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I'm Rebecca Lauderdale, and my mission with this podcast is to help Southerners of all types find belonging and community while remaining true to who they really are. I hope you'll join me as I explore what it means to belong, the challenges we face to belonging in the South, and how to build belonging matter who you are.Would you or someone you know like to talk about being a misfit in the South? Go to www.belonginginthesouth.com and fill out the guest nomination form at the top of the page ...
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Rebecca Lauderdale is an internal medicine doctor in the Deep South who is on a mission to make this statement true: Women Physicians Flourish. Dr. Lauderdale brings personal experience, science, stories, and evidence-based practices to help physicians of all types, but especially women, to avoid or heal from burnout and live flourishing lives.
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Exploring Identity and Evolving Faith: Part 2 with Ashleigh Nelson and Debbie Jones
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Today is part 2 of our conversation with Ashleigh Nelson and her mom, Debbie Jones, who share their personal journey of their evolving faiths. Ashleigh is Executive Director of the Evolving Faith Conference and Community, whose personal journey of acceptance not only transformed her faith, but her mother's. Debbie highlights the importance of proxi…
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Pride Month Special: A Mother and Daughter's Journey of Love, Acceptance, and Faith in the LGBTQ Community
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Join me in celebrating Pride Month with a heartfelt conversation featuring Ashleigh Nelson and her mother, Debbie. They openly share the story of Ashleigh's journey as a gay woman raised in the evangelical church. Hear the incredible story of how Ashleigh, now the executive director of the Evolving Faith Conference, found love and acceptance from h…
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Southern, Smart, and Proud: How A Mathematics and Science High School Changes Lives and Challenges Stereotypes
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Of the many Southern stereotypes, one that affected me early in life is that Southerners aren't smart. Luckily, I was able to embrace my intelligence by attending the best public high school in Mississippi: the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science (MSMS). It was there I first felt comfortable embracing my nerdiness and my love for knowled…
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🎙️ Episode 8: Fabulous Misfit Book Club 📚 🌟 In this episode, I share my top book recommendations for fellow misfits in the South, along with a new segment highlighting inclusive Southern spaces! 🌟 If you’d like links to all the books and other things mentioned in this episode, go to the episode blog page here! 📌 What you'll find in this episode: 1️…
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Loving the Misfit Within: Self-Acceptance and Belonging To Yourself
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🎙️ "Loving the Misfit Within: Self-Acceptance and Belonging To Yourself" 🌈 Join me, Rebecca Lauderdale, in this episode where my friend and colleague, Dr. Derrick Burgess, interviews me about my personal journey towards self-acceptance and finding a sense of belonging within myself. As a physician, born and raised in the South, I understand the uni…
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Caring For Our Fellow Citizens In An Era Of Polariziation With Dr. Thomas Dobbs
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In this episode of "Belonging in the South", host Rebecca Lauderdale speaks with former Mississippi State Health Officer and infectious disease specialist, Dr. Thomas Dobbs. They discuss how Southerners can improve public health, the effects of belonging and loneliness on health, and the criminal justice system. And yes, he's that Dobbs - from the …
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It's Tough Out There - A Blessing For The Worn-Out
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In this episode of Belonging in the South, host Rebecca Lauderdale talks about the importance of understanding belonging and how it can be achieved. She shares her experience of feeling overwhelmed and reflects on the lessons she learned about inner freedom and the importance of seeing others and ourselves with humility. Finally, she reads two beau…
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The Power of Representation: Dr. Derrick Burgess
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Think back to your high school days, when it wasn’t “cool” to be one of the smart kids. Now imagine also being a minority in the South, and how would it affect your sense of belonging? Sharing his story of breaking stereotypes and identity on the show today is Derrick Burgess, MD. He found his calling in helping minority athletes, but it was the gr…
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The Hand That Rocks The Archives Rules The World
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Does it seem suspicious to you that Alabama and Mississippi were the first states that established a Department of Archives and History? This episode explores how state-sponsored misinformation perpetuated Jim Crow and white supremacist ideology for over 100 years and how it has affected Southerners' ability to flourish and belong. It also highligh…
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A Legend By Accident: Sue Anna Joe And The Mississippi State Flag
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A Legend By Accident: Sue Anna Joe and the Mississippi State Flag Episode 02 In the South, states were slow to change their flags away from including divisive confederate symbolism, and Mississippi was the last to do so, in 2021. Today, host Rebecca Lauderdale is joined by her childhood friend and one of the designers of Mississippi’s new state fla…
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Welcome to episode 1! I'm Rebecca Lauderdale, and my mission with this podcast is to help southerners of all types find belonging and community without having to change who they truly are. This first episode, I want to talk to you about why this is so important to me - and how I might be able to help you - people who live in the American South now …
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Belonging In The South: A Guide For Misfits main podcast page - you can go from here to your podcast streaming service of choice to subscribe. The menu option at the top of the page includes the Guest Nomination form! Email list signup for occasional updates and special happenings! Hello my wonderful friends! You know from listening to Women Physic…
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Are you from the South? Have you ever felt out of place? Most of us have at some time or other, but what about REALLY out of place? A time where you felt like being who you truly are was risky. Maybe because of a political opinion you held, your religious beliefs, your gender, race, or who you love. Or one of a million other things that put you on …
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The History of Medicine Can Help Us Unravel Toxic Medical Culture
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Understanding how our medical culture formed is an important step in unraveling the toxicity that has led to burnout and dissatisfaction, and toward building a sustainable, fulfilling, and joyful profession we can be proud to practice. Using some of the information in this paper on the historical perspective on obstacles to physicians’ emotional he…
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Physicians Don't Have A Resilience Problem
