Reignite Your Passion For Healthcare Through Advocacy
In a recent coaching session, a client shared a feeling many of us know well: the weight of responsibilities, the constant balancing act, and the ever-present concerns about the state of healthcare. She was feeling stretched, looking for more fulfillment, and...
The Empathy Advantage: How Listening Unlocks Solutions for Women in Healthcare
You know the frustration of watching the same problems resurface repeatedly without being resolved. You've spun your wheels trying different approaches, but the solutions never seem to stick. Problem after problem drags on, leaving you and your team burnt out,...
Finding Your Way Through Existential Anguish: A Guide for Women in Healthcare
Ever find yourself questioning the meaning of it all, especially after a long, exhausting shift? You're not alone. Many women in healthcare experience existential anguish—a deep anxiety about life's big questions. Let’s explore what this means, how it's changed over...
Juggling Career and Family: Redefining Success on Our Terms
What do you do when faced with a difficult choice between two deeply valued alternatives? A choice that feels like you are sacrificing one for the other, like juggling career and family? I recently faced such a decision. For decades, my primary focus has been my work...
Turn Obstacles Into Leadership Opportunities
Women in healthcare face unique leadership challenges. While these barriers can seem formidable, they offer invaluable opportunities for innovation and growth. Recently, I worked with a group of women physicians to help them reframe barriers that were limiting their...
How Can Women Balance Family Responsibilities and Career Aspirations?
Juggling work and personal obligations is a delicate dance that many women navigate daily. The constant tug-of-war between career aspirations and family responsibilities can leave us feeling stretched thin and overwhelmed. Societal expectations around caregiving and...
Myths That Inhibit the Value of Women in Leadership
Women in healthcare routinely ask me, “What will happen if I show up as myself?” They don’t want to be seen as too outspoken, too quiet, too (fill in the blank), out of fear of being passed over for interesting assignments or roles in leadership. Myths that Inhibit...
Leading Productive Meetings: A Pathway to Influence for Women in Healthcare
Meetings are more than just obligations that fill our calendars. They are opportunities to demonstrate leadership abilities and drive meaningful progress. For women in healthcare, in particular, maximizing this opportunity gives you a chance to demonstrate effective...
Why shifting our perspective on power in the workplace is essential to improving healthcare.
Women leaders reached a historic milestone in 2023 when 10 percent of the CEOs at Fortune 500 companies were women, according to an article in Forbes. This represents a significant shift from prior years when only one or two women made the list- clear evidence that...
Nurturing a Positive Mindset Through Self Care
As a woman in healthcare leadership, I understand the unique mindset challenges we face on our professional journey. From self-doubt and impostor syndrome to a lack of belonging, these barriers can hold us back from reaching our full potential. By prioritizing...
Empowering Women, Transforming Healthcare
For more than a year I have spoken at length with women physicians, leaders at healthcare organizations, and members of professional healthcare groups about barriers holding women back in their careers. Through my research, I identified four main barriers that can...
Advancing Women in Healthcare: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures
In this blog post, we will explore the barriers that women face in healthcare leadership and discuss strategies to overcome them. Through extensive research and conversations with women physicians, leaders, and healthcare professionals, four main barriers have been...
“When women lead in healthcare,
everyone wins!”
- Deborah Munhoz