went over how to try to identify the thought that is causing your negative (or positive) feelings. After you’ve processed it, it’s important to look at if that thought is even true, useful in any way, or if there are any other alternatives to consider. This series starts to examine the thought to consider if it falls within any of the 15 most common thought errors.
Next up:
Jumping to conclusions - (2 groups)
Mind reading-you think you know what others are thinking, assumptions of their intentions occur with no evidence.
Fortune telling-which is making or make conclusions and predictions with no evidence and can have negative outcomes.
Catastrophizing - over-exaggerate and start worrying about things and escalating them to the worst possible scenario; 2 types
Magnification
Minimizing
Personalization - willingly taking just about anything and everything personally.
Recommended resourcesArticle mentioned:
https://www.mindmypeelings.com/blog/cognitive-distortions?rq=cognitive%20distortions
If you want to work with us, visit our website: www.thewholephysician.com. We have private coaching and CME courses available. Additionally, we're happy to lecture for your institution. Sign up for our Weekly Well Check by clicking the link. The Weekly Well Check is your weekly dose of encouragement and your only access to secret insider sales on our products.
If you'd like something you can use today, download our free Top 10 Mindset Hacks for Doctors here.
For a free quote on Own-Occupation Insurance, you're welcome to use our affiliate link: patternlife.com/drivetime
Apr 14, 2022 • 18min
#5: Thought Errors 1/5
In this episode we start a 5 part series of the 15 most common thought errors. In episode #3 we went over how to try to identify the thought that is causing your negative (or positive) feelings. After you’ve processed it, it’s important to look at if that thought is even true, useful in any way, or if there are any other alternatives to consider. This series starts to examine the thought to consider if it falls within any of the 15 most common thought errors.
First up, thought errors 1-3:
Polarized thinking - this is an all or nothing thinking, ignoring shades of gray
Mental filtering (which is broken up into 2 subtypes):
Negative mental filtering - one negative thing ruins the rest of the day, project, etc
Disqualifying the positive - dismissing an accomplishment in one way or another
Overgeneralization - making assumptions about the future based on a single interaction/event
Recommended resourcesArticle mentioned:
https://www.mindmypeelings.com/blog/cognitive-distortions?rq=cognitive%20distortions
If you want to work with us, visit our website: www.thewholephysician.com. We have private coaching and CME courses available. Additionally, we're happy to lecture for your institution. Sign up for our Weekly Well Check by clicking the link. The Weekly Well Check is your weekly dose of encouragement and your only access to secret insider sales on our products.
If you'd like something you can use today, download our free Top 10 Mindset Hacks for Doctors here.
For a free quote on Own-Occupation Insurance, you're welcome to use our affiliate link: patternlife.com/drivetime
Apr 7, 2022 • 28min
#4: How to Coach Yourself
In this episode, we talk more about bringing awareness to what’s going on in your brain and how it’s ultimately creating the results in your life. Additionally, we start to discuss starting to think about changing the sticky thoughts giving us problems.
The Cognitive Thought Model
A brief review of the cognitive thought model. Anything that happens outside of you and your control is a situation or CIRCUMSTANCE (C). It is by definition neutral and a fact that everyone agrees upon. It isn’t until you have a THOUGHT (T) about the circumstance that you have a FEELING (F). It’s actually the feeling that drives your ACTION (or inaction or brain chatter). The sum total of your actions/inactions is what gives you the RESULTS (R) of your life.
Start with a daily thought dump - keep it raw and unfiltered (you can always burn the paper later). (See our handout below for a template.)
Separate out the facts, the rest are just thoughts.
For any problematic thoughts, take a close look to evaluate:
why you’re choosing that thought
how it makes you feel
if it’s serving you in any way to keep that thought
are there any other valid perspectives
Once you’ve really evaluated the thought - it’s a good time to have compassion for where the brain learned this and why it offered it up. You can become aware of it and allow it to pass in the future. And if you ultimately decide this thought isn’t helpful for your life, you can move toward an intentional model.
Link to daily Thought Model Worksheet here.
If you want to work with us, visit our website: www.thewholephysician.com. We have private coaching and CME courses available. Additionally, we're happy to lecture for your institution. Sign up for our Weekly Well Check by clicking the link. The Weekly Well Check is your weekly dose of encouragement and your only access to secret insider sales on our products.
If you'd like something you can use today, download our free Top 10 Mindset Hacks for Doctors here.
For a free quote on Own-Occupation Insurance, you're welcome to use our affiliate link: patternlife.com/drivetime
Mar 31, 2022 • 26min
#3: Awareness of your Thoughts
Victor Frankl famously said, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” In this episode, we explore that space.
Key Quotes:
“Metacognition happens anytime we have awareness about our learning, thinking and other cognitive processes. But from a deeper level, metacognition involves meta-awareness, truly detaching from the mind to get the bird’s eye view from above.”
“There is a step between all of the things outside of us and our feeling, and that’s our thoughts.”
“We all think that we want to be happy all the time. That’s not true.”
“If that feeling is working for you- feeling frustrated or disappointment or angry…no one’s taking that away from you. It’s your life; you get to do whatever you want.”
“They can still be them, and it doesn’t have to affect us at all.”
“No longer does anybody have access to what’s in between my ears.”
“Jon Kabat Zinn is the mindfulness guy. He says the point is to be aware, on purpose, without judgement. It’s just information.”