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This week's podcast episode is taking a dive into two papers studying Self-Valuation behaviors in Physicians. Listen for more on why resilience may not be the panacea for preventing burnout, because physicians already are high in resilience. What we ARE lacking is self-valuation. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up a…
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Season 2 New episodes coming soon! Join me for more science, stories, and people who can help us on our journey to flourishing. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work! You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the podcast, and an occasiona…
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Favorite things of 2021! See Transcript here for links! Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to continue this work! You can get on my email list here . You'll get a free copy of my book, regular updates on the podcast, and an occasional newsletter! Support the Show.…
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Finding yourself again with Dr. Michelle Quirk
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Michelle Quirk is a pediatrician, who in the first year of practice, lost her father to cancer. She was jolted by that experience, realizing the many parts of herself she had lost touch with during medical training. She found her way back through running, which she says allowed her time to notice the world around her and to feel connected and embod…
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Today’s interview is with Dr. Karen Kaufman - she is an allergist/immunologist who started her career in the military, joined a group practice, and then realized she wanted something more than the impersonal, unfulfilling group practice she was in. She made the bold, courageous step to strike out on her own and now has a thriving solo practice in V…
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The Power of Transitions with Dr. Judy Wright
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This week, Dr. Judy Wright! She is a Family Physician with over 15 years of experience, writer, speaker, and co-host of the Queens On Call podcast. Last year she was diagnosed with breast cancer just before the pandemic began, and has undergone a significant personal transformation during this time. In our episode, we talk about transitions, priori…
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The importance of prioritizing yourself - with Andrea Staneata, MD
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Full Transcript Here Dr. Andrea Staneata is a board certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician and is fellowship trained in interventional spine and pain management, and is now practicing at Cape Fear Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, in North Carolina. She has a compelling story: after medical school and two years of orthopedics residen…
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Dr. Una on Removing Barriers to Flourishing
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Dr. Nneka Unachukwu, or Dr. Una as she is endearingly called by her patients and the many doctors she has mentored, is a pediatrician and founder of Ivy League Pediatrics, in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Since founding that practice 11 years ago, she has started many other successful businesses, including teaching physicians the skills of entrepreneursh…
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Diana Mercado-Marmarosh, MD, on the Superpower of ADHD
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Dr Diana Mercado is a family physician in Texas, currently serving as clinic medical director at Jackson County Hospital District, and her passion for becoming a physician was born from her experience as the daughter of Mexican immigrant workers. She saw that many immigrants did not seek medical care, and wanted to become a physician so that minori…
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Dr. Chrystene Nguyen of White Coat Romance on The Power of Community
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This week, Rebecca interviews Dr. Chrystene Nguyen, who has pioneered an online community of single physicians and other high-level healthcare professionals called White Coat Romance. We talk about her experience transitioning to a new practice after 10 years, overcoming self-doubt, and what it’s like to be a single physician during a pandemic. Dr.…
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Dr. Alicia Shelly on self-care through exercise
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Full Transcript Here This week’s episode features Dr. Alicia Shelly - she is board-certified in Internal medicine as well as Obesity Medicine and practices in the Atlanta metro area. She is also the host of the podcast: Back On Track: Overcoming Weight Regain, where she shares her advice and personal experience to help others with weight regain aft…
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This week, Rebecca talks about joy and our tendency to allow "dress rehearsing tragedy" to keep us from feeling joy, and the way to overcome that. She also discusses issues of weight and body image as relates to women physicians and how being vulnerable about struggles with body image and weight can free us from shame about our bodies. This can als…
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This week's episode is short and sweet, recorded while my family thought I was packing for vacation! I talk about the "independent woman" archetype and how that can keep us from seeking support - which requires vulnerability, but is essential to letting others see who we are and what we need. Brene Brown's The Gifts of Imperfection Kasia Urbaniak's…
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Episode 4 - Taming the Inner Critic, Part 2
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In this episode, Rebecca continues the discussion of evidence-based ways to work with your inner critic - a dysfunctional version of a very normal and healthy process contributed to by our phonological loop. Everything from personifying the critic to the surprising effect of placebos. Rebecca Lauderdale, MD's website and instagram email: rebecca@re…
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Episode 3 - Taming the Inner Critic - Part One
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In this episode, Rebecca discusses the neuroscientific basis for the inner critic - a runaway part of the phonological loop - how it arises, how to recognize it, and how to begin untangling from this dysfunctional aspect of a helpful, natural phenomenon that develops as we learn language as babies. This work can allow us to become free from unhelpf…
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In this episode, Rebecca introduces herself and talks a bit about her journey from burnout to flourishing. She talks about her passion for helping other women physicians change the culture of medicine by first liberating themselves from unhealthy patterns and conditioning. She lays a foundation of concepts for proceeding through a curriculum for fl…
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Love and belonging aren't things we talk about much in medicine. But they're irreducible needs of humans. Join Rebecca Lauderdale, MD, for an introduction to the burgeoning science of human flourishing, and why we as physicians can benefit from understanding it. Support the podcast on buymeacoffee.com. Small contributions add up and help me to cont…
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My name is Rebecca Lauderdale, and I’m an internal medicine doctor in private practice in the deep south. About 7 years ago, I suffered from severe burnout and depression. I had three kids under 12, a demanding career, and I felt like I was failing at every role in my life. This was around the time that the first big data on physician burnout was p…
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