It’s that time of the year again: Performance Review time – and it’s time to use these performance reviews to advance your career, increase your income and improve your quality of life.

Negative reviews in the past? We will dive into tangible strategies for the three steps you need to take after a negative review and I’m sharing how to make yourself feel like a badass PA, even in the wake of a not-so-hot performance eval.

In this episode, I’ll tell you about my own struggles with negative reviews, negative self-talk and the practice that I created to overcome these hurdles. I’m even sharing some behind-the-scenes personal reviews – the check in that you need on your calendar for yourself, your personal development and the key relationships in your life.

As a healthcare provide we play a key role in society, and we can impact the world more broadly through writing and publication as PAs. Writing it a tool for education and amplification and as a profession we are underutilizing it.

A Unicorn PA – that rare, elusive, mythical creature that is hard to find – a PA who loves their job and has a great quality of life, it sounds too good to be true. In fact, it’s not too good to be true. 

Burnout in healthcare has reached epidemic proportions on the heals of a global pandemic. Covid has highlighted the weaknesses and faults in our healthcare delivery system, both for the patients and the providers called to take care of them. Buckle up for a journey through the depths of burnout but spoiler alert: Meg healed form her healthcare burnout and is here to share her story with you.

It’s been a wild ride. A full time Physician Assistant, part time astronaut, Hayley Arceneaux survived pediatric bone cancer to go on to launch into her career as a PA-C and launch into outer space on Inspiration4, the first all civilian mission into outer space!

Unpacking how being a Mom can sometimes come along with the expectation that our children are the main character in our story. I’m sharing the story of how my Mom has always been the main character in her story, how she has lived a life free of mom guilt and full of joy, hobbies, and pursuing her own happiness. If you’ve been running to soccer, karate, dance class and spanish class but can’t remember the last time you did something “just” for you, mom, this episode is for you!

Overwhelm, in the oxford english dictionary is defined as: bury or drown beneath a huge mass. Whew. What a heavy word. What a heavy feeling. What a common thing for working moms to be walking around, carrying. The weight of the mental load of running a household. The stress of the schedule. The worries about your marriage, your job, your kiddos. Those things can feel incredibly heavy – honestly even one of those things might feel heavy enough to overwhelm you completely… and then you add on more and more things. 

Answering a working mom listener question today about finding fulfillment outside of work. Sometimes your job, career, or current position isn’t filling your cup of fulfillment. Things aren’t flowing from work, so how can you generate fulfillment, create balance and feel happy, even if work isn’t going *great* right now. Press play for some practical tips to cultivate fulfillment in your life.

We are unpacking job dissatisfaction – that feeling that what you are doing isn’t fulfilling you, doesn’t feel fun, and what to do about it. Times are a’changing and you want to do something that fulfills you. You want to love what you do, enjoy work, and leave feeling like you are making a difference in the world. You aren’t willing to just suck it up and keep doing something that is sucking your soul, your energy, and making your life feel unfulfilling.