Loving What You Do with Sports Medicine Physiatrist Monica Rho

03/01/22 • 55 min

Today I’m talking to sports medicine physiatrist Monica Rho.

Monica is the Chief of Musculoskeletal Medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She also serves as a team physician for the US Women’s National Soccer Team.

We talk about:

How Monica’s mission has been to take care of and listen to female athletes ever since she was a young athlete athlete who felt like her injuries were dismissed.
How finding the right training environment at any point in your career includes finding mentors who are invested in your development.
Monica's unique opportunity to serve as an ambassador for If/Then, an organization looking to provide female role models in STEM to young girls.

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Today I’m talking to sports medicine physiatrist Monica Rho.

We talk about:

How Monica’s mission has been to take care of and listen to female athletes ever since she was a young athlete athlete who felt like her injuries were dismissed.
How finding the right training environment at any point in your career includes finding mentors who are invested in your development.
Monica's unique opportunity to serve as an ambassador for If/Then, an organization looking to provide female role models in STEM to young girls.

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Twitter: @MadamAthlete

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Finding Variety in Your Career with Sports Psychologist Lisa Lewis

Today I’m talking to sports psychologist Lisa Lewis.

Lisa is a licensed psychologist with her own practice where she often helps athletes with complicated problems beyond their sports performance. Her mission is to help her clients uncover what motivates them, but it took her years to figure out that motivation was her focus and her mission all along.

We talk about:

How when things didn’t go as expected out of college, Lisa took advantage of unique opportunities which were later valued by her doctoral program.
How Lisa grew her sports psychology practice from something she did one night a week into her main business while still leaving plenty of time to take on other projects.
How she’s a self-described “decathlete in psychology,” and keeps many different irons in the fire by teaching, running continuing education classes for people in the fitness world, and consulting for a tech start-up.

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On today’s episode I’m talking about building self-confidence and maintaining that confidence while working in a male-dominated field and being constantly bombarded with patriarchal messaging.
Here's the crucial summary... having true self-confidence has to be internal. It depends on the thoughts you are telling yourself about yourself. It cannot depend on external validation. I talk about the mindset shift and thought work to help make it happen even in the face of constantly being told you don't belong or that you're not good enough.
This is the kind of coaching I provide in the Women's Career Transformation Academy. The next session doesn't open until May, but if you're ready to build your confidence and take ownership of your career, sign up on the waitlist so you don't miss out!
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