Hi! I’m       

Dr. Betsy

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I am so excited to meet you! I am a Life and Leadership Coach who is in the middle of transforming my life, to define and create the BEST life I can imagine. As I learn tools to navigate this journey I am called to serve YOU. I love to share! You deserve to know about these tools and strategies. I am bubbling up with excitement about the power we have to create our destiny... and I think most of us never knew we had this power inside of us. 

I have spent the past 20 years as a Pediatric Intensivist, i.e. a doctor who treats critically ill children in the ICU. I have an MD, MPH, a PhD, held leadership positions in elite academic institutions and international societies,  and on and on. Blah Blah Blah. I have been striving for decades... with nights of 3-4 hours sleep being the norm. And it never seemed to be enough. But for whom? Who was I trying to impress? Why did I feel I needed to keep going? I know I have been dedicated to saving as many kids lives through my research in cardiac arrest, but honestly... I KNEW it had to stop.

There was this little voice inside my head that kept repeating the title of a book written by the prima ballerina Gelsey Kirkland. I would hear the whisper over and over:

"Dancing on My Grave"

Something HAD to change. 

I have personally navigated highs and lows in my own life with what many would call huge successes and periods of profound joy, fulfillment and pride, and others full of desperation from overwork, sleep deprivation, overeating, morbid obesity, infertility, people pleasing, conflict avoidance, constant striving and never feeling … “enough”, while simultaneously feeling like I was "too much".

How is that even possible? The mind can be a powerful ally, but can also be our greatest enemy if we don't know how to manage it. I did not even know that was possible until I started this journey, this awakening. 

My wake up call was when my mother was diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. Suddenly all the drama seemed wasteful. Life is too short and I knew there had to be a better way. 

Life Coaching has been transformative for me. My coaches have become my teachers on how to manage my mind, to recognize when I am creating unnecessary suffering, the benefit of feeling my emotions instead of buffering, the process of setting unbelievable goals and achieving them and so much more!

My entire life, well since I was 12 years old, I have been obsessed with saving lives. I was a safety patrol, a lifeguard, a CPR Instructor and I'm a doctor for critically ill children... see a trend there? For the first 20 years of my career this literally meant pouring myself into education and research about how to save as many lives as possible from cardiac arrest. I have been creating new roles for cardiac arrest teams, i.e. the CPR Coach and more effective ways of teaching cardiac arrest curriculum. I have been blessed to fly around the world to teach about these techniques - to Cuba, Kosovo, Russia, Singapore, New Zealand, etc... This HAS been incredibly rewarding. It would be ridiculous to regret this life and the impact I have made. 

And yet NOW - now, I want to save lives in a DIFFERENT way. I am passionate and committed to helping high performing women who are looking for more. I want to help women stop beating themselves up, to get into a job they find truly fulfilling, to build the family and friend networks they deserve, to rediscover hobbies, nature... laughter and joy!

This is now my mission - to continue to dedicate my life to resuscitation but now, it is metaphorical. I am committed to partnering with women, particularly women physicians who are at some type of transition or crossroads in their lives where they know they want more. You DESERVE more! Let's do this together... let's Resuscitate Our Lives!!

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your ONE WILD and PRECIOUS life?" Mary Oliver

Let's answer that question together... AND make it happen!