“The thoughts are not to be resisted…There are no forbidden thoughts. They’re not good or bad. If they’re getting you where you want to go, then keep it. If they’re not getting you where you need to go, you can allow it to pass….And then intentionally choose a different one that’s a little more helpful for you.”
“There’s no more judging of yourself.”
Resources mentioned:
Be the Pond | Cosmic Kids Zen Den - Mindfulness for kids
3 Brains Image https://www.hilaryjacobshendel.com/post/2018/04/09/getting-to-know-your-3-brains-part-1-how-brain-knowledge-helps
Cognitive Thought Model Image: https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-illustration-cognitive-model-situation-to-behavior-image84311712
If you want to work with us, visit our website: www.thewholephysician.com. We have private coaching and CME courses available. Additionally, we're happy to lecture for your institution. Sign up for our Weekly Well Check by clicking the link. The Weekly Well Check is your weekly dose of encouragement and your only access to secret insider sales on our products.
If you'd like something you can use today, download our free Top 10 Mindset Hacks for Doctors here.
For a free quote on Own-Occupation Insurance, you're welcome to use our affiliate link: patternlife.com/drivetime
Mar 31, 2022 • 23min
#2: Meet the Docs
In this episode, Drs. Morrison, Cazier and Dinsmore introduce themselves and discuss their own personal wellbeing struggles while working in medicine (spoiler: 2 of the 3 even quit at one point to save their sanity). After the lowest points in their careers, they each began a journey back to wellness which has enabled all three to continue working clinically. Currently, after additional training in life, health and wellness coaching, they’re ready to share all they’ve learned in the hopes that some of the suffering they experienced can be avoided by others.
Get ready to meet Dr. Kendra Morrison, Dr. Laura Cazier, and Dr. Amanda Dinsmore.
Some highlights from Dr. Dinsmore:
“I had a harder and harder time forgiving myself for being human.”
“ I became a professional feeling-stuffer, and I was using food to help with feelings. I was using wine. I was using television, like binge-watching all of the Real Housewives of every city.”
“I was ruminating; I wasn’t sleeping. I was thinking about everything that went wrong all of the time.”
Some highlights from Dr. Morrison:
“At this point in my career- is this it? It can’t be it. And I can’t be this angry all the time. I can’t be this disappointed.”
“I think all of us as physician find ourselves in that position where we can not disclose. We feel that there could be some report to a medical board, or just fear of having a stigma of having some kind of mental health diagnosis.”
“Everything that we have learned over the last couple of years…has overflowed into all of my relationships and has been rewarding.”
Some highlights from Dr. Cazier:
“And I know, I know most of us have had that feeling where everyone’s just way too sick and everyone is spread way too thin. And it’s just scary. And I got to the point, I was like, what am I doing? This is horrible. I am shortening my life, and I’m miserable. I don’t like the person I am.”
“I remember the discussion I had with my medical director before I quit. She was like, you may never be able to come back. And I was like, I don’t care. I don't care if I never see this place again. And at that time I meant it.”
“We’re all resilient already. Otherwise we wouldn’t have made it through residency training, but to really come into any circumstance and know how to manage our minds around it is a tremendous skill that I’m continuing to develop.”
“There’s nothing more powerful than to create a beautiful life that is the life that you want.”
If you want to work with us, visit our website: www.thewholephysician.com. We have private coaching and CME courses available. Additionally, we're happy to lecture for your institution. Sign up for our Weekly Well Check by clicking the link. The Weekly Well Check is your weekly dose of encouragement and your only access to secret insider sales on our products.
If you'd like something you can use today, download our free Top 10 Mindset Hacks for Doctors here.
For a free quote on Own-Occupation Insurance, you're welcome to use our affiliate link: patternlife.com/drivetime
Mar 29, 2022 • 18min
#1: Our Why - The Burnout Dumpster Fire
Physicians are feeling the burn of working in medicine. In this episode, Drs. Morrison, Cazier and Dinsmore review the 2022 Medscape article, “Physician Burnout & Depressions Report 2022: Stress, Anxiety, and Anger." This survey of over 13,000 US physicians revealed:
which specialities are the most affected by burnout
male vs. female burnout rates
what physicians reported contributes most to burnout
severity of impact burnout has on their lives
quotes from doctors in their own words
most commonly used coping strategies
evidence for reluctance to seek help
willingness to seek out professional help going forward
Quotables:
“Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, OB/GYN, Infectious Disease, Family Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Diabetes & Endocrinology were all 50% or greater burned out. So being alive and being one of those doctors working, you are more likely to be burned out than not.”
“It’s no wonder that people don’t seek help when they need it.”
“I think the medical culture definitely reinforces being impenetrable. If you have a problem, don’t talk about it.”
“There are things that we can do with simple mind shifts, mindset shifts that can make such a tremendous difference. And that’s why I’m excited.”
Recommended resources:
Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2022: Stress, Anxiety, and Anger
If you want to work with us, visit our website: www.thewholephysician.com. We have private coaching and CME courses available. Additionally, we're happy to lecture for your institution. Sign up for our Weekly Well Check by clicking the link. The Weekly Well Check is your weekly dose of encouragement and your only access to secret insider sales on our products.
If you'd like something you can use today, download our free Top 10 Mindset Hacks for Doctors here.
For a free quote on Own-Occupation Insurance, you're welcome to use our affiliate link: patternlife.com/drivetime
